A woman jumps to her death off the Brooklyn Bridge, but evidence and eyewitnesses suggest that a crazed man made her jump after they were in an auto accident.A woman jumps to her death off the Brooklyn Bridge, but evidence and eyewitnesses suggest that a crazed man made her jump after they were in an auto accident.A woman jumps to her death off the Brooklyn Bridge, but evidence and eyewitnesses suggest that a crazed man made her jump after they were in an auto accident.
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- Mrs. Marsh
- (as Katherine Narducci)
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- TriviaThis episode appears to be based on the 1995 Deletha Word case. Deletha Word was a Detroit woman who in 1995 was beaten so severely by a man that she jumped off a bridge into the Detroit River to escape him even though she couldn't swim. Ms. Word drowned and her attacker was convicted of second-degree murder the following year.
- GoofsIn the first half of the episode, Brisco and Curtis track "Crazy" Mike McDugan to a bar and place him under arrest. In the second half, when McDugan is telling McCoy about the arrest, he says he was "going to the corner store."
- Quotes
Det. Rey Curtis: [referring to his wife] She left me, Lennie! She took the kids and split. She wants me out of the house.
Detective Lennie Briscoe: [sighs] Why? What happened?
Det. Rey Curtis: I broke my vows with this girl in the park. Just a one-time thing.
Detective Lennie Briscoe: How'd Deborah find out?
Det. Rey Curtis: I told her.
Detective Lennie Briscoe: Your second mistake.
It turns out that the victim was formerly the secretary and bookkeeper for John Collum whose factory burned down in a suspicious arson fire. The fire marshals had previously said it was passing vagrants, but as things progress it turns out to be more suspicious than that for Collum and his son Christopher Cousins.
The bridge pursuers are a real credit to society. One is played by John Ellison Conlee with the name of Crazy Mike McDugan and he's a leg breaker for hire and doesn't have too much smarts. The other has the colorful name of Randall the Candle, he's the arsonist who did the deed. He only has one scene, but Rusty DeWees is one menacing dude and infinitely smarter than his prison pal as you'll see.
Great Law And Order episode as Sam Waterston builds his case and only at the very last minute is all revealed.
- bkoganbing
- Oct 12, 2013