Writer:	David Slack
Director:	Sam Weisman
Star:	Sam Waterston (Exec. A.D.A. Jack McCoy),  S. Epatha Merkerson (Lt. Anita Van Buren),  Milena Govich (Det. Nina Cassady),  Jesse L. Martin (Det. Ed Green),  Fred Dalton Thompson (D.A. Arthur Branch),  Alana De La Garza (A.D.A. Connie Rubirosa)
Recurring Role:	Leslie Hendrix (M.E. Elizabeth Rodgers),  Tovah Feldshuh (Danielle Melnick)
Guest Star:	Denise Dowse (Judge Nora Glover),  Eric William Morris (Luke Thornton),  Dion Graham (Principal Ron Hill),  Sarah Ramos (Mary Reese),  Jeffrey Donovan (Jacob Reese),  Liam Joynt (Arraignment Clerk),  Brett Friedmann (Uniform),  John Pieza (Asst. M.E. Charlett),  Dan Amboyer (Todd Barton),  Adam Huskey (Jason Ward),  Kevin Draine (Paul),  John Scherer (Pastor Peter Shea),  La Tanya Hall (Allison Dale),  Anastasia Barzee (Claudia Murphy),  Flora Diaz (Kristin Saunders),  James Lorenzo (Arraignment Judge Albert Bryce),  Jeffrey Joseph (Fire Marshal Woods),  Howard W. Overshown (Attorney Rowan)

Special billing was given to Tovah Feldshuh (and) in this episode. (edit)

Jack McCoy: You feared that a hurricane might strike your daughter, Mr. Reese? (edit) Mr. Reese: I was just trying to protect my daughter.
Jack McCoy: So you broke the Fifth Commandment. You not only killed, you killed the wrong man. (edit) Jack McCoy: I'm a lapsed Catholic, Mr. Reese, care to explain why I haven't burst into flames? (edit) Jack McCoy: If faith is an excuse for murder, let's just give a free pass to Osama bin Laden. (edit) Ed Green: I don't think I have to tell you this, but people get a little crazy about religion. (edit)

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Danielle Melnick: "Happy is the man who brings justice to the oppressed?"
Jack McCoy: Isaiah.

This appears to be a slight misquote of Isaiah 1:17, the full and accompanying verses read:

15 And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
16 Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;
17 Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.
18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
19 If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:
20 But if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured with the sword: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. (edit) This episode appears to be ripped from the headlines of the controversy over intelligent design. (edit)