Hey, at some point Dick Wolf’s gotta run out of things to make Law & Order shows about.
Next on LAW & ORDER: RED SOX
The familiar DUN-DUN sound…
FENWAY PARK, BOSTON, MA. 9/16/2004 8.58PM.
Tim Wakefield’s knuckleball has flattened out. Detectives Lennie Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Ed Green (Jesse L. Martin) investigate. Speculation centres around the changes in air currents caused by heavy breathing by male fans near first base. A particularly heavy-breathing fan (cameo by Rich Garces) is charged with disorderly conduct/fan interference. Lt. Anita (S. Epatha Merkerson) watches his interrogation through the one-way mirror.
DUN-DUN
MOAKLEY COURTHOUSE, FAN PIER, BOSTON, MA. 9/17/2004 11.04AM.
Adam Schiff (Steven Hill) warns, “Don’t try this case in the media”, which proves useful when the fan turns out to be asthmatic rather than horny. In a surprise twist, during the course of the trial, Ramiro Mendoza (Ramiro Mendoza) reveals on the stand that he had been taking money from “an unnamed source in the Bronx” but that the funding was cut off when he forgot to send in an eggplant sandwich. “Mendoza!” Executive ADA Jack McCoy (Sam Waterston) threatens to try Mendoza for perjury. Attorney counters that once the funding was cut off, Mendoza was back to his usual self. Mendoza has swung across the line from fan-hate to fan-love, and Adam Schiff knows it. Adam gets the final words: “Make a deal, Jack”. Jack sighs.