Mushrooms (Law & Order)
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"Mushrooms" is the seventeenth episode of NBC's legal drama Law & Order. It originally aired on February 26, 1991.
Plot
When a 12-year-old boy and his younger brother are shot, Greevey and Logan connect the older boy to a teenage drug ring. The 14-year-old shooter names the head of the operation and the intended target. Robinette and Stone try to discover the intended victim's past in order to win a conviction.
Cast
Law
- George Dzundza - Det. Sgt. Maxwell Greevey
- Chris Noth - Det. Michael Logan
- Dann Florek - Capt. Donald Cragen
Order
- Michael Moriarty - Exec. A.D.A. Benjamin Stone
- Richard Brooks – A.D.A. Paul Robinette
- Steven Hill - D.A. Adam Schiff
Guest Stars
- Brad Sullivan - Joe Anson
- Michael Mantell - Edward Kay
- S. Epatha Merkerson - Denise Winters
- Malachi Throne - Judge Real
- Tom Mardirosian - Brian Doxsee
- Victor Raider-Wexler - Harold Morton
- James McDaniel - Michael Ingrams
- Justin Cozier - T-Ball
- Terrance Telfair - Dizz Williams
- Merlin Santana - Roneld Griggs
- Eugene Byrd - Tonel Otten
- Rhetta Hughes - Grandmother
- Laurie Heineman - Janice Kay
- Regina Taylor - Evelyn Griggs[2]
- Richard Ziman - Alex Cassini
- Merwin Goldsmith - Judge Gollub
- Barbara Spiegel - Judge Harriet Doremus
- Thomas Kopache - Sam Drucker (as Tom Kopache)
- David Wolos-Fonteno - Coach
- Edwina Lewis - Angela Otten
- Alex Bess - Gregory Winters
- Helmar Augustus Cooper - Herb Williams
- Duane Allen - Calvin (as Laduane Allen)
- Michele Wagner - Ballistics Technician (as Michele Ann Wagner)
- Brian Williams - Burnham
- Donna Haley - Reporter
- Michael Saposnick - Bailiff
- James Pyduck - Bailiff #2
- Scott W. Cain - Rapist Supsect #3 (uncredited)
- Josh Pais - Assistant M.E. Borak (uncredited)
Trivia
- S. Epatha Merkerson has a guest appearance in this episode as Denise Winters, the victim's mother. She would portray Anita Van Buren, the Police Lieutenant, starting with Season 4.
- James McDaniel of future NYPD Blue fame is also featured in the episode.
References
- ^ Thomas Riggs; Gale Research Company (July 2003). Contemporary theatre, film, and television. Gale Research Co. p. 265. ISBN 9780787663643. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
- ^ McCann, Bob (2010). Encyclopedia of African American actresses in film and television. McFarland. pp. 320–22. ISBN 9780786437900. Retrieved 21 July 2011.
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