Perhaps my favorite new show of the year. I'd initially been wowed by the cast but worried that there weren't many ways to make each story unique, but I'm very happy to be proved wrong.
ER screwed up, letting L&O:CI run a rerun in their place against such a powerful episode. I watched purely because there wasn't a new ER. Very impressive show.
It wasn't a continuous shot, though I thought that before I replayed the scene from tape. After LaPaglia says his lines, there's a brief cut to the guy in the car, then back to LaPaglia, then he starts walking, then the upchuck.