"Law & Order" Nurture (1994)

Director:

Jace Alexander

Writers:

Ed Zuckerman (writer) &
Paris Qualles (writer) ...

TV Series:

"Law & Order" (1990)

Original Air Date:

4 May 1994 (Season 4, Episode 20)

Genre:

Crime | Mystery | Drama

Plot:

Stone is reluctantly forced to pursue criminal charges against a woman who kidnapped a young girl and took her away from an abusive foster home, even though he thinks she should receive psychiatric care instead. |

Plot Keywords:

Attorney | Detective | Police | District Attorney | Evidence

Cast

Jerry Orbach	...	Detective Lennie Briscoe
Chris Noth	...	Detective Mike Logan
S. Epatha Merkerson	...	Lt. Anita Van Buren
Michael Moriarty	...	Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone
Jill Hennessy	...	A.D.A. Claire Kincaid
Steven Hill	...	D.A. Adam Schiff
Carolyn McCormick	...	Dr. Elizabeth Olivet
Christine Baranski	...	Rose Siegal
Stephi Lineburg	...	Wendy Sylvester
Lisa Eichhorn	...	Arnette Fenady
Camryn Manheim	...	Beatrice Hines
Bruce MacVittie	...	Brian Sprague
Jesse Moore	...	Daniel Freeman
Zelda Harris	...	Janel Decker
Ann McDonough	...	Peggy Sylvester

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Wolf Films

Trivia:

This episode was originally written to have the girl sexually abused by a male kidnapper. However, shortly before shooting was to have begun NBC felt uncomfortable with the storyline and asked for it to be changed. The writers quickly rewrote it so that the kidnapper was a female who believed she had the best interests of the child at heart. All the locations that had been set up for the original script were used in the episode.