Spoilers forward for Episode 14 of Legislation & Order Season 24, referred to as “A Worth to Pay” and out there streaming subsequent day with a Peacock subscription.
Legislation & Order revisited Shaw’s previous as a cop and the connections he made again within the day with the newest episode of the 2025 TV schedule, however “A Worth to Pay” did not deal with Mehcad Brooks’ character from begin to end like I anticipated. The detective determined to guard his outdated CO, Darryl Moore, by giving him the heads as much as take a Marine task removed from NYC to keep away from ruining (and presumably) ending his life with testimony, and he did not trouble concealing from Worth what he’d performed.
The Assistant District Lawyer was extra livid than I anticipated even after the promo that aired on the finish of the earlier episode with Selenis Leyva; mixed with him opening up about his late brother method sooner that I might have guessed, feedback from Hugh Dancy weeks in the past all of the sudden make far more sense.
How Legislation & Order Revisited Worth’s Tragic Backstory
Shaw turned much less cooperative with the attorneys in regards to the case as soon as it turned clear that Darryl was much more concerned with the drug dealer-turned-murderer than he initially admitted. His impassioned speech about why the Marine deserved to be shielded from testimony did not land on solely unsympathetic ears, and DA Baxter understood that Darryl wasn’t utilizing ketamine the identical method that the lifeless film star had been… however the legislation was the legislation, and so they wanted his testimony to place a killer away at trial.
Realizing that Darryl would possibly finish his personal life if Worth put him on the stand, Shaw crossed a line to provide him the heads as much as get out of city. In the meantime, Worth got here clear to Baxter about why he was so decided to return down arduous on the drug vendor, confessing that his brother had died attributable to habit. Common Legislation & Order viewers already knew that, after all, because the present centered on that household storyline lower than a month in the past. I positively did not suppose the dying of his brother could be a part of a plot once more so quickly, but it surely wasn’t an disagreeable shock!
Hugh Dancy and Mehcad Brooks are all the time attention-grabbing when Worth and Shaw conflict, and their reverse approaches to the drug case culminated in Worth furiously calling out Shaw, saying:
I do not know what you probably did and I do not wish to know. However I do know this: there are individuals in that courtroom who deserve justice. You took that from them. You took that from me! And worse but, you tampered with a witness. You dedicated against the law. I may have you ever arrested.
Shaw regretted nothing, saying that he’d saved the lifetime of a person he cherished like a brother and the fee was “just a little extra jail time for a drug vendor.” He made a selection, he is sticking by it, and the episode after all did not finish with Worth having the detective arrested. However Worth’s fury – certainly knowledgeable by what occurred along with his brother, after he introduced it as much as Baxter – that Shaw additionally took justice from him jogged my memory of after I spoke with Hugh Dancy about his character’s pleasure in his work.
Hugh Dancy’s Ideas On Worth’s Satisfaction
Hugh Dancy took the time for an interview with CinemaBlend again in January, timed to the episode that launched Justin Chatwin as Nolan’s brother Thomas. That installment was an emotional experience as he lastly determined to take their father off of life help regardless of the bags from their late brother, and it was an enormous second for the character. However this being the very procedural Legislation & Order, I did not suppose Worth would point out his brother once more for some time, not to mention in an episode that was promoted as Shaw-centric.
And after I spoke to Dancy about whether or not the selections about his household would impression his character shifting ahead, the Hannibal alum responded on the time:
I feel he is nonetheless the workaholic kind, and that is partly simply because he’s on Legislation & Order. [laughs] He’d higher preserve displaying as much as work! However I feel it is also simply true of him. This isn’t a giant turning level in his life, like a highway to Damascus type of factor. I feel he perhaps surprises himself just a little bit within the second of creating a choice that he wasn’t anticipating to, however he is nonetheless very conflicted about it, and he is nonetheless going to take all that battle and take the unresolved stuff along with his brother and he’ll bury it in work.
Worth made some progress in coping with his brother’s dying sufficient to say goodbye to his father, however he did not recover from all of these years of luggage in a single fell swoop, and we see in “A Worth to Pay” that Worth is working towards what Dancy preached and burying himself in work. The actor went on:
He is superb at placing weight on his personal shoulders. I feel he has plenty of good, fully legitimate causes for caring about his work, and I feel he needs to do proper by the folks that he feels have to be represented. And I additionally suppose he has a type of pleasure in himself as a result of he is superb at his job, and that is truthful sufficient. However I additionally suppose it is simply the place he places all of his emotions. [laughs]
Is it any marvel that Worth reacted so extraordinarily to Shaw going the additional mile to guard Darryl? On the similar time, Shaw’s actions have been very comprehensible, and I can see why the episode ended in additional of a stalemate between the pair than in any type of escalated battle or decision. Will Legislation & Order return to what went down on this episode by the tip of Season 24 for Worth or Shaw?
I will not rule something out after how rapidly the present went again to Nolan’s tragic backstory, and I would not thoughts seeing Odelya Halevi within the highlight once more after her huge episode. For now, new episodes of Legislation & Order will proceed airing on Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET on NBC, forward of Legislation & Order: SVU. Legislation & Order: Organized Crime additionally lastly acquired a premiere date, though Season 5 will launch on Peacock as an alternative of NBC with L&O and SVU.