Wednesday, January 25 2006

LAW & ORDER --(10:00PM-11:00PM) --(TV-14 L)

"Ghosts"

DEATHBED CONFESSION PUTS FONTANA BACK ON COLD-CASE MURDER OF GIRL THAT ONLY HEAPS MORE PAIN ON VICTIM'S FATHER -- A criminal makes a surprising deathbed confession that compels Detective Fontana (Dennis Farina) to re-open his own 10-year-old cold case file concerning the murder of a 12-year-old girl Instead of the victim's father, whom Fontana is certain committed the crime, the new prime suspect is a former drug-addict whose jailhouse confession to the prosecution's most viable witness is disqualified on the grounds it was made in a spiritual context Despite dwindling options, Assistant DA McCoy (Sam Waterston) continues to pursue a murder-two conviction despite a stern warning from his wary boss, DA Branch (Fred Dalton Thompson), who cautions against the fallout of losing this high profile case again Jesse L Martin, Annie Parisse and S Epatha Merkerson also star