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Season 11

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Endurance

S11E01 2000
  1. The last of the original cast members, Steven Hill (as Adam Schiff), was replaced by Dianne Wiest (as Nora Lewin) in this episode.
  2. New York's Mayor Rudy Giuliani makes a cameo appearance introducing Nora Lewin. Giuliani's wife, Donna Hanover, has made several appearances on the show as a judge.
  3. This episode appears to be based on the 1997 Janine Albury-Thomson case.
  4. Rita Gardner, who plays the jury foreperson in this episode, played Luisa in the original off-Broadway cast of the musical "The Fantasticks"--as of 2021 the longest-running musical in theatrical history. Another original cast member in that production was Jerry Orbach, who long played Detective Lennie Briscoe on Law & Order.
  5. Daryl Edwards has portrayed fours different characters over the course of the series:
  6. Early in the show, the man wearing the mask, throwing trash away and being questioned by Det, Green is none other than Madonna's ex boyfriend, Carlos Leon. He is the father of their daughter, Lourdes Leon.

Turnstile Justice

S11E02 2000
  1. Ty Burrell, as the aggrieved husband, was his first credited acting role, nine years before his role as Phil Dunphy on Modern Family (2009).
  2. This episode appears to be based on the 1999 Kendra Webdale case.
  3. Joe Lo Truglio plays a New York police officer in the opening sequence. Truglio went on to play an NYPD detective in the series Brooklyn Nine-Nine (2013).
  4. Jack Gilpin plays Defense Attorney Axtell in this episode and three others. Previously, he played the role of Dr. Simon Reed in Episode 5.12, Progeny (1995).
  5. Victor Slezak has played four different characters throughout the course of Law & Order:
  6. Jason Kolotouros has portrayed three different characters throughout the series:
  7. Actor Stuart Feldman (or someone who looks like him) can be seen standing behind Abbie Carmichael and Jessie Dobbs. He has no dialogue.

Dissonance

S11E03 2000
  1. Before Daniel Shelly joined The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra as a bassoon player in 2004, he had a one-line part in this episode of Law & Order. His web page for The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Committee notes that after this role "failed to garner him an Emmy nomination, Mr. Shelly turned his back on television and joined the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra instead." His single line (@ 16:53) consisted of 4 words: "Sorry, I'll try it again."
  2. They mention that the suspect could do a bullet. A bullet is a year in county jail.
  3. Jan Maxwell has played four different roles over the course of the series:
  4. Ronald Guttman portrayed three different characters over the course of the series:
  5. Stephen Singer has played sic different characters over the course of the series:
  6. Andrew Polk has played five different roles over the course of the series:

Standoff

S11E04 2000
  1. This episode's writer, P.K. Todd, has the same name as a fictional author (played by Ruthie Henshall ) in Panic (2000). It remains to be seen if P.K. Todd is a pseudonym for this episode's writer, or if episode #218's co-writers (K. McCormick & M Witten) used P.K. Todd in their episode as a nod to another writer, as sometimes done throughout the series (e.g., Scholnick).
  2. Damian Young has played five different characters over the course of the series:
  3. Isiah Whitlock Jr. played five different characters over the course of the series:
  4. One of the courtroom spectators appears to be actor Joseph LaRocca. LaRocca later appeared in the episode called For Love or Money.

Return

S11E05 2000
  1. This episode appears to be based on the 1997 Samuel Sheinbein case. Sheinbein had fled to Israel to avoid prosecution for the murder of Alfredo Tello. In his case, the Israeli Supreme Court refused to extradite him.
  2. The councilman refers to the case ofJonathan Pollard. Pollard was a US intelligence analyst who spied mainly (but not exclusively) for Israel supplying it with top secret documents. He was arrested in 1985 and served 30 years in federal prison before being released on parole in 2015, when he subsequently moved to Israel.
  3. Bruce Altman has played four different characters over the course of the series:
  4. Eli Becker was born on January 5, 1965.

