Writer:	Amanda Green
Director:	David Platt
Star:	Mariska Hargitay (Det. Olivia Benson),  Christopher Meloni (Det. Elliot Stabler),  B.D. Wong (Dr. George Huang (Seasons 4-)),  Tamara Tunie (M.E. Melinda Warner (Seasons 7-)),  Richard Belzer (Det. John Munch),  Ice-T (Det. Fin Tutuola (Seasons 2-)),  Diane Neal (A.D.A. Casey Novak (Seasons 5-))
Recurring Role:	Patricia Cook (Elizabeth Stabler),  Erin Broderick (Maureen Stabler),  Judith Light (Judge Elizabeth Donnelly),  Mike Doyle (I) (Forensics Tech Ryan O'Halloran),  Isabel Gillies (Kathy Stabler),  Jeffrey Scaperrotta (Dickie Stabler),  Allison Siko (Kathleen Stabler)
Guest Star:	Paget Brewster (Sheila Tierney Dumont),  Erickka Sy Savané (FBI Agent Peters),  Malachy Cleary (Asst. Warden McFarland),  Karl Kenzler (Father Denis),  Brian Dennehy (Judson Tierney),  John Doman (Mike Mollinax),  Karen Ziemba (Tierney's Doctor),  Victoria Wyndham (Rita Colino),  John LaGioia (Bishop),  Patricia Kilgarriff (Canasta Player)

Special billing was given to Brian Dennehy (Special Guest Star), Judith Light (with) and Paget Brewster (and) in this episode. (edit) Parts of this episode were filmed over the course of a week at the Fritz Reuter Altenheim Retirement Home of North Bergen, New Jersey. (edit)

Judson Tierney (to Benson after she accuses him of molesting his daughter: I don't know what your father did to you, sweetie, but you need professional help. (edit) Dr. George Huang: 'Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' Tolstoy, Anna Karenina. Families are complicated.
Elliot Stabler: Tell me about it. (edit) Father Denis: His immortal soul is in danger.
Elliot Stabler: Well, eternal damnation's not a police matter. (edit) Fin Tutuola: 48 hours you solve 21 bank jobs, a murder, and a kidnap? What, are you trying to make us look bad?
Elliot Stabler: Well, for once, Catholic guilt's a good thing.
John Munch: I thought we Jews had a corner on that market. (edit) Elliot Stabler: You remember the tramp's name?
Rita Colino: Rhymes with 'hunt'. (edit)

Benson says that Tierney 'worked there every day since he got sick a year ago'. It's likely this was an error on the part of the writers, since it would have made more sense to say 'until he got sick a year ago'. (edit) Goof: It is stated that Judson Tierney opened a locksmith business in 1971. A license is required to open a locksmith business in New York City. To obtain his license, Tierney would have had to submit his fingerprints for a criminal background check. That should have flagged him as one of the suspected 'Fedora Bandits'. (edit)

George Huang: Tierney's trying to stave off death like Scheherazade. With a story of bank robberies and illegitimate children. He's trying to hang on to make peace with his daughter.

Scheherezade was a legendary Persian queen who was the storyteller in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights. As the legend goes, Scheherezade married a king who, after having been betrayed by his first wife, married a new woman every day and murdered her the next day at dawn. In order to stop the cycle of marriage and death, Scheherezade married the king herself. Each night Scheherezade told her husband a story, promising there was a more interesting one to come up. Each night he let her live to listen to the next story, until finally he let her live without the stories after she told one thousand and one. (edit)