Follow-Ups to Answer from Expert Kitt Montague

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hennypenny wrote at 2006-07-13 02:38:54


why didn't they have a epasode of her like the other fallen officers. They need to go back and pick up and tell more on this epasod

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Soraya R wrote at 2007-02-04 06:24:43
I see that the original question is years old, but I found it with the one answer as a result of my own Google search. Having heard the following reference to Claire's death today in the aforementioned "Under the Influence" episode, I began myself to wonder how Claire had died. clearly I'd missed one or more continuous episodes in my non-sequential watching of reruns. The following dialog caught my ear and led to my Internet search, and adds to the "explanation" of Claire's death as follows: Briscoe to Ross talking about McCoy: "Do you mean has he said 'This one was for Claire Kincaid?' No. That guy got twelve months at Mount McGregor." Ross: "Yeah I know, I pulled the file. You were in the car with her." Briscoe: "Yeah, I was catching a ride home. Claire came down to the bar to pick up McCoy, he'd already split. Bad timing all around." Not that Claire's death is contested or anything, but I also agree that her death and the subsequent references to it were kind of under-played to the point where many fans seem to have missed it entirely!

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Tyler Ryan wrote at 2010-03-28 16:13:41
Just wanted it on TNT (Sunday 3/28)  It did seem like a thinly disguised political stance against the DP.  Sadly, there was no equal representation for the pro DP crowd.  Interesting episode to say the least....

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BID316 wrote at 2010-03-28 16:25:09
Aftershock just aired on TNT.  I missed it originally.  For 14 years, it always "bugged" me that I didn't know how Claire died.  I wasn't sure that she had actually died.  Even my die-hard L&O fan cousin couldn't sort it out for me.



BUT...  To your point (in this question, and others), during Aftershock, Lennie alluded to a relationship between Jack McCoy and Claire Kincaid.



At the bar, an "over-served" McCoy asks Lennie what time his (McCoy's) watch has.  Lennie says, it means that she's not coming.  Further, Lennie indicates that at least "she" is Irish.  I took this to mean that Lennie "knew" of the Jack-Claire connection (even if it wasn't a "full-blown" affair).  Not knowing of an affair, I would have assumed that the meeting was NOT work-related and that Jack was, at least, pursuing Claire.



I took this as "confirmation" when Claire knew where to find Jack.  In a "suspense of reality" world of TV and movie entertainment, it does make sense that Jack was waiting for Claire at a pre-arranged location OR their regular spot.



This was my first time seeing this episode and I took this to mean that there was some sort of relationship between the two.



I would take any allusion to Jack and a former assistant having an affair as "too general."  Due to Jack's past actions, I got the impression that each assistant was being sized-up as a new romantic interest.  This seemed to be a recurrent theme.

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SueE wrote at 2010-06-17 21:37:26
Just finished watching this episode and couldn't believe it.  I have watched re-runs for years and this may be the worst episode ever.  The answer here is about as good as you could get.  It made all of the characters look characterless.

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