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Law & Order Season 5 Episode 17

Act of God

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AIRED: 3/22/95

A bomb at a construction site kills a 12-year-old boy, and the suspects include the bankrupt contractor and a jealous husband.

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Steven Hill	D.A. Adam Schiff
Jerry Orbach	Det. Lennie Briscoe
S. Epatha Merkerson	Lt. Anita Van Buren
Sam Waterston	Exec. A.D.A. Jack McCoy
Jill Hennessy	A.D.A. Claire Kincaid
Chris Noth	Det. Mike Logan

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Melinda Mullins	Chris Chappel	Guest Star
Robert John Burke	Arthur 'Buzz' Palley	Guest Star
Skipp Sudduth	Hank Chappel	Guest Star
John Newton	Judge Eric Caffey	Recurring Role
Lynn Cohen	Judge Elizabeth Mizener	Recurring Role

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- The contractor Alex Gaston mentions the "force majeure" clause, French for "superior force," which is standard procedure to remove liability for natural catastrophes that prohibit the participants from fulfilling obligations.
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- Claire Kincaid: Blame the husband, blame the Mafia, blame the bogeyman.
  Adam Schiff: Sometimes the bogeyman is guilty.
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- Lennie Briscoe: The babe-in-the-woods act doesn't quite go with the Armani suit, Mr. Gaston.
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- Lennie Briscoe: (about Calvin Tiller) Some alibi. "I'm not an arsonist, I'm an extortionist!"
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- Lennie Briscoe: Dynamite's kind of a drastic way to settle a labor dispute.
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- (Concerning the original wrongful conviction.)
  Adam Schiff: Could be worse. We could have the death penalty.
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- International Episode Titles:
  Czech Republic: Zmýlená neplatí (Confusion Does Not Count)
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- Attorney David Pence: You slice it (the evidence)thinner then the prosciutto at Primavera.
  
  This is an allusion to New York's Ristorante Primavera, a renowned high-end Italian restaurant.
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- Jack McCoy: Joseph Heller would have loved this one.
  
  Joseph Heller wrote the novel Catch-22. The title refers to a military rule involving pilots and insanity. If a pilot asks to be excused from flying combat missions due to insanity, this means he must be sane. He recognizes the dangers of flying combat missions, and he wants to avoid them, and that is rational. If he is willing to fly combat missions, he must be insane to take such a huge risk. But he can't then ask to be excused by reason of insanity, because, as stated above, that would mean he is sane. The expression "Catch-22" has come to mean any no-win scenario or "damned if you do, damned if you don't" situation.
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