If the defense offered by Alan King for young Morgan Weisser were ever to succeed I'm not sure anyone would ever be guilty of anything. We could point to different cultural values as a valid excuse for murder.
That's what happens in this Law And Order episode as Jerry Orbach and Chris Noth investigate the murder of a furniture store owner who was an immigrant from Romania and had lived several years in this country. His brother Richard Council is a more recent arrival. He fled out of necessity as his boss was Nicholas Ceausesceau who as we know was violently overthrown as he tried to hold on to power with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Romania was the only country to have a short, but violent overthrow.
As a member of Ceausesceau's Secret Police the Securitate Council had to leave quick, nice to have a brother who is a successful businessman in America. But working in a furniture store just wasn't Council's style. He starts in with some rackets and he's arrested for killing the brother.
No sooner does Council get sprung on a technicality than he's killed. That one they get right and it's his son Weisser who is arrested.
Weisser gets a very sharp attorney in Alan King who wins a lot of sympathy for his client. But there might be deeper meaning in the reason why the son killed the father.
King in a good dramatic part gives us an attorney you definitely want in court for you could afford it. He makes Michael Moriarty and Richard Brooks work for what they want to achieve.
That's what happens in this Law And Order episode as Jerry Orbach and Chris Noth investigate the murder of a furniture store owner who was an immigrant from Romania and had lived several years in this country. His brother Richard Council is a more recent arrival. He fled out of necessity as his boss was Nicholas Ceausesceau who as we know was violently overthrown as he tried to hold on to power with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Romania was the only country to have a short, but violent overthrow.
As a member of Ceausesceau's Secret Police the Securitate Council had to leave quick, nice to have a brother who is a successful businessman in America. But working in a furniture store just wasn't Council's style. He starts in with some rackets and he's arrested for killing the brother.
No sooner does Council get sprung on a technicality than he's killed. That one they get right and it's his son Weisser who is arrested.
Weisser gets a very sharp attorney in Alan King who wins a lot of sympathy for his client. But there might be deeper meaning in the reason why the son killed the father.
King in a good dramatic part gives us an attorney you definitely want in court for you could afford it. He makes Michael Moriarty and Richard Brooks work for what they want to achieve.