"Law & Order"
Nurture (1994)

Director:

Jace Alexander

Writers:

Ed Zuckerman (writer) &
Paris Qualles (writer) ...

TV Series:

"Law & Order" (1990)

Original Air Date:

4 May 1994 (Season 4, Episode 20)

Genre:

Crime | Mystery | Drama

Plot:

Stone is reluctantly forced to pursue criminal charges against a woman who kidnapped a young girl and took her away from an abusive foster home, even though he thinks she should receive psychiatric care instead. |

Plot Keywords:

Female Boss | Irish American Cop | Female District Attorney | Death Of Cast Member | New York City

Cast

Jerry Orbach	...	Detective Lennie Briscoe
Chris Noth	...	Detective Mike Logan
S. Epatha Merkerson	...	Lt. Anita Van Buren
Michael Moriarty	...	Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone
Jill Hennessy	...	A.D.A. Claire Kincaid
Steven Hill	...	D.A. Adam Schiff
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Christine Baranski	...	Rose Siegal
Scotty Bloch	...	Judge Naomi Baum
Lisa Eichhorn	...	Arnette Fenady
John Fiore	...	Detective Tony Profaci
Mark Hammer	...	Judge Randall Welch
Zelda Harris	...	Janet Decker
Don Hewitt	...	Bus Driver
Pat Hodges	...	Helen Veysey
Sondra James	...	Mrs. Stavros
Madeline Lee	...	Judge Alice Connors
Stephi Lineburg	...	Wendy Sylvester
Bruce MacVittie	...	Brian Sprague
Camryn Manheim	...	Beatrice Hines
Carolyn McCormick	...	Dr. Elizabeth Olivet
Ann McDonough	...	Peggy Sylvester
Michael Medeiros	...	Detective Harding
Jack Merrill	...	Court Clerk (as Merrill Holtzman)
Angela Pietropinto	...	Abigail Baxter
Adina Porter	...	Sheryl Decker
Billy Strong	...	Archie Borden
Danny Tamberelli	...	Jeffrey
Millie Tirelli	...	Rosie Cervantes
Jeff Weiss	...	Judge John Romney

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Wolf Films

Trivia:

This episode was originally written to have the girl sexually abused by a male kidnapper. However, shortly before shooting was to have begun NBC felt uncomfortable with the storyline and asked for it to be changed. The writers quickly rewrote it so that the kidnapper was a female who believed she had the best interests of the child at heart. All the locations that had been set up for the original script were used in the episode.