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"Tabula Rasa"
L&O, Episode 9.19
Production number: E0222
First aired: 20 April 1999
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Bill Fallon
Written By
William N. Fordes & Kathy McCormick

Directed By
Richard Dobbs

Plot[]

After a philosophy professor is pushed in front of a subway and killed, the investigation leads to a suspect who, following a divorce, changed his identity and disappeared with his daughters.

Cast[]

Main cast[]

Recurring cast[]

Guest cast[]

  • Jay O. Sanders as Nick Taska / Bill Fallon
  • Maggie Low as Eleanor Taska
  • Anne Bobby as Sylvia Fallon
  • Tracy Spindler as Alexis Fallon / Cynthia Taska
  • Lacey Kohl as Susan Fallon
  • Jill Choder as Murphy
  • John Wylie as Joseph Sandburg
  • Brooks Rogers as Dr. Wilton Engel
  • Frank Pellegrino as Tony
  • Janet Sarno as Marie Costas
  • Peter Giles as Spencer Leff
  • Rica Martens as Maxine Lowry
  • Joel Blum as Abe Mankoff
  • Lisa Roberts Gillan as Madelyn Bishop
  • Josie Chavez as Donna Davis
  • John Moraitis as John Patris
  • Jennifer Sternberg as Joyce De Loach
  • Lydia Radziul as Zara
  • Tracie Jade as Ayisha
  • Kevin Hagan as O'Connor
  • Edwin Sean Patterson as Maurice Russell
  • Sabine Singh as Allison
  • Tyagi Schwartz as Officer Bering
  • Joe Mulligan as Officer Quinn
  • Jackie Maruschak as M.E. Renfroe
  • Patti Perkins as Woman
  • Larry Gregory as Court Officer #1
  • Richard Caselnova as Court Officer #2

References[]

Quotes[]

It's Jonestown without the Kool-Aid.

–Jack McCoy, on the Fallon family

That was the spookiest bunch of people I ever saw.

–Abbie Carmichael about the Fallon family

Jack McCoy: (to Sylvia Fallon) Are you saying that the defendant had total control of his family, Mrs. Fallon? Did the defendant constantly tell his children they were bad, they were stupid? Did he continually terrify them with a threat to withhold his love if they didn't meet his insane expectations? Did William Fallon terrorize his children, day after day, year after year, until they could no longer tell where he left off and they began?
Sylvia Fallon: Yes.
Nick Taska: You stupid cow!
Judge Lisa Holt: Mr. Fallon!
Nick Taska: Judge, she can't do this. The only reason I married her is so my children would have a mother.
Sylvia Taska: (about meeting her husband) We have to meet him at the Palm Court at 4:00. He wouldn't like us to be late.
Abbie Carmichael: So you're late. Then what, he starts rearranging the teacups?

Background information and notes[]

Episode scene cards[]

1 2 3

N.Y.C.U. Campus
158 second avenue
Wednesday, March 18

Manhattan terrace hotel
697 broadway
Wednesday, March 18

Brooklyn college
Alumni association
Friday, March 20

4 5 6

Criminal court AR-2
Arraignment
Thursday, March 26

Chambers of
Judge Donald Renner
Thursday, April 9

Chambers of
Judge Lisa Holtz
Wednesday, April 22

7

Supreme Court
Allocution
Tuesday, May 12

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