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The Worst Episodes of 100 Centre Street

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100 Centre Street is an American legal drama created by Sidney Lumet and starring Alan Arkin, Val Avery, Bobby Cannavale, Joel de la Fuente and Paula Devicq.

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    100 Centre Street Season 1 Episode 2 - Queenie and Joe
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    #1 - Queenie and Joe

    S1:E2

    Judge Joe Rifkind, a liberal judge whose nickname is ""Let-Em-Go-Joe,"" releases a petty offender who jumped a subway turnstile. The decision starts a chain of events that end a rookie cop's life, and possibly the judge's career. Standing by Rifkind are his wife, Sarah, and his friend and colleague, Judge Attallah Sims. Sims has a firmer view of justice than Rifkind; her nickname is ""Attallah-the-Hun."" Meanwhile, Assistant District Attorneys Bobby Esposito and Cynthia Bennington are getting to know each other. Cynthia is uptown money. Bobby's Brooklyn, working class roots could demolish his success when his father asks him to erase one of his brother's drug convictions to save him from life in prison.

    Director:Sidney Lumet
    Writer:Sidney Lumet

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  2. 100 Centre Street Season 1 Episode 4 - My Brother's Keeper
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    #2 - My Brother's Keeper

    S1:E4

    Bobby and Cynthia's relationship intensifies, but Bobby's career still hangs in the balance as a detective tries to identify and then get information from his hospitalized brother, Frank. Frank has come out of a coma after a drug-related mugging and beating. The detective wants to know who erased a conviction on Frank's drug arrest record. Frank faces either an extra-long prison sentence or turning his brother in for helping him. Also, a veteran cop and his wife attempt to get professional help for their broken marriage after an incident in Judge Sims' night court.

    Director:Steve Shill
    Writer:Siobhan Byrne O'Connor

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  3. 100 Centre Street Season 1 Episode 5 - No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
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    #3 - No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

    S1:E5

    Cynthia sees how the other half lives when a former maid's daughter and childhood playmate, Amanda, appears in night court. Amanda suffers from a bipolar disorder and currently doesn't have her medication and is living on the streets. When Cynthia tries to help Amanda get shelter and a Medicaid card, she's sent on a journey that has her navigating a social services system fraught with red tape. Cynthia, who was raised a millionaire, finds herself in check-cashing lines trying to pay a phone bill and in a hardware store bartering for an air conditioner for Amanda's mother.

    Director:Jerry London
    Writer:Steven Schwartz

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  4. 100 Centre Street Season 1 Episode 6 - Hostage
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    #4 - Hostage

    S1:E6

    Everyone must play along when a Vietnamese man tries to obtain justice for the murder of his parents by American soldiers in the Vietnam War. Judge Sims' courtroom is televised live for the country as Bobby prosecutes and Ramon defends the soldiers who have been forced to come to the court either in person or by telephone. Waiting in the wings are Cynthia and Fatima who can't seem to get along because of Cynthia's privileged background and Fatima's Brooklyn working-class roots.

    Director:Jerry London
    Writer:David Black

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  5. 100 Centre Street Season 1 Episode 7 - Things Change
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    #5 - Things Change

    S1:E7

    A woman is arrested after her five-year-old daughter who suffers from cerebral palsy is rushed to the hospital in critical condition. The child is severely underweight and small for her age. The woman has three other children, all by different fathers, who also appear to have been neglected. They are put in foster care while their mother awaits trial. At first, Cynthia, who's prosecuting, wants the woman to get the full punishment and Ramon, who's defending, feels that Cynthia doesn't understand the woman's plight. But both of their opinions will change as the investigation heats up.

    Director:Steve Shill
    Writer:Richard Wesley

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  6. 100 Centre Street Season 1 Episode 8 - Lady Paris
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    #6 - Lady Paris

    S1:E8

    Judge Rifkind, who's still being berated in the New York press for going easy on an offender who shot a rookie cop, recommends that Ramon get a taste of what the streets are really like by riding around with other police officers in a patrol car. Ramon complies and meets a prostitute named Paris who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. When Paris appears in night court, Ramon tries to defend her against a prosecuting attorney who has his own agenda. Also, ADA Fatima Kelly is faced with a moral dilemma when she learns that her next door neighbour's daughter is on drugs.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:David Black

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  7. 100 Centre Street Season 1 Episode 9 - A Shot in the Dark
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    #7 - A Shot in the Dark

    S1:E9

    District Attorney Spiegelman singles Bobby out to do pre-trial work for a highly publicized case involving a white cop who shot a black man in the back while arresting him. Bobby is given an assistant with a chip on his shoulder, Milton Hong, who thinks the case should have been his. Bobby re-interviews Hong's witnesses and by gaining their trust, gleans more information from them. Despite all of the evidence he uncovers, it will be another gunshot that brings Bobby to the truth. Meanwhile, Judge Rifkind and his wife, Sarah, go to an alumni weekend in the country where Rifkind is offered a teaching position at the law school.

