"Vengeance" | ||
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← | L&O, Episode 2.16 | → |
Production number: 67420 First aired: 18 February 1992 | ||
Teleplay By Michael S. Chernuchin & René Balcer Story By Peter S. Greenberg & Michael S. Chernuchin Directed By Daniel Sackheim |
The grieving parents of a murdered woman want her killer extradited to Connecticut so that they can pursue the death penalty.
Plot[]
Plot
Cast[]
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
Recurring cast[]
- Roger Serbagi as Judge Robert Quinn
- Fred J. Scollay as Judge Warren Pursley
Guest cast[]
- Barbara Barrie as Mrs. Bream
- Allen Garfield as Defense Attorney Carl Berg
- Rutanya Alda as Sara Cheney
- Jay Patterson as Connecticut Assistant District Attorney Jack O'Connell
- Gerald Gordon as Mr. Bream
- Steve Ryan as Brooklyn Assistant District Attorney Fleishman
- James Rebhorn as Albert Lawrence Cheney
- Stephen Bolster as Dr. Phillip Banks
- Jerry Grayson as Super
- Jane Cronin as Judge Alison McKeever
- Nicholas Levitin as Dr. Cohen
- Diane Tyler as Fran Melton
- Melinda Mullins as Forensics Technician
- Matt Malloy as CSU Technician
- Kevin Eshelman as Repairman
- Michael Bolus as Garage Attendant
- Michael Ciulla as Storage Attendant
- Edward Cannan as Bailiff
References[]
- Fare v. Michael C.
- Judy Bream (victim)
Quotes[]
- Cerreta: Tell me about this building, okay? Anybody hanging around who didn’t belong?
- Elevator repairman: On the Upper West Side? You want 'em all, or just the ones that talk to themselves?
- Logan: The guys in Brooklyn were lucky. They got the Son of Sam on parking tickets.
- Cragen: Yeah, six months and six bodies later.
- Jack O'Connell: Bottom line, Your Honor, Albert Cheney is of no use to anyone alive.
- Stone: Is this forum shopping? This is a criminal case.
- Judge Warren Pursley: Yes, I know Mr. Stone, and this is a civil court. Why you want to keep Albert Cheney alive is beyond me. I, for one, wouldn't lose any sleep if they flipped the switch.
- Stone: That's not relevant, Your Honor!
- Judge Pursley: I know. Unfortunately, Mr. Stone has met the burden required by law for a restraining order. As such, I am forced to grant his motion. The case against Albert Cheney stays put. May God help both of us if you lose that trial, Mr. Stone.
- Stone: You would prefer that I let O'Connell try this case?
- Stone: The courts are not your personal soapbox.
- Robinette: Have you heard me preach?
- Stone: Better we bend the system then risk letting him walk because of some unfounded morality.
- Robinette: Yeah, but who's preaching now? You’re not talking about convicting him, you're talking about killing him.
- Stone: I think my tax dollars can be put to better use than clothing, housing, and feeding Albert Cheney. Now maybe I’m just pragmatic.
- Robinette: The cost to the state of a capital trial is roughly $1.8 million dollars. That is twice the cost of an average life imprisonment. Now who's being pragmatic here?
- Stone: Maybe the Breams are entitled to a little vengeance.
- Robinette: Oh, 'Do unto others as they did unto you?’ We burn the homes of arsonists? We sexually abuse those who rape?
- Stone: You're rationalizing.
- Robinette: Maybe. But the New York State Court of Appeals says the death penalty is cruel and inhuman.
- Stone: And what do you say?
- Robinette: And I say we uphold the laws of this state!
- Sara Cheney: I loved him. I didn't know.
- Stone: Didn't know what?
- Sara Cheney: That he was an animal.
- Fleischman: How could I forget? Sally Kessler, eighteen years old, a Hermès tie wrapped around her neck, dumped naked into a recycling bin behind Nathan's out at Coney Island.
- Robinette: He's using wire now.
- Fleischman: Times is hard.
- Robinette: So much for victims' rights.
- Schiff: Dead people don’t have any, my boy.
Background information and notes[]
- This is the first episode in which Captain Donald Cragen assists his detectives by interrogating a suspect.
- This is actor Roger Serbagi's first appearance as Judge Robert Quinn.
- In this episode, actor James Rebhorn appears as Albert Lawrence Cheney. In later episodes he returns as recurring character Charles Garnett.
- Goof: Fred J. Scollay is credited as "Judge Barsky" but his nameplate states his name is "Warren Pursley".
Episode scene cards[]
1 | 2 | 3 |
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Dr. Phillip Banks |
Forensics Laboratory |
Tri-Boro Storage |
4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
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Chambers of |
Supreme Court |
Supreme Court |
Supreme Court |
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