Conduct Unbecoming (Law & Order)

Conduct Unbecoming is the seventeenth episode of the third season of NBC's legal drama Law & Order. The episode was inspired by the Tailhook scandal.^[1]

Cast

• Jerry Orbach ... Detective Lennie Briscoe
• Chris Noth ... Detective Mike Logan
• Dann Florek ... Captain Donald Cragen
• Michael Moriarty ... Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone
• Richard Brooks ... A.D.A. Paul Robinette
• Steven Hill ... D.A. Adam Schiff

Rest of cast listed alphabetically:

• Barbara Blackburn ... Tammy White
• Len Cariou ... Capt. Allard Bunker
• Joe Chrest ... Lt. Charles Bates
• George Coe ... Lee Hastings
• Michael Dolan ... Ensign Evan Walters
• Boyd Gaines ... Lt. St. Claire
• Richard Hamilton ... CPO James Hagen
• Dick Latessa ... Admiral Miles Coty
• Julianna Margulies ... Lt. Ruth Mendoza
• Josh Pais ... Keller
• Barbara Spiegel ... Judge Doremus
• Victor Truro ... Judge Spivack
• Mark Zimmerman ... Mooren
• Steven Zirnkilton ... Narrator (voice) (uncredited)

Plot

A female Naval officer is killed during a drunken party. The Navy claims jurisdiction in the case, but detectives soon suspect that the guilty party is being protected and the wrong man is being railroaded.

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