Unlike the Patty Hearst case on which this is so clearly based there is no high falutin' mumbo jumbo rhetoric about people's liberation, Symbionese or otherwise. No, the kidnapper played by Rusty DeWees is a most dangerous
criminal but makes no pretense of being anything else.
Not that any investigations on Law And Order leisurely and dilatory but this one that Jerry Orbach and Benjamin Bratt are pursuing has a special sense of urgency. A man and woman stickup team is on a killing spree and have kidnapped one woman for her car as a getaway vehicle. It's an old fashioned shootout at a convenience store brings them down.
But the female turns out to be a socialite kidnapped by this man who really got into the criminal lifestyle. Amanda Peet swears she was just a frightened bystander. But that's not what Sam Waterston is thinking when he charges Peet.
His rather devastating cross examination is something to see.
Not that any investigations on Law And Order leisurely and dilatory but this one that Jerry Orbach and Benjamin Bratt are pursuing has a special sense of urgency. A man and woman stickup team is on a killing spree and have kidnapped one woman for her car as a getaway vehicle. It's an old fashioned shootout at a convenience store brings them down.
But the female turns out to be a socialite kidnapped by this man who really got into the criminal lifestyle. Amanda Peet swears she was just a frightened bystander. But that's not what Sam Waterston is thinking when he charges Peet.
His rather devastating cross examination is something to see.
