Please Note We Are No Longer Accepting Letters of Recommendation from Henry Kissinger
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"Please Note We Are No Longer Accepting Letters of Recommendation from Henry Kissinger" is a seventh season
episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent
. The episode first aired on July 6, 2008. The title is often abbreviated to "Please Note..." or "Kissinger."
and Eames
investigate the murder of a stock analyst found shot to death while strolling with his infant child in Central Park
.
At first, the detectives learn that the married victim was having a clandestine affair with another married man, but when they confront the lover, he has an alibi during the time of the killing. Then a female corporate executive is murdered in the park under similar circumstances: her young child was with her on the night she was murdered, just like the case with the man’s young son, abandoned in a stroller close to the body of the victim. Ballistics
confirmed both victims were killed by the same gun, and more interestingly, the detectives discover both victims were close personal friends and had extensive contact with one another; he had analyzed her company, and the two of them benefitted from the analyst's sole favorable stock upgrade.
Then a third body appears, far removed from Central Park, and even further removed from any Wall Street
intrigue. Once again, another young single mother of a toddler, was the target. The ballistics again match. The person who killed the first two, also killed her. Although her ex-husband had a penchant for violence, Goren and Eames are more intrigued with the decision to enroll her daughter in an exclusive preschool in the Upper East Side, a great distance from her home in Far Rockaway. As the detectives explore the school’s long waiting list, they find that the first victim tried to curry favor with an influential preschool board member by issuing the favorable stock upgrade before his murder. His reward was that his young son would jump to the top of the waiting list for entry into the school. It soon becomes clear that the wait list for the prestigious preschool is looking more and more like a ‘hit-list’. Goren and Eames turn their attention to a family who was with him on the night he was murdered in the park.
Eleanor Reynolds is matriarch of the Reynolds clan and quite demanding and contemptuous of people, including her daughter-in-law, Marla Reynolds, a lowly waitress whom she feels suckered her architect son into marriage. Eleanor had already made plans even before her grandchild was born, how her grandchild was to be raised, even the prestigious preschool that would be attended. Marla can't seem to please her mother-in-law and blames herself when the child is put on the preschool's waiting list, notwithstanding her mother-in-law's ceaseless contempt of her. Marla starts killing the parents of the other children who already have spots or on the waiting list at the prestigious preschool in order to improve the possibility of her child in being accepted. She also plants the gun in her mother-in-law's purse in order to frame her for the murders. Ultimately the detectives confront the distraught Marla, who has taken the children and staff hostage at the preschool. While Eames sneaks the children to safety, Goren talks Marla down and arrests her.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent (season 7)
The seventh season of Law & Order: Criminal Intent premiered October 4, 2007 and the season ended August 24, 2008 on USA Network.The first ten episodes of the seventh season aired on Thursday night's at 10:00PM/9:00PM , filling a slot previously occupied by the first season of Burn Notice...
episode of the television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Law & Order: Criminal Intent is an American police procedural television drama series set in New York City, where it was also primarily produced. Created and produced by Dick Wolf and René Balcer, the series premiered on September 30, 2001, as the second spin-off of Wolf's successful crime drama...
. The episode first aired on July 6, 2008. The title is often abbreviated to "Please Note..." or "Kissinger."
Plot summary
In this episode, Detectives GorenRobert Goren
Det. Robert "Bobby" Goren is a fictional character featured in the NBC-USA Network police procedural and legal drama television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent, portrayed by Vincent D'Onofrio....
and Eames
Alexandra Eames
Det. Alexandra "Alex" Eames is a fictional police detective with the NYPD Major Case Squad featured in the NBC-USA Network Law & Order: Criminal Intent, portrayed by Kathryn Erbe...
investigate the murder of a stock analyst found shot to death while strolling with his infant child in Central Park
Central Park
Central Park is a public park in the center of Manhattan in New York City, United States. The park initially opened in 1857, on of city-owned land. In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they entitled the Greensward Plan...
.
