Huh, it’s kinda nice that Tony just cut his whole plan when his friend was in trouble and came clean. Goes to show that no matter what happens, revenge, death, etc. it’s friendship that matters in the end.

Tony messed with them from beyond the grave. What a twist!

@karazor-el6085

3 жыл бұрын

It almost worked, too, but the plan came apart. But Tony even had a contingency for failure so he wouldn't get his friend put in prison. It was ALMOST a perfect crime.

@GenshinLover283

3 жыл бұрын

Remind me of Batman the animated series, when King Barlo left Joker all his money following his death. Only for it to be revealed that the money is fake and King Barlo did it just to get the last laugh on Joker lol

@davidbailey6917

2 жыл бұрын

Am I only one who getting SAW vibes and having SAW music start playing?!!

I applaud that dude for getting the last laugh over his cheating wife and her boyfriend. They didn't go to jail, but they suffered, and I doubt their relationship survived them pointing the finger at each other.

@acgearsandarms1343

4 жыл бұрын

Sometimes watching their life crumble is better than any jail cell.

@supernaturalawesome1

3 жыл бұрын

Not to mention no life insurance payment or any of his money. Relationship with her boyfriend lost, name dragged through the mud as a murder suspect and stuck paying the lawyers she hired out of her own pocket. In the end she's alone and penniless.

@aaroncollins6411

3 жыл бұрын

I'm hoping Bobby became the main beneficiary.

@kdmdlo

3 жыл бұрын

@@acgearsandarms1343 Unfortunately, Mr. Rosotti didn't get to watch anything since he was dead.

@thedon1570

2 жыл бұрын

@@kdmdlo you’re a complete Buffon. There is a next life.

You got to respect Tony for going so far into this, making sure his cheating wife and her lover humiliated for life, his friend Tony getting his money in the end (not his wife, he said if he committed suicide, which this was, Bobby gets everything), and sticking it to the authorities.

@throckwoddle

11 ай бұрын

The wife and lover can still sue his estate for intentional infliction of emotional distress, wrongful arrest, etcetera.

@MrBda241

11 ай бұрын

@@throckwoddle I think they'll be too busy being at each other's throats when they learn how they both threw each other under the bus. Plus, once the court finds out that she was cheating on him during their marriage, a case could be made Tony simply lost the will to live because of it, and more importantly, the "Rosatti" clause kicks in and she wouldn't get a dime either way. They'd waste millions, millions they'd likely don't have. Tony's friend, on the other hand, has his Lawyer, someone who likely knows more than everyone about the whole situation. Might not be perfect, but Tony really made it so at the very least, Tony's ex-wife and her lover get absolutely nothing but a stain on their reputation.

@martakavaliauskaite4566

5 ай бұрын

Totally agree

@jaimeduncan6167

3 ай бұрын

@@throckwoddle noop,, all was razonable. Even when it's not they normally get protected by qualified immunity, and someone like you who believes it makes sense to sue the government because they investigated a crime is a showing of why it's necessary: it allows the court to dismiss the proceedings "ad portas". Qualified immunity just not protect people who violate the law, but in cases like this yes.

@throckwoddle

3 ай бұрын

@@jaimeduncan6167 I didn't say anything about suing the government.

" Well I'll be damned. All right, Tone. "

I've always loved the episodes when McCoy has it completely wrong, and still can't reconcile that he's in error. This one was great!

@Ares99999

3 жыл бұрын

Meaning you hated the ones where he was right?

@Ken4Pyro

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ares99999 Not really. I enjoyed this series and the excellent writing and acting I saw. It was just deliciously fun to run across one where the perspective by McCoy is a slam dunk contradiction of what he believes to be true, and he has difficulty in accepting that.

@JSmedic1

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ken4Pyro I concur. Mccoy had a habit of being self-righteously delusional.

