Adam Serwer talks with Law and Order producer René Balcer about the show's 20-year run:
What inspired you to do the torture episode?
These are issues I've been thinking about since I was 16. I lived in Canada, and I lived through a terrorist crisis [the Front de Libération du Qué in the 1960s], and I knew what it was like to have your civil liberties suspended. These were issues that concerned me. As far as the torture memos, that's an issue I've been talking about on Law & Order and Criminal Intent since 2005, 2004.
