He appeared in 98 episodes (95 episodes of Law & Order and three episodes of Homicide: Life on the Street). He also appeared in Exiled: A Law & Order Movie. Curtis is introduced as a homicide detective in the New York Police Department, the junior partner of Lennie Briscoe (played by Jerry Orbach) in Manhattan's 27th Detective Squad. In contrast with _his_ predecessor, Mike Logan, Curtis -- a conservative, devout Catholic -- does his job by the book, and views it in black and white terms: <sep>, Pronoun: his <sep>, A: Mike Logan <sep>, B: Curtis