This episode was the second time Kathleen Turner and Sam Waterston worked together. They played husband and wife in the 1993 John Waters dark comedy Serial Mom.
Jack McCoy (referring to the DA's office): We're threadbare, but we get the job done.
Rebecca Shane: This drug is associated with suicidal and homicidal ideation. Alex Borgia: As a coincidence or a deciding factor?
(After Greg Loomis' psychiatric interview.) Elizabeth Olivet: It did sound like he'd memorized the warning label. Jack McCoy: He probably had more coaching than my neighborhood Little League.
Greg Loomis: I didn't hurt Alex because of grades. Jack McCoy: You didn't hurt him, you killed him.
Jack McCoy: What's next? My inhaler made me do it?
Joe Fontana: Well, you can call me a sexist, but doesn't it take an awful lot of upper body strength to strangle someone?
Green finds a book by Virgil in the victim's locker. Virgil (full name Publius Virgilius Maro) was an ancient Roman poet who is probably best known for writing the Aeneid, an epic poem about Trojan hero Aeneus and his life after the Trojan War.
Rebecca Shane: Just because it's FDA-approved, doesn't mean it's safe. I mean, look at Vioxx. Thalidomide. Vioxx is a painkiller that has been linked to heart attacks and strokes. Thalidomide was used to treat nausea in pregnant women, but it caused severe birth defects.
S 20 : Ep 23
Aired 5/24/10 (44:00)
S 20 : Ep 22
Aired 5/17/10 (44:00)
S 20 : Ep 21
Aired 5/17/10 (44:00)
S 20 : Ep 20
Aired 5/10/10 (43:00)
User Score: 2989
User Score: 3985
User Score: 1599
User Score: 701
User Score: 312
User Score: 256
User Score: 211
User Score: 154
User Score: 152
User Score: 129