'The Practice' season 2, ep 2: "Betrayal"

Here's another great show that was shot as part of the first 12, but aired during the long second season. It features the debut of the character 'Joey Heric,' for which John Larroquette won an Emmy Award. He was the first of three guest actors on the show to win Emmys for episodes I cut (the other two were Beah Richards and James Whitmore, both during season 3). 'Betrayal' was directed by the fabulous and prolific Tommy Schlamme.

To make one slight post-production note, when I put the opening scene together I very specifically timed the crescendo from the Mozart Lacrimosa to coincide with the reveal of the body on the couch, something which clearly does not happen on screen in the Final (it's a couple of seconds early). We had even cleared a specific public domain version for its' tempo. There was also a music edit somewhere in the middle of the scene because the real piece didn't exactly end where we wanted it too, either. Anyway, long story shortish, due to some picture change initiated during the last moment before mixing - I think we had to actually replace the opening shot due to Network objection to bloody gore - the timing thus changed and rather than adjust the edit in the middle to make both ends match, the music editor chose to just pull the existing music back and lop off the beginning to make up for time - thus forever altering the timing of that crecendo/body reveal as well as creating a really ugly music edit right at the top. I don't remember who did this but if I did I'd make sure my ghost haunts his family for generations, or for as long as this video exists.