Before and After the Badge

So who were they and what are they up to now?

Mariska Hargitay

Mariska Hargitay better known to us as Det. Olivia Benson on Dick Wolf NBC Crime drama: “Law & Order Special Victims Unit” Many years before Dick Wolf ever thought of making another Spin off, played the role of a cop, in the Short lived Dramedy CBS series: “ Tequila and Bonetti” The lead character of the series, Nico (“Nick”) Bonetti (Jack Scalia), is a policeman from New York City who is proud of his Italian heritage and very fond of his vintage rose-colored Cadillac convertible, which he inherited from his father. After he erroneously shoots a young girl during a gunfight, he relocates to a beachfront Los Angeles precinct on temporary assignment. Here he meets his new partners, Tequila (a large, burrito-eating dog), and Officer Angela Garcia (Mariska Hargitay), who joined the department after her policeman husband’s death

Now, there are no DVD’s or Downloads for this show, maybe because it’s so old and it was short lived, But Hulu and Hulu on AOL Video has one episode, which I took the screencaps that You see that the beginning of the post.

http://video.aol.com/partner/hulu/tequila-and-bonetti-language-of-the-heart/UHf2kc9d-9Hierlm-reLTrX_bfGbMxGr

and Youtube has the opening:

You can see her on the opening sequence since she’s a Main chracther and throughout the whole episode.

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Fred Dalton Thompson

Fred Dalton Thompson Better known to us as District Attorney Arthur Branch in all of the Law & Order Spinoffs, years before his role as a DA he played the role of FBI Agent in charge of baby “Bink” dissaperance in the 1994 20th Century Fox movie: “Baby day out” Bink”, a nine-month-old baby of wealthy Chicago parents, is kidnapped for ransom by a trio of dimwitted criminals posing as photographers. However, the baby manages to crawl away from his kidnappers and goes about exploring the city, visiting places he has seen and been told about from his picture book (also entitled Baby’s Day Out). His kidnappers follow him to each location but fail to get a hold of him.

The movie itself doesn’t stand out the test of time… so if you want to go straight to his role:

0:20:47-0:21:32

He has more roles since he plays a Major chracther, But I can’t stand the movie…

You can buy this movie at http://www.amazon.com or rent it at http://www.netflix.com

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