"The Troubles" is the twentieth episode of NBC

NBC

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's legal drama

Legal drama

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 Law & Order

Law & Order

Law & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It aired on NBC, and in syndication on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13, 1990, and completed its 20th and final season on May 24,...

. It originally aired on 26 March 1991.

Plot

A Cuba

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n drug dealer and an IRA

Provisional Irish Republican Army

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 militant are suspected of the murder of a Lebanese

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 drug smuggler and gun runner. Logan

Mike Logan (Law & Order)

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 must deal with his own bias and sympathy towards the Irish suspect to investigate the crime. Stone

Benjamin Stone

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 and Robinette

Paul Robinette

Paul Robinette, played by Richard Brooks, is a fictional character who appeared in the TV drama series Law & Order from the pilot episode in 1990 until the final episode of the third season, "Benevolence," in 1993...

, meanwhile, must consult with international attaches and members of the New York Anti-Terrorist Division to prosecute the suspects.

Law

• George Dzundza
  George Dzundza
  George Dzundza is an American television and film actor.-Personal life:Dzundza was born in Rosenheim, Germany, to a Ukrainian father and Polish mother who were forced into factory labour by the Nazis. He spent the first few years of his life in displaced persons camps with his parents and one...
  
   - Sgt. Max Greevey
• Chris Noth
  Chris Noth
  Christopher David "Chris" Noth is an American actor. He is known for long-running television roles as Det. Mike Logan on the police procedural and legal drama television series, Law & Order and Law & Order: Criminal Intent, and as Big on Sex and the City. For the latter role, he has been...
  
   - Det. Mike Logan
  Mike Logan (Law & Order)
  Michael "Mike" Logan is a fictional character in the police procedural and legal drama television series Law & Order franchise, played by Chris Noth.-History in the franchise:...
  
  
• Dann Florek
  Dann Florek
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   - Capt. Don Cragen
  Donald Cragen
  Donald "Don" Cragen is a fictional character in the police procedural and legal drama television series Law & Order and its spinoff Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, played by Dann Florek.-Character appearances:...
  
  

Order

• Michael Moriarty
  Michael Moriarty
  Michael Moriarty is an American-Canadian actor of stage and screen, and a jazz musician. He played Benjamin Stone for four seasons on the TV series Law & Order.-Early life:...
  
   - Exec. A.D.A. Benjamin Stone
  Benjamin Stone
  Benjamin "Ben" Stone is a fictional character portrayed by Michael Moriarty in the TV drama Law & Order.-Character overview:Stone works in the Manhattan District Attorney's office under Alfred Wentworth and Adam Schiff. It was Schiff with whom he is closest, treating him as a kind of surrogate...
  
  
• Richard Brooks
  Richard Brooks (actor)
  Richard L. Brooks is an African-American actor, singer, and director. He is best known for his role as Assistant District Attorney Paul Robinette during the first three seasons of the NBC TV drama Law & Order .Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Brooks studied acting, dance, and voice work at...
  
   – A.D.A. Paul Robinette
  Paul Robinette
  Paul Robinette, played by Richard Brooks, is a fictional character who appeared in the TV drama series Law & Order from the pilot episode in 1990 until the final episode of the third season, "Benevolence," in 1993...
  
  
• Steven Hill
  Steven Hill
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   - D.A. Adam Schiff
  Adam Schiff (Law & Order)
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Guest Stars

• Anthony Heald
  Anthony Heald
  Philip Anthony Mair Heald, known professionally as Anthony Heald , is an American actor known for portraying Hannibal Lecter's jail nemesis, Dr. Frederick Chilton in The Silence of the Lambs and Red Dragon, and for playing assistant principal Scott Guber in David E. Kelley's Boston Public...
  
   - Ian O'Connell
• Donal Donnelly
  Donal Donnelly
  Donal Donnelly was an English-born Irish theatre and film actor. He was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, but raised in Dublin, Ireland....
  
   - Daniel Mallahan
• Paxton Whitehead
  Paxton Whitehead
  Paxton Whitehead is a British actor who made his professional debut in 1956. Whitehead is best known to American movie audiences as Professor Phillip Barbay in the 1986 comedy film Back to School.-Early years:...
  
   - Fenwick
• Alan North
  Alan North
  Alan North was an American actor.North was born in the Bronx, New York and joined the United States Navy during the Second World War...
  
   - Reilly
• Robert Silver - Axelrod
• Bill Nelson
  Bill Nelson
  Clarence William "Bill" Nelson is the senior United States Senator from the state of Florida and a member of the Democratic Party. He is a former U.S. Representative and former Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner of Florida...
  
   - Shelby
• Betty Miller
  Betty Miller
  Betty Miller was a Jewish author of both literary fiction and non-fiction. She wrote her first novel, The Mere Living , whilst studying journalism at University College London...
  
   - Mrs. Bridget McDiarmid
• Kevin J. O'Connor - Patrick McCarter
• Michael Cullen
  Michael Cullen (actor)
  Michael Cullen is an American actor who usually works in New York City. He has worked on stage and also has appeared in many films. His most famous stage role is that of baseball legend Ty Cobb. On television, he has many roles to his credit, including three appearances as James Dietz in Law &...
  
   - Roberts
• Ray Iannicelli - Damato
• James Canning - Pringle
• Harriet Sansom Harris
  Harriet Sansom Harris
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   - Sheila
• William Severs - Judge Henry Fillmore
• Paul-Felix Montez - Savino Montez
• Richard Russell Ramos - Coroner
• Gy Mirano - Interpreter
• Parvin Farhoody - Mrs. Mustafa
• Brandon Burke - Old Man #2 (as Brendan Burke)
• Mike Alpert - Driver
• John McLoughlin
  John McLoughlin
  Dr. John McLoughlin, baptized Jean-Baptiste McLoughlin, was the Chief Factor of the Columbia Fur District of the Hudson's Bay Company at Fort Vancouver. He was later known as the "Father of Oregon" for his role in assisting the American cause in the Oregon Country in the Pacific Northwest...
  
   - Court Clerk
• Richard Goteri - Policeman (uncredited)
• Rawleigh Moreland - Assistant District Attorney (uncredited)