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"Vengeance"
L&O, Episode 2.16
Production number: 67420
First aired: 18 February 1992
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Stone Vengeance
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[]

Recurring cast[]

Guest cast[]

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[]

Cragen Cerreta Cheney Vengeance

Donald Cragen and Phil Cerreta interrogate Albert Lawrence Cheney

  • 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

Dr. Phillip Banks
712 West 120th Street
Friday, December 28

Forensics Laboratory
Monday, January 7

Tri-Boro Storage
145-72 Sutphin
Boulevard
Tuesday, January 8

4 5 6 7

Chambers of
Judge Robert Quinn
Thursday, February 21

Supreme Court
Civil Term
Wednesday, March 6

Supreme Court
Trial Part 62
Monday, March 18

Supreme Court
Trial Part 62
Tuesday, March 19

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