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Detectives Briscoe and Green probe the strangulation of a college coed who moonlighted as a stripper, and while they believe a pair of drug-dealing skinheads committed the murder, they struggle to determine the motive of the strip club owner who paid them for the hit. However, as they work their way up the ladder of complicity, the cops learn that the slaying is keyed to an insider trading scam that forces McCoy to connect a former porn star with
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Writers:: Gerry Conway William N. Fordes Gerry Conway

Director:: Richard Dobbs

Stars:: Jesse L. Martin (Det. Ed Green); Angie Harmon (ADA Abbie Carmichael); Sam Waterston (Exec. ADA Jack McCoy); S. Epatha Merkerson (Lt. Anita Van Buren); Jerry Orbach (Det. Lennie Briscoe); Steven Hill (DA Adam Schiff)

Recurring Role:: Leslie Hendrix (Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers); William H. Burns (Nassau County Police Officer); Helmar Augustus Cooper (Judge Lawrence McNeil); Bob Dishy (Larry Weaver)

Guest Star:: Charles E. Gerber (Mark Berry); Tony Gilbert (Tim Fulton); Ronobir Lahiri (Ely); James Lurie (Dr. Dennis Coltrhop); Deborah Cresswell (Paula Dunbar); Elisabeth Waterston (Penny Rollins); Coleen Sexton (Elizabeth Torrino); Bill Christ (Vincent Steinberg); Susann Fletcher (Doris Cavanaugh); Kevin Nagle (Stu); Frank Senger (Horace); Kevin Sibley (Arraignment Clerk); Catherine Steindler (Dale); Mary Ashton (Eve); David Butler (Capt. Duff); Antoinette LaVecchia (Det. Barnes); David Alan Novak (Gramm); Jeffrey Emerson (Greg); Pat Candaras (Judge Leona Vitti); Bill Raymond (Barry Cavanaugh); Geoffrey C. Ewing (Detective Moss); Peter Van Wagner (Jim Harris); Stephen Spinella (Andy Polone); Fay Ann Lee; Lee Bryant (Patricia Harris); Lori Tan Chinn; Ryan Homchick (Jay Hurley); Michael Weaver (Brad Hurley); Mark Nelson (Julius Reinhard); Adrienne Shelly (Wendy Alston)

Regarding double jeopardy: ordinarily, the declaration of a mistrial, especially at the defendant's request and when there is no prosecutorial misconduct involved, will not cause double jeopardy to attach and prevent the state from re-trying the defendant as occurs at the end of this episode. edit »
Long Beach is a city and therefore has its own police department, meaning it does not fall under the jurisdiction of the Nassau County Police. edit »

Coincidentally, this episode was re-run on the Canadian television channel Bravo in November 2006, the same month that actress Adrienne Shelly was murdered in New York City. edit »
Bare Necessities was a real strip club when this episode aired. It was in Island Park, New York (about 3 miles from Long Beach where the episode takes place). Part of it burned down in mid-2002, and was reopened in 2003 and it was known only as The Bear. The actual club was never used in the filming of this episode. edit »
Elisabeth Waterston (Penny Rollins) is the real life daughter of Sam Waterston (Jack McCoy). edit »

Adam Schiff: See if I�m caught up. You�ve got the business student, bigots, bar owner ...
Jack McCoy: The banker and the bimbo.
Adam Schiff: It�s a John Le Carr� novel. edit »

Adam Schiff: It�s a John le Carr� novel.

John le Carr� is the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell, a British writer of espionage novels. A number of his books have been made into movies. He is known for turning down a number of awards for his work. When Schiff comments that 'business student, bigots, bar owner, banker, bimbo' is like a John Le Carr� novel, he's presumably thinking of Le Carr�'s novel (with a similarly alliterative title) Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. edit »
The title of the porn movie American Booty is a parody of the 1999 film American Beauty starring Annette Benning and Kevin Spacey. Also mentioned is Forest Hump, a parody of 1994's Forrest Gump starring Tom Hanks. edit »
Briscoe characterizes the drug-dealing skinhead suspects (who live in a Long Island beach neighborhood) as "Surf Nazis on ecstasy." He is referring to the 1987 shot-on-video movie Surf Nazis Must Die, which has made at least one list of the worst 100 films of all time (ranked at #87). edit »