1.2 "Law & Order: Los Angeles" - "Echo Park" Quiz

Answer: Red Hot Chili Peppers

"Venice Queen" was the last track in the Red Hot Chili Peppers' eighth studio album "By The Way", released in July 2002. The song was written by vocalist Anthony Kiedis and is about a woman called Gloria Scott who helped Kiedis with drug rehabilitation for whom he had bought a house in Venice Beach shortly before her death.

The group was founded in 1983 and has since received hundreds of different accolades for its music. These include Grammy Awards for Best Rock Song ("Scar Tissue", "Californication", and "Dani California") and the Brit Award for International Group in 2000, 2003, and 2007.

Answer: Wine

The opening of this episode intercalates images of the woman staring at the ocean, beachgoers playing and relaxing, and a police officer driving through the beach. The officer spots the woman drinking wine directly from a bottle, prompting him to approach her and tell her she cannot do so on the beach. He asks for an ID and soon returns and tells her "you're around decent people now", suggesting she might have had a criminal past. After the officer leaves, she starts hearing haunting whistling and she runs away. Seconds later, we see her dead body covered in blood left under a bridge. Detectives Winters and Jaruszalski insect the crime scene and note that the victim was stabbed, had a mastectomy scar suggesting breast cancer, and had a prison tattoo.

Wine is an alcoholic beverage made with the juice of fermented grapes. To make wine, grapes are left on the vine for varied periods of time, allowing the sun to strengthen the grapes and improve their flavor. The juice of these grapes (called "must") is then fermented by turning the sugar from the grapes into alcohol. Some wines also go through a later malolactic fermentation that converts strong and unpleasant acids from wine into softer lactic acids.

Answer: Rachel Ticotin

The detectives are intrigued by their discovery that Rayburn spent 30 years in prison, and that she was a member of a dangerous cult. Back at the police station, the detectives try to figure out how no one on a crowded beach could see this gruesome murder happen just feet away from them. The coroner's report said that the blade used was short and curved and that she bled instantly on the scene. Lieutenant Arleen Gonzales makes her first appearance in "Law & Order: Los Angeles' in this scene, informing the detectives that Rayburn was 17 when the Echo Park Tribe celebrated the tenth anniversary of the Manson Family murders by themselves killing six people.

Rachel Ticotin is an American actress of Puerto Rican and Russian descent. Ticotin has appeared in multiple films and TV shows, including "Desert Saints", "Our Family Honor", and "Blue Bloods". Some of Ticotin's best-known roles are those where she plays a policewoman: she portrayed Captain Teresa Cortez, the mother of police officer Ana Lucia Cortez in "Lost" and Detective Annette Rey in "Crime & Punishment", as well as playing Lieutenant Gonzales in Dick Wolf's program.

Wanda de Jesus was originally cast for the role, and even filmed the first two episodes as the character. However, the show's producers decided to completely change the character and instead cast Ticotin, who re-shot de Jesus's scenes. This may have been the reason why the character does not appear until the second episode of the series.

Answer: The type of knife used

The police find out that the GERMZ" was written with blood on the crime scene, which is similar to the word "GERM" painted over another crime scene thirty years earlier. Though the leader of the Echo Park Tribe, Denis Alan Watson, was serving a life sentence, Rayburn was released on compassionate grounds. Lieutenant Gonzales recognizes the similarities between the two crime scenes and instructs the detectives to investigate what looks like a revenge murder. They then interview Rayburn's lawyer and hear the threats "Baby Jane" had received. The police then execute a search warrant in Henry Franklin's house, where they found multiple newspaper cutouts of the murders and a copy of Rayburn's schedule.

Franklin, whose last name was Davis, was the only survivor from the family that the Echo Park Tribe killed when he was a child. He is arrested without incident and while yelling that "he got her" and "finally killed her". Franklin seemed to fit the profile of the murderer, but during the interview, he claims that he used a steak knife as the murder weapon. Winters and Jaruszalski suspect he isn't telling the truth when he says he always carried a "regular knife" from his kitchen drawer, like a steak knife. This description is different from the coroner's report which indicated the weapon was a short and curved blade.

Answer: Yes

The detectives ask Baby Jane's doctor if he knew people were following his patient. He says "no", but also reveals that Jane asked him about auditory hallucinations she was having, as she would hear whistling sometimes. Footage from the beach confirms that there was someone actually whistling at the beach when Baby Jane was there, but she must have thought it was another one of her hallucinations. To get to the bottom of this, Winters and Jaruszalski go to the Central California Women's Facility to ask other now-imprisoned members of the cult.

One of the prisoners, Sally Ricks, calls the victims "life-sucking germs" and claims they deserved to die. She then admits that the whistling is a signal the tribe used when they were in the dark. After hearing that someone was whistling when Jane was killed, Ms. Ricks tells the detectives that Denis Watson (the leader of the cult) was probably to blame. The prospect of this appears to scare her, despite the fact that Watson is serving a life sentence in another facility, and demands that the guards let her out.

