Back in my younger days I knew someone who was homeless, but one of the
most brilliant people I ever met. He was such a quick study that he could have
with a day or two of observation could have done my job, filled in for me or
anyone else at my agency. He was brilliant and had some psychological issues.
But homicidal he was not.
A research scientist is killed, shot down in her lab and some slogans from an
animal rights group were scrawled on the walls and the lab rats let run loose. The attention is first on them, but soon enough Jerry Orbach and
Chris Noth come around to maybe husband John Cunningham did the deed.
Evidence of an affair with a school administrator Frances Fisher surfaces.and
Cunningham is arrested.
I won't say more but Frances Fisher has some real issues with reality. And
Michael Moriarty only learn this when a law professor who says that some
years ago she worked in his law library. The truth is strangest of all.
I should also single out performances by Lawrence Pressman as another law
professor who was a colleague of Cunningham and goes to court with him.
Cunningham gives lie to the notion that those who can't teach. He does pretty good in the courtroom.
David Schechter plays an animal rights activist that Briscoe and Logan first
look into. His two scenes were so good you kind of wish he was the guilty
party.
One of the best episodes from the Moriarty era.