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A Tree Falls

Episode Number: 30    Season Num: 2    First Aired: Thursday November 13, 2003    Prod Code: 175408
The team is baffled as to why no family members come forward after a Latino boy is abducted in middle of the day time from a street in Spanish Harlem. That leads the team to suspect that his family are immigrants and are too afraid to come forward.

Cast and Crew

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Writer: Allison Abner
Director: Bob Bailey
Star: Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Vivian Johnson),  Enrique Murciano (Danny Taylor),  Anthony LaPaglia (Jack Malone),  Poppy Montgomery (Samantha Spade),  Eric Close (Martin Fitzgerald)
Guest Star: Annie Gonzalez (Hostage Girl),  Jared Harris (Father Walker),  Peter Michael Goetz (Storekeeper),  Julie Pearl (Teacher),  David Barrera (Mr. Gonzalez),  Patricia Heller (Screaming Shopper),  Eddy Martin (Hispanic Child),  Jay Evans (Morgue Technician),  Michael Bunin (Lothar Kheel),  Hector Luis Bustamante (Hector Delgado),  Lourdes Colon (Ana Rodriguez),  J.R. Villarreal (Nelson Rodriguez [as Juan Villareal Jr.]),  Michael Olifiers (Smalls),  William Francis McGuire (Thayer Cleveland),  Karina Arroyave (Luisa Delgado),  Jose Yenque (El Coyote),  Jeremy Ray Valdez (Teo Rodriguez)

Notes

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German episode title: "Um jeden Preis," meaning "At Any Price." (edit)
Songs used in this episode include The Headphonist by Kinky off the album Atlas and Bluebird of Happiness by Mojave 3 off the album Spoon and Rafter. (edit)

Quotes

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Danny Taylor: Have you ever heard of a place called Hialeah, Florida?
Tao Rodriguez: No.
Danny Taylor: Well, it's a lot like where you're from. I grew up there.
Tao Rodriguez: Is that where you got your badge?
Danny Taylor: No. (Lifts his shirt to show a scar on his abdomen.) That's where I got that. I was just like you: afraid ... always running
from the badge.
Tao Rodriguez: Now you got one.
Danny Taylor: Because I made a choice ... now you have to make a choice, Tao. What's it going to be? Are you going to help me find your brother? (edit)

Trivia

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At the end of the episode when Nelson is returned to his family, Teo opens the door. The cut on his face is gone, although in the interrogation scene just before he still had it. (edit)
Mandel only stated that the child got into a car, whereas the flashbacks showed it was a black sports utility vehicle. Yet Martin and Vivian knew that the vehicle was an SUV, even though there was no possible way they could have known. (edit)

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8.5
Great
A Tree Falls
"Fine example"
A young boy disappears. His family is in the country illegally and they owe money. No shortage of suspects
Continue » Posted Sep 12, 2006 6:27 am PST
8.8
Great
A Tree Falls
"Fine example"
Great plot, viewers learn a lot about characters too
Continue » Posted Sep 11, 2006 8:15 pm PST
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