I've heard that this episode is supposed to be based on the Klaus Von Bulow case, but ultimately there are not that many similarities. A very wealthy middle aged woman has remarried a man who is not wealthy. The woman has been depressed, just lying in bed much of the time. So when she slips into a coma, insulin is found in her, and she is not diabetic, at first the suspicion is that this was a suicide attempt, especially when it is discovered she is chronically ill. But then nothing is ever as it appears on L&O.
It turns out there are any number of family members and close associates who might want the woman either dead or even just incapacitated as she now is. And in the end the episode is somewhat more horror than police procedural. It's one of those episodes you will remember because of all of the uncertainties and the intersections of the actions of people with less than noble motives.
It turns out there are any number of family members and close associates who might want the woman either dead or even just incapacitated as she now is. And in the end the episode is somewhat more horror than police procedural. It's one of those episodes you will remember because of all of the uncertainties and the intersections of the actions of people with less than noble motives.