The Violence of Summer (Law & Order episode)

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Law & Order
The Violence of Summer
Episode No.	14
Airdate	February 5, 1991
Writer(s)	Michael Duggan
Director	Don Scardino
Guest Star(s)	Megan Gallagher Samuel L. Jackson Al Shannon Philip Seymour Hoffman Gil Bellows
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

"The Violence of Summer" is the fourteenth episode of NBC's legal drama Law & Order. It originally aired on 5 February 1991.

1 Cast
- 1.1 Police
- 1.2 District Attorney's Office
2 Plot
3 Trivia

[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

[edit] Plot

A television news reporter is gang-raped. The defendants begin accusing each other. Stone and Robinette try to persuade the victim to testify even though she doesn't remember the details of the attack. Meanwhile, Logan and Greevey discover evidence that reveals a fourth suspect.

[edit] Trivia

This is one of the few episodes in which the format of the show is broken up--the prosecution presents its case first followed by the police investigation.
This episode features both Samuel L. Jackson, Gil Bellows and Philip Seymour Hoffman, before either was especially well-known.