Brilliant Disguise (Law & Order)

"Brilliant Disguise" is the fifteenth episode of the twentieth season of NBC's long-running legal drama Law & Order.

Plot

After a young woman named Justine Stebbins (Laura Campbell) is murdered in a hotel and her body stashed away on a food service cart, evidence leads detectives Lupo and Bernard to a young medical school employee named Robbie Vickery (Adam Driver). When investigating the murder, they find another suspect, a medical student from the same lab, Alex Conway (Daniel Eric Gold). A crafty lawyer, Ray Backlund (Timothy Busfield), then becomes involved, the detectives realize that it is going to take more than superficial evidence to put the murderer away for life which may bruise someone's ego. J.K. Simmons and Wayne Duvall guest star.

Cast

Production

"Brilliant Disguise" was written by Keith Eisner and René Balcer and directed by Alex Chapple. Near the end of the show, the last placard that indicates the place and date where the next courtroom scene will take place, the month of February is misspelled as "Febraury".

Reception

In its original American broadcast on March 8, 2010, "Brilliant Disguise" was watched by 5.18 million average households over the hour, among viewers aged between 18 and 49, according to Nielsen ratings. The episode had more viewers than Trauma on NBC, which drew only 4.78 million households and made for a poor lead-in for the Law & Order episode. The ABC series, Castle was watched by 9.08 million average households and the CBS crime drama CSI: Miami was watched by 11.89 million average households making it the highest rated show of the timeslot. ^[1]

References

External links

• Law & Order: Brilliant Disguise at the Internet Movie Database