LAW & ORDER Post-Mortem: Odelya Halevi on the Maroun and Price Moment in the Season 24 Premiere

[Warning: This post contains spoilers for the Thursday, October 3 season premiere of LAW & ORDER.]

After Maroun’s (Odelya Halevi) friend, Macy, was killed on the season 24 premiere of LAW & ORDER, the ADA was determined to get justice for her…but things didn’t work out quite the way she hoped.

Detectives Riley (Reid Scott) and Shaw (Mehcad Brooks) realized Macy was killed by her fiancé, Dylan, who had secretly been abusing her. Macy, a Brooklyn prosecutor, had been seeking help and had planned on leaving Dylan. But Dylan had an alibi: His friend Lane, who also happened to be a reporter in a conservative newsroom. 

The team realized the men weren’t only friends—Dylan was paying him off to “catch and kill” stories that would harm Dylan’s reputation. After discovering videos of Dylan being abusive to multiple women, they’re able to make their arrest. But before Dylan could be held accountable, he took his own life.

In a final attempt to get justice for Macy, Maroun went back over the events that occurred the night of her death. She realized—with the help of a witness, Jimmy, the driver who chauffeured the men to Macy’s home—Lane didn’t just help with Dylan’s reputation, the duo also worked together to trick Macy into opening her door before Dylan’s fatal attack.

But when the ADAs were set to make their case against Lane, Jimmy lawyered up and declined to testify. Baxter (Tony Goldwyn), who won his DA election, told Maroun they’d have to drop the case.

Despite the devastation of the setback, “I feel like that’s what keeps driving Maroun,” Halevi tells Give Me My Remote. “She grew up [with] immigrant parents. She had to fight to get to where she is. She’s used to disappointment, she’s used to rejection…[but] she’s never gonna give up.”

And, indeed, Maroun wasn’t ready to take no for an answer: She went to Jimmy’s home—only to be intercepted by fellow ADA Price (Hugh Dancy).

“If you even knock on his door, you will be disbarred,” Price reminded her.

“I don’t care,” Maroun insisted. “I really don’t care. I’m just so sick of these rich bastards getting away with murder. It’s not okay.”

Price tried to comfort her, acknowledging he knew this was making her think of her sister, who was also killed. Price insisted Maroun’s sister wouldn’t want her to throw away her career. He finally got through to her, and the duo hugged as Maroun broke down.

“The relationship between Price and Maroun has grown so much throughout the last three seasons,” Halevi notes. “It continues to grow, personally, and they become really, really close friends. They challenge each other to think outside of the norm and push each other to be a better self. It creates a great dynamic for the viewers, and also, as for me as an actor, it creates a different dynamic and things become more interesting than they were. They just continue to challenge each other’s moral code.” 

“I feel like Maroun [finds] her own place to win,” she continues. “She’s a boss. And it’s when she’s faced with Price’s understanding of her personal [pain about the situation, that] is when she goes, ‘Okay, I have a friend…and I should listen to him because I might be making a mistake right now driven by emotions.’”

Despite Baxter declining to pursue the case further, Halevi notes she thinks Maroun and the still-new DA actually have a good working relationship, too.

“It’s a great dynamic because he really challenges Price’s moral code and pushes Maroun to defy convention and pushes her to be everything that she wants to be, but maybe is afraid to be,” she says. “[He’s] pushing her to take more risks. And, last season, we saw how he pushed her to take the stand and cross-examine, which to her was scary—but she ended up winning that case. And then slowly, slowly, he inspires her.” 

“And I think for me, as Odelya, meeting Tony for the first time last season, I can tell you that he is exactly like that in real life,” she continues. “He’s an open book, inspiring, an absolutely incredible human being. So he just makes it easy when we’re in character.”

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