Amends

Episode aired Nov 29, 2000
TV-14
1h

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7.8/10

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Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

A 1981 murder case is reopened. An ambassador's son is charged, but key evidence has disappeared. Further investigation reveals that the evidence may not have disappeared by accident.A 1981 murder case is reopened. An ambassador's son is charged, but key evidence has disappeared. Further investigation reveals that the evidence may not have disappeared by accident.A 1981 murder case is reopened. An ambassador's son is charged, but key evidence has disappeared. Further investigation reveals that the evidence may not have disappeared by accident.

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This episode appears to be based on the 1975 Martha Moxley/Michael Skakel case. This includes allusions to the name of the main protagonist Michael Sarno (based on suspect Michael Skakel) and the name of the murder victim Mary Beth Mosley (based on victim Martha Moxley). Other detail elements of the real-life murder are alluded to, including the popularity of the murder victim and the manner of her death, the failed initial investigation and subsequent opening of the cold case, and the prominence of the Sarno family (as the Skakel family was related by marriage to the Kennedy family).

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Ambassador Peter Sarno: I'm going to call your boss; I'm going to get both of you busted down the ranks. You would be lucky if they let you work arraignment from the drunk tank on Saturday nights!
Jack McCoy: We don't have much of a social life as it is.

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6/10

Cold case resolved

S. Eptha Merkersen is being grilled before the police brass saying her homicide closure rate is falling. So it's dig out the old cases and Jerry Orbach and Jesse Martin draw a 20 year old homicide of a rich coed.

Based on the Martha Moxley murder where a cousin of Robert F. Kennedy's kids was eventually arrested and convicted almost two decades later, Briscoe and Green arrest Ken Marks the son of a former ambassador Rernak Ramsey who is one rich mover and shaker in New York City.

An old mentor of Jerry Orbach, Brad Sullivan was the original detective and he gives just enough information to lead them to Marks.

The mover and shaker family hires Ron Liebman a most expensive mouthpiece for the defense. He does show he's worth what they're paying him. We also learn that things were moved and shaken back in the day on behalf of this defendant.

Power indeed corrupts.