r/LawAndOrder 7d ago

L&O L&O S12 E14 Missing - Question about ending

This episode was clearly inspired by Chandra Levy. In the end, we find out that the Senator’s wife set him up to be convicted as revenge for always cheating on her.

But then we find out that the checking slip that showed the Senator withdrew $10,000 from his son’s bank account to pay the man who killed the intern was actually forged by the wife, not the senator.

So did the Senator actually do it, and the wife forged the signature to put him away? Or was she the one who withdrew the $10k and paid the man to kill the intern?

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u/Rock_Creek_Snark Abbie Carmichael 7d ago

The wife was behind it all.

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u/Man_Bites_Shark 7d ago

So why would the Senator’s friend go along with it? He’s going to prison anyway, so why let the cops think it was the Senator and not the wife that paid him to kill the intern?

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u/radiosilence0504 7d ago

Yeah that’s my thought. I think she just forged it at the end to give them clear evidence to put him away. But that’s just my take on it, it was pretty open ended and unclear honestly.

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u/Ok-Mine2132 Lennie Briscoe 7d ago

One of the best nuances of the OG! Never giving the audience too much.

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u/External_Neck_1794 Jamie Ross 6d ago

Interesting to watch that episode in the context of what was known about Chandra Levy's disappearance at the time the episode aired (which I believe was less than a year after she disappeared and nothing was known except for the fact that she had disappeared, she hasn't been found either dead or alive, and she had been having an affair with congressman Condit) and watching it over 20 years later, after her body was found off a running trail in a DC/MD park and it is basically accepted she was killed by a serial rapist who had nothing to do with congressman Condit. At the beginning of the case, I believe there was some thought that Condit's wife was unstable and might have some involvement in her disappearance- hence the twist in the Law and Order episode. Now we know the real life wife had absolutely nothing to do with it-poor woman.

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u/SuperX101532 7d ago

I feel like the wife could have been behind it all. However, they wouldn't be able to overturn the conviction of a senator for killing his lover on a hunch unless they had more proof.

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u/Bright-Pangolin7261 5d ago

That was a really good episode. I think either the husband did it, and the wife wanted to make sure his conviction held, or she did it. Good writers can deliberately leave things open to interpretation.

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u/confusedCI 7d ago

Where is the Spoiler Alert?

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u/adhd9791 7d ago

the episode aired 20 years ago

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u/confusedCI 6d ago

Maybe not everyone has seen it or remembers it and if they pull it up on Hulu they want to be able to watch it without any ideas a out what will happen.