Epibits: 1104 “Standoff” (2000)

A corrections officer may have deliberately set up a confrontation in prison that resulted in the death of an inmate who raped his colleague and girlfriend. IMDB

Pretty decent episode with a near Dream Team cast for me.  I’ll explain my Dream Team in more depth later, but its Orbach, Jesse Martin, Merkerson, Harmon, Waterson and Steven Hill as DA.  I don’t even know if that combination exists yet, but its my fav. This episode had all the elements except for Hill.

SUMMARY
Overall good epi, some minor twists and added drama from internal cop stuff - the corrections officers at Rikers.  One of the CO’s calls McCoy a pussy and I lept outta my seat.  Easy buddy.

EPIBITS

1. LINK: Matt Mulhern plays the defendant, Bennett.  I thought he looked familiar, he was in an episode I saw yesterday from 2008 in which he plays Chief Baranek and gives DA McCoy some gruff about a auxillary officer suspected of firing during a riot.
   
2. LINK: Welker White (you’d recognize her) plays Aronson, the defense attorney for Larson.  She plays Aronson again the next season.  Also a handful of other roles on Original Recipe and SVU - I think i recall her being the defendant before.
   
   
3. TIDBIT: Officer Bennett received an accommodation for breaking up a prison riot and risking his life - on March 4th, 1999.  My 19th birthday!

LENNY SEZ:

Det. Ed Green: I dunno, would a lawyer lie?
Lenny: There’s a first time for everything!

McCoy FTW:

If you allow the rule of law to stop at the wall of a prison, you’ve allowed it to stop everywhere, the streets of New York will be no better than the cells of Rikers