Answer: Innocence Coalition

Denis Watson is interviewed at the psych ward where he is confined and denies all the allegations made by the detectives. Watson says he has no power and suggests the killer might have been trying to impress him. Later, Winters and Jaruszalski spend the night reading mail addressed to Denis Watson. One of the letters in particular caught their attention because it seemed to contain several references to Baby Jane, such as "J-Cat" and "Baby", and was attempting to provoke Watson into ordering her murder.

Fingerprints found in the letter lead them to Rachel Forester, a second-year law student working as a volunteer attorney for the Innocence Coalition. She says that she visits many prisons to interview inmates who want her help proving their innocence. Her supervisor explains that Rachel had no way of knowing what was in the letter, because her prints were only on the closed envelope. Since she refuses to say which inmate gave her the letter, the detectives must go through every inmate that Rachel has visited.

Answer: She is his wife

Maura Dillon is a woman who spent 6 years in jail for an arson and murder conviction. She was accused of killing her children, but her conviction was overturned for prosecutorial misconduct with the help of the Innocence Coalition. Dillon served in the same prison as Baby Jane. The detectives notice scars on her arms, and while she claims they are from the fire, a prison official confirms they are cigarette burns that prisoners use to "brand" new inmates. While comparing the handwriting from the letter with a complaint Dillon wrote about Jane while in prison, the detectives conclude they were written by the same person. A search of her house reveals plants that were cut with a knife similar to the one suspected to be the murder weapon.

Dillon denies all the allegations and says the detectives are framing her, just like she was framed before. An attorney from the Innocence Coalition stops the detectives from questioning her further, but as she walks down the station, something stunning is revealed. Maura recognizes a woman from a picture on Detective Winters's desk as "one of the cops who framed me". Maura's lawyer tells Winters that his wife, retired detective Casey Ryan, coerced a confession out of her client.

Answer: Abner

For the first time in the series, we see Deputy District Attorneys Jonah Dekker and Lauren Stanton. Maura's lawyer tells the prosecutors they might have a hard time making their case. However, Maura herself appears to be willing to confess. The lawyer then argues that a jury could find that the trauma her client suffered in prison, because of her allegedly wrongful conviction, could have led her to commit the murder. Winters's wife denies that she coerced Maura's confession decades ago, but DDA Dekker is not convinced.

DDA Stanton and Detective Jaruszalski speak to the fire marshal who led the investigation, Abner Featherstone, and become highly suspect of his abilities. His findings of arson as a cause of fires are higher than the average, and he admits that he was inexperienced when he conducted that investigation. It is later confirmed that Featherstone made a mistake and the fire was caused by a kitchen appliance.

Abner Doubleday served as an Army General for the Union and fought in the American Civil War and the Mexican-American War. Doubleday was believed to have invented baseball in 1839 for many years, despite no real proof and no statements from Doubleday himself about the sport.

Answer: Politics

DDA Decker acknowledges that convincing the jury of convicting a woman who was falsely imprisoned and then brutally abused by her cellmate would be difficult. His boss, DA Jerry Hardin, is not pleased that Dekker reopened the arson case instead of just sticking to the current murder case. Dekker insists that it's better to find out before trial. He also believes that offering Dillon a plea agreement of 12 years is too little punishment for a crime like first-degree murder. Hardin responds that reopening the investigation would make the police look bad. He admits that's not "good law", but is "good politics".

DDA Dekker is played by Terrence Howard and DA Hardin is played by Peter Coyote, while Megan Boone plays DDA Stanton. The series alternates Dekker and Boone with DDA Ricardo Morales (Alfred Molina) and DDA Evelyn Price (Regina Hall), before Alana de la Garza reprised her character from the original "Law & Order" later in the season.

Answer: Fourteen

DDA Dekker follows DA Hardin's instructions and offers Maura a plea deal. However, she refuses to accept because she wants the world to know she was innocent of killing her children. He takes the offer off the table because he believes a jury should make the decision. The prosecution learns that Maura's main defense will be based on intimate partner battering, a defense that has been used by victims of domestic abuse who kill their partners in alleged self-defense.

In his opening statement, Dekker emphasizes that the murder was premeditated and cold-blooded rather than an "in the moment" reaction from intimate partner violence. Attorney Roman gives the other side of the story: Maura was a victim of a miscarriage of justice when she was wrongfully convicted, and killed Jane because she reasonably believed her life continued to be in danger. In the middle of trial, Dekker admits that Maura was wrongfully convicted in order to spare Detective Ryan (Winters's wife) from testifying).

Dekker cross-examines a visibly distressed Maura and breaks apart her battered partner defense. He explains that Maura stalked Jane for weeks and planned the murder, and was not in reasonable fear for her life. Rather, she killed her as an act of revenge against what Jane did to her and everyone who wrongfully put her in prison in the first place. Maura accepts what she did and says she "just wanted somebody to pay". The segment where Dekker says "you stabbed her fourteen times" was often used in commercials for the show all around the world, so it is a familiar scene for many fans of the short-lived series.

At the end of the episode, the prosecution again offers 12 years in prison, understanding that the jury would most likely return a higher conviction. Dekker offers Maura a voluntary manslaughter deal with credit for time served before, which would reduce her sentence to 6 years. She accepts it and is relieved that the truth about her children's death is now known.