Law & Order

Season 19

Rumble

1. Sean Hauser (Pablo Schreiber) also played William Lewis, the suspect that kidnapped Det. Benson, in Law & Order SVU
2. The witness Donna was wearing a Pixies tee shirt in the beginning of the episode, a topic of discussion for the detectives. This may have been a hint to the victim being involved in a local "fight club". Where is My Mind is a Pixies song that was played in an infamous scene in the movie Fight Club (1999).

Challenged

1. There is no state psychiatric facility named "Ralston Psychiatric Hospital" on Staten Island.
2. There are multiple violations of New York State mental health laws as well as general procedures for having someone released from a hospital

Lost Boys

1. The original Lost Boys were the cohort who lived with Peter Pan in Neverland in the 1904 play by J.M. Barrie, 'Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up'. In the play, the Lost Boys had literally been lost or misplaced by their parents.

Falling

Knock Off

Sweetie

1. Vivica A. Fox and Anthony Anderson starred together in "Two Can Play That Game".
2. Actual filming location took place at The Travel Inn Hotel, 515 West 42nd Street, Manhattan, NYC. As of 2017, the other location shots on West 42nd Street have considerably changed appearance, due to New construction and remodeled buildings.

Zero

1. At age 71, this is Ned Beatty's first appearance on the long-running series Law & Order, and he plays a judge. However, Ned played a homicide detective (a different character) on the sister show, Homicide: Life on the Streets, from 1993-1995, and again in Homicide: The Movie, in 2000.
2. Ned Beatty and Sam Waterston worked together previously in the 1980 movie, Hopscotch. Waterston played a character named 'Cutter'.

Chattel

By Perjury

Pledge

1. The plot of this episode bears a striking resemblance to a real-life murder case in Omaha, Nebraska. On March 13, 2008, Omaha Police say Anthony Garcia entered the home of William and Claire Hunter and stabbed two people to death: the couple's 11-year-old son, Thomas, and the family's housekeeper, Shirlee Sherman, 57. Roger Brumback (who was found murdered along with his wife five years later) and William Hunter had been instrumental in firing Garcia from Creighton University's pathology department in 2001. Garcia was tried for the four murders in October of 2016.
2. This story takes part of its inspiration from the life of Dr. Bruce Ivans the presumed perpetrator behind the 2001 anthrax attacks.

Lucky Stiff

Illegitimate

Crimebusters

Rapture

Bailout

Take-Out

Anchors Away

1. Is based upon the case of Larry Mendte, a Philadelphia news anchor who received probation for accessing co-anchor Alycia Lane's e-mail without her consent.
2. Frederic Matson and his family are obviously based on Bernie Madof and his.

Promote This!

1. The Hospital that Oswaldo Morales is staying in is located in is in Puerto Lempira, which is no where close to the airport in which he flew into - Tegucigalpa. Puerto Lempira is one of the most isolated parts of Honduras. The only way to get there is by boat or airplane, which leave about only twice a week.
2. It's revealed that back in 1991 McCoy failed to pay taxes for his nanny from another country. At that time no one would have made an issue of it. However, in 1992 President Clinton's first two choices to be his Attorney General had to withdraw their names from consideration when it was revealed they had done the same thing. It was because of that the term "Nannygate" was coined and would be a big problem for McCoy.

All New

Exchange

Skate or Die

The Drowned and the Saved

1. The scandal in this episode where Governor Shalvoy is trying to sell a US Senate seat parallels former Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich who went to prison over a similar act.