Burn Baby Burn

S11E06 2000
  1. This episode appears to be based on two separate cases/incidents:
    • The 2000 H. Rap Brown case.
    • The 1972 Harlem mosque incident, which resulted in the murder of officer Phillip Cardillo.
  2. Joe Morton, who plays Leon Chiles in this episode and three others, previously played the role of Roland Books in Episode 3.2, Conspiracy (1992).
  3. "Burn baby burn" is the hook line of The Trammps' 1977 #1 dance hit "Disco Inferno", which achieved widespread popularity when it was featured in the soundtrack of Saturday Night Fever (1977).
  4. Chuck Cooper has played five different characters over the course of the series:

Amends

S11E07 2000
  1. This episode appears to be based on the 1975 Martha Moxley/Michael Skakel case. This includes allusions to the name of the main protagonist Michael Sarno (based on suspect Michael Skakel) and the name of the murder victim Mary Beth Mosley (based on victim Martha Moxley). Other detail elements of the real-life murder are alluded to, including the popularity of the murder victim and the manner of her death, the failed initial investigation and subsequent opening of the cold case, and the prominence of the Sarno family (as the Skakel family was related by marriage to the Kennedy family).
  2. Briscoe quips that checking parking tickets worked in capturing Berkowitz. He is referring to David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam killer who terrorized NYC in 1976-77. A witness whom Berkowitz shot at and missed recalled seeing a policeman ticketing cars shortly before the shooting. This led to Berkowitz's arrest because his car had been ticketed
  3. Lennie says he will be sober five years in February. This is a reference to when he fell off the wagon during the events of Aftershock (1996).
  4. Final onscreen appearance of Brad Sullivan before his death eight years later.
  5. Merwin Goldsmith plays Judge Ian Feist in this and 10 other episodes. He previously played the part of Trial Judge Gollub in Episode 1.17, Mushrooms (1991).
  6. Mary Beth Mosley was murdered on August 21, 1981.
  7. Ken Marks has played three different characters over the course of the series:

Thin Ice

S11E08 2000
  1. This episode appears to be based on the 2000 Thomas Junta case. Junta beat Michael Costin to death after a practice game involving their children in which he felt Costin, who was refereeing, was ignoring the aggressive behavior of his sons towards Junta's son.
  2. Dennis Boutsikaris has played three different characters throughout the course of the series:
  3. Nancy Ticotin portrayed four different characters over the course of the series:

Hubris

S11E09 2001
  1. This episode appears to be based on two separate cases/incidents:
    • The Gillian Guess case.
    • The Ted Bundy case. There are even a number of similarities between the episodes main suspect Richard Morriston and the real-life Ted Bundy, his charming mannerisms and his law school experience to name two.
  2. First appearance of Judge Walter Bradley in the franchise, played by actor Peter McRobbie, who appeared in a few previous episodes of the series as various minor characters. He will reprise the role of Judge Bradley in 14 episodes of this series, 18 episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), and one episode of Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005). He also appears in an episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) as a priest.
  3. Peter McRobbie plays Judge Walter Bradley in this and 13 other episodes. Previously, he played the part of four other characters:
  4. Beth Fazekas disappeared on October 3, 1994.
  5. David Beach (Gemprint Tech) also played the part of Bill Hogan in Episode 19.10, Pledge (2009).

Whose Monkey Is It Anyway?

S11E10 2001
  1. The woman at the animal sanctuary that the detectives speak with is likely a reference to 1960s film star Tippi Hedren, who was inspired to open her own sanctuary for large cats after she discovered those used in the movie Mister Kingstreet's War (1971) had nowhere to go after filming. Because of this, her daughter Melanie Griffith spent much of her childhood around lions and tigers.
  2. This episode appears to be based on the 1988 Reston African filovirus outbreak.
  3. The woman at the animal sanctuary, Faye Ireland, could be inspired by 1950s/1960s French film star and icon Brigitte Bardot, particularly since Briscoe referred to her previously being known for wearing "tight sweaters."
  4. David Fonteno has portrayed seven different characters over the course of the series:
  5. John Jellison has played three different roles over the course of the series:

