Everybody's Favorite Bagman [SEP] series
Everybody's Favorite Bagman
"Everybody's Favorite Bagman" is the sixth episode of the police procedural and legal drama "Law & Order". It originally aired on NBC on October 30, 1990. It was produced in 1988 and was the pilot episode of the series.
Plot.
After local councilman and former bagman Charles Halsey is mugged and his throat slashed, Logan and Greevey investigate the case and the two young black male suspects initially caught. Their suspicion turns to organized crime when they link the victim to
also elected city officials and a deputy police commissioner whom he accuses of changing his testimony and doctoring evidence in a past case. Stone is unable to use the police because of suspected corruption within the department, so he consults Assistant U.S. Attorney John McCormack (William H. Macy).
Production.
"Everybody's Favorite Bagman" was directed by John Patterson and written by Dick Wolf. It was produced in 1988 and was the pilot of the series. However, NBC decided to air "Prescription for Death" as the