When the man who killed and robbed a cabbie turns up dead, detectives uncover a connection between the victim's wife, the killer, and the murder weapon.When the man who killed and robbed a cabbie turns up dead, detectives uncover a connection between the victim's wife, the killer, and the murder weapon.When the man who killed and robbed a cabbie turns up dead, detectives uncover a connection between the victim's wife, the killer, and the murder weapon.
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- TriviaThis episode appears to be based on the 1991 Anthony Riggs case. In March 1991, Army Specialist Anthony Riggs was shot to death in Detroit shortly after his return from the Persian Gulf War. It was later revealed he had been shot by his wife, Toni Cato Riggs, so that she could collect his life insurance.
- GoofsWhen Detective Briscoe and Logan find the pistol in the desk, Detective Logan sticks a pencil into the trigger guard and lifts the pistol out of the drawer. While used to demonstrate Logan's not wanting to get fingerprints on the weapon, there are a couple of serious flaws with that action. First, you would want photos of where the weapon was before it was ever moved. There is absolutely no reason to pick up the gun at this point. Second, and most important, is that the weapon may be loaded, and if the pencil depresses the trigger while being handled, it could discharge. No police officer, especially a seasoned Detective, would do either of these things.
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Steven Breck: [being interrogated by detectives] Buddy of mine was a no-show. Took a dump, then I left.
Detective Lennie Briscoe: Nice detail.
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Hubby is a deadbeat
SPOILER: This is one of those Law And Order episodes where you really do have some sympathy for the defendant. My only problem with her is that in doing what she did she left her young son to the tender mercies of social services. Good thing a character of the brother of her dead husband is introduced, possibly to reassure the audience the innocent kid will have family to take care of him.
Lisa Gay Hamilton is a woman with career ambitions who was the manager of an upscale restaurant and now is starting her own place. As anyone in that business will tell you, it takes a while for a new place to start turning a profit if it ever does.
She's married to a total deadbeat who drives a cab. The man must have had some charm back in the day because the more we learn the more incongruent this couple seems. Anyway when he cleans her business bank account out to pay off loan shark Mike Starr off, that's the last straw. A hired killer does in the husband and she does in the killer when he holds her up for more money.
Michael Beach is Hamilton's attorney and he makes the most of a sympathetic client and a couple of other alternative theories. Sam Waterston and Jill Hennessy have their work cut out for them in this episode.
Lisa Gay Hamilton is a woman with career ambitions who was the manager of an upscale restaurant and now is starting her own place. As anyone in that business will tell you, it takes a while for a new place to start turning a profit if it ever does.
She's married to a total deadbeat who drives a cab. The man must have had some charm back in the day because the more we learn the more incongruent this couple seems. Anyway when he cleans her business bank account out to pay off loan shark Mike Starr off, that's the last straw. A hired killer does in the husband and she does in the killer when he holds her up for more money.
Michael Beach is Hamilton's attorney and he makes the most of a sympathetic client and a couple of other alternative theories. Sam Waterston and Jill Hennessy have their work cut out for them in this episode.
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