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Thrill

Season 8, Episode 1, Aired Sep 24, 1997

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- Rey Curtis: You're a Catholic. Jack McCoy: Not when I'm at work. Sorry.
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- Anita Van Buren: A thrill killing. I take it back, Lennie, I guess some people don't need a reason. Lennie Briscoe: I guess the macarena wasn't exciting enough for them.
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- Jamie Ross: The Church protects murderers, the law says two people can fire the same bullet, and the victim's mother forgives her son's killers. You figure it out. Jack McCoy: You don't think you could? Forgive them, I mean? Jamie Ross: No. Jack McCoy: Neither could I. What does that say about us?
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- Jack McCoy: I'm playing legal tiddlywinks with these punks. What I really want to do is take them out to Battery Park and hang 'em by the scrotum! Adam Schiff: An understandable sentiment -- but stick with the tiddlywinks.
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- Adam Schiff: Sounds like Leopold and Loeb. Who'd we get? Jack McCoy: Beavis and Butthead.
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- Lennie Briscoe (on arresting Kershaw): Congratulations, Dale. You made your bones.
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- Mrs. Wheeler: I can't hate you. I'll be praying for God to watch over you every day you're in that awful place you're going to.
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- Along with the fourteenth, nineteenth and twentieth seasons, this is one of only four seasons not to feature any cast changes.
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- This episode appears to be is ripped from the headlines of the Thomas Koskovich/Jason Vreeland murder case.
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- Adam Schiff: Sounds like Leopold and Loeb. Who'd we get? Jack McCoy: Beavis and Butthead. Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were convicted of murder in Chicago in 1924 and defended by famed lawyer Clarence Darrow. It was called the Crime of the Century. Beavis and Butt-head was a cartoon on MTV in the mid-'90s about two boys who often got in trouble. In law enforcement criminal partners who are especially stupid are often called Beavis and Butt-head.
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- Lennie sites the macarena as possible cause for murder. This is a reference to the macarena dance craze in the '90s.
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