Sunday in the Park with Jorge

S11E11 2001
  1. The doorman from the victim's apartment building asks Briscoe if the NYPD shut down the "Safe and Loft unit." He is referring to the Safe, Loft and Truck Squad which was a special, elite unit of the NYPD originally founded in 1911 to investigate major commercial burglaries, art thefts, truck hijackings and kidnappings. The unit was slowly eliminated starting in 1990 and phased out over the next few years, the reason being that some of the crimes that the unit investigated, like truck hijackings, simply didn't happen nearly as often in the 80's and 90's as they did in the previous decades. Art thefts had also declined sharply and had mostly become the jurisdiction of the FBI; and kidnapping became one of the crimes investigated by the department's then newly formed Major Case Squad, in fact a number of the detectives that had worked in the Safe and Loft unit were transferred over to the Major Case Squad when it was formed.
  2. This episode appears to be based on the 2000 Puerto Rican Day Parade attacks.
  3. After this episode aired NBC met with representatives of the National Puerto Rican Coalition and other activist groups. These groups alleged the episode gave an offensive depiction of members of the Latino community. Following the meeting NBC issued an apology and promised not to repeat the episode.
  4. The title of this episode comes from the title of the Tony-winning Stephen Sondheim/James Lapine musical "Sunday in the Park with George", which itself was inspired by the painting of the same name, by French 'Pointillist' artist, George Seurat. Although it was nominated for Best Musical it lost. It did win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, however.
  5. Yul Vazquez plays an attorney from the DA's office in this episode. Previously, in episode 3.1, Skin Deep (1992), he played the role of Eddie Vasquez.
  6. Selenis Leyva from Orange Is the New Black (2013) plays the sister of the accused.
  7. Vanessa Aspillaga has played four different roles over the course of the series:

Teenage Wasteland

S11E12 2001
  1. This episode appears to be based on the 2000 murder of Jin-Sheng Liu.
  2. The episode title is a reference to a line in the song "Baba O'Riley" (1971) by The Who: "Don't cry, don't raise your eye / It's only teenage wasteland"
  3. Brennan Brown has played three different roles over the course of the series:
  4. Brenda Pressley (A.D.A. Shannon Hayes) previously played the role of Danielle Lindsey in Episode 9.16, Harm (1999).
  5. Danny Burstein has played five different roles over the course of the series:
  6. Erin Dilly (Emily) also played the role of Joyce Foley in Episode 19.10, Pledge (2009).
  7. Don Sparks has played three different characters over the course of the series:
  8. Very similar to the season eight episode Thrill (1997) in which two teenagers lure and then murder a random victim, in cold blood, as a "thrill-kill".

Phobia

S11E13 2001
  1. McCoy tells the defendant that if he goes to trial that the DA's office will be charging him with manslaughter in the first degree with a bias crime charge enhancement, which could give him a longer prison sentence then the offer of second degree murder with the minimum sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole after 15 years. A bias crime enhancement is an outdated term for what is now known as a hate crime enhancement, whenever a hate crime enhancement is added to a charge it adds considerably more prison time. For example normally manslaughter in the first degree carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison and a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison. However with a bias crime enhancement to manslaughter one the minimum sentence goes up to 13 years in prison and the maximum sentence up to 33 years in prison, and this is just for a first time offender. If someone that has a previous violent felony conviction were to be convicted of manslaughter one with a bias crime enhancement they would be looking at a minimum sentence of 17 years in prison and a maximum sentence of 37 years in prison.
  2. David Pittu has played three different characters over the course of the series:
  3. Stephen Berger has portrayed three different judges throughout the series:

A Losing Season

S11E14 2001
  1. This episode appears to be based on two separate cases/incidents
    • The 1999 Rae Carruth case. Carruth was an NFL football player who on November 16, 1999, in Charlotte, North Carolina, shot his pregnant girlfriend, Cherica Adams, four times in a drive-by shooting. Doctors saved her son, Chancellor, in an emergency Caesarean section, but Adams died a month later on December 14. Born prematurely and in distress, Chancellor has cerebral palsy. Carruth turned himself in, and posted bond, however, after Adams died, he fled, becoming a fugitive. He was eventually recaptured after having been found hiding in the trunk of a car outside of a motel in Nashville, Tennessee. On January 15 2001 he was found not guilty of attempted murder of Adams, however was found guilty of conspiracy to commit murder and was sentenced to 18 years 11 months jail. He is eligible for parole in 2019.
    • The 1994 arrest of O.J. Simpson.
  2. Nancy Ticotin portrayed four different characters over the course of the series:
  3. C.J. Wilson (Ed Daniels) also played the role of Levi Ingle in Lost Boys (2008) (Episode 19.3).
  4. Dorian Missick (Henry Williams) also played the role of Ronald Duggan in Can I Get a Witness? (2004) (Episode 14.16).
  5. Brian Keane plays the part of Dr. Murphy in this episode. He previously played the part of McAlary in Refuge: Part 2 (1999) (Episode 9.24).
  6. Lizan Mitchell (Dorothy Meredith) previously played the role of Judge Lerner in Prince of Darkness (1992) (Episode 3.8).

