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LAW & ORDER {LAW AND ORDER}: AMERICAN JIHAD {THIRTEENTH SEASON PREMIERE} (TV)

Summary

One in this series of dramas that deals with the investigation, arrest, and prosecution of criminals. The first half of each episode concerns the police procedure that leads to the arrest of a suspect, while the second half covers the efforts of the district attorney to prosecute the case. In this episode, Professors Hugh and Louise Murdoch are found shot dead in their apartment. Detectives Briscoe and Green first focus their investigation on Professor Hugh Murdoch's biochemistry lab, where ground-breaking Parkinson's research was being performed using stem cells. Alternately suspecting a disgruntled lab assistant who accused Murdoch of stealing his research and then a pro-life group opposed to the use of stem cells, the detectives eventually drop both theories. At Louise Murdoch's office, the detectives discover that she was deeply involved with women's issues in the Middle East and had drawn the attention of a young man, Greg Landen a.k.a. Mousah Salim, who had recently adopted Islamic fundamentalism and whose last known location was Pakistan. Thinking they may have another John Walker Lindh on their hands, the detectives pursue Landen, eventually finding him through Michael Sanchez -- a semi-retarded youth who was the second shooter in the attack on the Murdochs. Once District Attorney's McCoy and Southerlyn pick up the case they must deal with the belligerent Landen, whose extreme interpretations of Islam, expressed in outbursts in the courtroom, appear to have led to the crime. Rejecting his Muslim attorney Anwar Muhammed whose views are too moderate for his tastes, Landen decides to represent himself. The trial eventually reveals that Landen's crime is rooted not so much in his religious views as it is in his deep-seated hostility towards women in general and his traumatic rejection by one woman in particular. Commercials deleted.

Details

  • NETWORK: NBC
  • DATE: October 2, 2002 10:00 PM
  • RUNNING TIME: 0:44:52
  • COLOR/B&W: Color
  • CATALOG ID: T:76379
  • GENRE: Drama, legal; Drama, police/detective
  • SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, legal; Drama, police/detective
  • SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1990-2010
  • COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

  • Peter Jankowski … Executive Producer
  • Jeffrey Hayes … Executive Producer
  • Michael S. Chernuchin … Executive Producer
  • Dick Wolf … Executive Producer, Created by
  • Arthur W. Forney … Co-Executive Producer
  • Wendy Battles … Co-Executive Producer
  • Eric Overmyer … Co-Executive Producer
  • Richard Sweren … Co-Executive Producer
  • Lewis H. Gould … Co-Executive Producer
  • Roz Weinman … Supervising Producer
  • Gary Karr … Supervising Producer
  • William N. Fordes … Supervising Producer
  • Kathy O'Connell … Associate Producer
  • Kati Johnston … Producer
  • Jill Goldsmith … Producer
  • Terri Kopp … Producer
  • Marc Guggenheim … Co-Producer
  • Constantine Makris … Director
  • Marc Guggenheim … Writer
  • Mike Post … Music by
  • Jerry Orbach … Cast, Detective Leonard "Lennie" Briscoe
  • Jesse L. Martin … Cast, Detective Eddie Green
  • S. Epatha Merkerson … Cast, Lieutenant Anita Van Buren
  • Sam Waterston … Cast, Executive Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy
  • Elisabeth Rohm … Cast, Assistant District Attorney Serena Southerlyn
  • Fred Dalton Thompson … Cast, District Attorney Arthur Branch
  • Ali Farahnakian … Cast, Attorney Anwar Muhammed
  • Gordon MacDonald … Cast, Phil Gianni
  • Donna Hanover … Cast, Judge Deborah Bourke
  • Richard Bekins … Cast, Greg Landen (Sr.)
  • Merritt Wever … Cast, Jennifer Taylor
  • Carolyn McCormick … Cast, Dr. Elizabeth Olivet
  • Wil Horneff … Cast, Greg Landen a.ka. Mousah Salim
  • Jason Butler Harner … Cast, Bernard Noah
  • Ramon de Ocampo … Cast, Michael Sanchez
  • Abigail Lopez … Cast, Eve Sanchez
  • Robin Mattson … Cast, Francine Landen
  • Katie Kreisler … Cast, Stephie
  • Jeff Brooks … Cast, Charles Scott
  • Jordan Lage … Cast, Jeff Bodner
  • Pilar Witherspoon … Cast, Gina Sparrow
  • Jason Kolotouros … Cast, Derek Greer
  • Steward J. Zully … Cast, Sal
  • E. J. Carroll … Cast, Kevin Bracken
  • Paul Urcioli … Cast, Dog Walker
  • Ned Coulter … Cast, Dr. Tom Hyra
  • Amro Salama … Cast, Salman Mogazi
  • John Cariani … Cast, Julian Beck
  • Larry Sherman … Cast, Judge Collin Fraser
  • Andrea Navedo … Cast, Detective Ana Cordova
  • Liz Larsen … Cast, CSU Tech Jessica Reed
  • Joe Gonzalez … Cast, Sgt. Martinez
  • Derek Argobright … Cast, CSI Tech Mahoney
  • Josh Kleinmuntz … Cast, Court Clerk