The Quality of Mercy
Episode 11 · 1999-11-17
- Drama
- Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Mystery
- Family
- Documentary
Episode overview
After a skillful and successful closing argument against a black convict, lawyer Meg McCleary denies her daughter Heather permission to date her boyfriend, because he's black. Heather leaves Meg in anger. Meg drives after her, but her car breaks down in a bad neighbourhood. She's hunted by some young men, which strains her already bad heart too much and she dies. Othniel charges Meg with being a racist. Meg denies this, but later claims that it depends on the murder of her old boyfriend by a hispanic man, when Meg was still a police officer. ""They fit the profile,"" she claims. Othniel answers that her job was too charge criminals on evidence, not profiles. He sentences her to life... ... as vice officer Esposito (from Puerto Rico), to try to stop her younger self to identify hispanic man Hector Soto who was innocent, but the previous was sentenced to death. Meg (as Esposito) tries to stop the undercover operation where her boyfriend was killed before, but she fails to save his life, an
60 minutes
Season 1 episodes
1. Sixteen Candles1999-08-25
2. Death and Taxes1999-09-01
3. The Healing Touch1999-09-08
4. Ashes to Ashes1999-09-15
5. Double Exposure1999-09-22
6. The Blame Game1999-09-29
7. Blood Brothers1999-10-13
8. School's Out1999-10-27
9. O'er the Ramparts We Watched1999-11-03
10. A Match Made in Heaven1999-11-10
11. The Quality of Mercy1999-11-17
12. What She Did for Love1999-11-24
13. Second Service1999-12-01
14. The Gift of Life1999-12-15
15. Birds Of Paradise2000-01-12
16. Take Two2000-02-02
17. For Love and Money2000-02-09
18. Old Flames2000-02-16
19. Pride and Prejudice2000-03-01
20. Party Girls2000-05-03
21. The Trouble with Harry2000-05-10
22. Sins of Our Father2000-05-17