@jaimeduncan6167

3 жыл бұрын

The problem is that they do such things in real life, and they lie and force confessions and basically pay criminals to testify agains the person that they want to send out. The reason we have prosecutors in criminal cases and the reason we have rules that force the DA to handle exculpatory evidence to the defense is to avoid the conduct. But layers are super competitive and get blinded by desired to win and because they are friends with the police more than justice. And they series like this one were the people from the innocence project are the protectors of the worse.

@michaelfawcett1892

3 жыл бұрын

The trouble there is, if he ignores the evidence and still attempts to imprison someone without any kind of cause he can be charged and stripped of all his legal credentials...he needs to realize he is not always right.

I like how the DA started flipping out and throwing charges left and right trying to get something to stick. We don't want the truth we want convictions.

@biruss

3 жыл бұрын

he haa to get something even when he can't

@michaelmorton5698

2 жыл бұрын

Better than Schiff. He would try to move the case by telling Stone or McCoy to cut a deal even when there was solid evidence for an indictment.

@brendanzhang7488

2 жыл бұрын

probally the best move to get someone cold feet,and then someone cracks finally giving them their case

@darkmask5933

Жыл бұрын

This is not fiction, many police would rather get the arrest. Most of the time the most obvious suspect did the crime, but the whole 'Innocent until proven guilty' is a load of bullshit. You are guilty until you can prove yourself innocent, and even then your life might be ruined forever. I mean, heh, that was the revenge the guy got on his cheating wife and her boyfriend, they were totally innocent but they were humiliated and will likely never live it down.

@thefighter5182

6 ай бұрын

It's more like guilty until proven guilty. Because you can't lie about getting killed and someone not getting arrested for it.

One of the BEST episodes ever. I thought the dialogue was: "So Mr. D.A." but I couldn't remember how Tony knew that part. But the phone "hidden" on top of the entertainment ctr, the insurance policy, both lovers innocent of murder & legit puzzled, yet trying to frame the other but unable to give specifics.. This is DEFINITELY in my top 5 favorites!!

@obliviouz

3 жыл бұрын

I think it was "So Mr. D.A." - because Tony knew that if his friend was in trouble, it would be with the DA and the video would only be shown to prove his friend's innocence, to a DA.

@FrankWolenczak

Жыл бұрын

I have this season on DVD!!! I can watch this episode again and again!

This was one of my favorite episodes in the earlier series. Tony was a piece of work, yet despite what everyone else said about him, he was loyal to his mobster friend and looked out for him after his death. I only wished they had Lennie, Ed, and Van Buren in the room when that confession tape was played. I would love to have seen their reactions. Ed and Van Buren - disbelief. Lennie, I could see him chuckling at Tony's deviousness. I remembered how this ended - with the two cheaters planning to sue the insurance company. It was McCoy's reaction to that that I remember the most: "Taking on an insurance company - now THAT'S suicide." Not only do I agree with McCoy on that, I personally believe that's about the one form of suicide that the Catholic Church would not condemn.

After this, someone says the wife probably has a team of lawyers trying to contest the suicide. "Taking on an insurance company? Now that's suicide!"

@juliantapia1407

3 жыл бұрын

Not even just that but there's still the evidence proving she cheated. Fat lot of good it would do her to contest anything

@NinoCristianini

4 ай бұрын

​@juliantapia1407 exactly, the affair may not be illegal but her credibility is pretty much nill and the court will view her in a very negative light for that. She's done.

This one of the best episodes of the entire series. Larry Barese is such a great character mob guy.

@ronaldjones5589

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, Yes , Yes, he wacked himself to get his bad wife and her lover, Wow, that is Classic, like a Greek Play

@ytcensorhack1876

5 ай бұрын

Nah, i hear them sopranos over in jersey r just a glorified crew

@johnofmalta

Ай бұрын

@@ytcensorhack1876A Don don’t wear shorts.

Well this is a twist you never see coming. Him hiring a hitman to kill himself to frame is adulterous wife and her lover.

