An investigative reporter is shot, and evidence indicates a link to a 20-year-old murder case. Prosecutors learn that one of the reporter's stories on the case may have helped convict an inn... Read allAn investigative reporter is shot, and evidence indicates a link to a 20-year-old murder case. Prosecutors learn that one of the reporter's stories on the case may have helped convict an innocent man of the crime.An investigative reporter is shot, and evidence indicates a link to a 20-year-old murder case. Prosecutors learn that one of the reporter's stories on the case may have helped convict an innocent man of the crime.
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- TriviaMatt Bennett and Marsha Dietlein, who play brother and sister 'Nicole Hampton' and 'Andrew Hampton' in this episode, eventually married each other two years after the airing of this episode.
- GoofsCarmichael tells John Franchetta that there is no statute of limitations on sex crimes against minors, which is only partly true. In 1968 legislature was passed in New York that removed the statute of limitations from certain serious felony sex crimes where the victim is a minor. The crimes which had their statute of limitations removed when dealing with a minor were: rape in the first-degree, criminal sexual act in the first-degree (a criminal sexual act is unlawful oral or anal sexual contact), aggravated sexual abuse in the first-degree (aggravated sexual abuse is penetration with a foreign object that causes injury) and course of sexual conduct against a child in the first degree (course of sexual conduct is an adult subjecting a minor to sexual contact on at least two different occasions within a three month period). All other felony sex crimes involving minors must have charges filed within five years of the minor turning 18.
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Jack McCoy: Andrew Hampton accepted our offer. Attempted man one, 6 to 12 years in jail.
A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: HOPEFULLY his sister will be joining him.
Jack McCoy: [surprised by Carmichael's lack of confidence in a conviction] You don't think he can convince a jury Nicole put him up to it?
A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: I think she'll toss her hair back a few times and convince them she didn't.
Jack McCoy: Very cynical, Abbie.
[starts to leave]
A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: Or if that doesn't work, she could always give an interview to the Ledger.
[Carmichael tosses a front-page newspaper article on the table. Cut to intertitle: "Andrew Hampton is currently serving his sentence in the Clinton Correctional Facility. After trial on the charge of shooting Gerald Fox, Nicole Hampton was acquitted". Cut to closing credits]
Something that was the case with many of Season 9's episodes, and something that is the case with "Juvenile". It is one of those episodes that starts off very intriguingly if not mind-blowingly, but later becomes a quite powerful episode with a memorable guest turn. As far as Season 9 (a very solid season overall with a lot of truly fine episodes) episodes go, "Juvenile" is in the better half if not one of the very best.
Not much at all wrong to find here, apart from a slightly crammed ending and a fairly familiar final quarter.
"Juvenile" however is excellent elsewhere. The photography and such as usual are fully professional, the slickness still remaining. The music is used sparingly and is haunting and non-overwrought when it is used, and it's mainly used when a crucial revelation or plot development is revealed. The direction has a lot of nice tension while keeping things steady, without going too far the other way. The writing is intelligent and although, like the show in general, there is a lot of talk it doesn't feel long-winded.
Both the investigating and legal subplots are brilliantly done and it doesn't feel to me too much like two stories in one, instead two different subplots that connect together. The legal scenes however have the slight edge as that's when the case becomes more complex and shocking (getting more shocking with each twist, of which there are many), the latter stages are very tense and powerful. Which is an incredibly clever and intricate one, and that there is much more to the truth than what it initially seems. The characters it centres around make a big impression and the chemistry between them is disturbing.
Disturbing is a very good way of summing up the performance of Marsha Dietlein. The regulars are excellent, particularly Sam Waterston.
Overall, very good and powerful. 8/10.
- TheLittleSongbird
- Oct 13, 2021