Briscoe and Logan investigate when the son of a wealthy friend of Adam Schiff is kidnapped.Briscoe and Logan investigate when the son of a wealthy friend of Adam Schiff is kidnapped.Briscoe and Logan investigate when the son of a wealthy friend of Adam Schiff is kidnapped.
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- TriviaThis episode appears to be based on the 1975 Samuel Bronfman II kidnapping hoax. On August 9, 1975, Samuel Bronfman II was abducted in New York. He was held for more than a week when his father, Edgar Bronfman, personally paid a $2.3 million ransom. He was later rescued by the FBI and New York City police from a Brooklyn apartment where he was found with his hands bound and his eyes and mouth covered with adhesive tape. The captors, both natives of Ireland, were a former limousine operator, Dominic Byrne, and his neighbor, former fireman Mel Patrick Lynch. Byrne claimed that he and Samuel were homosexual lovers and that Bronfman's nine-day disappearance in August 1975 was a hoax abduction engineered by the 23-year-old whiskey heir himself. Both Byrne and Lynch--acquitted of kidnapping but convicted of extortion charges--spent several years in prison.
- GoofsWatson's lawyer accuses Stone of intentionally delaying getting an indictment from the grand jury because he doesn't have enough evidence and doing an end-run around the fifth amendment by holding his clients in jail without bail or a trial thereby violating their right to habeas corpus. However, the fifth amendment to the United States Constitution deals with protecting a defendant from being compelled to be witnesses against themselves at trial. It is the sixth amendment to the constitution that deals with a defendant's right to a fair and speedy trial by a jury of their peers.
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EADA Ben Stone: Mr. Bregman, in all my years as a prosecutor, you are possibly the stupidest criminal I have ever met.
- ConnectionsReferences A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
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A Kidnapping Plot and a Personal Conflict for Schiff
This one involves an old friend of Schiff's, as did season 2's finale "The Working Stiff." Here, Theodore Bikel plays Sol Bregman, a rich gentleman whose son appears to have been kidnapped by mysterious forces. When it becomes apparent that the kidnapper may be a little closer to home, Stone, Claire and Schiff must grapple with a father-son relationship that isn't exactly reciprocal.
I like L&O episodes where ghosts and figures from the characters' pasts make up the plot; you definitely get that here, as Schiff must balance his loyalty to Sol with his duty to pursue the leads wherever they go. Let's just say this is one friendship that probably isn't bound to last past the end credits...
Nice casting in this one, with Bikel as the concerned dad, Vyto Ruginis as one of the kidnappers (he's always got a chilly look about him, like he's planning on gouging someone's eyes out) and Leo Burmester as a quirky defense attorney with a taste for Chinese food who hails from Dade County.
I like L&O episodes where ghosts and figures from the characters' pasts make up the plot; you definitely get that here, as Schiff must balance his loyalty to Sol with his duty to pursue the leads wherever they go. Let's just say this is one friendship that probably isn't bound to last past the end credits...
Nice casting in this one, with Bikel as the concerned dad, Vyto Ruginis as one of the kidnappers (he's always got a chilly look about him, like he's planning on gouging someone's eyes out) and Leo Burmester as a quirky defense attorney with a taste for Chinese food who hails from Dade County.
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