My first time viewing. Came into the last scene thinking they had him. Nope. What a reversal. He was confident all the way through even to the end. Solid alibi from the dead on a VHS tape. My hat off to him. 👏

@WhiteScarsEmo

4 жыл бұрын

And he even went to the trouble of making a VHS to save his loan-shark friend from getting jammed up after the fact, just in case.

@angelaevalynnwainwright4494

4 жыл бұрын

Great writers

@crowmaster9652

3 жыл бұрын

I was sure that it was Bobby who pulled off the murder if the hitman failed and since he was a retired cop he would've used Sherri's copy key of Randy's apartment to conveniently frame Randy. Since Bobby knew the Hitman. The ending was far better as it gave a middle finger to that smiling McCoy. Got out-played by the victim even in death.

I love Jack's face when he watches the video

@anthonyitaliano7316

4 жыл бұрын

@Walter Johnson Jack McCoy

@acgearsandarms1343

4 жыл бұрын

Walter Johnson John or Jack is interchangeable as a nickname. Most people call him Jack. John is his legal name. John James McCoy.

@biteme7857

4 жыл бұрын

Lol he knew he got played by the mob boss. They definitely did something to him tho to make that video. Didnt seem genuine or he was tricked. Well never know.

@jaimeduncan6167

3 ай бұрын

Yep, he should feel relieved that he did not send someone innocent to jail, but they are part of this sick game: they just want someone in jail.

Well, killing his wife or her lover had the risk of landing himself in prison and dealing with the aftermath. He also didn't have anything to lose other than, well, his life. Quite a cold plan, even if it didn't work the way he planned it, he still planted seed of doubts in those he wanted to destroy. Can't imagine his wife and lover's relationship survived after this. Either way, he got the last laugh.

This ending surprised everyone. I remember watching it during the original air time and thinking, 'oh my goodness, he wacked himself.' Not something I would do, just to get a cheating spouse out of my life...

@RLucas3000

11 ай бұрын

I wonder if he had something terminal like cancer. It would make more sense then.

@Deborahtunes

11 ай бұрын

@@RLucas3000 ~ That would have been an interesting plot twist...

The boyfriend was Van Pelt in "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" and Bobby in "Third Watch".

@nodinitiative

4 жыл бұрын

You forget the real reference - Gyp Rosetti. Rossatti - Rosetti lol

@Crossbones6732

3 жыл бұрын

Isn’t he also in Boardwalk Empire and Ant-Man?

@kathleenbell48

3 жыл бұрын

Bobby Cannavale

"I'm sorry, it was a bad joke. He's scarin me, that's all..."

@davisspacker1585

4 жыл бұрын

Well maybe you shouldn't be hanging around his neck like a fuckin vulture. He thought he was getting pinched again.

After the first time I watched this when first broadcast, everytime I watched it in reruns I always pictured the one copy of the VHS tape being eaten by the VCR. That qualifies as an Oops!

@angelaevalynnwainwright4494

4 жыл бұрын

SMH

Memo to those who are asked to pay for shady stuff: If the person says he's being threatened, ask him why he's not going to the cops. If he cooks up a cockamamie story, smile, say you're going to look into it, then GTFO of that relationship. And call the cops.

@katherynemero4118

2 жыл бұрын

This is great... the true beauty of L & O is that it teaches you the appropriate action if shady stuff happens. AND never bring your easy pass when you're going to kill someone.

He must have been a good contractor, he tidied everything up nice & neat, leaving no mess for anyone else.

@darthhauler9947

3 жыл бұрын

The best contractors can make it look like an accident. Might take a few more days of investigative work and money, but you'd be surprised how easy it is to off someone and make it look like an accident. Slip in the shower and hit your head? Easy if the floor is covered in lube. Lady found in the kitchen with a cut neck? Mouse chewed through the pipe and lady slipped in the water, threw up the knife where it hit the roof and dropped into her neck. One in a million chance but everything checked out. The devil is in the details.