    Director:John O'Connell
    Writer:Steven Schwartz

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  8. 100 Centre Street Season 1 Episode 11 - The Bug
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    #8 - The Bug

    S1:E11

    Shortly after a phone worker reports that he found a ""bug"" on a phone line, the man is arrested on drug charges. He claims that he's being framed by a federal agency to protect an illegal wiretap. His defending attorney, Ramon, believes him and uses it as his defence before Judge Rifkind. Rifkind becomes embroiled in the case, and his paranoia about being monitored escalates when he brings in a friend from Washington to investigate. Judge Sims suffers retribution for going against the mayor to help Rifkind when her personal life is out to the public by the press.

    Director:Steve Shill
    Writer:David Black

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  9. 100 Centre Street Season 1 Episode 13 - Let's Make a Night of It
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    #9 - Let's Make a Night of It

    S1:E13

    In the season finale of 100 Centre Street, justice takes a side step when a popular football player is brought into night court for beating up a female groupie. Cynthia attempts to prosecute, but the victim is unwilling to talk and the presiding judge is a fan of the player. Television executives offer Judge Sims her own show. Cynthia and Bobby contemplate opening a legal aid office for people who don't have money for representation; Bobby would investigate and Cynthia would defend. Penelope returns to Judge Sims and Rifkind makes his decision about whether he should teach law or stay on the bench.

    Director:Sidney Lumet
    Writer:Sidney Lumet

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  10. 100 Centre Street Season 2 Episode 1 - Kids (1)
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    #10 - Kids (1)

    S2:E1

    An ambitious new Assistant D.A., Jeremiah ""J.J."" Jellinek, arrives at 100 Centre St. and immediately starts jockeying for a position on a new task force, run by acting D.A. Gil Byrnes, that is going after the construction industry for its ties to the mob. Cynthia and Bobby set up their non-profit legal aid business, People's Defence, in Washington Heights and land their first client, Rudolfo, a 17-year-old accused of brutally beating a teacher. Judge Attalah Sims' last case of the night is a catatonic young woman who goes by the name Rebecca Rifkind, who turns out to have some connection to Judge Rifkind's past.

    Director:Sidney Lumet
    Writer:Sidney Lumet

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  11. 100 Centre Street Season 2 Episode 2 - Kids (2)
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    #11 - Kids (2)

    S2:E2

    Judge Rifkind becomes reacquainted with his daughter, Rebecca, who harbours animosity towards him and her stepmother, Sarah. J.J., the new assistant district attorney, continues to forge new ground in night court and sparks a smouldering relationship with Fatima Kelly. Bobby and Cynthia's case becomes increasingly difficult when the mother and sister of their 17-year-old client, Rudolfo, offer opposing views on his integrity. Bobby also gets different opinions on Rudolfo from a jaded high school principal and the teen's employer.

    Director:Sidney Lumet
    Writers:Sidney Lumet, Rudy Wurlitzer

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  12. 100 Centre Street Season 2 Episode 3 - Love Stories
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    #12 - Love Stories

    S2:E3

    Charlie the bridge man asks Judge Rifkind to be tough on his son, who was arrested for drunk driving. Having cleaned up his act, Ramon and his wife plan another child. J.J. and Ramon are pitted against each other in a case involving kids who set fire to a homeless man, while Rifkind and Sarah try to cope with the presence of his daughter in their lives.

    Director:Don Scardino
    Writer:Siobhan Byrne O'Connor

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  13. 100 Centre Street Season 2 Episode 7 - Lost Causes
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    #13 - Lost Causes

    S2:E7

    As a last resort, a desperate woman approaches Bobby and Cynthia about appealing her husband's 20-year sentence for murder. A weekend affair to remember happens for ADA Supervisor Michelle Grande and Harley Rand, a cowboy sheriff from New Mexico. The sheriff is in town to extradite a prisoner being held 100 Centre Street.

