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George DiCenzo dominates this Law And Order episode as a Shylock without conscience who has found an almost full proof method of securing his loans. Even loan sharks occasionally take a loss with a bad investment. But DiCenzo has found a way to secure his collateral.

It's very simple he has the clients take out an insurance policy making his company with the innocent sounding name of Beechwood Loan Corporation the beneficiary. You don't pay you get killed and he makes back a lot of money on his investment. And the kicker is that if you are delinquent in your payments you can get a payment or three or a rise in interest forgotten.

It all starts to unravel for DiCenzo when Jerry Orbach and Benjamin Bratt get a case of a woman killed with a shotgun blast to the back in the parking garage of her Co-op. A chance notice that she bears a resemblance to Dana Reeve who is later killed herself starts the whole investigation.

Big kudos should also go to Victor Argo as a man caught up in this insidious racket who did a couple of killings to get money shaved off his loan on his auto repair shop in the Bronx. He's both frightening and pitiful at the same time.

But you will not forget George DiCenzo as 'Bunny' Russo the loan shark with a twist.

Entertaining episode. A woman is killed in a parking lot and Briscoe and Curtis discover that the intended victim is someone else. They warn the self-possessed target but she scoffs, and is found dead. Why was she killed? Hubby's finances were in a world of pain, but his wife's insurance wasn't enough of an analgesic. On the other hand, there is the loan company from which hubby had borrowed had insured the wife for a big bundle. That's George DiCenzo, who was Vincent Bugliosi in "Helter Skelter." What a rotten guy he is. He's insured other clients and then had them wiped out for their insurance when it looked like they would go into default.

"Default" or whatever it's called. I'm always surprised at how much research the writers did for each episode. In this case, they get into the insurance business and the shenanigans they may be involved in. (Now may be a propitious time for all Americans to do it!) I don't know what the hell "accounts receivable" means, or "amortization of mortgage," but I have to admire people who do, or who are willing enough to learn that they undertake the task of finding out.

Everyone's performance is at least adequate, as usual, but I found myself impressed by the subtlety of Sam Waterston's Assistant District Attorney. He may gaze abstractedly into space but we can almost hear the gears and springs clicking and whirling inside his brain. Some of his features are odd -- that outlandish nose -- but he can be an exceptional actor, especially considering that this was a weekly series, the kind that puts regular performers to sleep after a year or two at the grindstone.