The pursuit of the death penalty for a police officer's killer who found religion in prison becomes a political football for the DA's office. Briscoe's daughter gets in trouble with the law.The pursuit of the death penalty for a police officer's killer who found religion in prison becomes a political football for the DA's office. Briscoe's daughter gets in trouble with the law.The pursuit of the death penalty for a police officer's killer who found religion in prison becomes a political football for the DA's office. Briscoe's daughter gets in trouble with the law.
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- Cathy Briscoe
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- TriviaThis episode appears to be based on two separate cases:
- The 1998 Karla Faye Tucker case. Tucker was a Texas woman executed in 1998, who was executed despite leniency pleas on her behalf based on her conversion to Christianity and her becoming a model inmate. Karla, along with her accomplice, murdered several people with a hammer and pickaxe.
- The 1997 Nina Mackey case. WPC Nina Alexandra Mackay was a police officer serving with London's Metropolitan Police Service who was fatally stabbed on 24 October 1997 by a man with paranoid schizophrenia she was attempting to arrest. She is the only female police officer in Great Britain to have been stabbed to death while on duty and her killing was the first of a female officer since the murder of Yvonne Fletcher in 1984.
- GoofsWhen the mail carrier describes the girl on the bus to Briscoe and Curtis, she says she was a white girl with a ring in her nose and a barbed wire tattoo on her neck. In the next scene, the detectives are asking a DJ about the same girl, describing her as having a blue streak in her hair and having an Eyebrow ring, neither of which the mail carrier mentioned in her description.
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Anita Van Buren: [to Monica Johnson] You want to take me on, little girl? Well, let me tell you something: you better be packing more than a dirty mouth.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Law & Order: Sideshow (1999)
Featured review
The girl may be bad but the episode far from is
Have loved the original 'Law and Order' for a long time, particularly the earlier seasons, and consider it my personal favourite of the 'Law and Order' franchise. "Bad Girl" on paper immediately intrigued, to some (not me) it may seem too basic and ordinary. 'Law and Order' do have a good track record at making something great and more complex than expected out of stories that don't sound out of the ordinary on paper and understandably one expects similar from "Bad Girl."
"Bad Girl" is one of the best Season 8 episodes and the best since "Divorce". It is another episode to be consistently attention grabbing and high quality throughout the entire duration but be even more special in the second half. Am saying that after seeing some 'Law and Order' episodes lately where the second halves were better than the first, a few quite a bit so. "Bad Girl" does have one of the most unsettling female perpetrators of the early seasons, but no matter how bad she is the episode is far from that. The complete opposite.
The production values are still fully professional, the slickness and subtly gritty style still remaining. The music is sparingly used and is haunting and thankfully non-overwrought. The direction shows some nice tension in the legal scenes. The script is well balanced, taut and intelligent, and handles complex themes tactfully yet with unyielding grit.
Moreover, "Bad Girl" has a compelling and clever story that delivers on plenty of unexpected and plausible twists and turns. Also excelling in raising uncompromisingly but also sensitively intriguing questions regarding the death penalty (again showing both sides of for and against and equally strongly) and whether the perpetrator really has changed. This was done with tact and edge.
Did also love Briscoe's role, his subplot isn't soapy and was very illuminating and heart-tugging. Jerry Orbach, once again showing how good he was at conflicted anguish, stands out of the regulars and Isabel Gillies is a chilling revelation as a reprehensible character.
Overall, brilliant. 10/10.
"Bad Girl" is one of the best Season 8 episodes and the best since "Divorce". It is another episode to be consistently attention grabbing and high quality throughout the entire duration but be even more special in the second half. Am saying that after seeing some 'Law and Order' episodes lately where the second halves were better than the first, a few quite a bit so. "Bad Girl" does have one of the most unsettling female perpetrators of the early seasons, but no matter how bad she is the episode is far from that. The complete opposite.
The production values are still fully professional, the slickness and subtly gritty style still remaining. The music is sparingly used and is haunting and thankfully non-overwrought. The direction shows some nice tension in the legal scenes. The script is well balanced, taut and intelligent, and handles complex themes tactfully yet with unyielding grit.
Moreover, "Bad Girl" has a compelling and clever story that delivers on plenty of unexpected and plausible twists and turns. Also excelling in raising uncompromisingly but also sensitively intriguing questions regarding the death penalty (again showing both sides of for and against and equally strongly) and whether the perpetrator really has changed. This was done with tact and edge.
Did also love Briscoe's role, his subplot isn't soapy and was very illuminating and heart-tugging. Jerry Orbach, once again showing how good he was at conflicted anguish, stands out of the regulars and Isabel Gillies is a chilling revelation as a reprehensible character.
Overall, brilliant. 10/10.
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