When a teenage girl is found dead in a park, the detectives uncover a group of teen racists and the adult who has encouraged them. The prosecution's case sparks a debate about hate speech an... Read allWhen a teenage girl is found dead in a park, the detectives uncover a group of teen racists and the adult who has encouraged them. The prosecution's case sparks a debate about hate speech and the First Amendment.When a teenage girl is found dead in a park, the detectives uncover a group of teen racists and the adult who has encouraged them. The prosecution's case sparks a debate about hate speech and the First Amendment.
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- TriviaThe episode ends with a tribute to United States Attorney Charlie Rose, who died shortly after this episode was filmed. [ "Dedicated to United States Attorney CHARLES ROSE: He made the world a safer place" ] He worked for 15 years with the United States Attorney's office for the Eastern District of New York. He helped prosecute bank robbers, narcotics traffickers, terrorists, and organized-crime figures. His biggest case was prosecuting terrorists from Puerto Rico who wanted their country to no longer be a territory of the United States: they had bombed the headquarters of the New York City Police Department and the F.B.I. headquarters at Federal Plaza. Mr. Rose prosecuted the terrorists responsible for the bombings and got convictions on all of them. In 1990, he prosecuted one of the largest cases involving organized crime since that of Al Capone: he prosecuted notorious mobster Vincent Gigante, who conspired with 14 other reputed gangsters to rig bids and extort payoffs from contractors on multi-million-dollar bids with the New York City Housing Authority. Everyone charged was convicted on multiple counts of extortion, racketeering, and murder, except for Mr. Gigante who stalled his trial by pretending to be mentally unfit. However, he was eventually convicted, although it was after Mr. Rose left the U.S. Attorney's office. Charles Rose has been credited with doing more than any other U.S. Attorney (at the time of his death in 1998) to clean up organized crime in New York City.
- GoofsThe interstate nature of the the entire case makes it more likely to have been a federal prosecution. This is never discussed even though it would be the easiest way to make the case.
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D.A. Adam Schiff: U.S. Attorney called, asked if there's a civil rights prosecution here.
Jack McCoy: Far as we can tell, this wasn't a bias crime. The victim was one of their own.
D.A. Adam Schiff: What's the matter, they run out of people to hate?
- Crazy creditsDedicated to United States Attorney Charles Rose. He made the world a safer place.
"Hate" is another great episode from Season 9, of all the Season 9s of the three major 'Law and Order' shows (the original, 'Special Victims Unit' and 'Criminal Intent') that for this show is by far the best and most consistent seeing as those for the other two were very up and down. It is not perfect or the best episode for anything to tackle these issues, but it does very well addressing the themes. "Hate" is not the first or last episode to tackle the themes, but so much is done brilliantly.
To me, "Rage" and "Profile" as far as other 'Law and Order' episodes go tackled racism especially with more tact and everything with the freedom of expression could have been more subtle. Especially with the character of Willis, who comes this close to being cartoonish and is one reason as to why there should be a limit.
On the other hand, "Hate" is excellent everywhere else. The production values as ever have slickness and grit, with an intimacy without being claustrophobic. The music has presence when it's used but does so without being intrusive, some of it is quite haunting too. The direction is also understated but the tension never slips, the second half being full of it.
Script is taut and intelligent. It is very intelligently crafted and has intensity and edge, most of it doesn't preach either and tries to not make too much of a judgement. The story is lean and pulls no punches, providing edge of the seat tension and emotion.
Character writing is spot on with genuinely tense conflict in the chemistry for the legal scenes. As is the acting from all the regulars, while Michael Cumpsty relishes his part and Paul Dawson is suitably unnerving.
In conclusion, excellent. 9/10.
- TheLittleSongbird
- Sep 16, 2021