# Question about Law & Order **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 30, 2012, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-law-order/611202 "2012-01-30T16:12:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-law-order/611202/1 "2012-01-30T16:12:28Z")
Who shot Greene? And did Greene return to the force after that? Was there a follow-up episode to that one? (This was the episode where a cute female lawyer was found killed in her office building.) ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-law-order/611202/2 "2012-01-30T16:47:08Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Who shot Greene? And did Greene return to the force after that? Was there a follow-up episode to that one? > > (This was the episode where a cute female lawyer was found killed in her office building.) I was wondering the same thing. I know this was a “themed” L&O marathon but how could they play that episode and NOT follow it up with the next one, theme be damned?! ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-law-order/611202/3 "2012-01-30T17:57:31Z")
What was the theme? Is it anything to do with the fact that I now consider Jack a dick? ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-law-order/611202/4 "2012-01-30T18:23:26Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Who shot Greene? And did Greene return to the force after that? Was there a follow-up episode to that one? > > (This was the episode where a cute female lawyer was found killed in her office building.) Yes, he returned. His actual exit from the show was at least two seasons later, I think. Don’t remember if the episode had a follow-up or not. ---
**Author:** ![milquetoast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@milquetoast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/milquetoast)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-law-order/611202/5 "2012-01-30T19:07:28Z")
> [@Motorgirl](#): > > I was wondering the same thing. I know this was a “themed” L&O marathon but how could they play that episode and NOT follow it up with the next one, theme be damned?! The follow-up epidode was with a different show in the franchise (_Trial by Jury_ in this case, I believe). TNT does that a lot, the show the first episode that that crosses over to a related NBC drama, but the never show the follow-up because it’s not a _Law & Order_ epsiode. Irks me off!! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-law-order/611202/6 "2012-01-30T19:53:51Z")
Yes, he comes back to be partnered with the worst detective in the history of the show - the one female detective featured whose character lucked into the job following the publicity of her falling ass backwards into a hero’s role during a mugging/shooting/robbery. L&O eventually made it up to me (yes, me personally) by bringing Lupo and Bernard together to finish off the series with the strongest arrangement since the beginning (including the Order side). I majored in Law & Order my first go-round in college. I did my grad work in SVU with a minor second degree in CI. I told my mother it’s so’s I don’t know how to properly digest a meal without a heinous crime or sexually based offense in the background. ETA: I do not remember a follow up with the person that shot him. Part of this may be due to my repressed memory of anything Imperioli related. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-law-order/611202/7 "2012-01-30T20:40:59Z")
Greene got shot because Jesse Martin was going to be reprising his role in in “Rent”. But I don’t recall who pulled the trigger. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2012, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-law-order/611202/8 "2012-01-30T20:43:38Z")
The trigger guy was a bald man in a red sports car, and was gunning for the witness (or suspect) that Greene was escorting. That’s all we know. ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-law-order/611202/9 "2012-01-31T13:53:08Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > What was the theme? > > Is it anything to do with the fact that I now consider Jack a dick? The theme was something about “DAs kicking ass” or something like that ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-law-order/611202/10 "2012-01-31T14:38:06Z")
> [@Motorgirl](#): > > The theme was something about “DAs kicking ass” or something like that Oh. Really? The one about the car chase wasn’t really Jack kicking ass. He was being a dick, though. I’ve come to the firm opinion that he really doesn’t want justice, he just wants to prosecute someone – anyone. For any reason that he can think up. Sorry, but that episode just pissed me off. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-law-order/611202/11 "2012-01-31T14:45:18Z")
> [@ShelliBean](#): > > I majored in Law & Order my first go-round in college. I did my grad work in SVU with a minor second degree in CI. I THOUGHT I recognized you from the Alumni bashes! > [@](#): > > I told my mother it’s so’s I don’t know how to properly digest a meal without a heinous crime or sexually based offense in the background. You can get CEU’s by watching _Bones_ during dinner. ---
**Author:** ![ShelliBean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f9ae1b/32.png) [@ShelliBean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShelliBean)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-law-order/611202/12 "2012-01-31T14:53:23Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > You can get CEU’s by watching _Bones_ during dinner. Mom, is that you? This is exactly what I did when I was at her house for a couple years during nsg school. 🙂 Mom moved on to a Criminal Minds endorsement as well. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-law-order/611202/13 "2012-01-31T16:36:56Z")
Yes, honey, it’s me. Why haven’t you written/called? I’m sending you a box of those cookies you like and some nice warm socks. xoxo I haven’t watched _Criminal Minds_… should I? Is Joe Mantegna still on it. I really love him.