"Pride"
←	L&O, Episode 5.23	→
Production number: 69427 First aired: 24 May 1995
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Written By Ed Zuckerman & Gene Ritchings Directed By Ed Sherin

During the investigation into the murder of a gay city councilman, Detective Mike Logan gets himself into a lot of trouble when he punches a man in the face.

Plot Edit

Plot

Cast Edit

Main cast Edit

• Jerry Orbach as Detective Lennie Briscoe
• Chris Noth as Detective Mike Logan
• S. Epatha Merkerson as Lieutenant Anita Van Buren
• Sam Waterston as Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy
• Jill Hennessy as A.D.A. Claire Kincaid
• Steven Hill as D.A. Adam Schiff

Guest cast Edit

• Richard Bekins as Councilman Richard Durban
• Hallie Foote as Marjorie Durban
• Peter Gerety as Attorney Charles Powell
• Robert Joy as Leo Barnett
• Daniel Hugh Kelly as Councilman Kevin Crossley
• Kelle Kerr as Antoinette Crossley
• Nance Williamson as Judge Louise Lessing
• Jeanine Morick as Mona Benson
• Ron Parady as Deputy Mayor Albert Gerard
• Todo Segalla as Activist
• Maurice Shrog as Building super
• June Stein as Woman
• Ken Threet as First Uniform Policeman
• Gordon Joseph Weiss as Cliff
• Ray Xifo as Manager
• Daniel Oreskes as Durban Campaign Manager
• Gilbert Lewis as Deputy police commissioner
• Jay Devlin as McAfee
• Randy Lutterman as Assistant
• John Cameron Mitchell as Eddie
• Esteban Fernández as CSU Technician
• Tim Hopper as unknown
• Mitchell Lichtenstein as unknown

References Edit

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Quotes Edit

Quotes

Background information and notes Edit

• This episode is based on the Dan White case. In 1978, White shot and killed both mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, reportedly due to his fury at what he saw as the rising trend in gay activism – Milk was the first openly gay elected official in San Francisco history. White's lawyers argued that he had been suffering from severe depression which had inhibited his ability to distinguish right from wrong. Over the years, an urban legend has cropped up claiming that White's lawyers used the "Twinkie Defense" (in other words, eating junk food made him do it), but it was never claimed in court that eating junk food was, in any way, responsible for White's activities – his excessive consumption of junk food was used to show just how depressed he had gotten, but was never blamed. (Source: Dan White at Wikipedia)

• Towards the end of the fifth season, Executive Producer Dick Wolf decided not to renew Chris Noth's contract citing that the interaction between Logan and the similarly jaded Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) lacked enough dramatic contrast. Viewers and critics were shocked at the dismissal of the most popular and only original remaining cast member at that time. Years later, in 1998, Noth convinced Wolf to produce the TV movie Exiled to wrap up the story of Mike Logan, which Noth felt had been prematurely extinguished on the show.

• In-universe, the events of the episode were well-remembered to the point that, ten years later, when Chris Noth guest-starred on the Criminal Intent episode "Stress Position", Detective Eames asked if it was the Mike Logan who had shown up unannounced at Major Case.