This story seemed very familiar to me, until I remembered one of those 48 Hours murder mysteries they play on Discovery Times, aka ID. I believe it was in California, but a woman did end up marrying her therapist, whom she’d started seeing as a teenager. There was a messy divorce, and I can’t remember if she was accused of murdering him.
It doesn’t matter if Donovan killed Isaac under mistaken assumptions. This man took advantage of her as a teenage patient, intimidated her, and even after they were married, was emotionally abusive (remember the lilies on the terrace?) I don’t think it was a clear-cut case.
Oh, and count me in the Olivette/Logan camp. Cutter specifically mentioned her counseling police officers who have lost a partner.
TNT sometimes shows the early L&Os in the wee hours of the morning. I recorded one from 1992 that was on at 3a.
thwartme, Logan did go see Olivette in the hospital. The vibe I got was one that was more than colleauge/colleauge.
Remember that on the witness stand during the rape trial, when Olivette was called on why she called Logan rather than going to her local precinct, she first answered, “I have a relationship with him.” Very interesting. (Though I think if Olivette were to fall for someone, it’d be Jack – he’s more her intellectual speed.)
My guess is that you’re thinking of Susan Polk who was convicted of murdering her husband, Frank Polk. (Every time I watch Law & Order, I try to identify the real-life case on which they’re basing the story. Sometimes they combine two or more real stories.)
Like the one with the lawyer suing the drycleaner over a pair of pants that morphed into a Wal-Mart-like Big Box store importing poisoned Chinese toothpaste and fobbing it off on retirement homes and hospitals? Yeah, that one was all over the map.
Still, nice to see Moira Kelly, back from Mandyville.
Minor hijack, but I’ve always thought that of all the L&O cops, Phil was the one I would least one angry with me. Somehow Sorvino played it with understated threatening, much more scary than Logan slamming you with a garbage pail lid. Great actor.