As with my other spec scripts, the tide of time has passed this Law & Order spec script by, so it’s offered up as yet another writing sample.
What happens when a district attorney is the victim of a crime, specifically an attempted homicide? What do the people around that person do, how do they handle it? Those questions were behind part of this tale: I blow up Jack McCoy’s motorcycle in the teaser.
When the investigation leads to the actual bomber, District Attorney Branch takes on the prosecution of the case. Since McCoy was the victim, he can’t prosecute it himself, after all.
But there is a secondary crime behind the bombing, and Jack and Alex go after that criminal.
As for the crime that provoked the bombing, the case that takes the second half of the story, it is based on a real case of embezzlement connected to a Nigerian email scam. If you thought that no one ever falls for those, you thought wrong; it does happen alas. I have considerably fictionalized the circumstances, however.
Since this script is out-of-date, the following list of characters indicates who is in this story.
Lt. Anita Van Buren; Det. Joe Fontana; Det. Ed Green; ADA Jack McCoy; ADA Alex Borgia; DA Arthur Branch.
As always, this is just a writing sample.
All characters belong to Wolf Films and Universal Studios.
