Center Stage in this Law And Order episode belongs to Will Horneff who plays a young American kid who converts to Islam and of the most extreme variety. He and another kid come in and murder a husband and wife pair of college professors.
This kid is so whacked out on his extreme interpretation of his faith that he's his own worst enemy. He insists on defending himself and keeps trying to drag in all kinds of global issues into his own murder case, trying to make it a political trial.
As Sam Waterston observes 'how easy is it to make a terrorist' at the end of the program. But the heroine of this particular program is Elisabeth Rohm. She handles the cross examination of Horneff on the witness stand and discovers the key to his conversion. It's a far more universal problem among kids than religious differences and in the end Horneff is quite broken.
But the episode does show that all kinds of different things can make a person go off the deep end whether they justify their crime with religion or not.
This kid is so whacked out on his extreme interpretation of his faith that he's his own worst enemy. He insists on defending himself and keeps trying to drag in all kinds of global issues into his own murder case, trying to make it a political trial.
As Sam Waterston observes 'how easy is it to make a terrorist' at the end of the program. But the heroine of this particular program is Elisabeth Rohm. She handles the cross examination of Horneff on the witness stand and discovers the key to his conversion. It's a far more universal problem among kids than religious differences and in the end Horneff is quite broken.
But the episode does show that all kinds of different things can make a person go off the deep end whether they justify their crime with religion or not.