Burn Card

"Burn Card"
←	L&O, Episode 18.14	→
Production number: 18017 First aired: 23 April 2008
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Written By David Wilcox & Ed Zuckerman Directed By Mario Van Peebles

Plot[]

When Detective Green shoots a murder suspect, an internal investigation reveals that he had a gambling problem and once owed money to the suspect. The DA's office reluctantly pursues murder charges against him.

Cast[]

Main cast[]

• Jesse L. Martin as Detective Ed Green
• Jeremy Sisto as Detective Cyrus Lupo
• S. Epatha Merkerson as Lieutenant Anita Van Buren
• Linus Roache as Executive A.D.A. Michael Cutter
• Alana De La Garza as A.D.A. Connie Rubirosa
• Sam Waterston as D.A. Jack McCoy

Recurring cast[]

• Ruben Santiago-Hudson as Defense Attorney Winters
• Dee Hoty as Judge H. Kifner
• Anthony Anderson as Detective Kevin Bernard

Guest cast[]

• Armando Riesco as Ruben Alvera
• Carmen Ejogo as April Lannen
• Peter Bradbury as Sergeant Gregory Cole
• Lou Carbonneau as Des Charella
• Joselin Reyes as Katherine Halsey
• Jennifer Rae Beck as Angela Savitsky
• Adam Sietz as Daniel Hoyte
• Nick Damici as Phil Norris
• Autumn Dornfeld as Sylvia Delaney
• Howard Feller as Stu
• Victor Colicchio as Murray
• Cesar Leonardo as Detective Johnson
• Chad Gittens as Detective Bonelli
• Michael Devine as Officer Saunders
• Christine Danelson as Isabel
• Casey Siemaszko as Green's Union Delegate (uncredited)

References[]

• James Singer
• Reginald Whitby
• St. Anselm College
• Internal Affairs Bureau
• 39th Precinct
• Aldridge Liquor
• Four Cousins Coffee Shop
• Tom Lupo
• Lennie Briscoe

Quotes[]

Lupo: He could have used any one of a dozen pay phones between here and Manhattan.

Bernard: They're all broken. You try using one lately?

Lupo: All I know is that my dog likes to piss on them.

Bernard: I hate dogs.

Lupo: Oh yeah? Why's that?

Bernard.: A stupid nickname I had in Catholic school.

Lupo: St. Bernard. (Bernard glares at him) Lucky guess.

(Green comes back from being questioned about Bunny Whitby's death)

Lt. Van Buren: How'd it go?

Green: It was great. I love being treated like a criminal in my own house.

Lt. Van Buren: The slugs came back. Matched the bullet that killed John Singer. You shot a guilty man.

Green: Tell me something I didn't know.

McCoy: [on Green] The man's been in my office a hundred times. I just kind of assumed he wasn't a murderer.

Rubirosa: You know Detective Green as well as I do.

Cutter: Which means I have to be objective. The facts are the facts. If this was a cop you didn't know, you'd be running to the grand jury too.

Rubirosa: Lupo! I'm guessing there was something that you wanted to talk about.

Lupo: Looks like I took it to the wrong office.

Rubirosa: I have my own office.

Green: I've been a cop, a gambler and 12 other things that don't necessarily go together that well. How do you do it?

Lt. Van Buren: One foot in front of the other, for 30 years.

Green: I'll let you know where I land. (shakes her hand) Thank you, Lu.

Green: (to the DA's after April exposes her secret that he was protecting) Why are you doing this?

Cutter: We thought you were worth saving.

Background information and notes[]

• Actor Anthony Anderson previously played Detective Lucius Blaine in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Fat".
• Jesse L. Martin's final contract appearance as Ed Green.

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