Note: This episode is a continuation story of a Law & Order episode aired two nights
earlier (11/12/97).
New York detectives Curtis and Briscoe interview Johnnie Ramirez, their primary witness
in the Brittany Janaway murder; he reveals that he was in Baltimore on the night of October 9
and that he had seen Brittany being attacked in her home. Briscoe and Curtis, along with
Munch and Falsone, go to the Janaway house, where they find that the Janaways have packed and
gone home to Baltimore.
Briscoe and Curtis enter the squadroom, where Pembleton and Bayliss greet them with a mixture
of familiarity and contempt. Giardello tells the four detectives to split into two groups
for the investigation. Munch (the primary) and Briscoe head over to Madison General
Hospital, where Steven Janaway still has an office; a nurse there tells the detectives that
Janaway had treated his daughter there three years ago for vaginal bleeding. Falsone
and Curtis make a trip to the Janaway house and are exasperated to find that Mrs. Janaway
decided to ruin it by vacuuming the crime scene.
Munch and Briscoe find Dr. Janaway at a country club and escort him downtown for questioning.
During the interview, Munch makes it clear that they think Janaway raped his own daughter and
that it may have been brought on by the corrupted image of her beauty brought on by being
a teenage model; Janaway repeatedly denies ever having assaulted her.
New York state attorneys Jack McCoy and Jamie Ross discuss ways to convince Baltimore
to allow extradition of Steven Janaway back to New York; McCoy presents his case as second-
degree murder, depraved indifference. He declares that since Janaway fully knew that his daughter
was raped two weeks before and did nothing while the wound evolved into the toxic shock
syndrome that eventually killed Brittany, he can be called a murderer. Ross expresses her doubts,
but McCoy goes with it; he is eventually turned down in favor of Danvers' argument, but is
allowed to work with Danvers during the trial.
The trial starts and Ramirez tells the jury in detail about what he saw on the night of
October 9th. Jodi Farrar, one of Brittany's schoolmates when she lived in Baltimore, tells
about how one school day Brittany had started bleeding. McCoy and Danvers do a good job
of pointing out that all evidence points to Steven Janaway as the rapist, but are surprised
when the defense attorney calls Steven Janaway to the stand. They are surprised even more
when Janaway testifies under oath that he could not have raped his daughter because he was
not even at home on October 9th; he was at the Harbor Court Hotel with another woman. McCoy
and Danvers request a continuation of the investigation from Judge Aandahl; she grants them
48 hours to check Janaway's alibi.
Multiple teams are used to check on the alibi; it is confirmed that Janaway was at the hotel
with another woman named Andrea Plotkin, a medical school classmate of Janaway's who had
been carrying on an affair with him for the past 10 years. The detectives decide to hold
two separate interviews with Steven and Gayle Janaway. Falsone and McCoy interrogate Steven
Janaway and find out from him that his wife regularly abused their daughter. Armed with
that knowledge and pictures showing a lifeless Brittany Janaway, Munch and Danvers force
Gayle Janaway to confess to her daughter's murder.
As Jack McCoy prepares to leave Baltimore, Falsone consults him about the merits of getting
shared custody of Daniel; McCoy replies that the decision is his own. Falsone visits
Steven Janaway, who expresses appreciation that the detective had worked so tirelessly to figure
out who killed his daughter; Paul explains that he has a son of his own and that he had
missed half his son's life spending time by himself, and it already feels like it's too
late. Before driving away from Janaway's house for the last time, Falsone takes out his wallet and
looks at his little boy's picture, and smiles to himself. |
Starring
Richard Belzer Det. John Munch
Andre Braugher Det. Frank Pembleton
Reed Diamond Det. Mike Kellerman
Michelle Forbes Chief ME Julianna Cox
Peter Gerety Det. Stuart Gharty
Clark Johnson Det. Meldrick Lewis
Yaphet Kotto Lt. Al Giardello
Kyle Secor Det. Tim Bayliss
Jon Seda Det. Paul Falsone
Callie Thorne Det. Laura Ballard
Guest Starring
Maureen Anderman Gayle Janaway
Dan Hedaya Leslie Drake
Zeljko Ivanek ASA Ed Danvers
Sagan Lewis Judge Susan Aandahl
Tom Tammi Steven Janaway
Special Appearances by
Benjamin Bratt Det. Reynaldo Curtis
Carey Lowell ASA Jamie Ross
Jerry Orbach Det. Lennie Briscoe
Sam Waterston ASA Jack McCoy
With
Thomas K. Brooks Law Clerk
Angie Levrone Monica Mason
Rachel Layne Sacrey Brittany Janaway
Sam Valle Johnnie Ramirez
Sharon Ziman Naomi
Music heard in Baby, It's You, Part 2
Blind Faith Can't Find My Way Home
Meredith Brooks What Would Happen
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