"Law & Order"
Navy Blues (1997)

Director:

Jace Alexander

Writers:

Kathy McCormick (story)
Kathy McCormick (teleplay)

TV Series:

"Law & Order" (1990)

Original Air Date:

15 October 1997 (Season 8, Episode 3)

Genre:

Crime | Mystery | Drama

Plot:

A female Navy pilot kills an officer over their affair. However, McCoy suspects that the Navy may be impeding the D.A. office's investigation because she is a valuable asset and a positive female role model. |

Plot Keywords:

Female Boss | Jewish Cop | Female District Attorney | Sergeant | New York City

US TV Schedule:

Mon. Sept. 15

6:00 PM

TNT

Navy Blues

#8.3

Cast

Jerry Orbach	...	Detective Lennie Briscoe
Benjamin Bratt	...	Detective Rey Curtis
S. Epatha Merkerson	...	Lt. Anita Van Buren
Sam Waterston	...	Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy
Carey Lowell	...	A.D.A. Jamie Ross
Steven Hill	...	D.A. Adam Schiff
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Richard Bierman	...	Garage Attendant (as Richard Biermann)
Helmar Augustus Cooper	...	Judge McNeil
Marc Coppola	...	Court Officer
John DiResta	...	Det. Anderson
Laura Ekstrand	...	Reporter #1
Christopher Gabriel	...	Reporter #2
Paul Geier	...	Chuck Baxter
Joe Gonzalez	...	Parking Attendant
Joseph Gonzalez
Jack Gwaltney	...	Jack Young
Jery Hewitt	...	SWAT Leader
Bryan Hicks	...	Cop
Reuben Jackson	...	Lt. Lopez
Kurt Knudson	...	Judge Ari Waxman
Patti LuPone	...	Ruth Miller
Steven Marcus	...	Louis Palumbo
William Parry	...	Commander Halibert (as William Howard Parry)
Stephen Peabody	...	Service Manager
Molly Price	...	Quartermaster Stroud
Marge Redmond	...	Judge Laurie Tisdale
Joyce Reehling	...	Lt. Commander Coleman
R.E. Rodgers	...	Off. Oliver
Sean Runnette	...	Headwaiter
Lee Shepherd	...	Lt. Commander McIntyre
John Speredakos	...	William T. Ottenberg
Robert Spillane	...	Mechanic (as Bobby Spillane)
Daniel von Bargen	...	Commander Billings
Kate Walsh	...	Lt. Kirstin Blair

Goofs:

Factual errors: The case involves a female Navy pilot assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Minnesota; there is no such vessel. Nowadays, state names are used in the US Navy for submarines, not for aircraft carriers.