In the episode Harm when S. Epetha Merkerson gives that assessment of Jerry Orbach siding with an ex-wife you know you're in for an intriguing Law And Order story.
But this episode has Angie Harmon taking center stage and doing the investigation and taking the number one seat for a case she developed and believed in over Sam Waterston. This episode starts as an assault on a retired divorce attorney, then moves to a disgruntled ex-wife of a doctor who did the assault and that leads to a medical malpractice case that turns out to be Criminally Negligent Homicide. A really nice bit of writing on this episode had all these gliding together and making perfectly valid sense.
Harmon was always my favorite of all the ADAs who second chaired Sam Waterston. Her instincts get aroused, she does her own investigation and she discovers an incredible case of cover-up when these doctors perform laser surgery with a new piece of equipment they're not really familiar with and which in fact is being operated during the surgery by a company salesperson played by Melinda Wade. That's what gets her to court and a trial of these doctors.
It may have been Jerry Orbach's unexpected sympathies that started the ball rolling, but this fine episode belongs to Angie Harmon.
But this episode has Angie Harmon taking center stage and doing the investigation and taking the number one seat for a case she developed and believed in over Sam Waterston. This episode starts as an assault on a retired divorce attorney, then moves to a disgruntled ex-wife of a doctor who did the assault and that leads to a medical malpractice case that turns out to be Criminally Negligent Homicide. A really nice bit of writing on this episode had all these gliding together and making perfectly valid sense.
Harmon was always my favorite of all the ADAs who second chaired Sam Waterston. Her instincts get aroused, she does her own investigation and she discovers an incredible case of cover-up when these doctors perform laser surgery with a new piece of equipment they're not really familiar with and which in fact is being operated during the surgery by a company salesperson played by Melinda Wade. That's what gets her to court and a trial of these doctors.
It may have been Jerry Orbach's unexpected sympathies that started the ball rolling, but this fine episode belongs to Angie Harmon.