    Director:Steve Shill
    Writer:Steven Schwartz

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  14. 100 Centre Street Season 2 Episode 8 - Queenie's Running
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    #14 - Queenie's Running

    S2:E8

    A racially charged incident between Hasidic Jews and blacks in Queens almost blows up at 100 Centre St. Power attorney Benjamin Berkowitz represents an older Hasidic Jew accused of running over a young black girl and leaving the scene of the accident. Attallah decides to run for mayor as a candidate for the Fusion Party, in hopes of defeating the current administration that has threatened to take her off the bench.

    Director:Don Scardino
    Writer:Sidney Lumet

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  15. 100 Centre Street Season 2 Episode 9 - Andromeda and the Monster
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    #15 - Andromeda and the Monster

    S2:E9

    Judge Attallah Sims takes on a freedom of expression suit against a successful artist accused of exploiting an underage girl who posed for his painting without her father's permission. The father subsequently destroys the painting and lands back at 100 Centre St. J.J. catches Fatima in a series of compromising positions with various officers. After Fatima loses it in Rifkind's courtroom, Rifkind starts to suspect something is wrong with her. An arrogant J.J. starts to make his way up the ranks of the Joint Task Force.

    Directors:John O'Connell, Steve Shill
    Writer:David Black

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  16. 100 Centre Street Season 2 Episode 10 - Bottlecaps
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    #16 - Bottlecaps

    S2:E10

    A suspect behaves irrationally on the stand in Attallah's courtroom and his father convinces Cynthia and Bobby to try and help him. They discover he has a brain tumour that is causing a bizarre syndrome that causes patients to lose any sense of responsibility for their actions. This threatens Attallah's sense of justice and she refuses to let the man free. Before they can go to trial, however, the man walks off a curb and is killed.

    Director:Susanna Styron
    Writer:Susanna Styron

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  17. 100 Centre Street Season 2 Episode 11 - End of the Month
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    #17 - End of the Month

    S2:E11

    It's the end of the month at 100 Centre Street and Rifkind is annoyed to find his courtroom full of petty convictions orchestrated by shady cops looking to reach their monthly quotas. He is unable to convince ADA Julia Brooks that perhaps the cops are up to no good. Rifkind learns the temporary Bridgeman is on the take, getting money from the cops in exchange for calling their cases sooner. A cop on the force for 25 years without a conviction loses his first collar, a woman he caught dealing drugs, and loses her drug stash. Fearing the cop may get him fired after years of service, Rifkind offers to help him out.

    Director:Don Scardino
    Writer:Robert Leuci

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  18. 100 Centre Street Season 2 Episode 12 - Give Up or Fight
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    #18 - Give Up or Fight

    S2:E12

    Sarah and Rebecca come to blows at home and Sarah reveals that Judge Rifkind may have prostate cancer. Mary Ryder continues to push for overturning her husband's murder conviction. Cynthia and Bobby suspect foul play in the Ryder case. Judge Rifkind discovers a former cabaret singer, Lee Ann Halsey, drinking at a jazz club where Rebecca's boyfriend, Rush, tends bar and plays guitar. Rifkind convinces Halsey to try singing again. Bobby approaches Willard Block, the man who got him kicked out of Centre Street, for advice on the Ryder case.

    Director:Sidney Lumet
    Writers:Rudy Wurlitzer, Steven Schwartz

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  19. 100 Centre Street Season 2 Episode 13 - Babies
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    #19 - Babies

    S2:E13

    Ramon gets his big break when a notorious environmental activist, on trial for blowing up a water tower as part of a protest, asks him to take his case. Unfortunately, a renowned environmental lawyer swoops in and steals the case from Ramon. Rifkind agrees to visit Lou, a Buddhist monk that Rebecca has been seeing. At the last minute, the environmental lawyer convinces the activist to plead guilty, just as Ramon predicted. Rebecca's boyfriend, Rush, steals a valuable Buddha from Lou to buy drugs and Rebecca turns to her father for help. LeeAnn's comeback fizzles as she refuses to take the stage.

