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Just to Clarify, Sam Waterston Is Not Retiring


As he says good-bye to Law & Order (again), the former Jack McCoy has a message for casting directors: Call him!

In an effort to bring a tech billionaire to justice despite overwhelming pressure from the mayor to downplay the case, McCoy insists on appearing in the courtroom to question the defendant himself. “Last Dance” is representative of Law & Order ’s typical approach to crime-procedural storytelling: The criminal-justice system is not perfect, it suggests, but it is full of individuals who legitimately try their best, and, more often than not, they succeed. She came to set with her wardrobe, it was silk and black, and she hiked up one of those fantastic dancer’s legs on a chair and gave herself an insulin shot for her diabetes, in front of God and everybody.

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