If we’re talking about re-cycling actors for different roles, I wonder if James Hong was ever on?
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As a sweatshop owner, in an episode with Ming-Na Wen (who, much like your link suggests, can likewise apparently shrug off the ravages of time).
SVU, season 10, episode 7 Wildlife
Stabler goes undercover with a group that smuggles exotic animals. At one point, they track the gang by discovering where they get the deer carcasses to feed the animals. They question the owner while he continues to load coolers of meat onto a truck.
SVU episode “Baggage”; someone is loading boxes into the back of a van while being questioned.
I agree. He nailed it in a way no other tv cop does.
One little glimpse has always stayed with me. Jerry is interviewing a young woman who is a witness, and whose boyfriend may have come close to killing her.
She’s trying to explain it to Jerry, and says something like, “I knew he had issues, and could be a bad guy, but I loved him, and just hoped things would get better. You know?”
And Jerry says two words: “I know”, with all the world-weariness, and sympathy, of a cop who has seen that pattern over and over, and maybe in his own personal life.
The one Lennie-the-Cop line I can never get out of my head is from the episode where he and Logan investigate the death of a gay politician, and we see Logan grudgingly but gradually coming to acknowledge just how danged sensible the guy was: so, he and the Bible-thumper he debated were, like, putting on the equivalent of a rehearsed nightclub act, worded to set up this or that memorable zinger? And, as good as he was at publicity-stunt stuff, he was slightly better at quietly putting in the behind-the-scenes work when it came to bringing in federal funds for the community, and helping out people today that the folks on the zoning commission will want a favor from tomorrow, and lining up private donors in between effectively advocating for public health benefits, and, well, let’s just say “my respect for Durban is growing by the hour.”
“Yeah, he’s so smart he’s dead,” replies the homicide detective who (a) has heard of being impressed, but (b) is just here to do his job.
Yeah, it is icky, and Benso has severe ethics issues.
Yeah,Gorens whole tactic is to guess at the perp, then trick, cajole and threaten them until they 'slip up" as you say. He has no real investigative skills, and since nearly all of his suspects are wealthy, they can end his whole game by one word- lawyer. Which is why his skills slip into the realms of fantasy. However, in season 8&0 Goern/D’Onofrio is replaced by Nichols/Goldblum who actually compiles evidence thru police work.
I like the OG the best, but McCoy went off on a few crusades, like to get the death penalty or in one case to harass a paroled rapist.
Right. It is all police procedural and legal drama. No “and this time, it’s personal” (except mcCoy once in a great while) and hardly ever do their spouses or family appear.
Yep.
And just to repeat myself-
If it does become personal. they have to take you off the case- as every bit of evidence you find can be thrown out for that very reason. Not to mention - it causes 'reasonable doubt" in the minds of a jury. Your partner gets killed or shot? That is a maybe. But not your spouse, relative etc. Never.
He is a great actor, but also i became suspicious that maybe sometimes he badgered some innocent man into a false confession, not to mention me yelling “say LAWYER!” at the screen.
He is real, with demons, but they are under control and arent a big issues in the show. (ex-wives, reformed alcoholic, and a gambler)
Yep.
That episode has so many great lines for Lennie.
I remember when Lennie bad-mouthed my home state:
"New Hampshire?
I spent a YEAR there one weekend."
Another favorite one liner from “Law & Order”:
They are investigating a murder at a dive hotel:
Detective: " Has anyone cleaned the room?"
Desk clerk: “Not since 1959!!”