Dennis Farina |
Det. Joe Fontana |
Fred Dalton Thompson |
D.A. Arthur Branch |
Jesse L. Martin |
Det. Ed Green |
S. Epatha Merkerson |
Lt. Anita Van Buren |
Sam Waterston |
Exec. A.D.A. Jack McCoy |
Annie Parisse |
A.D.A. Alexandra Borgia |
Daniel Roebuck |
Nathaniel Prentiss |
Guest Star |
John Bedford Lloyd |
Prentiss' Lawyer |
Guest Star |
Terrence Mann |
Dorn's Lawyer |
Guest Star |
Selenis Leyva |
Detective Rivera |
Recurring Role |
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.
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.
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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