"Undercovered" | ||
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← | L&O, Episode 12.12 | → |
Production number: E2220 First aired: 16 January 2002 | ||
Written By Wendy Battles & Noah Baylin Directed By Jace Alexander |
Plot[]
Warren Slater, an executive at The Fairhaven Group, an insurance company, is found dead by a street sweeper on Riverside Drive. Briscoe and Green are led to Tony Garcia, a policy holder at Fairhaven, and Slater was supervising his policy. The policy in question is for Garcia’s 9-year-old daughter, Courtney, who has leukemia.
Garcia was upset that Fairhaven was denying Courtney the only treatment that he felt would save her life -- an experimental drug called Gleevec -- because Fairhaven saw it as too expensive ($2,500 a month for the rest of her life). Garcia killed Slater because he felt that it was the only way to save Courtney’s life, since Slater was practically killing her by denying her the treatment she needed, and backed a cheaper bone marrow transplant plan that wouldn't have worked out, instead.
McCoy prosecutes the case, but after Garcia testifies, the jury is deadlocked, and the Judge has no choice but to declare a mistrial. Lewin decides that no jury would unanimously vote to convict him, and so it's not the kind of case that they want to try again, so Garcia is a free man.
Cast[]
Main cast[]
- Jerry Orbach as Detective Lennie Briscoe
- Jesse L. Martin as Detective Ed Green
- S. Epatha Merkerson as Lieutenant Anita Van Buren
- Sam Waterston as Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy
- Elisabeth Röhm as A.D.A. Serena Southerlyn
- Dianne Wiest as Interim D.A. Nora Lewin
Recurring cast[]
- Leslie Hendrix as Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers
- Michael Mulheren as Judge Sheldon Taylor
- Andrea Navedo as Detective Ana Cordova
- Jeff Blumenkrantz as Dr. Friedman
- Ben Shenkman as Defense Attorney Nick Margolis
Guest cast[]
- Rosa Arredondo as Mrs. Garcia
- Courtnie Beceiro as Courtney Garcia
- Juan Carlos Hernández as Tony Garcia
- Jennifer Bransford as Ellen Brightman
- Joseph Culliton as Warren Slater
- John Cunningham as Daniel Metzler
- Monique Fowler as Miss Ames
- Katherine Hiler as Jodi Reeves
- Joe Holt as Richard Hardwick
- Catherine Hyland as Glenda Slater
- Michael Quinlan as Jerry Pilson
- Sebastian Sozzi as Monte
- Robin Morse as Anne
- Cole Hawkins as Son
- Beresford Bennett as Father
- Torben Brooks as Worker #1
- John Bianco as Worker #2
- Angel Caban as Saman
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Background information and notes[]
Background information and notes
Previous episode: "The Collar" |
"Undercovered" Law & Order Season 12 |
Next episode: "DR 1-102" |