From Warren Ellis' die puny humans:
Up here, we can snatch some forty thousand channels out of the air. Most of them, of course, are still showing CSI and LAW AND ORDER. There are twelve different channels showing LAW AND ORDER 24 hours a day. In some countries, Jerry Orbach has become a cargo-cult figure. They don't understand the language or much of the situations. They comprehend only that Jerry Orbach is immortal. They watch and divine from the show that he outlives the young gods who are selected to be his assistants. Criminals fall. DAs change. Assistants fade away. Jerry Orbach is forever. Jerry Orbach is, in fact, some kind of avenging God-King who will hunt and incarcerate Scum until the end of time.
By way of Lying in the Gutters. Except he wasn't talking about that, he was talking about the return of. . .
Oh, go read it yourself.
LOL. He has been quite long-lived hasn't he? Perhaps he should be the star of the next Highlander venture.
I'd watch Law & Order more if they cut the heads off the perp at the end.
And I was afraid someone would start pointing out that Orbach wasn't an original cast member, and this would descend into L&O geekiness. Glad I dodged that bullet. Sword. Whatever.