January 19, 2004
12.14 Missing
In this episode (12.14), a young woman goes missing, and an older, powerful, married lover may be responsible. Sound familiar? It's not just because it echoes the Gary Condit/Chandra Levy case: This plot structure is a recurring one on Law & Order, and to be honest, there isn't much difference between this episode and the one, say, where the woman gets involved with the man in the state's Office of the Attorney General. In fact, the two episodes are almost interchangeable, except this time, the official she's involved with is chairman of the state's Gaming Commission.
The episode is notable only because of a tiny bit of backstory we get during McCoy's conversation with the defendant's attorney. As Southerlyn gets righteous about the defendent getting involved with a young, vulnerable assistant, the attorney says, If it bothers you so much, you should talk to your boss: "He's famous for getting involved with his assistants." Snap! DA Lewin (Dianne Wiest) picks up on this thread a few minutes later and says, "I heard your past came up in there." McCoy responds, "But I married her, Nora," to which Lewin responds, "But it wasn't just the one, Jack, was it." She's referring here at least to Diane Hawthorne, who was mentioned in "Sideshow," one of the Homicide cross-over episodes, and probably also to Claire Kincaid (Jill Hennessy) who I think we can all assume now Jack was romancing, given Jack's lack of objection when that relationship was also asserted in "Sideshow."
Anyway, as a result of the episode's implication about the official's wife's involvement in the girl's death, Condit's wife demanded (but did not receive) an apology from the show's producers.
Posted by adm at January 19, 2004 03:29 AM
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