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Burned

Episode Number: 166    Season Num: 8    First Aired: Wednesday December 10, 1997    Prod Code: K2501
A message overheard on an answering machine leads Briscoe and Curtis to a confessed murderer and the home of wealthy Carl Anderton, whose stubborn non-cooperation with the district attorney threatens to create a serious miscarriage of justice.

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Writer: Siobhan Byrne O'Connor
Director: Constantine Makris
Star: Steven Hill (DA Adam Schiff),  Jerry Orbach (Det. Lennie Briscoe),  S. Epatha Merkerson (Lt. Anita Van Buren),  Sam Waterston (Exec. ADA Jack McCoy),  Benjamin Bratt (Det. Reynaldo "Rey" Curtis),  Carey Lowell (ADA Jamie Ross)
Recurring Role: J.K. Simmons (Dr. Emil Skoda)
Guest Star: Anne Jackson (Judge Jane Simons),  Sylva Kelegian (Sandra Lawlor),  Ellen Lancaster (Lois Garey),  Tess O'Brien (Grace Killeen),  Tom McCarthy (Tony Collabro),  Camillia Sanes (Ellen Rattinger),  Joe Pacheco (Salvatore Hess),  Brenda Spohnholtz (Theresa Green),  Peter Lewis (Ted Vlanos),  Tom Demenkoff (Brady),  Richard Donelly (Norm Crispin),  Bob Dishy (Lawrence Weaver),  Michael O'Hare (Roy Lawlor),  Robert Vaughn (Carl Anderton),  Mia Dillon (Elaine Anderton Lawlor),  Sam Huntington (Terry Lawlor),  Joseph Siravo (Stan Kaminsky)

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(Looking at Terry Lawlor's yearbook picture)
Jack McCoy: He looks pretty harmless in a jacket and tie.
Jamie Ross: You all do. (edit)
Carl Anderton: When is your term up? Next spring, what?
Adam Schiff: What are you implying? (edit)
Jamie Ross: Carl Anderton sits on the Mayor's re-election committee.
Rey Curtis: If this guy sat in a booth collecting tolls for the Lincoln Tunnel, we'd be arresting his grandson right now. (edit)
(Roy Lawlor neglected to tell the detectives about his dead daughter)
Lennie Briscoe: Awfully big memory lapse, Roy.
Roy Lawlor: Hey, you try dealing with something like this. (edit)
Anita van Buren (to Briscoe and Curtis): Don't you two have cases with actual bodies to investigate? (edit)

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(Discussing Carl Anderton's possible mental illness)
Adam Schiff: It doesn't make sense. He runs a Fortune 500 company.
Jamie Ross: So did Howard Hughes.

Billionaire businessman Howard Hughes was a well-known aviator, engineer, film producer and industrialist. He was also known for being eccentric, especially in the last years of his life. He was reclusive, had an obsessive fear of germs, suffered from anorexia and chronic insomnia, abused drugs and was paranoid about people following or watching him. Carl Anderton is suspected to suffer from bipolar disorder (aka manic depression); Howard Hughes is believed to have suffered from obsessive-compulsive disorder and possibly other mental health problems. (edit)
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