My second of two favorite Law and Order episodes is this one concerning a group of random sniper shootings. As the plot develops three innocent people were killed in order to mask the killing of one man. The man in question was the supervisor of the perpetrator's father as our intrepid detectives Briscoe and Green arrest this nerdy looking nearsighted kid for the murder.
But there's a whole lot more. Turns out the suspect was in fact someone kidnapped from his family years ago and he's bonded with his kidnapper. Reunited with his mother and sister he rejects them.
The trial leads to some agonizing moments for the DA's staff. Fred Dalton Thompson wants the book thrown at him. Sam Waterston does his job. But there are a few times he does have sympathy with who he prosecutes and this is one of them. Elizabeth Rohm for once sides with Thompson.
The outstanding quality of this episode is made possible by the performance of Sebastian Stan as young Justin Capshaw. You are like a 13th member of the jury and his performance creates in you what the jury is feeling.
Waterston loses this case as he sometimes does. Sebastian Stan is sentenced to a mental facility because of the sympathy created for him.
Justice sometimes ain't so easy and no one in this episode was spared any tragedy.
But there's a whole lot more. Turns out the suspect was in fact someone kidnapped from his family years ago and he's bonded with his kidnapper. Reunited with his mother and sister he rejects them.
The trial leads to some agonizing moments for the DA's staff. Fred Dalton Thompson wants the book thrown at him. Sam Waterston does his job. But there are a few times he does have sympathy with who he prosecutes and this is one of them. Elizabeth Rohm for once sides with Thompson.
The outstanding quality of this episode is made possible by the performance of Sebastian Stan as young Justin Capshaw. You are like a 13th member of the jury and his performance creates in you what the jury is feeling.
Waterston loses this case as he sometimes does. Sebastian Stan is sentenced to a mental facility because of the sympathy created for him.
Justice sometimes ain't so easy and no one in this episode was spared any tragedy.