@littlewoodimp

3 жыл бұрын

@@darthhauler9947 Actually I just meant, in context of the show, the way the guy who orchestrated it all even included a fail-safe so that his mate didn't have to get involved in his marital mess. That's tidy work.

This was a great twist in this case!!! Yeah....McCoy looked like he missed the MegaMillions by on number!!!

Ah, the one thing a prosecutor fears. One vital piece of evidence that damns their entire case.

See? BRILLIANT!!!! I still can't believe this happened irl.

@annejeppesen160

4 жыл бұрын

Wait, what????

@alysiamerdavid-wasser9165

4 жыл бұрын

@@annejeppesen160 Ted Ammon. L&O did this plot again in Sn 15 with Andrea Roth & Daniel Sunjata in the ep. "Mammon". A more accurate depiction, but I think they just aired this on the NEW series/season of "Forensic Files". It was hella complicated to follow, so I can't be sure, but yeah, this rich guy, (Ted) was killed by a contractor named Daniel who was dating(?) his wife(?) Generosa Ammon. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Ammon

@annejeppesen160

4 жыл бұрын

@@alysiamerdavid-wasser9165 it was the part with the husband setting the whole thing up to frame the wife that I found inconceivable. The "murder the inconvenient husband" is a classical plot, irl and fiction.

@alysiamerdavid-wasser9165

4 жыл бұрын

@@annejeppesen160 I wrote: "I still can't believe this happened irl.". I didn't mean it *literally* , lol. (L&O has only ever nearly* done that once, & they got sued.) That's why I elaborated by mentioning "Forensic Files" with question marks. I've seen the same SITUATION also unfold on "American Greed", where ppl have murdered, been murdered, or faked their murder, in love triangles driven by greed or jealousy. I think the Forensic Files ep was about the murder of a handyman, but not "just" a handyman. Google. You'd be shocked to see what lengths ppl go to.. It's why I keep my Identity locked in a safe😨

@annejeppesen160

4 жыл бұрын

@@alysiamerdavid-wasser9165 aaaah, that way around. The most successful Danish police TV series, was based on real Danish murders. They mixed and matched a bit and moved the locations, but the essentials was authentic criminal cases. They got some backlash after using a too recent rather sensitive case, they apologized profoundly and then took better care to choose old cases.

I love how they still have the hubris to want to charge someone for the murder, so sure they have know what happened. I would think this never enters their head again

Imagine one week you’re getting a face lift, the next week you’re in jail!

@adamgraudus

Жыл бұрын

Could you imagine that? You get a face lift and one week later you're in jail.

I don't know why but it is weirdly satisfying when Jack would lose in the end. Then again there were some cases where it would seem he lost only for plot armor to let him win.

Just so I get this right: a man discovers his lover is cheating on him, so he hires a hitman on himself so he could frame the couple? Did I understand that correctly?

@MesIys

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. I think he wanted an almost murder on himself. Survive in silence, take the 3 million himself. Those two in prison, he in hawaii. Something went wrong. He really died. And made a tape for if it did go wrong.

@gmug5752

4 жыл бұрын

So Tony hired the hit an himself & let him into the house, with the killer closing but not locking the door behind him as he left? Which explains the second $50 G, the missing gun & bullet casing. All makes sense now!

That's Larry 'Lorenzo' Barese from The Sopranos.

Larry barese

brilliant, just pure brilliant...

If it's suicide then the insurance won't pay the $3 million to the cheating wife!

@MrBda241

2 жыл бұрын

It's in the guys will actually, if he killed himself, his wife doesn't get anything... His friend Bobby does.

My favorite law and order completely awesome

One of my favorite L&0 endings! Quite a surprise.

@ZOOTSUITBEATNICK1

Жыл бұрын

You & me...

