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Season 16, Episode 14, Aired 2/8/06

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Fontana and Green arrest a fellow student after a young man is murdered, but McCoy faces a tough adversary when he tries to prosecute the crime.

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Sam Waterston

Exec. A.D.A. Jack McCoy
Annie Parisse

A.D.A. Alexandra Borgia
Dennis Farina

Det. Joe Fontana

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Unbelievably lame

2.5

"Terrible"

By thesnowleopard, Jul 01, 2010 Report Abuse

Unfortunately, this episode was common in L&O's later years - sloppy research and characters acting Dumb on Cue hidden by unrealistic legal grandstanding and yet more of a combination of Dick Wolf's hatred of rich people and teenagers. He should look into that. It's a bit of an unhealthy obsession for him.

I don't really expect accuracy from this period of L&O, but when both the parents of the killer and the father of the victim suborned perjury and threatened witnesses, and McCoy merely shrugged off these quite-serious *crimes*, that broke my stretchy suspenders of disbelief. This episode wasn't helped by the fact that students killing each other over grades and plagiarism is a hoary cliche that didn't need to be revisited.

Still, it was nice to see Kathleen Turner again.moreless

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OK episode.

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By bassgirl06, Mar 21, 2006 Report Abuse

While they've done this storyline before, I thought the ep was ok. It wasn't the best this season.

In response to the SAT thing, the max is 2400 now. When they added the writing section, they changed the max score. So a 2350 is entirely possible, but very unlikely. It would take an absolute genius to score that high.

So apparently they did do their high-school research.

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By nmccart, Feb 13, 2006 Report Abuse

Alex\'s girlfriend told the detctives: \"If he scored a 2350 on the SAT\'s, he\'d get special treatment, too.\"

Gee, the only way I could score a 2350 would be to take the SAT three times and then add my scores together (since 1600 is the max you can score).

So, they missed out on some high-school researech.

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By Milks23, Feb 10, 2006 Report Abuse

Although, this type of episode...(rich kid kills someone, parents try to buy their way out, blame his actions on some drug, video game etc)...has been done before, I enjoyed it.

Overall, this was still an enjoyable episode, though it has the same theme, same plot line as past episodes before.

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Another rich boy goes to jail

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By angelspinknose, Feb 09, 2006 Report Abuse

I was so bored with this episode I turned it off half way thru and then came back for the end. I'm normally a Law and Order junky but the show has outlived it's popularity. This one was another rich boy going to jail because his parents think they can buy the legal system.

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- 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. Edit
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- Jack McCoy (referring to the DA's office): We're threadbare, but we get the job done. Edit
- Rebecca Shane: This drug is associated with suicidal and homicidal ideation. Alex Borgia: As a coincidence or a deciding factor? Edit
- (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. Edit
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- 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. Edit
- 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. Edit