Swept Away - A Very Special Episode

S11E15 2001
  1. In the opener, Detective Ed Green tells Detective Lennie Briscoe that this could be his 'big chance', to which Briscoe quips "I'll wait for the musical version". Jerry Orbach had a successful stage career on Broadway before being cast in Law & Order (1990). He actually originated to role of El Gato in the off Broadway production of The Fantasticks, the longest running off Broadway play in history. YouTube has a clip of Orbach singing "Try to Remember", the signature song from the play, recorded from the Ed Sullivan Show. For fans who know Orbach only from Law and Order, it's quite a revelation. He also voiced, and sang for, Lumiere in Disney's animated Beauty and the Beast (1991), prior to portraying Lennie Briscoe in Law & Order.
  2. A network vice president asks if "Brillstein" set him up for a fake arrest. Bernie Brillstein was at the time a major American television producer.
  3. This episode features a reality TV show which appears to be based on real-world programs such as Big Brother (2000) and The Real World (1991).
  4. This is the only time Nancy Ticotin as Det. Reina Perez appears outside the detective squad room. She questions the cast members in the loft with Det. Green.
  5. Mark Zimmerman has played five different characters over the course of the series:
  6. Nancy Ticotin portrayed four different characters over the course of the series:
  7. Wesley Tatum was killed by Paul Wyler on February 21, 2001.
  8. Michaela Conlin, who plays Angela Montenegro on Bones (2005) and Charlie Day, who plays Charlie Kelly on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005) are both in this episode.

Bronx Cheer

S11E16 2001
  1. This episode appears to be based on several wrongful convictions that occurred during the tenure of controversial former Bronx County District Attorney Robert T. Johnson.
  2. The title card at the top of episode says: "The character of the Bronx District Attorney portrayed in this episode is not intended in any way to depict the actual District Attorney of Bronx County, whose integrity and reputation are unquestioned."
  3. At the arraignment hearing, the judge asks A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael why "res judicata" doesn't apply in this case, since someone has already been convicted of the same murder. Res judicata is a Latin legal term that means "a matter already judged": a final judgement has already been rendered, and the verdict is no longer subject to appeal. When res judicata applies, the case cannot be raised again in either the current court or a higher court, such as the Appellate Court or the Supreme Court. Res judicata is a method of protecting the parties involved in a case from further, often unnecessary, litigation by an overzealous prosecutor or one who might have a grudge. It mostly helps prevent the wasting of the court's time and resources on matters that have already been dealt with and decided.
  4. Dallas Roberts has played three different characters over the course of the series:
  5. Actor Dallas Roberts (Mark Daltrey) will go on to play a different character, serial rapist/murderer Gregory Yates, six times in the Dick Wolf universe. The character appears in four episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) and two crossover episodes of Chicago P.D. (2014).
  6. Kim Director (Waitress) also played the role of Female Undercover Cop in Episode 15.4, Coming Down Hard (2004).
  7. Dallas Roberts (Mark Daltrey) and Zach Grenier (Mr. Hauser) work together again on The Good Wife (2009) playing Owen Cavanaugh and David Lee, respectively.

Ego

S11E17 2001
  1. The scenes for the Albany train station were filmed at the Yonkers, NY train station.
  2. This episode was based on the true life case of Thomas Capano, a millionaire property developer, criminal lawyer, and Delaware attorney general who was disbarred after being convicted of the 1996 murder of his longtime mistress, Anne Marie Fahey. He received the death penalty, but this was eventually commuted to life without parole. He died in 2011 in his cell at the age of 61 of a heart attack.
  3. E.A.D.A. Jack McCoy and A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael discovered that, following a psychiatric session, their suspect's psychiatrist had written to his intended victim as an act of protection against possible danger to her. When they told their D.A. boss Nora Lewin she exclaimed 'a Tarasoff letter' then cited case law 'Regents v Tarasoff'. In reality the case law is 'Tarasoff v Regents of the University of California' 17 Cal. 3d 425, 551 P.2d 334, 131 Cal. Rptr. 14 (Cal. 1976).
  4. Gerry Bamman has played four different roles over the course of the series:
  5. During the interview with the convict, Detective Lennie Briscoe cracks, "Women - can't live with 'em, can't kill 'em". This is a paraphrase of a one-liner made by comedian Steven Wright on his 1985 album 'I Have a Pony' (Wright says "shoot", not "kill"). Comedian 'Emo Phillips' makes a similar comment ("Women - can't live with 'em, can't get 'em to dress up in skimpy little Nazi outfits") on his album "E=MO Squared", also released in 1985.
  6. Nancy Ticotin portrayed four different characters over the course of the series:

