A family man is shot to death inside a parking garage. Police soon discover the crime was not a random act of violence. Stone tries to get one of the suspects to testify against the other.A family man is shot to death inside a parking garage. Police soon discover the crime was not a random act of violence. Stone tries to get one of the suspects to testify against the other.A family man is shot to death inside a parking garage. Police soon discover the crime was not a random act of violence. Stone tries to get one of the suspects to testify against the other.
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- TriviaThis episode appears to be based on several different cases/incidents:
- The 1989 Charles Stuart case. On October 23, 1989, Charles Stuart, a furrier, and his pregnant wife Carol, a lawyer, got into their car after attending childbirth classes at Brigham and Women's Hospital. According to police, Stuart shot his wife in the head and himself in the stomach, and then called 911 on his cell phone. Carol Stuart died that night, after their son, Christopher, was delivered by Cesarean section. He suffered seizures due to oxygen deprivation, and died 17 days later after his father discontinued his life support. Stuart blamed the crime on a black man. The Boston police aggressively pursued black men without probable cause. They suspected one Willie Bennett, and on December 28, Stuart fingered him out of a lineup. The case against Bennett came to an abrupt close when Stuart's brother, Matthew, identified Charles Stuart as the killer. Stuart had been involved in an affair, and was having financial difficulties. On January 4, 1990, Charles jumped from the Tobin Bridge to his death.
- The 1927 Ruth Snyder case. May Ruth Snyder was an American murderer. Her execution in the electric chair at New York's Sing Sing Prison in 1928 for the murder of her husband, Albert Snyder, was recorded in a highly publicized photograph.
- Ripped from the pages of the 1943 novel Double Indemnity and its film adaptation (Double Indemnity (1944)).
- GoofsDetective Logan is shown playing a pinball machine at the bar but the blinking score on the machine indicates the game hasn't been started.
- Quotes
Gordon Schell: It's a crime of passion, Stone. Pure and simple.
Ben Stone: A crime of passion is never pure, and it's certainly not simple.
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Backstage of Justice
When a couple is returning from a party in their Buick, the husband is killed and the wife is wounded by two shots in the parking garage. Detectives Greevey and Logan that are investigating the case find a drunken eyewitness that accuses the addicted Willie Tivnan to leave the place after the shooting. The detectives arrest him after finding his crack pipe in the stair trunk. The wife Janet Ralston recovers and tells to Greevey and Logan that the killer is a black man, and identifies Willie. However Greevey suspects that the Willie has not killed Alan Ralston since he is a thief that usually uses a knife to robber and has never used a gun or killed anybody. He convinces Logan and Captain Cragen to investigate Janet and the family financial advisor Gil Himes and soon the detectives learn the truth about what happened in the garage. Now Ben Stone has to prove that Janet is the killer of her husband and offers a deal to Gil and Janet to resolve the case. Who will accept?
"Happily Ever After" is a great episode of "Law & Order", with two great segments. The police investigation is top-notch, with an excellent investigation of Detectives Greevey and Logan, mostly the feeling and experience of Greevey. The justice segment is also excellent, with a great job of Stone and Robinette. The way that they offer a deal to Janet Ralston and Gil Himes expecting that one point fingers to the other shows the backstage of the justice. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Um Acordo Demorado" ("A Slow Deal")
"Happily Ever After" is a great episode of "Law & Order", with two great segments. The police investigation is top-notch, with an excellent investigation of Detectives Greevey and Logan, mostly the feeling and experience of Greevey. The justice segment is also excellent, with a great job of Stone and Robinette. The way that they offer a deal to Janet Ralston and Gil Himes expecting that one point fingers to the other shows the backstage of the justice. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Um Acordo Demorado" ("A Slow Deal")
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