Megan Russert
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| Capt./Lt./Det. Megan Russert | |
|---|---|
| First appearance | "Nearer My God to Thee" |
| Last appearance | "Strangers and Other Partners (part 2)" |
| Cause/reason | Eloped with French ambassador |
| Created by | Tom Fontana |
| Portrayed by | Isabella Hofmann |
| Episode count | 38 (Homicide: Life on the Street) |
| Information | |
| Gender | Female |
| Age | Approx 40 |
| Spouse(s) | Unnamed French ambassador |
Megan Russert is a fictional character on Homicide: Life on the Street played by Isabella Hofmann. She is a lieutenant who, as a token of the city's commitment to diversity and equal opportunity, is made a captain on a trial basis in the third season. The third season is the first in which the character appears.
Although she and Al Giardello get along reasonably well he resents that she was promoted before him. For her part she occasionally felt that he was diminishing or ignoring her authority. Her "softer" personality and ethical concerns about Frank Pembleton's interrogation methods also put her at odds with others. Her connections to national security officers, however, made her a valuable addition on certain cases.
She is a widow. Her husband was a tax attorney named Mike, introduced to her by her sister Eileen at a holiday party for the CPA firm where Eileen worked.[1] Russert for the most part did not date during her two seasons on the series, though she did have a brief affair with Beau Felton, played by Daniel Baldwin. She ended it for a variety of reasons, but supported him as a friend after the breakdown of his marriage.
She is a first cousin to Tim Russert. This is confirmed when Tim Russert has an uncredited appearance as her cousin in "The Old and the Dead." In a later episode titled "Stakeout" she mentions her famous cousin to a one-shot character named Cathy Buxton (played by Kate Walsh), but the character is unimpressed as she watches a news show that competes with Russert's.[2]
In season 4, Felton is suspended and this leads him to switch to Internal Affairs, thus ending their connection. In the first of two episodes concerning a sniper, she angers George Barnfather due to problems at a press conference she held and the later suicide of the first sniper. This leads her to be demoted back down to detective where she is partnered with John Munch.
Her apparent disappointments led her to start a new life, with a new man, in Europe. Other than an appearance in which she briefly returns from France to mourn and investigate the death of Felton, this ended the role of her character in the series until Homicide: Life Everlasting, a post-series reunion movie released in 2000, brought her back.
[edit] References
- ^ Homicide episode "All Through The House."
- ^ Homicide episode "Stakeout."
