Law & Order · Season 7, Episode 17
“Showtime” · Season 7, Episode 17
In this episode: Jack McCoy (4), D.A. Adam Schiff (1), Jamie Ross (1)
I shouldn't have been away from Katie this long. I'm due in family court in three days.
We have to go back to Judge Callahan in twelve hours.
I'm sorry!
Where are your priorities?! If Gorton gets ahold of this stuff, he'll come up with some cockamamie alternate theory of the crime. A murderer could walk free!
And I could lose my daughter! You know what, Jack?! That's an easy decision!
Not for an Assistant District Attorney.
What's your current movie about, Mr. Newman? Talking bears?
Yes.
A daring Neorealist foray into Jellystone Park? Does that fulfill your promise as an artist?
No!
Heidi Ellison was keeping you from fulfilling that promise, wasn't she?
Not just her. Do you know what kinda crap they wanted me to make?
But especially her. She could've let you make Madame Bovary, couldn't she?
Yes!
But she didn't, did she?
She gave me a choice. The bears or a picture about a dog who's granted three wishes. I couldn't believe it!
You couldn't believe what, Mr. Newman?
I had an actress, a bankable actress, who was attached to Bovary. But Heidi gives her $12,000,000 to do an asteroid movie instead, because our marriage didn't work out! [jumps out of his seat and raises his sword] That vindictive bitch! I could've made something!
Everyone likes a good story. Eddie Newman has made a career putting stories on film. And the defense in this case has told you a very good story about a sleazy psychiatrist and a man who believed he'd committed a murder, but recently realized that he didn't. What actually happened here is less complicated and far more sordid. A bitter, angry man viciously killed his ex-wife, dismembered her while she was still alive, and then lied about it. There's no clever twist to the plot. It's just the messy, ugly truth. Mr. Gorton has appealed to what he calls reasonable doubt. But reasonable doubt is not any doubt. God has given you all the gift of common sense. Use it. [picks up Newman's sword] Eddie Newman used this weapon to hack to death not the woman he claimed he loved, but the woman he calls a vindictive bitch. Find him guilty of murder.
You got what you wanted. Take the rest of the week off.
It's Friday, Adam.
So it is. See you Monday.
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