An attorney may have been killed for trying to further bilk people who have lost their life savings in an S&L scandal.An attorney may have been killed for trying to further bilk people who have lost their life savings in an S&L scandal.An attorney may have been killed for trying to further bilk people who have lost their life savings in an S&L scandal.
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- TriviaFinal performance of veteran character actor Dub Taylor. He has over 260 acting credits listed in IMDb for both TV and movie roles. A very familiar face from Western TV and movie roles. He was a member of the 1937 Alabama football team that played in the Rose Bowl.
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Willard Tappan: You know, they're talking about privatizing the park. A subway token to enter or $30 a year. Trump thinks he can run it at a profit.
Jack McCoy: That's fascinating. We're here to...
Willard Tappan: You're here because you have a problem. I'm talking to you because I have a problem.
Jack McCoy: We'll prove that you hid that money, Mr. Tappan. That'll prolong your study of institutional dining.
Willard Tappan: Yes, that's my problem. Meanwhile, Mr. Curren, your murderer, will go free.
Jack McCoy: If you hadn't stolen his money, that murder would never have taken place.
Willard Tappan: I concede your point. If things were different, they wouldn't be the same. Look, I know that you've been asking about a conversation I may have had with Mr. Curren, a conversation I may not be able to recall.
Jack McCoy: I saw your testimony to the House Banking Committee. You couldn't seem to recall the answers to more than 200 questions.
Willard Tappan: My memory is dreadful. Especially when I'm anxious about the future.
Jack McCoy: What do you want?
Willard Tappan: No prosecution on fraud.
Jack McCoy: We'll take your money.
Willard Tappan: You'll take it anyway.
All crime dramas, and L&O is no exception, demand compelling criminals. This episode offers three. First there's the homicide victim, Kopinsky, a sleazy lawyer who was retained by the second criminal, John Curran, to investigate where a third criminal, Willard Tappan, hid the money he swindled from him. Along the way we meet a variety of colorful characters: Carl Piselli, an erstwhile inventor who hired Kopinsky to sue Alice Huntley over pig dishwasher magnets; a nursing-home resident who has a talent for eavesdropping; a female defense attorney who just happens to have worked with McCoy (and Kincaid already knows that that means).
As Tappan, Michael Zaslow makes an excellent bad guy in an episode full of them. Sure, McCoy's case against him was full of holes, and surely would've failed on appeal. But as dramas the episode holds up very well.
- jbirks106
- Mar 14, 2018