" Mother's Day " is the 28th episode of the legal drama NBC Law & amp; The message and the tenth episode of the thirteenth season. The 45 minute episode was filmed in New York City.
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Summary
A mother kills her own child, who suffers from schizophrenia and problems with her medication. He killed him because he felt he had to stop him killing someone else.
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This episode is set in Washington Heights. Contextually, Washington Heights is considered an area with a low socioeconomic level in America. Demographics comprise immigrants; accounted for 48% of the population in June 2015. Although, there has been a 'sharp reduction in crime' it is still a matter of 'concern.'Low low in the area relative to the rest of Manhattan. Although this affordability is a problem because of the relatively low level of household income. Furthermore, according to the US Census Bureau, the unemployment rate for the area is 4% higher than the city range.
Plot
Briscoe and Green were summoned to the hit-and-run scene in Washington Heights. When arriving at the scene; The victim was identified as a high school student Emily Milius. From the tire signs on the road, the detectives suspect Ms. Milius deliberately runs down.
The Miliuses are a wealthy family and when Briscoe says Emily Milius may be deliberately targeted, the victim's father Ronald Milius reveals he is the CFO of the Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company and witnesses in the FBI's fraud investigation to company directors. This is important considering the context of the arrangement. Furthermore, Fortune 500 is the list of the largest US industrial companies. By 2017, the list represents two-thirds of US GDP. He considers his daughter killed as a threat to him.
The suspected green saturn and forensic evidence proved the car hit Emily Milius. The car was registered for single mother Diane Payton, who said Briscoe and Green lent her car to her son Danny a few days earlier. The detectives were forced to go into Danny Payton's apartment where they found his body. He was stabbed to death.
At this stage the detectives think Danny Payton was hired to kill Emily Milius. Detectives speculated he took the job to support the suggested drug habit, and then committed suicide, as directed by the giver. But the medical examiner, Dr. Rodgers, reported there was no cure in Danny Payton's system.
When Green and Dr. Rodgers fixed Danny's death time, the detectives realized that Diane Payton lied to them about the morning after the victim's death. Diane Payton was taken to the 27th police station, the police station for detectives featured at Law & amp; Message, for more questions. Bcoe and Van Buren play good cop/bad cop with Ny. Payton. Briscoe aggressively asked him. Van Buren suddenly entered the room and rebuked Briscoe for his rudeness, before inviting her. Payton for coffee and private chat. Van Buren empathized with Mrs. Payton because of the difficulty of being a mother ("You are just as happy as your unhappy child"). Finally, Diane Payton admitted that she stabbed her own son to death. He was arrested, and later indicted for trial and pleading not guilty.
Mrs. Lawyer Payton, Kay Hartley, approached Southerlyn and identified himself as an old college friend. Later, in discussions with McCoy, Southerlyn revealed he remembers Hartley as a highly competitive student who is set to be a high-income Wall Street lawyer. Hartley said his company had asked him to take Mrs case. Payton pro bono . McCoy was surprised a tax lawyer would be asked to try a criminal case.
Then, Southerlyn was approached by Hartley while exercising in Central Park. Hartley reveals Danny Payton is his cousin and Diane Payton is her aunt. Hartley has taken leave from his company to defend his aunt. Danny Payton has schizophrenia and Hartley wants to introduce his medical records into evidence, but Diane Payton refuses to allow this. Hartley wants to move a motion to allow this new proof to come to life. Partly through sympathy, the watershed agreed not to oppose the motion, which was given.
In the trial, Psychiatrist Dr. Trask testified that Danny Payton was diagnosed with schizophrenia several years earlier and held in a mental hospital, but was eventually released, as the drug proved effective in controlling his condition. She affirms Ny. Payton recently asked his son to be re-treated at the hospital because his condition deteriorated. However, Dr Trask rejected his registration as soon as he set up Danny to stop taking his medication. When Diane Payton took a stand for being questioned by Hartley, she admitted her son had stopped taking medicine because it made her feel very depressed and nauseated. Then he began to hear voices urging him to kill. After the hospital's refusal to bring Danny in, Mrs. Payton lent his car to Danny ("the long journey made him calm.") It was on this journey that he hit Emily Milius. This is the last straw. Diane Payton feels the need to kill her son to prevent him from killing more people.
McCoy demanded a trial in the room. He was furious at the defense that effectively changed their defense from innocence to guilt by justification. He demanded that the defense case be expelled, but the judge refused. McCoy's position began to look weak. Southerlyn confronts Hartley, outraged that Hartley toying with his sympathy for medical records. He accused Hartley less motivated by love for his family and more by the impulse it would provide for his career.
The next day, McCoy does a cross-examination of Diane Payton and asks why she did not tell the police about her son's alleged actions, or called the police himself after he killed her. Finally, McCoy asks that if Diane Payton knew her son was a murderer with schizophrenia, why would she give her car keys?
The jury found Diane Payton guilty of a second-degree murder, but the jury asked when the jail time was needed.
Themes
- Mother and child relationships
- The importance of self be the motive before the welfare of others in every way
Guest star
- Charissa Chamorro as Kay Hartley
- Ellen McLaughlin as Diane Payton
- Janet Zarish as Caroline Milius
- Martin Kildare as Ronald Milius
- Leslie Hendrix as Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers
- Mark Alan Gordon as Dr. David Trask
- Don Billett as Judge Ed Richter
Acceptance
Law and Order is considered by some of the best dramas on network television. Since it first featured in 1999, the franchise has produced hundreds of episodes and multiple seasons. Although this criticism is skeptical of the 'spin-off' style that often 'loses spark'. In general, the episode was well received and then released in France. , Germany, Netherlands and Japan.
References
External links
- "Law and Order" Mother's Day at imdb.com
- Legal & amp; Order: Mother's Day on tv.com
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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