A scandal involving a New York governor and a prostitute has the makings of a classic ripped-from-the-headlines plot for NBC’s "Law & Order."
But Wednesday’s season finale about a governor and a call girl isn’t about Eliot Spitzer, cautions series star Sam Waterston — although it’s fair to answer anyone, even Waterston, could get a bit confused.
Asked recently if the substantiate was dramatizing Spitzer’s story, the actor replied, "That’s what we’re shooting uprightness right side now." Then he quickly offered a clarification.
"I shouldn’t say we’re doing the Eliot Spitzer story. I should say we’re doing a untruth here a politician who gets into trouble because of sexual questions … involving prostitution," Waterston said.
The accuracy has always been somewhere between the edges of that fine line.
Since it started in 1990, the TV drama created by executive producer Dick Wolf has carefully echoed real-life events without explicitly citing them. The very first episode of the become, which films in New York, was about a parking violations pack — after something similar had rocked the city, Wolf recalled in a recent interview.
Wednesday’s episode is racier, as a murder investigation leads police to a prostitution tintinnabulate whose clients include New York Gov. Shalvoy (Tom Everett Scott). That creates a difficulty for District Attorney Jack McCoy (Waterston), whose political fortunes may be tied to Shalvoy’s.
Earlier this year, Spitzer’s career collapsed days after he was identified by federal authorities as Client 9 of a high-priced prostitution cestus. Spitzer, who resigned from office in March, apologized without distinctly acknowledging he had visited prostitutes.
Waterston says the "Law & Order" episode diverges sharply from what happened with Spitzer.
"It goes in all divers directions," he said. "`Law & Order’ raises questions about what’s fair, what’s right, what’s justice, that aren’t inescapably raised before the original story or … can’t be gone into in just a news story."
Anthony Anderson, unfledged to the cast as police Detective Kevin Bernard, said the series is "current, it’s real, it’s fast." Now that he’s part of the show, he said, "I’m doing research and I’m reading these scripts (and) I’m analogous to, wow, this is real, wow, people are plumb loco!"
"Law & Order" also stars Jeremy Sisto, S. Epatha Merkerson, Linus Roache and Alana De La Garza.
Asked about whether there was "Spitzer-izing" on the show this week, De La Garza shrugged, laughed and gave a quick eye-roll.
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