Cannavale! great actor

I remember this episode. I love the final twist

The ending was so unexpecting. After watching this whole clip, I ended up hearing Saw theme playing in my head.

@ShadowDemon_4

Жыл бұрын

"I want to play a game."

The DA needs a non-attorney present like a police officer to record suspect's statements because the attorneys cannot testify. Ideally the interviews should be recorded.

Bobby forgot about the Danish he wanted.

More Jack scenes please. Lots more

This is the the Awesomeness Episode ever.

This is what you get for marrying someone half your age. What are the odds they really love you for you? None. It's about the cash. But, go on, keep believing that it's real love.

@gobblelevclass3nuclearsubm393

2 жыл бұрын

men are forced into that situation otherwise they will be very lonely and outcast by society

@Gbari7

2 жыл бұрын

Better than the alternative of marrying someone your own age and going through the exact same thing with someone already experienced with cheating, divorce, and manipulation. At least this way he gets to enjoy himself and he's got her trapped with the prenup. They explained that his first wife (his own age) cheated on him and squeezed every drop she could out of him.

@katherynemero4118

2 жыл бұрын

​@@Gbari7 Maybe he should have actually tried to be a good husband. Maybe he should have been there. You can't get married and expect to work constantly and have your trophy wife sit there. But then, men never take responsibility for their own behavior. Marry a trophy wife, don't actually do anything with her, pay her for her time, and wait for her to cheat so you can be mad at her. This guy needed professional help. But better to play the victim and blame everyone else for the issues. That's what men do best.

@Gbari7

2 жыл бұрын

​@@katherynemero4118 This is going to be fun... I love how you say men don't take responsibility for their behavior while completely absolving the woman's infidelity. That legitimately made me chuckle. He realized he married the wrong type of woman before, and wrote it into their prenup she gets nothing if caught cheating. This will weed out a good majority of gold diggers, so he took responsibility for his past failures and did what he could to weed out the wrong type of woman. Your criticism of this man and what he expected from his wife is exactly what a trophy wife does. He works, makes the money, and when he's home they enjoy each other, go to events, vacations, etc. When he's gone she can go shopping, workout, etc. I can tell you're old enough to get this reference and it'll help blend truth with your woman logic. In the movie Pretty Woman Richard Gere's character wanted Julia Robert's character to be the equivalent of a trophy wife when he was in town. Women are by nature hypergamous always desiring and feeling entitled to a better situation be it financial or romantic. The good ones fight this phenomenon and force themselves to be content. It's a daily battle. The same way men are by nature compelled to sleep with as many women as possible, but resist if they're decent. Once again daily battle. Unfortunately, the wife fell victim to her own hypergamous nature and felt entitled to a better romantic situation when it presented itself. He could have been a better husband and she could have been a better wife. They're both victims and they both suffered for their mistakes.

Great Scene!

One of my favorites

The best episode of all!

I love this movie. I have watched your show for years. Love it.

This my favorite Law & Order series

@motaungtumelo4883

3 жыл бұрын

Where can ii download or stream it?

Excellent

Bit of a pyrrhic victory, don't you think, Tony?

Dude pulled a Gone Girl!!!!!!!

it's larry 'boy' barese.

Man Tony’s a G!

So much for collecting any insurance money!! LMAO

Who played the wife ??? She's a smoke show

"Larry, the f*ck u doing here?"

I guess the producers of Law and Order pulled a King Barlowe from Batman The Animated Series after getting approval from the director 5 years after it aired on WB Kids.

Stone would’ve been pissed!!! 😂😂

What an amazing ending. He pulled a Cassie Thomas before she did in Promising Young Woman. Only differences are that she succeeded and her target was actually guilty.

Bobby Canavale

"I could indict you as a co-conspirator..." Based on the evidence of the video tape where the person I'm accusing you of conspiring with says you knew nothing about it.!

