Law & Order

Season 16 Episode 8

New York Minute

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Detectives discover that the owner of a trucking company has been smuggling illegal aliens and suspect that a citizens' border patrol member has killed him.
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  • Illegal immigrants and the Citizens for Border-Control.

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    Citizens for Border Control.....these people really do exist. They have licensed firearms and their motivational speech is that they are taking up the slack of the police and INS.



    But, in my opinion, their real motivation is racism.



    The episode was all over the place....the CBC guy rigged the driver's truck to kill a bunch of immigrants and make his life and work easier and safer....no wait..... it was his buddy who acutally did it.



    I'm tired of these dumb and baseless L & O episodes that they have been ditching out lately.



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Dennis Farina

Dennis Farina

Det. Joe Fontana

Fred Dalton Thompson

Fred Dalton Thompson

D.A. Arthur Branch

Jesse L. Martin

Jesse L. Martin

Det. Ed Green

S. Epatha Merkerson

S. Epatha Merkerson

Lt. Anita Van Buren

Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston

Exec. A.D.A. Jack McCoy

Annie Parisse

Annie Parisse

A.D.A. Alexandra Borgia

Daniel Roebuck

Daniel Roebuck

Nathaniel Prentiss

Guest Star

John Bedford Lloyd

John Bedford Lloyd

Prentiss' Lawyer

Guest Star

Terrence Mann

Terrence Mann

Dorn's Lawyer

Guest Star

Selenis Leyva

Selenis Leyva

Detective Rivera

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  • TRIVIA (1)

    • At the end of the episode, Branch gives Borgia a speech about how they should stay out of the government's business concerning the deportation of Mrs. Alvarez, an illegal immigrant whom they used as a witness. He is then ironically approached by a Latino bus boy who is presumably illegal himself. In the 1995 episode Rage where Jack and Claire tried a black stockbroker who killed his boss because he was angry with the way that he and other white people have treated African Americans in the past, a mental illness called "Black Rage." That episode had a similar ironic ending. As Jack and Claire are leaving the courthouse after winning the case, Jack hails a cab that actually should have stopped for a black man standing up the block from them. After Claire points it out, the cabby says something like, are you getting in or not? Proving that perhaps, the defense wasn't as unjustifiable as everyone had thought.

  • QUOTES (5)

    • Nathaniel Prentiss: You're not terrified to see more buildings fall? More planes crash? I am. Terry is. He's gonna see it stops.
      Alex Borgia: By murdering innocent illegals?
      Nathaniel Prentiss: You know they were innocent? I don't... and for my money, they shouldn't have been on that truck in the first place.

    • Jack McCoy: Dorn didn't want Clayton Stack killed to prevent illegal immigration but to keep himself out of jail.

    • Ken: I knew something was going down with his hauls.
      Ed Green: Who maintains the rigs?
      Ken: I do.
      Ed Green: So when you were cleaning out blood, hair, loose fingernails from people who tried to claw their way out of a boiling hot trailer box, you classify that as "something going down"?

    • CSU Tech Lowden: I think at some point this trailer overheated, and the people inside, the cargo, were literally cooked.

    • Terry Dorn: (While getting arrested.) What kind of country locks up its patriots?
      Ed Green: The same kind that gives you the right to remain silent. Exercise it.

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  • ALLUSIONS (2)

    • The title of the episode, New York Minute, is also a well known song by Don Henley of The Eagles. The song was on Henley's solo CD "The End of the Innocence" (1989) and also was on the Eagles reunion CD "Hell Freezes Over" (1994). In slang terms, when something is referred to as taking place in 'a New York minute', it refers to the rapid pace at which things take place in New York City.

    • This episode appears to be ripped from the headlines of the Tyrone Williams case.

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