Detectives discover that a murdered assistant district attorney had an assumed identity, and that he never graduated from law school. They also discover that he made a mob-related murder cas... Read allDetectives discover that a murdered assistant district attorney had an assumed identity, and that he never graduated from law school. They also discover that he made a mob-related murder case in his files disappear.Detectives discover that a murdered assistant district attorney had an assumed identity, and that he never graduated from law school. They also discover that he made a mob-related murder case in his files disappear.
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- DA Arthur Branch
- (as Fred Dalton Thompson)
- Frederico 'Books' Libretti
- (as Steven R. Schirripa)
- Marge Hollenbach
- (as Julia K. Murney)
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- TriviaThe title of this episode is Nowhere Man. A John Lennon song. He was killed in the Strawberry Fields next to the John Lennon Imagine memorial in New York Cities' Central Park.
- GoofsThe real Daniel Tenofski (Tenofsky) says he did a stint as a CPA. Apparently the screenwriters think that a CPA is the same as a bookkeeper. The character got his accounting education from a correspondence school. In order to become a CPA, he would have needed either 128 credit hours or the current 150 credit hours from an ACCREDITED college or university, not a "Sally-Struthers-endorsed-matchbook-cover" correspondence school. He would have had to take a 2 1/2 day test. He would have had to take an open-book ethics exam. He would have had to have 1.5 years junior accounting experience (excused, if degree from MAJOR institution) plus 1.5 years senior accounting experience...even longer if not earned in working for a practicing CPA. After passing the (medical) boards and the bar exam, a CPA is the toughest professional credit to earn.
- Quotes
Jack McCoy: Tenofskie loved what he did. He loved the D.A.'s office, loved trial work. He even loved the appeals bureau.
Serena Southerlyn: The only thing that could have stopped him from going after your clients was the fear of losing all of that.
Jack McCoy: Back in 1978, you were a night student at Brooklyn Law, but you took one day class. Corporations, with Professor Hoffman.
William Wachtler: I barely remember it.
Serena Southerlyn: You had a classmate, the real Daniel Tenofsky; the one who dropped out.
Jack McCoy: You sat across the aisle from him for six months. So when Libretti and Biscotti and you had your first sit-down with our Dan Tenofskie, whose real name was Jacob Dieter, you knew he was a fake.
William Wachtler: You'll never prove that.
Jack McCoy: Your clients did not bribe Tenofskie. They blackmailed him, with your help. They threatened to expose him, threatened to take away his identity, take away the life he'd built for himself.
William Wachtler: You want me testify against these guys?
Jack McCoy: Libretti, Biscotti, and Tortomassi.
William Wachtler: I'll need to go into witness protection.
Jack McCoy: You'll testify and go to jail. And if I'm in a good mood, I'll consider arranging segregation from the general population.
- ConnectionsReferences The Wild Bunch (1969)
But when an Assistant ADA is found murdered in Central Park you would expect the mayor to issue some kind of public statement. As Jerry Orbach and Jesse Martin caught the case this one will have more than the usual scrutiny.
But it's the District Attorney of New York County and its offices that get an unexpected shock. It turns out the victim was not who he claimed. He was from Phoenix, Arizona and for reasons we'll never know stole the identity of a man from New York City and faked all his credentials for the bar and was hired by the District Attorney. According to Sam Waterston who knew him or thought he did, his late colleague's work was superlative and no one would ever had any reason to question him.
It all leads back to an Organized Crime case that the late victim worked on and dropped several years earlier. Two button guys from the Mafia, street names Biscuits and Books figure prominently in this case which involves an underboss in one of the Mafia families.
The late victim did leave a couple of cryptic clues in the file of that old case that he stripped. It's quite a maze where the DA is doing as much investigative work as the police. I think you'll like the result.
- bkoganbing
- Feb 13, 2012