This reminds of how King Barlow played the Joker in Batman the animated series

Jack trying to get someone's head there was a bit BS 😜

McCoy getting angry at trying to convict at least SOMEONE is a nice touch to the character, makes him look actually human and not some righteous knigh

At least Bobby didn't have to worry about Tommy whacking him, even though Tommy is a really funny guy....

So the big question is, because it was a prepaid hit/suicide, does his wife still get the $3M life insurance? I'm guessing no.

@mielissa100ify

2 жыл бұрын

Nope

Wait... So he hired a hitman to kill himself just to ruin the lives of those who wronged him?

@Ciara1594

Жыл бұрын

Sounds like. 🤔😏

I want Claire Kincaid

@bobanderson6656

4 күн бұрын

Claire's dead by now.

Ant man's baby mama's hubby!!

The faces of these so called Smart lawyers covered in Egg , lol , Pretty good acting. The girl is slow, But Waterston is ok.

So you’re telling me that gyp Rossetti was plowing mrs. roseotti?

They are so frustrated (angry?) because they did not send "someone" to jail, they feel they did not win the crazy game. If DAs were properly educated, they should be relieved that they did not send an innocent person to jail because a 3rd party mounted a cruel prank.

Joker's Millions?

I almost wish he got away with it.

It’s Larry boy Barese

ho! it's larry boy

Bobby is the same guy tony smacked on the head with a glass in goodfellas

Honestly i like when mccoy is defeated. He was WAY too arrogant!

So Tony shot himself; in the back of the head & got rid of the gun & shell casing? How?

@future.homesteader

4 жыл бұрын

Tony hired the hitman to kill him. That's why Tony's lawyer called it assisted suicide.

...did not...

Most common people is to get a divorce and leave them with nothing or kill the wife or boyfriend but nah this man was like let me end myself but make it look my cheating wife and her boyfriend murdered me and have them turn on each other but also have a FU tape just in case to.

I know I'll flip on you and then I'll flip on you so whose lying

4:24 Deus Ex Phone-ica! Followed by… 5:06 Deus Ex Tape-ica!

wife’s boyfriend traveled back in time and became a psycho gangster in Boardwalk Empire….

DALLAS. 4. HOUTSON.

Brilliant so she don't get the insurance money if he took himself out smmfh lol!!!!!!!!!

Arrogant district attorney got one up’d.

I'm a huge McCoy fan, but this was the one of a very few times that I found myself rooting for the culprit at the end. Jack was uncharacteristically flummoxed.

So she cheated the boyfriend does the deed and it's all about money

Two

I just hate VHS.

First

bonus....law and order anything junkie...yippee skippee...

who is the district attorney, i can't stand him . i simply don't like him. but i love the show

Love to hate McCoy

I guess deepfakes are not a new idea afterall.

@Igarappappa

9 ай бұрын

That's a recording he made before he got killed. What are you on about?

*everyone watches the tape mccoy: I don't buy this....it's gotta be deepfaked.....

I'm sure Elisabeth Röhm is a wonderful person, and there may well be acting roles in which she excels, but man oh man did she stink up the joint on L&O.

@rsybing

4 жыл бұрын

Supporting evidence for this claim?

@MrDeterioration

4 жыл бұрын

Why the confidence in her being a "wonderful" person?

@angelaevalynnwainwright4494

4 жыл бұрын

@@MrDeterioration that is chivalry and good manners.

@cloudtx

3 жыл бұрын

I gotta agree. I'm watching this season at the moment and out of all the assistant DA's Jack had, this character is the one I dislike the most. She has very little chemistry with Jack and comes across as hostile and not very friendly with him most of the time. Give me Carmichael or Kincaid any day over this one.

@Ronkyort0dox

3 жыл бұрын

@@cloudtx He slept with Kincaid and she's supposed to be colder to him, she's a lesbain

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I always did dislike and loath McCoy's character. So sweet to see him in the wrong with an egg on his face. 😅😅😅

how do people get so involved in a fictional story that lasts an hour minus commercials lol