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Law & Order Season 3 Episode 17

Conduct Unbecoming

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AIRED: 3/10/93

Stone and the police battle the closed ranks of the Navy to investigate the death of a female Naval officer during a party in a Manhattan hotel.

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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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Len Cariou	Capt. Allard Bunker	Guest Star
Boyd Gaines	Lt. St. Claire	Guest Star
George Coe	Lee Hastings	Guest Star
Victor Truro	Judge Douglas Spivack	Recurring Role
Barbara Spiegel	Judge Harriet Doremus	Recurring Role
Michael Noth	Court Clerk	Recurring Role

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QUOTES (5)
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- Lennie Briscoe: Only losers bluff after the table's already seen their hand.
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- Don Cragen: The Marines land in Somalia, they got cameras covering every square inch of sand. A sailor gets whacked in Manhattan, it might as well have happened on the moon.
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- Lennie Briscoe: The whole [hotel] floor was charged to the Officers' Mess Fund.
  Mike Logan: Nice to know my tax dollars aren't being wasted on school books.
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- (Examining Lt. Hagen's body at the crime scene)
  Policeman: Possible blunt force concussion.
  Mike Logan: She didn't get that playing Spin the Bottle.
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- Adam Schiff: He probably didn't get past the Declaration of Independence -- 'All men are created equal.'
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- International Episode Titles:
  Czech Republic: Kozel zahradníkem (Billy Goat, the Gardener)
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- Michael Noth, who begins a recurring role as a court clerk in this episode, is the older brother of series regular Chris Noth.
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- Judge Harriet Doremus: (referring to Captain Bunker) The few, the proud, the indicted.
  
  This is a play on the phrase, "The few, the proud, the Marines," which is frequently used in recruitment ads for the United States Marines. Captain Bunker's lawyer corrects the judge by pointing out that his client is a Naval officer, not a Marine.
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- Lennie Briscoe: Praise the Lord and pass the martinis.
  
  This is a play on the phrase, "Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition," which was spoken by Navy Chaplain Howell Forgy during the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941. The phrase was also used as the title of a patriotic song written by Frank Loesser in 1942.
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- Don Cragen: See which one of his guys likes to play Alan Funt.
  
  Alan Funt was the host of Candid Camera, an early hidden camera show.
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- This episode appears to be ripped from the headlines of the Tailhook '91 case. In September 1991, the 35th annual symposium in Las Vegas featured a two-day debrief on Navy and Marine Corps aviation in Operation Desert Storm. It was the largest such meeting yet held, with some 4,000 attendees: active, reserve, and retired personnel. According to a Department of Defense report, 83 women and 7 men stated that they had been victims of assault and sexual harassment during the meeting. A series of official investigations was conducted, but all were widely criticized, involving official cover-ups by senior Navy and civilian officials and denial of due process to hundreds of individuals, most of whom were not accused of any wrongdoing.
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