LAW & ORDER {LAW AND ORDER}: ENDURANCE {ELEVENTH SEASON PREMIERE} (TV)
Summary
One in this series of dramas that deals with the investigation, arrest, and prosecution of criminals. The first half of each episode concerns the police procedure that leads to the arrest of a suspect, while the second half covers the efforts of the district attorney to prosecute the case. This episode investigates a blaze that kills a severely handicapped child, Ian Parnell. His mother and devoted caretaker, Megan, escapes unharmed with no damage to her bedroom -- and with evidence of paint thinner, the material used to start the fire, on her nightgown. Meanwhile, a new district attorney, Nora Lewin, is appointed to oversee the office and is insistent on convicting Megan with second-degree murder. The greatest assets of Megan's defense are her constant care of her son and her recent investigation of new medical treatments, both of which seem to make it less probable that murder was in her mind. McCoy offers a lesser charge of manslaughter, but Megan's lawyer Barry Peck refuses it and pleads not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. On the stand Megan surprises everyone with her recollection of the incidents of the night in question, leading even McCoy to trust his emotions over his legal logic. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: October 18, 2000 Wednesday 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:45:28
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:61540
- GENRE: Drama, legal; Drama, police/detective
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, legal; Drama, police/detective
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1990-2010
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Arthur Penn … Executive Producer
- William M. Finkelstein … Executive Producer
- Dick Wolf … Executive Producer, Created by
- Kathy McCormick … Co-Executive Producer
- Richard Sweren … Co-Executive Producer
- Gary Karr … Producer
- Kati Johnston … Producer
- Barry Schindel … Producer
- Lynn Mamet … Producer
- William N. Fordes … Producer
- Lewis H. Gould … Producer
- David Shore … Producer
- Billy Fox … Producer
- Lewis H. Gould … Producer
- Kathy O'Connell … Associate Producer
- Constantine Makris … Director
- Matt Witten … Writer
- Mike Post … Music by
- Jerry Orbach … Cast, Detective Lennie Briscoe
- Jesse L. Martin … Cast, Detective Ed Green
- S. Epatha Merkerson … Cast, Lieutenant Anita Van Buren
- Sam Waterston … Cast, Assistant D.A. Jack McCoy
- Angie Harmon … Cast, Assistant D.A. Abby Carmichael
- Dianne Wiest … Cast, District Attorney Nora Lewin
- J.K. Simmons … Cast, Dr. Emil Skoda
- Megan Follows … Cast, Megan Parnell
- John Costelloe … Cast, Colin Parnell
- Judith Roberts … Cast, Judge Elaine Schepps
- Brian Delate … Cast, Arson Detective Harris
- Sakina Jaffrey … Cast, Dr. Balikrishan
- Jerry Grayson … Cast, Rickie Zwick
- Patricia Dunnock … Cast, Eleanor Kirkland
- Rudy Giuliani … Cast, Himself
- Nick Chinlund … Cast, Barry Peck
- Larry S. Sherman … Cast, Judge Colin Fraser
- Felicity La Fortune … Cast, Dr. Liz Alden
- Dani Klein … Cast, Lori Wittingham
- Frederika Meister … Cast, Denise Swanson
- Daryl Edwards … Cast, Nathan Walpole
- Michael Showalter … Cast, Allen Gee
- Carlos Leon … Cast, Sandoval
- Crystal Field … Cast, Vilma Litvak
- Aloysius Gigl … Cast, the Chef
- M.J. Sanchez … Cast, Isabel
- Joe Gonzalez … Cast, Aguilera
- Ramya Pratt … Cast, Katie Parnell
- Sam Levassar … Cast, Tom
- Tom Serbak … Cast, the Uniformed Policeman
- Rita Gardner … Cast, the Jury Foreperson