"Tru Love" | ||
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← | CI, Episode 6.02 | → |
Production number: 06004 First aired: 26 September 2006 | ||
Teleplay By Diana Son Story By Diana Son & Warren Leight Directed By Norberto Barba |
Plot[]
Keith Tyler is no stranger to his dad's womanizing ways, but when his father winds up dead after his motorcycle is found sabotaged, Detectives Logan and Wheeler find a private video collection of the Doctor's personal conquests
When Keith's high-school teacher, Danielle shows up on one of tapes, the detectives assume her jealous husband is to blame. But the case takes a major turn when the detectives find Danielle in the arms of her under-aged student.
Keith eventually confesses to the murder of his father; however, Keith claims it was an accident; he'd only meant to prank his father for sleeping with his teacher/lover and thought he had sabotaged his father's motorcycle to the point where it wouldn't start. Near the end of the episode, we find out that Danielle is pregnant. Keith is excited until Danielle pleads guilty to rape, agrees never to see Keith again, and reveals that she is pregnant with Keith's father's child (which would make the child Keith's half-sibling, not his child).
Cast[]
Main cast[]
- Chris Noth as Detective Mike Logan
- Julianne Nicholson as Detective Megan Wheeler
- Eric Bogosian as Captain Danny Ross
Recurring cast[]
- Theresa Randle as A.D.A. Patricia Kent
- Angel Desai as Nikki Ushima
- Howard W. Overshown as Detective Ozzie Rivera
Guest cast[]
- Anton Yelchin as Keith Tyler
- Anne Dudek as Danielle McCaskin
- Jonathan LaPaglia as Jack McCaskin
- Matt Unger as Al Kanaske
- James Moye as Bruce O'Kendrick
- Ken Cheeseman as Dr. Anthony Clayton
- Glynis Bell as Judge Anne Mayer
- Nick Gregory as Dr. Grant Tyler
- Laura Sametz as Dr. Sheri Jameson
- Tamilla Woodard as Oralee Wilcox
- Heather Simms as Paulette Leger
- Linda Powell as Principal Bassett
- Jack Koenig as Attorney Javits
- William H. Burns as Officer Pritchett
- Van Hughes as Hank
- Claire Beckman as Suzette
- James John Lynch as Jock
- Kimberly Dorsey as Registered Nurse (uncredited)
References[]
- Dead Poets Society - Wheeler mentions an unnamed movie about how the teacher (played by Robin Williams) used the phrase "carpe diem" to inspire his students to read poetry not have sex with them like Danielle McCaskin did.
Quotes[]
- ADA Kent, to Logan and Wheeler: Do you know what Mr. Carver calls Major Case? Major hunch.
- [After the authorities pick up Keith and Danielle who were heading for Toronto]
- Logan: Oh Canada. Where the age of consent is 14.
- Wheeler: And you know this because ... ?
- Logan: I'm kind of a Canada buff.
- Wheeler: Death by lubricant. Think there's a message in that?
- Ross: Logan, how you two making out?
- Logan: We're fine. Never had a partner with freckles before.
- Ross: Three years undercover: vice, drugs, white collar; no one ever made her.
- Logan: Well, I can believe that. She get carded at bars?
- Logan: (to Keith Tyler) As long as you're here, maybe you can help us out. We're looking for some of your dad's... we're looking for, uh... (gives up) Wheeler?
- Wheeler: Do you know where your father kept his homemade porn tapes?
Background information and notes[]
- Julianne Nicholson joins the cast as Detective Megan Wheeler, Mike Logan's new partner.
- Wheeler asks if Logan is over the new excitment of having a new partner. Logan had three partners on Law & Order (Max Greevey, Phil Cerreta, and Lennie Briscoe) and before Wheeler in Carolyn Barek, meaning he had four partners before and now five total, more than most detectives in the Law & Order franchise (not counting the rotating partnerships of the Special Victims Unit).
- Wheeler mentions to Logan that she and Ross worked together on a joint task force and that is when he became her rabbi. She asks if the old captain, James Deakins, was Logan's rabbi, to which he replies "something like that", likely referring to how many commanding officers he had and also how Deakins brought him out of exile on Staten Island (which happened in the episode "Grow").
- Ross has conversations with Wheeler and Logan separately about trying to make their partnership work and if not, he would try to get Barek back for Logan.
- Part of the episode is filmed at Regis High School in New York City.
- Norberto Barba, one of the main directors of the Law & Order franchise, studied at Regis High School during his youth.
- Ross mentions he has two kids, boys ages 14 and 10.
- Another episode in the Law & Order franchise featuring a female teacher who seduces a student is the episode Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Learning Curve".
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