This was truly a heart wrenching episode of Law And Order showing quite clearly what money and privilege can buy you in this society. A well to do CPA is shot and killed on the steps of his Upper East Side townhouse and after some investigation by Jerry Orbach and Chris Noth they determine his death didn't arise from his job.
It arouse from a sideline, the man is on the Board of Trustees of Chase Academy his son's prep school. He recently was involved in an expulsion of a young kid from a working class background whose father is track inspector for the Transit Authority. While inspecting track he found a weapon that was used in the commission of a convenience store robbery.
The father Bruce Kirkpatrick was one colossal fool. Instead of turning that in to his supervisor he takes it home and his young son Graham Sack gets a hold of it. Turns out young Mr. Sack became something of a celebrity waving and displaying that piece around and letting some of his so called friends including Matthew Carey the son of Boyd Gaines the head of the admission's committee.
So when the rich folks whose kids mostly attend the school and the committee that Gaines heads decide on punishment it's the working class kid Sack who takes the fall with the expulsion. The others including Carey isn't touched.
Bruce Kirkpatrick and his son are both stand up people in spite of being colossally dumb, Kirkpatrick for not turning in the weapon and Sack for displaying to intimidate the preppies. Both look out for each other in this situation and preppies and their parents look out for themselves. It's heartbreaking and it's tragic because nothing will happen to them who were so shameless in the way they treated the track inspector and his son.
It arouse from a sideline, the man is on the Board of Trustees of Chase Academy his son's prep school. He recently was involved in an expulsion of a young kid from a working class background whose father is track inspector for the Transit Authority. While inspecting track he found a weapon that was used in the commission of a convenience store robbery.
The father Bruce Kirkpatrick was one colossal fool. Instead of turning that in to his supervisor he takes it home and his young son Graham Sack gets a hold of it. Turns out young Mr. Sack became something of a celebrity waving and displaying that piece around and letting some of his so called friends including Matthew Carey the son of Boyd Gaines the head of the admission's committee.
So when the rich folks whose kids mostly attend the school and the committee that Gaines heads decide on punishment it's the working class kid Sack who takes the fall with the expulsion. The others including Carey isn't touched.
Bruce Kirkpatrick and his son are both stand up people in spite of being colossally dumb, Kirkpatrick for not turning in the weapon and Sack for displaying to intimidate the preppies. Both look out for each other in this situation and preppies and their parents look out for themselves. It's heartbreaking and it's tragic because nothing will happen to them who were so shameless in the way they treated the track inspector and his son.
