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Law & Order Season 3 Episode 18

Animal Instinct

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AIRED: 3/17/93

The initial investigation into the death of a research scientist leads to an animal-rights group until evidence surfaces that her husband's affair with a coworker may point to a possible motive for the murder.

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Dann Florek	Capt. Don Cragen
Richard Brooks	A.D.A. Paul Robinette
Michael Moriarty	Exec. A.D.A. Ben Stone
Steven Hill	D.A. Adam Schiff
Jerry Orbach	Det. Lennie Briscoe
Chris Noth	Det. Mike Logan

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Frances Fisher	Susan Boyd	Guest Star
John Cunningham	Donald Walsh	Guest Star
Charles Brown	Riggs	Guest Star
George Murdock	Judge Eric Bertram	Recurring Role
John Fiore	Tony Profaci	Recurring Role

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- Lennie Briscoe: (about an animal rights group) They've got 2000 members in Manhattan alone. I didn't know we had that many animals.
  Mike Logan: You oughta ride the subways.
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- (Describing Susan Boyd's mental state.)
  Dr. Elizabeth Olivet: She may act and look normal, but talk to her about the affair and you'll find that she's receiving coded messages from the patterns of his ties. Things as unrelated as his expense report, a song on the radio.
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- Susan Boyd: What's the difference between a Stalin purge and a Walsh midterm? Stalin tried to re-educate you before he killed you.
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- (About Susan Boyd's latest motion.)
  Ben Stone: She uses an out-of-date prison library, and her work is better than I've ever seen from a Wall Street law firm.
  Adam Schiff: 'The truth is ugly, so we put our prophets in prison.'
  Ben Stone: Oscar Wilde?
  Adam Schiff: Charles Manson.
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- International Episode Titles:
  Czech Republic: Prvotní instinkt (Primal Instinct)
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- Paul Robinette: One small step for privacy, a giant leap for conspiracy.
  
  This is a play on Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong's words when he became the first man to walk on the Moon on July 20, 1969. Armstrong famously said, "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind."
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- (About the noisy road work.)
  Police Officer: You couldn't hear Axl Rose.
  
  Axl Rose is the lead singer of the hard rock band Guns N' Roses. He's known for living out the "sex drugs and rock and roll" lifestyle.
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