I always like the shows with Lenny Briscoe (Jerry Orbach). He manages to come up with the most sarcastic quips in his investigations.
There are two themes running through this episode.
First the diagnosis of schizophrenia and the fact that many with that disease do not take their medication regularly.
Secondly, the overwhelming amount of cases handles by a District Attorney's office and the necessity to plead out to keep the courts from being clogged. That is what led the defendant, James Smith, played admirably by Denis O'Hare (Michael Clayton, A Mighty Heart) to be on the streets.
Jack (Sam Waterston) and Claire (Jill Hennessy) manage to get justice done despite the efforts of the D.A. Adam Schiff (Steven Hill) to just make it all go away.
There are two themes running through this episode.
First the diagnosis of schizophrenia and the fact that many with that disease do not take their medication regularly.
Secondly, the overwhelming amount of cases handles by a District Attorney's office and the necessity to plead out to keep the courts from being clogged. That is what led the defendant, James Smith, played admirably by Denis O'Hare (Michael Clayton, A Mighty Heart) to be on the streets.
Jack (Sam Waterston) and Claire (Jill Hennessy) manage to get justice done despite the efforts of the D.A. Adam Schiff (Steven Hill) to just make it all go away.