A young woman is sexually assaulted and eventually dies from her injuries. However, the only suspect is a charming, handsome businessman with a fiancée from a powerful New York family.A young woman is sexually assaulted and eventually dies from her injuries. However, the only suspect is a charming, handsome businessman with a fiancée from a powerful New York family.A young woman is sexually assaulted and eventually dies from her injuries. However, the only suspect is a charming, handsome businessman with a fiancée from a powerful New York family.
Nandrea Lin
- Elise Brody
- (as Nandrea Lin-Courts)
Storyline
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- TriviaThis episode appears to be based on the 1986 Robert Chambers (a.k.a. "The Preppie Killer") case. Chambers strangled 18-year-old Jennifer Levin to death in New York's Central Park in 1986. Chambers, who was painted as privileged by the press, had come from a much different background: he was handsome, attended prep schools but on scholarships, and had a long history of anti-social behavior and run-ins with the law. (In this episode, the handsome Ned Loomis comes from a prominent family, went to prep schools and Ivy League universities, and has no criminal history.) When questioned by police, Chambers told several different stories about his encounter with Levin. Including one story that he accidentally killed her after she "forced" and "overpowered" him into rough sex--all of which were proven false by the investigators. Also In this episode, Detective Logan overhears Ned Loomis yelling at his lawyer, "Why couldn't she just leave me alone?" Chambers had said the same thing to his father after his own arrest. Chambers eventually pleaded guilty to manslaughter and served 15 years before being released in February 2003. Five years later, on August 11, 2008, the Manhattan District Attorney's Office announced that Chambers had pleaded guilty to selling drugs and was sentenced to 19 years in prison. His earliest date of possible release is 2025.
- GoofsElyse Brody pulls down her turtleneck to show the scar and her neck and says, "This is what Ned Loomis did to me". Then the camera cuts to a closeup of the scar, and the scar is a different size and shape from what it was in the first shot.
- Quotes
Detective Mike Logan: Are we 'your kind of people'?
Cioran: Well, you make it in the looks department - but the wardrobe needs a lot of help.
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Conflicted justice
"Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die" is only the fourth episode of one of my most watched shows and already the quality is very high. Even if it got even higher later, when stronger characters (Lennie Briscoe being one of the prime examples) and chemistry between characters that gelled even more appeared and made a solid, well done show a great one and a personal favourite. Post-Briscoe not quite so much.
Like the previous three episodes, "Prescription for Death", "Subtarranean Homeboy Blues" and "The Reaper's Helper", "Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die" is still a very good episode with an enormous amount to admire. Even if understandably 'Law and Order' had not yet hit its stride, but am not going to be hard on the episode for that as that isn't really fair. The subject matter this episode covers/addresses is like those for the previous three episodes well worth talking about. It doesn't quite have the emotional impact or is as hard to watch of the others, especially "The Reaper's Helper" with AIDS, but it goes into a little more depth than before with its subject and handles it just as sensitively.
The episode is a strong example of what 'Law and Order' is best at. Being seeing how the detectives work and solve their cases, what work goes into preparing defence and especially prosecution, the tackling of difficult and relevant subjects (so far up to this point 'Law and Order' did well at this) and moral dilemmas. Of the four episodes up to this point, "Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die" has the most moral dilemmas perhaps. Everything with reputation, hearsay and justice has much conflict with the difficulties in getting a conviction, the episode does so sensitively with no bias and it is a hardly out of date subject now.
Story-wise, "Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die" is a tricky one. Not because it's hard to follow or anything, there was no problem on that front and it was interesting seeing how the detectives work. Merely on how one feels watching the episode and how hard it is to get justice. One can understand and feel the parents' pain when seeing their scene with Stone. The story is also absorbing and is paced without being rushed or draggy. Of the character writing, the easy standout is still Stone. A very juicy character with some of the episode's best lines, such as the exchange regarding justice with Robinette.
Acting is still fine, George Dzundza and Chris Noth have enough of the hard-boiled edge needed for their roles, even if their chemistry has yet to gel fully, and Michael Moriaty's authority and dryness adds hugely to his juicy part. The grit in the production values still remains, as does the music that avoids over-scoring.
Did think though that there weren't enough suspects and Loomis could have been written with more subtlety perhaps so that one wasn't as convinced as to what side of guilty or innocent he was on.
On the whole, very good. 8/10
Like the previous three episodes, "Prescription for Death", "Subtarranean Homeboy Blues" and "The Reaper's Helper", "Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die" is still a very good episode with an enormous amount to admire. Even if understandably 'Law and Order' had not yet hit its stride, but am not going to be hard on the episode for that as that isn't really fair. The subject matter this episode covers/addresses is like those for the previous three episodes well worth talking about. It doesn't quite have the emotional impact or is as hard to watch of the others, especially "The Reaper's Helper" with AIDS, but it goes into a little more depth than before with its subject and handles it just as sensitively.
The episode is a strong example of what 'Law and Order' is best at. Being seeing how the detectives work and solve their cases, what work goes into preparing defence and especially prosecution, the tackling of difficult and relevant subjects (so far up to this point 'Law and Order' did well at this) and moral dilemmas. Of the four episodes up to this point, "Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die" has the most moral dilemmas perhaps. Everything with reputation, hearsay and justice has much conflict with the difficulties in getting a conviction, the episode does so sensitively with no bias and it is a hardly out of date subject now.
Story-wise, "Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die" is a tricky one. Not because it's hard to follow or anything, there was no problem on that front and it was interesting seeing how the detectives work. Merely on how one feels watching the episode and how hard it is to get justice. One can understand and feel the parents' pain when seeing their scene with Stone. The story is also absorbing and is paced without being rushed or draggy. Of the character writing, the easy standout is still Stone. A very juicy character with some of the episode's best lines, such as the exchange regarding justice with Robinette.
Acting is still fine, George Dzundza and Chris Noth have enough of the hard-boiled edge needed for their roles, even if their chemistry has yet to gel fully, and Michael Moriaty's authority and dryness adds hugely to his juicy part. The grit in the production values still remains, as does the music that avoids over-scoring.
Did think though that there weren't enough suspects and Loomis could have been written with more subtlety perhaps so that one wasn't as convinced as to what side of guilty or innocent he was on.
On the whole, very good. 8/10
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