    Director:Sidney Lumet
    Writer:Rudy Wurlitzer

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  20. 100 Centre Street Season 2 Episode 14 - Zero Tolerance
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    #20 - Zero Tolerance

    S2:E14

    ADA Supervisor Michelle Grande convinces Cynthia and Bobby to take the case of a homeless man accused of setting a fire that cost a fireman his life. Acting DA, Gil Byrnes takes Julia Brooks off the case after she plea-bargained with Cynthia and replaces her with J.J., who is told to seek the highest possible sentence. J.J. sees this as another chance to climb the ladder and is ruthless in the courtroom. Despite a compelling closing argument that Bobby gives to Cynthia, they lose and the man is found guilty.

    Director:Steve Shill
    Writer:Siobhan Byrne O'Connor

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  21. 100 Centre Street Season 2 Episode 15 - Justice Delayed
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    #21 - Justice Delayed

    S2:E15

    Cynthia finds a cop willing to testify that Jim Ryan was set up by the cops for murder to protect a mob informant who had committed the crime. She brokers a deal with Gil Byrnes to get Ryan out of prison after 28 years in jail and becomes a media star. Meanwhile, the construction owner with mob ties dies suspiciously, leading the FBI to suspect someone killed him after finding out about the Joint Task Force. J.J. falls under suspicion.

    Director:John O'Connell
    Writer:Steven Schwartz

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  22. 100 Centre Street Season 2 Episode 16 - Hurricane Paul
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    #22 - Hurricane Paul

    S2:E16

    Hurricane Paul, the ""storm of the century"", is about to hit New York City and all hell breaks loose down at 100 Centre Street. J.J. and his fellow asst. D.A.s are forced to stay at the office in the event the weather causes rioting and mayhem. In turn, Michelle Grande forces her Legal Aid officers to stay in, including Ramon who is worried about his pregnant wife at home. Meanwhile, Fatima runs out into the storm to score some drugs only to end up trapped outside and hysterical. Cynthia gets called in to assist the Legal Aid office, while Bobby runs off to join his fellow Brooklyn surfers to catch the big waves. And Judge Rifkin does his best to calm a skittish Attallah who has a childhood fear of storms.

    Director:Don Scardino
    Writer:Warren Leight

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  23. 100 Centre Street Season 2 Episode 17 - Fathers
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    #23 - Fathers

    S2:E17

    J.J. goes after a deadbeat dad whose son was killed, even though he was not even living at the home at the time. When Attallah throws the book at the father, the press represents this as a political ploy to support Attallah's run for mayor and her ratings shoot up. A nervous mayor's office offers to keep her positions as judge if she'll drop out of the race. Bobby is becoming less interested in his work at the People's Defence and Cynthia asks her dad to help Bobby get back his law credentials.

    Director:John O'Connell
    Writer:Richard Wesley

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  24. 100 Centre Street Season 1 Episode 1 - Bobby and Cynthia
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    #24 - Bobby and Cynthia

    S1:E1

    The media harasses Judge Joe Rifkind and a higher judge for the shooting of a rookie police officer who was killed by a young criminal the judge set free. To make amends, Judge Rifkind pays a visit to the father of the rookie police officer who also happens to be one of his former police partners. Assistant DA Bobby Esposito's brother, Frank, is given another chance to stop using drugs, but when he doesn't show up for his flight to the rehabilitation centre, Bobby assumes he's been deceived by Frank again. Meanwhile, Bobby and Cynthia Bennington's relationship heats up despite the one secret Bobby can't bring himself to tell her.

    Director:Sidney Lumet
    Writer:Sidney Lumet

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  25. 100 Centre Street Season 1 Episode 3 - And Justice for Some
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - And Justice for Some

    S1:E3

    A teenager is cajoled by a friend to rob a convenience store for kicks, but when the friend pulls a gun on the store's owner, everything takes a turn for the worst. Once arrested, the friend claims he wasn't the one with the gun, and the innocent teen is charged with robbery in the first degree. Legal Aid Attorney Ramon Rodriguez mishandles the case because he was having a tryst with an assistant district attorney and didn't have time to prepare. He puts both the teenager's life and his marriage to Cassandra in jeopardy. Meanwhile, Bobby and Cynthia reconcile.

    Director:Jerry London
    Writer:Siobhan Byrne O'Connor

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Queenie and Joe" is the worst rated episode of "100 Centre Street". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Sidney Lumet, it aired on 1/15/2001. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "My Brother's Keeper".