White Lie

S11E18 2001
  1. This was the last episode filmed where you can still see the World Trade Center towers in the distance at the 7:20 minute mark. The camera is filming through a chain fence but you can see the sun reflecting off the two towers before they fell on 9/11.
  2. The heliport used in this episode--described as the Metro Heliport--is labeled as the East 34th Street Heliport (TSS) Heliport on Google Map. It is located adjacent to FDR Drive on the East River. The camera view (@7m20s) is looking up the East River towards the United Nations building and several high-rise apartment buildings. [11.01.2020]
  3. This episode appears to be based on the 2000 "Plan Colombia" initiative set up to combat Colombian drug cartels and left-wing insurgent groups in Colombia.
  4. Michael Gaston has played five different roles over the course of the series:
  5. Socorro Santiago has played seven different characters over the course of the series:
  6. Ruben Santiago-Hudson has played four different roles over the course of the series:
  7. Jordan Lage has played six different roles over the course of the series:
  8. Michael Hobbs has played four different roles over the course of the series:
  9. Daniel and Rosa Alvarez were murdered on January 4, 2001.

Whiplash

S11E19 2001
  1. This episode appears to be based on the 1996 "sudden stop" car accidents conspiracy in Chicago, Illinois.
  2. Detective Green states that "it's not against the law to drive while using a cell phone" to which Detective Briscoe replies "not yet anyways." This episode was actually filmed while the New York state senate was considering the nation's first proposed legislation limiting cell phone use while driving. The first law was passed in June 2001, making it illegal to compose a text message or to use a hand-held cell phone while driving. This legislation did little to curb the rising trend of accidents caused by distracted driving. In fact, 10 years after that first legislation, traffic accidents caused by distracted driving became greater than those caused by drunk driving. To that end, New York state passed stricter laws regarding the use of any electronic device while driving: the previous law only covered cell phone use. The amended legislation--effective on July 12, 2011--banned the use of any and all hand-held electronic devices while driving. Activities that are included but not limited to: composing, sending, reading, browsing, and transmitting e-mails or text messages; viewing or transmitting images; and playing games. An electronic device may only be used if it is attached to the vehicle dashboard or another surface and if it is voice operated or if it has a hands-free accessory. Violators can receive a fine of $50 to $450, depending on the number of violations committed. As of June 2013, each violation of the distracted driver law carries 5 driver-violation points, with 11 points received within an 18-month period resulting in a suspension of the violator's drivers license.

All My Children

S11E20 2001
  1. Julianne Nicholson will go on to play multiple main characters within the Law & Order universe. First she will play Christina Finn on Conviction (2006), then she will play Megan Wheeler on Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001), and finally she will play Jill Lansing on Law & Order True Crime (2017).
  2. The beginning scene, when the body is discovered in the recess-yard of a school, was filmed at Friends Seminary, a long-standing private Quaker school in NYC. Nick Chinlund, who played two characters in different episodes of the original L&O series and several more characters in two of the spin-off shows (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) and Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) ), was a student there, many years before this was filmed.
  3. This episode appears to be based on the 1997 Ennis Cosby case.
  4. Nancy Ticotin portrayed four different characters over the course of the series:

Brother's Keeper

S11E21 2001
  1. Cally Lonegan is based on Whitey Bulger.
  2. Actor Robert John Burke (Agent Ron Innes) goes on to play Internal Affairs Detective Lieutenant Ed Tucker in 29 episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999). Lieutenant Tucker also dates Mariska Hargitay's character Sergeant Olivia Benson for a time.
  3. The bar where Cally Lonegan hangs out is the real-life 7B Horseshoe Bar, also known as Vazac's, located in New York City's East Village.The same bar was used in Jessica Jones, where the bar owned by Luke Cage - though in the show the bar is located in Hell's Kitchen.When Lennie Briscoe and Ed Green enter the bar, Cally reminisces with Lennie about how back in the day Lennie had arrested him in Hell's Kitchen.
  4. Kevin Elden has played five different roles over the course of the series:

