Trivia
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Trivia
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This is one of the only episodes in which the district attorney (Arthur Branch) appears in court.
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Nadira Harrington is an observant Muslim who wears a hijab (head scarf). Women wear the hijab to be modest in front of men who are not related to them. She should have been wearing the hijab when Green and Fontana came to the house.
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An American soldier in this episode referred to Daniel Pearl as an example of how dangerous Iraqi insurgents were. Daniel Pearl was killed a few years before the Iraq war. This happened in Pakistan and Al Qaeda was alleged to be responsible, so it really had nothing to do with Iraqi insurgents.
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Quotes
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Joe Fontana: (to Nadira Harrington) ... and what's a nice Muslim woman doing with pig's blood?
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Bernie Adler (to Jack McCoy): You get to try my client, but now I get to try the war.
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Nadira Harrington: You invade our country, but you don't give us safety? You protect our oil fields, but people are dying in the streets?
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Joe Fontana: Lacerations on the inside of her lower lip. Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers: You know your way around a body. Joe Fontana: Yeah, so I've been told.
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Arthur Branch: We deposed a mini-Stalin. A man who tortured and killed hundreds of his own people. Who attacked Kuwait and gassed the Kurds. Serena Southerlyn: So why didn't we go in years ago? And what about the genocides in Rwanda? And the Sudan? Jack McCoy: How many oil wells does Rwanda have?
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Det. Ed Green: (About meeting Fontana.) I wasn't sure if he was a cop or a wise guy.
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Notes
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Jack McCoy refers to the case as, "Like the Yankees and the Red Sox; it's inevitable that the Red Sox won't be there when it counts." This obviously refers to the way the Boston Red Sox often did well in the beginning of the season, only to fail miserably at the end. This episode aired on September 22, 2004. Not even a month later, the Red Sox came back from an 0-3 record to beat the Yankees and went on to win the World Series.
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Many of the scenes were filmed in downtown Brooklyn, including the scene where they said they were at a gas station in Queens. In actuality they were at the Mobil Station on Atlantic Avenue.
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Dennis Farina's first contract appearance as Joe Fontana.
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According to Dick Wolf, Det. Joe Fontana is named after Wolf's old friend, producer Tom Fontana.
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Michael Bloomberg is the second New York City Mayor to appear as himself on the series. The first was Mayor Rudolph Giuliani in the episode Endurance
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With the departure of Jerry Orbach from the series, S. Epatha Merkerson (Lt. Anita Van Buren) is now the cast member who has been with the series the longest in the 15th season. She joined the cast in season 4.
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Allusions
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Nadira Harrington: I am a mujahedeen. A soldier of Islam. Arraignment Judge: And I'm Thurgood Marshall. Thurgood Marshall (1908-1993) was the first African-American judge to serve on the Supreme Court. He was appointed in 1967.
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This episode appears to be ripped from the headlines of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq.
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The scene during the trial in which the military man is testifying about torture ("You want security, but you don't want to know what it takes to get it!") seems very similar to Jack Nicholson's famous "You can't handle the truth!" scene from the 1992 movie A Few Good Men.
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