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Law & Order Season 7 Episode 7

Deadbeat

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AIRED: 11/13/96

The murder of a deadbeat father whose son is dying of leukemia presents McCoy and Ross with a sympathetic suspect and a moral dilemma.

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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
Benjamin Bratt	Det. Reynaldo 'Rey' Curtis
Carey Lowell	A.D.A. Jamie Ross

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Val Avery	Max Schaeffer	Guest Star
Deborah Hedwall	Arlene Schaeffer Webber	Guest Star
Tamara Tunie	Caroline Bennett	Guest Star
Larry Sherman	Judge Colin Fraser	Recurring Role

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- When the grandson is playing the PlayStation game Crash Bandicoot, he defeats the evil doctor and that would defeat the game. Seconds later he is on a dark temple level that actually takes place prior to the confrontation with the evil doctor.
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- (After the suspect's cousin and real estate attorney enters the interrogation room)
  Anita Van Buren: He said he was an attorney?
  Jamie Ross: The suspect has the right to a lawyer, not to a good lawyer.
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- Lennie Briscoe: Pogosian, Peter: grand larceny auto, grand larceny auto, grand larceny auto.
  Pete Pogosian: Can we put some music on?
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- Rey Curtis: Pogosian, James: forgery, criminal possession, issuing a bad check...
  Jimmy Pogosian: I forgot I closed the account.
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- Lennie Briscoe: (about alimony payments) My ex just kept my checkbook. If I forgot, she knew how to forge my signature.
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- Adam Schiff: Caroline Bennett will make a jury want to dig Webber up and kill him all over again.
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- Rey Curtis: He had a new PlayStation.
  Anita van Buren: CD system?
  Rey Curtis: With like six games.
  Anita van Buren: Crash Bandicoot?
  Lennie Briscoe: Excuse me, young parents? My daughter's idea of high technology was Barbie's convertible.
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- Arlene Webber: He wanted his girlfriends and his weekends in Las Vegas with whores, and he wanted to be married to me. Like one thing didn't affect the other.
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- Guest star Tamara Tunie will later join the cast of Law and Order: Special Victims Unit as Medical Examiner Melinda Warner.
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ALLUSIONS (1)
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- This episode is ripped from the headlines of the Jeffery Nichols case. Like the deadbeat dad in this episode, Nichols also sent his wife an insulting postcard while he was on a lavish vacation. It said, "Marilyn, having a ball. Glad you're not here."
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