At first, the detectives learn that the married victim was having a clandestine affair with another married man, but when they confront the lover, he has an alibi during the time of the killing. Then a female corporate executive is murdered in the park under similar circumstances: her young child was with her on the night she was murdered, just like the case with the man’s young son, abandoned in a stroller close to the body of the victim. Ballistics
Ballistics
Ballistics is the science of mechanics that deals with the flight, behavior, and effects of projectiles, especially bullets, gravity bombs, rockets, or the like; the science or art of designing and accelerating projectiles so as to achieve a desired performance.A ballistic body is a body which is...
confirmed both victims were killed by the same gun, and more interestingly, the detectives discover both victims were close personal friends and had extensive contact with one another; he had analyzed her company, and the two of them benefitted from the analyst's sole favorable stock upgrade.
Then a third body appears, far removed from Central Park, and even further removed from any Wall Street
Wall Street
Wall Street refers to the financial district of New York City, named after and centered on the eight-block-long street running from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, or...
intrigue. Once again, another young single mother of a toddler, was the target. The ballistics again match. The person who killed the first two, also killed her. Although her ex-husband had a penchant for violence, Goren and Eames are more intrigued with the decision to enroll her daughter in an exclusive preschool in the Upper East Side, a great distance from her home in Far Rockaway. As the detectives explore the school’s long waiting list, they find that the first victim tried to curry favor with an influential preschool board member by issuing the favorable stock upgrade before his murder. His reward was that his young son would jump to the top of the waiting list for entry into the school. It soon becomes clear that the wait list for the prestigious preschool is looking more and more like a ‘hit-list’. Goren and Eames turn their attention to a family who was with him on the night he was murdered in the park.
Eleanor Reynolds is matriarch of the Reynolds clan and quite demanding and contemptuous of people, including her daughter-in-law, Marla Reynolds, a lowly waitress whom she feels suckered her architect son into marriage. Eleanor had already made plans even before her grandchild was born, how her grandchild was to be raised, even the prestigious preschool that would be attended. Marla can't seem to please her mother-in-law and blames herself when the child is put on the preschool's waiting list, notwithstanding her mother-in-law's ceaseless contempt of her. Marla starts killing the parents of the other children who already have spots or on the waiting list at the prestigious preschool in order to improve the possibility of her child in being accepted. She also plants the gun in her mother-in-law's purse in order to frame her for the murders. Ultimately the detectives confront the distraught Marla, who has taken the children and staff hostage at the preschool. While Eames sneaks the children to safety, Goren talks Marla down and arrests her.
Cast
| Vincent D'Onofrio Vincent D'Onofrio Vincent Phillip D'Onofrio is an American actor, director, film producer, writer, and singer. Often referred to as an actor's actor, his work as a character actor has earned him the nickname of "Human Chameleon"... |
Det. Robert Goren Robert Goren Det. Robert "Bobby" Goren is a fictional character featured in the NBC-USA Network police procedural and legal drama television series Law & Order: Criminal Intent, portrayed by Vincent D'Onofrio.... |
| Kathryn Erbe Kathryn Erbe Kathryn Elsbeth Erbe is an American actress known for her role as Det. Alexandra Eames in Law & Order: Criminal Intent, a spin-off of Law & Order, and death row inmate Shirley Bellinger in the HBO series Oz.-Personal life:... |
Det. Alexandra Eames Alexandra Eames Det. Alexandra "Alex" Eames is a fictional police detective with the NYPD Major Case Squad featured in the NBC-USA Network Law & Order: Criminal Intent, portrayed by Kathryn Erbe... |
| Eric Bogosian Eric Bogosian Eric Bogosian is an American actor, playwright, monologist, and novelist of Armenian descent.-Personal life:Bogosian, an Armenian-American, was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, the son of Edwina, a hairdresser and instructor, and Henry Bogosian, an accountant. After graduating from Oberlin College,... |
Capt. Danny Ross |
Trivia
- The title "Please Note We Are No Longer Accepting Letters of Recommendation from Henry Kissinger" is the longest title in any series of the Law & Order franchiseLaw & Order (franchise)The Law & Order franchise is a number of related American television series created by Dick Wolf and originally broadcast on NBC, all of which deal with some aspect of the criminal justice system...
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