Jessica probes a 20-year-old unsolved murder after attending the funeral of a New Orleans jazz great.Jessica probes a 20-year-old unsolved murder after attending the funeral of a New Orleans jazz great.Jessica probes a 20-year-old unsolved murder after attending the funeral of a New Orleans jazz great.
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- TriviaThe title comes from a Bible verse Matthew 7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged.
- GoofsThroughout the episode, John drives in a car showing Louisiana front plates. Louisiana doesn't require front plates.
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Detective John Coop Jr.: There was a time when I was angry... about having to share Daddy Coop with the world. I wanted him to be my daddy, not everybody's Daddy. But I finally realize just how big his love was, and how it reached out to me... and to my mother... and to the world. So now we want to give something back to Daddy Coop's memory, to his music. And so, it is, uh, to Daddy Coop's love that we, his family... and his friends, dedicate this museum.
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Written by John Addison
Louisiana seems to place among the top five U.S. States featured in "MSW" episode settings, behind Maine, New York, California and Massachusetts, into which Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury) travels domestically, with five episodes set in the Pelican State, four of which occur in New Orleans, the setting for "Judge Not."
Olivia Cole appears in three of these New Orleans episodes, here as Melinda Coop, a close friend of dear Jessica, as the widow of John Coop Sr., a legendary Jazz musician, whose memorial services Jessica attends.
Emma Coop (Beah Richards), the mother of John Sr., also mourns the loss of her son, she sharing many of his fine memories.
Meanwhile, Emma's grandson, Detective John Coop Jr. (Randy Brooks), seems to harbor resentment over Senior's involvement with Jazz chanteuse Luna Santee, or "Noona," who had lost her life twenty years earlier, during a yet-unsolved murder.
Those who knew Luna have maintained a variety of mixed feelings regarding her memory. Emma describes Luna as a figure of the occult, while John Sr.'s musician associates, as Jack Lee Johnson (Julius Harris) and Gene (James Randolph), join Melinda in refraining from speaking of Luna Santee.
Judge Robert Henley (Logan Ramsey) and his son, Prosecutor Andy Henley (William Atherton), also harbor secrets about the legendary singer, who had recorded an album before her passing. Andy offers Jessica a tour of his widowed father's mansion, containing a secret chamber, contents inside of which augment the legend of Luna.
Detective John Coop Jr. seems to prefer to leave all of that behind, as he concentrates upon serving the city in his capacity as Law Enforcement Officer, with his mother's blessing with reservations, as Junior serves under the supervision of NOPD Lieutenant Charles Foret (William Lucking).
Observances and services are well celebrated around New Orleans, with many mourners in attendance, several of whom delight to a concert by the Jazz band at the reception in the aftermath.
But after John Jr. and Melinda receive evidence of threats upon their very lives, they, along with Jessica discover a body backstage.
Resulting investigations by Lieutenant Charles Foret, Detective John Coop Jr. and Jessica veer into different directions, as Jessica uncovers an early portrait of Luna Santee in the cupboard of an abandoned residence, she now facing a new threat of her very own, should she "Judge Not."
The cast is rounded out by Tony Ralph-Wilson as Minister and Bob Roitblat as Detective.
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- Nov 30, 2009