Tonight on NBC Law & Order returns with an all-new Thursday, February 27, 2025 episode and we have your Law & Order recap below. In tonight’s Law & Order season 24 episode 14 “A Price To Pay,” as per the NBC synopsis,
“An actor’s foray into experimental drug therapy leads to his murder; Shaw reconnects with a mentor who may hold the key to identifying a suspect.”
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In tonight’s Law & Order episode, the detectives were called to the scene of a homicide. The victim’s name was Johnny Colvin. He was found killed in his apartment. He was also an actor. Not just any actor, but a serious actor.
He was recently nominated for his third Oscar. He was wrapping up with his current film and he didn’t seem to have an enemy in the world.
The biggest suspect in his murder was not someone that hated him. It was someone that loved him. Johnny had a stalker. Her name is Britany Weaver and she was following him on the night he was murdered. She completely ignored the restraining order he filed against her.
The cops later found Weaver. She claimed that Johnny spent his last night on earth with her. She said she followed Johnny and he didn’t get mad. He invited her up to his apartment.
They apparently talked about everything. Johnny even told her that he felt like walking away from acting. It sounds ludicrous only Weaver wasn’t lying. She has video proof of her with Johnny at his apartment. Weaver also said she’d never hurt him. She thought he was killed by his ex-girlfriend. The woman kept calling Johnny that night and she threatened to kill him
Only the ex didn’t murder him either. She was simply angry at him for what he was doing. Johnny was running an off the books rehab out of his apartment.
He thought helping people through addiction by using ketamine would help them get clean. He called it “ketamine sober”. He thought ketamine rewired the brain. Its why he was taking it himself.
It was an expensive habit and far more expensive rehab. Johnny was dropping millions on the stuff. The cops later found the last person staying at the rehab.
His name was Stuey McIntyre. He was a pop star known for being in a boy band. He couldn’t go to the traditional rehab because he said there were spies there and so he went to Johnny’s.
It was a bit of an open secret that Johnny was running the rehab out of his apartment. The cops thought Stuey was the last to see Jonny before he was killed and they were wrong about that too. The last person on record to see him was his personal assistant, Casey Booth. She was the one that also found the body. She lied to the cops earlier when she claimed she didn’t see Johnny after he left the set.
Booth also bought herself a plane ticket back to the Midwest on Johnny’s credit card. She was caught before she boarded that flight. She later said she was owed that. She became Johnny’s assistant to get her foot in the door with the film industry and she ended up doing everything. She even helped him get drugs.
She gave the cops the doctor that was willing to write the prescription for ketamine. The cops sent someone undercover to Dr. Neagle’s office. She was able to get a prescription for ketamine by offering a lot of money. And so the cops arrested the doctor.
Dr. Neagle sold drugs to pay for his own addiction to ketamine. He was having the shakes while he was being interrogated. His one saving grace was his lawyer. His lawyer got a great deal in exchange for giving the police the killer. It turns out that Johnny was racking up a bill he couldn’t pay.
Drug dealers don’t normally accept a payment plan. Or putting things on a tab. They demand their money right off and they make a message out of anyone refusing to their bill. Neagle got the drugs from a distributor known as “Mother K”.
Mother K’s real name is Diane Oliver. She pretends to be helping people with ketamine. She really was just a crook and unfortunately she was a smart crook. The cops had nothing against her.
They could prove the ketamine business, but they couldn’t prove she killed Johnny. Not when so many people were there the night he was killed. Oliver also told Neagle she was going to Johnny’s to get payment. She never implied she was going to kill him nor she did take responsibility after his death was reported.
The cops searched her home. They didn’t find any evidence. She got rid of the clothes with the blood on it. The shoes that left a mark in blood at Johnny’s place were also gone.
The only thing the cops had against her was Neagle’s testimony. Which no longer became useful when Neagle overdosed at his office. He committed suicide. He also left the cops with nothing. They couldn’t find anything to connect Oliver to the crime. The ketamine thing went away when Neagle died. The cops were trying to find more evidence and they were under a time crunch.
The judge gave them two extra days to find evidence against Oliver or she was going to be released. They checked surveillance cameras on Oliver’s block and they found one of her clients.
It was Darryl Moore. He was a former cop. He mentored Detective Shaw. He also left the NYPD to enlist as a marine and so he has a lot to lose if it gets out he’s taking drugs. Shaw questioned Darryl officially with Riley at his side. They asked him if he bought drugs from Oliver that night. He said he has to because he suffers from PTSD.
Veterans Affairs won’t cover nontraditional methods for PTSD. It left Darryl in a tough position. He found out about the ketamine and he’s been taking it ever since. It helps him.
Or so he claims. He’ll be dishonorably discharged if it gets out he’s taking drugs. He’d lose his housing. He’d lose his pension. Darryl was the only person that could prove Oliver was selling drugs and the District Attorney’s office couldn’t protect Darryl’s anonymity. It was a celebrity trial. The whole world was going to want to know about what went on.
And so Shaw protected his friend. Darryl got a sudden posting in Japan. He left with his family without telling anyone. The District Attorney didn’t want to be seen bullying a serving Marine and so Price made a deal with Oliver. She was sentenced to ten years. She’ll probably serve six. It just wasn’t justice.
THE END!
