A young teen who recently transferred to a nice private school in Manhattan is found dead in the basement laundry of her apartment building. Her head met the corner of one of the machines. Jerry Orbach and Jesse Martin soon start looking in the direction of school.
This case reminded so much of one I was involved with when I was working at New York State Crime Victims Board that involved several victims. The reason that her classmate Caroline Dhavernas kills her is to keep their lesbian relationship quiet. Seeing her uptight parents I understand why she feels as she does. This episode is deadly reminder of how stifling the closet can be.
The case I had involved a man killed by someone he just had got involved with. The victim wanted to tell the world of his new love, the perpetrator was very closeted and very much wanted to keep it on the down low. He killed his lover and stabbed up two other men who were friends who survived so he could stay in the closet.
The issue for Sam Waterston and Elisabeth Rohm is the ethics of outing the young woman. Dhavernas pleads guilty to avoid a trial only to keep her secret. Rohm objects violently to Waterston's tactics and he only sees it as leverage like any other with a suspect. Remember as she left the series Rohm herself revealed she was a lesbian.
It's a great episode especially for a young gay audience about the stifling effects of the closet.
This case reminded so much of one I was involved with when I was working at New York State Crime Victims Board that involved several victims. The reason that her classmate Caroline Dhavernas kills her is to keep their lesbian relationship quiet. Seeing her uptight parents I understand why she feels as she does. This episode is deadly reminder of how stifling the closet can be.
The case I had involved a man killed by someone he just had got involved with. The victim wanted to tell the world of his new love, the perpetrator was very closeted and very much wanted to keep it on the down low. He killed his lover and stabbed up two other men who were friends who survived so he could stay in the closet.
The issue for Sam Waterston and Elisabeth Rohm is the ethics of outing the young woman. Dhavernas pleads guilty to avoid a trial only to keep her secret. Rohm objects violently to Waterston's tactics and he only sees it as leverage like any other with a suspect. Remember as she left the series Rohm herself revealed she was a lesbian.
It's a great episode especially for a young gay audience about the stifling effects of the closet.