Skin Deep
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| "Skin Deep" | ||
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| ← | L&O, Episode 3.01 | → |
| Production number: 68009 First aired: 23 September 1992 | ||
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| Written By Robert Nathan & Gordon Rayfield Directed By Daniel Sackheim | ||
Detectives Cerreta and Logan investigate the death of a fashion model photographer.
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[edit] Plot
Plot
[edit] Cast
[edit] Main cast
- Paul Sorvino as Sergeant Phil Cerreta
- Chris Noth as Detective Mike Logan
- Dann Florek as Captain Donald Cragen
- Michael Moriarty as Executive A.D.A. Benjamin Stone
- Richard Brooks as A.D.A. Paul Robinette
- Steven Hill as D.A. Adam Schiff
[edit] Guest cast
- David Bailey as Allan Rohmer
- Scotty Bloch as Judge Naomi Baum
- Claire Danes as Tracy Brandt
- Murphy Guyer as Jeffrey Brandt
- Carolyn McCormick as Dr. Elizabeth Olivet
- Maeve McGuire as Celeste Foxx
- Fia Porter as Betty Ann Carter
- David Rosenbaum as Judge Alan Berman
- Gina Torres as Laura Elkin
- Lorraine Toussaint as Shambala Green
- Yul Vazquez as Eddie Vasquez
- Alberta Watson as Angela Brandt
- John Rothman as O'Hara, Accountant
- Glenn Kubota as Hong
- Kevin Davis as Barton
- Bob Cea as Holland
- Donald Corren as Medill
- Tony Cucci as Avery
- Lauren Ambrose as Jessica
- Alexandra Becker as Lisa, School Girl
- Jack R. Marks as Court Clerk
[edit] References
References
[edit] Quotes
"So you never turned a trick, huh?"
"Most beauty contests, some cracker judge would walk up, put his hands on my ass and offer me more money than I'd ever seen to be his "date". I didn't do it then, I don't do it now. That does not mean I have any cause to look down on those who do."
"That's real democratic of you."
"Well, it's a free country. At least I don't drink from the taxpayer's trough like some people."
- - Phil Cerreta, Betty Ann Carter and Mike Logan
"Hey Phil, you know that warrant you told the health club guy you'd get? Exactly what probable cause did you have in mind?"
"A senile judge."
- - Mike Logan and Phil Cerreta
"Poor Julian. May he rest in Hell. Who do you think killed him?"
"We think he had a girlfriend."
"Oh. I see. Last night? I was on a revolving pedestal pointing at the kind of yacht I used to cruise on. Boat show. The Meadowlands. Better than what a lot of girls end up doing."
"You mean to supplement their income?"
(pointing to her face) "What do you think you do when this goes" (gestures to her breasts) "and these are all you have left?"
- - Betty Ann Carter and Phil Cerreta
"I was casting an airline commercial. I needed a stewardess."
"Oh, yeah? Well, fly me! My initials are A.B."
- - Alan Rohmer and Mike Logan
"Look on the bright side -- we do this all week, you'll never have to buy Playboy again. "
"What are you saying, I treat all women like objects?"
"More specifically, like furniture."
- - Phil Cerreta and Mike Logan
"Okay, it’s not a walk in the park."
"Yes it is. You’re going to get mugged."
- - Benjamin Stone and Adam Schiff
"She’s a hooker, Paul. She slept with her pimp, she got very angry, and she stabbed him. Call Eyewitness News, we’ve never seen anything like this in New York City before."
- - Donald Cragen
"So where does that get us? A lover's quarrel?"
"After sex? Most people, you fight, and then have sex."
(To Cragen) "He's not married."
- - Donald Cragen, Mike Logan, and Phil Cerreta
"Sure, he asked me to do it! $2500 a week on my back instead of $500 on my feet."
"Well, it must have been tempting."
"Maybe to you. But honey, I don't think you'd survive. In my experience, cops just can't perform that often."
- - Betty Ann Carter and Mike Logan
"When did we turn this office over to the Marx Brothers?"
- - Adam Schiff
"If we had perfect cases, we wouldn't need juries."
- - Benjamin Stone
"Well, first she said she was with her ex-husband. Then it turns out she’s at the ad agency.v
"She’s breaking the law, Mike! What do you want her to say? 'Oh, that's right, Officer, I was out turning tricks'."
- - Mike Logan and Donald Cragen
"Did she lie about her income, too? Or are you changing your standards at legal aid?"
"Oh, no no no, she’s just flatbacking until she can liquidate a major position at IBM."
- - Benjamin Stone and Shambala Green
"I’ll tell the jury she’s on trial because prostitutes are easy targets. She was used by her johns, abused by her pimp, and desperate to support her daughter."
"What am I hearing? A prostitute’s manifesto? Hookers of the world unite, kill your oppressors?"
- - Shambala Green and Benjamin Stone
"Murder two? You couldn't convict her of bad manners."
- - Shambala Green
[edit] Background information and notes
- In this episode we learn that Executive Assistant District Attorney Benjamin Stone has a daughter.
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