Law & Order/Virtue

Virtue
Season 5, Episode 8
Airdate	November 23, 1994
Production Number	69412
Written by	Mark B. Perry & Jeremy R. Littman
Directed by	Martha Mitchell
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Law & Order — Season Five

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Virtue is the eighth episode of the fifth season of Law & Order, and the ninety-sixth episode overall.

Starring (Law): Jerry Orbach (Detective Lennie Briscoe), Chris Noth (Detective Mike Logan), S. Epatha Merkerson (Lieutenant Anita Van Buren)

Starring (Order): Sam Waterston (Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy), Jill Hennessy (A.D.A. Claire Kincaid), Steven Hill (D.A. Adam Schiff)

Guest Stars: Anthony Heald (Councilman Spencer Talbert), Joanna Merlin (Deirdre Powell), John Ramsey (Judge Walter Schreiber)

and Regina Taylor (Sarah Maslin)

with Christopher Cousins (Todd Locke), Lily Knight (Penny McNeely), Anne Lange (Evelyn Talbert), Eric LaRay Harvey (Marty Pine), Nancy Addison (Edith Nash), Sharon Cornell (Jerolyn Adams), Cynthia Darlow (Lisa Franklyn), David Lipman (Judge Morris Torledsky), Seth Barrish (Stuart Hendricks), Catharine Boyd (Dr. Sandra Means), Jurian Hughes (Asst. M.E. Gardner), Chris Walker (Bailey), Paul Schulze (Randall), Deirdre Lovejoy (Judith Crockit), David Edward Jones (Ken Shepski), Robert Trumbull (Bennett Cole), Robert Shampain (Reporter #1), Geraldine Bartlett (Reporter #2), Merri Ann Milwe (Court Clerk), Marvin Klompus (Jury Foreman)

Plot Overview

After a woman is killed in a car accident and later revealed to be raped, McCoy uses a charge of "larceny by extortion" against a well-known councilman when one of his former colleagues claims that he demanded sex in exchange for a partnership at a law firm.