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Vaya Con Dios

Season 10, Episode 24, Aired May 24, 2000

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- Unlike what was depicted in the episode, the Supreme Court does not report its decision on the day that a case is heard. Cases heard on Monday are voted on Wednesday, while cases heard on Tuesday and Wednesday are voted on Friday.
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- This episode was intentionally written to not show the final verdict but to let the viewer form their own opinion and appreciate Adam Schiff fighting to the end.
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- Lennie Briscoe: From what I've heard, this Pantoya's almost a war criminal. Belinda Rojas: Old history. Chile's a democracy now. Colonel Pantoya's a senator.
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- (Ed Green dials a Chilean phone number) Lennie Briscoe: Let me guess. Voice mail hell in Spanish.
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- Lennie Briscoe: (about Captain Albrecht) If he had anything to do with killing this man's kid, he better run. 27 years ago or not.
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- (Looking at the dead man on the stairs.) Police Officer: Figure him for a vagrant, looking for a warm place to sleep. Lennie Briscoe: Well, he found it.
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- Mr. Reyes: They hung me upside down and burned me with cigarettes. They put electrodes on my tongue and my eyelids. They would not let me sleep. They tried to drown me three times. They put a gun to my head and pretended to shoot me. They did this to me for two months. Jack McCoy: You're positive these men were under the command of Colonel Pantoya? Mr. Reyes: He came to the police station many times. (to Pantoya) The man you laughed at, who was hanging like a pig, it was me! Through my blood and my tears, I saw you, Colonel!
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- Colonel Pantoya: I have immunity. Blanket immunity. Lennie Briscoe: The same blanket you put over Jason Whitman's corpse?
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- Paul Wheeler: It's not an American problem. Jack McCoy: A dead American's not your problem?
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Notes
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- Steve Hill's final contract appearance as Adam Schiff.
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Allusions
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- During the trial, the defense attorney mentions Che Guevara. Che Guevara was a famous Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary and associate of Fidel Castro. In the years after his execution, his name and face have been associated with socialist revolutionary movements.
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- Abbie Carmichael: We're tilting at windmills. A Don Quixote reference that is commonly used to describe a futile fight.
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- Police Officer: He was lurking, the tenant's exact words. Ed Green: Lurking, you ever see anybody actually lurk? Lennie Briscoe: Bela Lugosi, that guy could really lurk. Actor Bela Lugosi is probably best known for playing Dracula and other classic horror movie characters.
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- This episode appears to be ripped from the headlines of Charles Horman, an American journalist, who was one of the victims of the Chilean coup of 1973 led by General Augusto Pinochet. Horman's case was made famous by Costa-Gavras' 1982 film Missing.
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- The episode title is a Spanish phrase meaning 'Go with God'. It's also what Adam Schiff says to Jack McCoy when giving him permission to go ahead with the case against Colonel Pantoya.
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