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This episode is a bit different, above average even, for a number of reasons. One is that the good guys don't really "win" in the usual sense of the word. Another is that the performance of the heavy is as convincing as it is.

A woman is found in her car, shot in the head, the bullet still in her brain. She's taken to the hospital in what appears to be an irreversible coma.

The detectives (Orbach and Noth) uncover a number of facts that seem to point to the husband as the killer. He beat his wife, he was supposedly alone in his office at the time of the shooting, he'd found out his wife was going to leave him and probably take his money and two children with her.

The husband is played by Larry Miller, balding and with a rough complexion. He runs a comedy club not far from the place of the shooting. And Miller's performance as a snotty, insulting, rotten guy is thoroughly convincing. His arrogance matches his looks. His pupils glint as if made of steel. And the contours of his speech carry their own sneer. He's the kind of guy who, if he had a neck, you'd like to wring it. The actress who plays the victim's distraught sister is middle aged and blond. She LOOKS like somebody's caring sister.

The prosecution is faced with a conundrum. If the bullet is removed from the wife's brain, they may find it matches Miller's gun. However, the operation that would extract the bullet is extremely dangerous to the wife's survival and they advise against it. Waterston and Hennessy press the nearest relative, the wife's sister, into granting permission for the operation. It extracts the bullet.

The episode raises some fascinating moral questions and points up some of the burdens carried by Waterston, whose job is to convict murderers even if the risk of doing harm to others is high.

Nice job. Good series.

Larry Miller makes the first of two appearances on Law And Order as Michael Dobson, owner of a comedy club with a quick wit and a facile mind that is used in committing a perfect crime. The crime is that of the murder of his wife and mother of his two children.

Sad to say that Sam Waterston makes the call to go after Miller too soon. With an imperfect case and the possibility that Miller might flee the jurisdiction, Waterston chooses to prosecute. And there's hubris involved. Miller thinks he's the smartest guy around and Waterston wants to show him he's not.

The crucial evidence needed for this case comes to Jerry Orbach and Chris Noth too late, linking Miller with the guy who actually did the deed. You won't believe what it is when they find it, but double jeopardy attachs.

Nicely done episode about a man who outsmarts our justice system. Good performance also by Debra Monk as the victim's sister.

When a wife with a bullet in her brain goes into a vegetative coma, the prime suspect seems pretty obvious: her jerkoff comedy club-owning husband, played with an air of effortless a-holery by Larry Miller. Sometimes L&O side characters can be a bit sleepy and clichéd, so Miller's fast-talking performance as a blatantly selfish middle-class degenerate is pretty refreshing.

In a hilariously dark line, he even admits: "I don't need you to tell me I'm a son of a b***h ... But I happen to be a son of a b***h whose wife was shot by some other son of a b***."

This plot would be pretty generic without Miller's involvement, and without a classic L&O late-game twist: the DA's office desperately needs a ballistics report on the bullet embedded inside the victim. But the surgery could kill her. Is it ethical for them to sign off on surgery to get the bullet - and what if the bullet ends up not proving anything?

Debra Monk is great as the victim's grieving sister, who has always hated Miller's character. There's a certain amount of ambiguity to the way this one ends - it's intriguing rather than feeling like a cop out.

A great example of how to take a basic "husband vs. wife" plot and make it interesting.