Law & Order

Season 14

Bodies

Bounty

1. In addition to Andrew Luster, this episode is inspired by Jayson Blair, a black reporter caught fabricating articles when employed by the New York Times.
2. Loosely based on the case of Andrew Luster, heir to the Max Factor cosmetics fortune, who was charged with multiple counts of rape, sodomy and sexual assaults using date-rape drug GHB. He fled after posting $1 million bail and was convicted in absentia and sentenced to 124 years and a $1 million fine. He was apprehended in Mexico several months later. His sentence was reduced to 50 years; he is eligible for parole 2028.

Patient Zero

Shrunk

Blaze

1. This episode is "ripped from the headlines" of the deadly night club fire during a Great White concert on February 20, 2003 in West Warwick, Rhode Island.

Identity

1. Lonnie Jackson's full name is Langford Louis Jackson.
2. Lorraine Toussaint reprised her role as Shambala Green in Chicago P.D.: Justice (2016) 13 years later.

Floater

Embedded

1. The incident where Frank Elliott draws a crude map in the sand showing American troop deployments is loosely based on a real incident in Geraldo Rivera's embedment for Fox News during the Afghanistan/Iraq War. Geraldo had drawn a similar diagram while reporting for Fox News after which the Pentagon pulled his credentials and had him sent home, claiming that he had potentially given away the location of American troop.

Compassion

1. Ann Dowd and Lawerence Arancio, who play married doctors, Beth and Mathew Allison, in this episode, are married in real life.

Ill-Conceived

Darwinian

1. This episode presents a fictionalized account of the Chante Mallard case, in which an intoxicated woman hit a man and, ignoring his cries for help, left him for two hours in her garage to die, then enlisted the help of acquaintances to dispose of the body.

Payback

1. "Payback" is also the title of the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) series premiere.

Married with Children

City Hall

Veteran's Day

Can I Get a Witness?

Hands Free

1. This episode was taken from the story of Robert Durst, a man who was hiding out in Galvelston, TX dressing as a woman who had killed his first wife, an acquaintance and neighbor.
2. Eli and Caroline Madison were married on December 5, 1992 and divorced on July 14, 1996, two years after her disappearance.

Evil Breeds

1. This was Al Freeman Jr.'s final acting role before his death on August 9, 2012 at the age of 78.
2. Stefan Anders entered the United States on June 11, 1948.

Nowhere Man

1. When Briscoe and Green are looking through the victim's papers, Lennie talks about the length of time needed to graduate law school, and that he had considered it. Green said he would have made a heck of a shyster. When Jerry Orbach was first on Law & Order, he played a defense attorney.
2. Mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, has a cameo - holding a press conference near the end of the episode.

Everybody Loves Raimondo's

Vendetta

1. The murder victim is based on notorious Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman. Bartman was vilified by many people after he interfered with Cubs outfielder Moises Alou, who was trying to catch a foul ball in game six of the 2003 National League Championship Series. The Cubs were winning the game at the time, but eventually lost. Many Cubs fans blame Bartman's actions for the Cubs losing the game and not reaching the World Series.

Gaijin

1. Chris Chalk (Thomas Walker) also plays a character by the same name (Corporal Thomas Walker) in the Showtime series, "Homeland".

Caviar Emptor

1. Frank Converse plays a stable manager, his 4th appearance since 1991. In Corpus Dilecti (6.11, 1996) he played the suspect, who was also in the horse business and also investigated by Det. Briscoe. See also His Hour Upon the Stage (2.11) and Admissions (9.22).
2. The episode title is a pun on "caveat emptor", the Latin phrase meaning "Let the buyer beware".

C.O.D.

1. Jerry Orbach (Detective Lennie Briscoe) left the show after 12 years to star in the spin-off Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005). He died of prostate cancer on December 28, 2004 at the age of 69 after filming only two episodes of the series.