School Daze

S11E22 2001
  1. Semple's mother mentions the "other boy" E.A.D.A. Jack McCoy and A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael prosecuted who "shot that delivery man." She is referring to Mitch Regan, the oldest of the thrill killers from a previous episode (Teenage Wasteland (2001), Episode 11.12).
  2. The detectives briefly consider a girl as a suspect despite the statistic that 95.7% of all school shootings are carried out by males. [2025]
  3. The United States has by far the most mass shootings of any country. China is in second place with 21 mass shootings, but The USA has twenty times more than that, at 441 mass shootings since 1966. [2025]
  4. This episode appears to be based on several high-profile school shootings that occurred in the late 1990s in particular the 1999 Columbine High School massacre committed by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.
  5. The student's quizzical remark, "but he's black" isn't without foundation; more than half (54%) of school shootings are carried out by white shooters. [2025]
  6. The angry, crying girl being questioned by Det. Briscoe is inspired by a real student from Columbine.
  7. The woman who talks about her daughter appears to be loosely inspired by Carla Hochhalter, the late mother of Anne-Marie Hochhalter who is also deceased.
  8. Robert Emmet Lunney played five different characters over the course of the series:
  9. Colin Fickes plays a student who knew the shooting was going to take place. He would later play a role on One Tree Hill (2003) where his character carries out a school shooting.
  10. Nancy Ticotin portrayed four different characters over the course of the series:

Judge Dread

S11E23 2001
  1. There is a considerable difference in sentencing between attempted murder one and attempted murder two. Attempted murder in the first degree, which is what Randall Wylie was charged with, is sentenced as a class A-I felony and carries a minimum sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole after 15 years. Whereas attempted murder in the second degree, which is what Jack allowed Wylie to plea to, is sentenced as a class B felony and carries a minimum sentence of five years in prison and a maximum of 25 years in prison.
  2. The detective assigned to guard Judge Karlin asks her what case she is trying that day: she replies that she's presiding over a drug case where the defendant was caught with 13 pounds (208 ounces) of heroin. The detective asks the judge what kind of sentence you'd get for that: the judge sarcastically replies, "A needle in the arm." Though she was joking, the judge wasn't too far off: 208 ounces of heroin would be criminal possession of a controlled substance in the first degree, a class A-I felony with a minimum sentence of life in prison with the possibility of parole after 15 years. Considering the amount of heroin in this case, the defendant would likely get the maximum sentence of 25 to life since 208 ounces is obviously way more than the minimum 8 ounces needed to be charged with first-degree possession.
  3. This episode appears to be based on the 1979 murder of Judge John H. Wood Jr.
  4. Draconian is an adjective meaning "of great severity", that derives from Draco, an Athenian law scribe under whom small offenses had heavy punishments.
  5. Frank Morris, who stole a gun from his bartender uncle, takes a shot at Judge Linda Karlin, is also the name of Clint Eastwood's character in Escape from Alcatraz (1979).
  6. Jeff Van Gundy was the head coach of the New York Knicks from March 1996 until December 2001.

Deep Vote

S11E24 2001
  1. The closing card reads "In Memorium: Fred Chalfy, Anthony Monteforte". Fred Chalfy was a property master and set dresser who had been with the show since the beginning. Anthony Monteforte was with craft services.
  2. This is Angie Harmon's last episode.
  3. This episode also appears to be inspired, in part, by the unsolved murders of two women in Houston, TX. These murders occurred three days apart. Both victims happened to be named Mary Morris, and were of no relation. The first Mary Morris was found murdered on October 12, 2000. The second was found on October 15th, in nearly the exact same spot as the first Mary. Both of them were found dead in their burnt cars. In this episode, a homicide victim happens to be driving the exact same make, model, and color of car as a lady who was actually the intended target. In the Mary Morris homicides, theories suggest that the first Mary Morris was murdered by mistake, that the killer meant to kill the second Mary, and then corrected his mistake three days later.
  4. The episode's title is a pun of the secret informer nicknamed "Deep Throat," who supplied information to Washington Times' reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein about the Watergate scandal.
  5. This episode appears to be based on the vote recount in the 2000 United States presidential election.
  6. Joe Grifasi plays the part of James Linde in this and two other episodes. Previously, in Out of Control (1991) (Episode 2.8), he played the role of Ezra Gould.
  7. Peter Jay Fernandez has portrayed three different characters over the course of the series:
  8. Daniel Oreskes has played six different characters over the course of the series:
  9. Nancy Ticotin portrayed four different characters over the course of the series:
  10. Dan Ziskie has played six different roles over the course of the series:
  11. Tom Alan Robbins (Gary) previously played the role of Ed Kushner in Manhunt (2001) (Episode 2.18).
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