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Steel-Eyed Death

Season 20, Episode 13, Aired Mar 01, 2010

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- Revealed in this episode: Cyrus Lupo once underwent nine months of therapy with a department psychiatrist because of post-traumatic stress disorder and alcohol abuse. His problems started after he worked a case involving a man who killed his wife and two small children on Christmas morning.
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- Detectives Lupo and Bernard are now clean-shaven instead of having thick stubble. Lt. Van Buren had advised them to get rid of their beards in the previous episode "Blackmail".
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- Jack McCoy: Nowadays, with what the kids see, I shudder to think what effect it has. Michael Cutter: Growing up in rose-colored innocence didn't keep us from creating the violent world our kids are watching, did it?
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- Jack McCoy: What about her amnesia? Dr. Emil Skoda: Global dissociative amnesia, which she's claiming to have, is beyond rare. And there's usually some fubar brain injury to explain it, which I didn't detect in this girl. Jack McCoy: So her claim is a crock, she's acting. Dr. Emil Skoda: Absent a medical history and a full neurological workup, yeah, it's a crock. But I could be wrong. Jack McCoy: Ain't science grand.
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- Justin Sachs: Go screw yourself, okay!? Screw the police! Screw the Morgans! Screw all 53 states!
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- Anita van Buren: By the way, without the beards, you guys look five years younger. Kevin Bernard: (to Cyrus Lupo.) Which makes you about 12.
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- Original International Air Dates:
  
  United Kingdom: September 30, 2011 on Sky 1/Sky 1 HD
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- Special billing was given to J.K. Simmons (and) for this episode.
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- This episode aired at a special time (Monday 9/8 p.m. Central) as the 1st part of a doubleheader inaugurating the show's move to the Monday 10/9 p.m. Central time slot.
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- The episode title may have been inspired by the Bob Dylan song "Shelter From The Storm," which refers to "a world of steel-eyed death" in the second verse.
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- Cyrus Lupo: Well, to quote Curtis Mayfield, Freddie's dead. "Freddie's Dead" is a Curtis Mayfield song from 1972 that appears on the soundtrack of the film Super Fly.
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- This episode is partially ripped from the headlines of the Richard Alden Samuel McCroskey III case. McCroskey, an amateur horrorcore rapper who also went by the name "Syko Sam," is accused of murdering four people in Farmville, Virginia. The victims were a Presbyterian pastor, his estranged wife, their teenage daughter (who had been dating McCroskey), and one of their daughter's friends.
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