Opening Serve: A Killer on the Helipad
In the latest episode of Law & Order, the showrunner treats murder not as a twist, but as the inevitable symptom of unchecked power, emotional erosion, and systemic rot. The victim, Jon Geller (Tom Hammond), a Wall Street darling full of selective grace, is found bludgeoned to death on his private helipad—the same one where he was scheduled to meet his boyfriend for a euphemistically coded “golf” date. The murder weapon? A custom putter. The symbolism? Deliciously unsubtle.
Lieutenant Brady (Maura Tierney) and Detective Vincent Riley (Reid Scott) break the news to Geller’s wife. “Dead bodies bother me less than telling family members about their loved one’s secrets,” Brady says, her delivery pure baseline control—no theatrics, just the kind of emoti