Mushrooms (Law & Order episode)

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Law & Order
Mushrooms
Episode No. 17
Airdate February 26, 1991
Writer(s) Robert Palm
Director Daniel Sackheim
Season 1
September 1990 - June 1991
001. Prescription for Death
002. Subterranean Homeboy Blues
003. The Reaper's Helper
004. Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die
005. Happily Ever After
006. Everybody's Favorite Bagman
007. By Hooker, By Crook
008. Poison Ivy
009. Indifference
010. Prisoner of Love
011. Out of the Half-Light
012. Life Choice
013. A Death in the Family
014. The Violence of Summer
015. The Torrents of Greed -- Part 1
016. The Torrents of Greed -- Part 2
017. Mushrooms
018. The Secret Sharers
019. The Serpent's Tooth
020. The Troubles
021. Sonata For a Solo Organ
022. The Blue Wall

"Mushrooms" is the seventeenth episode of NBC's legal drama Law & Order. It originally aired on 2 February 1991.

Contents

[edit] Cast

[edit] Police

Dann Florek Capt. Don Cragen
George Dzundza Sgt. Max Greevey
Chris Noth Det. Mike Logan

[edit] District Attorney's Office

Steven Hill Adam Schiff
Michael Moriarty Ben Stone
Richard Brooks Paul Robinette

Sharon Epatha Merkerson, has a guest appearance in this episode as Denise Winters. The same actress will portray Anita Van Buren, the Police Lieutenant, since season 4.

[edit] Plot

When a twelve-year-old boy and his younger brother are shot, Greevey and Logan connect the older boy to a teenage drug ring. The 14-year-old shooter names the head of the operation and the intended target. Robinette and Stone try to discover the intended victim's past in order to win a conviction.