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Law & Order

  • TV-14
  • 1990–
  • 26 seasons
  • Crime, Drama
  • 7.3

Truth matters.

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.

Episodes

24 episodes
  1. 1Bodies

    45 minSep 24, 20038.4

    While investigating the death of a teenaged girl, the detectives stumble on a pattern of crimes that indicate they are after a serial killer. The suspect, however, puts the prosecutors through an ethical ringer when he discloses his attorney's knowledge of the victims and their whereabouts.

  2. 2Bounty

    45 minOct 1, 20037.4

    The investigation into the murder of a bounty hunter leads to a reporter with compromised ethics and a dubious defense strategy.

  3. 3Patient Zero

    45 minOct 8, 20037.6

    The investigation into the carjacking of a vehicle containing vials of a deadly virus leads the detectives on a search for the first person infected with the virus and a biochemist whose sinister motivations were driven by passion.

  4. 4Shrunk

    45 minOct 22, 20037.3

    The police and prosecutors investigate the connection between an award-winning songwriter and the young woman found murdered in his home to discover who would profit by her death at his hands.

  5. 5Blaze

    45 minOct 29, 20037.0

    A teenager's need for parental love, acceptance and recognition sets in motion the events leading to the deaths of 23 concert goers for a band's illegal pyrotechnics.

  6. 6Identity

    45 minNov 5, 20038.2

    When a man is found murdered shortly after depositing almost $400,000 in his savings account, the investigation into the source of funds reveals that the victim ran an identity theft scam which left an elderly man homeless and impoverished.

  7. 7Floater

    45 minNov 12, 20037.6

    The husband of a woman whose partially decomposed body is found floating in the Hudson River becomes the prime suspect in her murder until the prosecutors uncover a connection between her prospective attorney and a judge who has heard a suspiciously high number of his cases.

  8. 8Embedded

    45 minNov 19, 20036.9

    After a reporter accused of causing the deaths of soldiers with whom he was embedded in Iraq by reporting on their troop movements is shot and wounded on the eve of his return to the front, the ballistics report indicates that the gun belonged to one of the dead soldiers, leading the detectives to uncover who brought the gun back from the front and committed the crime.

  9. 9Compassion

    45 minNov 26, 20037.0

    When a con man passing himself off as a grief counselor is poisoned by a respected doctor he victimized, McCoy must determine whether revenge or insanity prompted the crime.

  10. 10Ill-Conceived

    45 minDec 3, 20036.7

    The owner of a clothing company with alien immigrant workers is found murdered which sends the detectives on a search for an unidentified evening caller whose girlfriend, also a worker in the factory, recently gave birth. Upon discovery that the victim was also the baby's father, the boyfriend is arrested with the motive being an office affair until the victim's widow discloses that it was a surrogate arrangement.

  11. 11Darwinian

    45 minJan 7, 20047.1

    The apparent hit-and-run of a homeless man send the detectives on a search for the driver, a high profile female publicist, which fuels the fire for the prosecutors to obtain a murder conviction. Forensic evidence given during the trial reveal that the victim was severely beaten before being hit by the car which leads to a suspect within the homeless community.

  12. 12Payback

    45 minJan 14, 20047.1

    The investigation into the murder of a former bookie turned mob informant reveals a disturbing new wrinkle in organized crime involving legitimate businessmen moonlighting as contract hitmen in a battle for mob leadership, and ends with a Federal ploy to nullify the plea bargain in the case, leaving McCoy seething and two more people dead.

  13. 13Married with Children

    45 minFeb 4, 20047.3

    The death of a woman who fell from a hotel balcony leads to a case involving a lesbian couple and a state law banning gay adoption

  14. 14City Hall

    45 minFeb 11, 20047.0

    A city employee's clerical error sets in motion a chain of events which culminates in a fatal shooting at City Hall and a secret Federal court proceeding with sinister implications.

  15. 15Veteran's Day

    45 minFeb 18, 20047.0

    A decorated Gulf War veteran grief-stricken over the Afghanistan combat death of his son murders an anti-war protester, claiming at trial that he acted under extreme emotional distress.

  16. 16Can I Get a Witness?

    45 minFeb 25, 2004

    McCoy faces an uphill battle in proving that witnesses to the murder of a drug mule were bribed, intimidated, and eventually murdered on the orders of the drug dealer accused of the crime.

  17. 17Hands Free

    45 minMar 3, 20047.4

    When McCoy fails to win a murder conviction against an eccentric cross dressing millionaire for the death of his neighbor, he redoubles the effort to convict the man for murdering his second wife years earlier by demonstrating that he murdered a witness to the crime.

  18. 18Evil Breeds

    45 minMar 24, 20047.2

    When a Holocaust survivor is murdered on the eve of her testimony in the deportation trial of a former concentration camp guard, McCoy prosecutes the man and the Neo-Nazi sympathizer who's running a fundraising web site for him, and must debunk a Holocaust denial defense which claims that the millions of deaths resulted from disease, pestilence and wartime conditions.

  19. 19Nowhere Man

    45 minMar 31, 20047.7

    The District Attorney's Office is set on its ear when the investigation into the death of an A.D.A. uncovers a scandal that could imperil hundreds of cases.

  20. 20Everybody Loves Raimondo's

    45 minApr 14, 20047.0

    Greed, treachery and disrespect shape the motives for murder when two men are gunned down at an exclusive restaurant.

  21. 21Vendetta

    45 minApr 21, 20047.5

    The investigation into a bar room brawl fatality reveals a detective's decades-old vendetta against a petty criminal turned murderer who was falsely accused of one murder after evading conviction on another.

  22. 22Gaijin

    45 minApr 28, 20047.4

    Van Buren has reservations about Branch's tactics in luring a Ginza nightclub owner back to New York after the Japanese government is unwilling to extradite him to face charges of conspiracy and murder in the death of his wife on a New York City vacation.

  23. 23Caviar Emptor

    45 minMay 12, 20047.1

    When a caviar importer is murdered the day after his wedding to a much-younger woman, the large pool of suspects includes his new wife, his children, and his chief competitor, each of whom has a compelling motive for committing the crime.

  24. 24C.O.D.

    45 minMay 19, 20048.4

    Briscoe bids farewell to the 27 as the prosecution of two women for killing each other's husbands comes to a successful conclusion.

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Series cast

Sam WaterstonJack McCoy405 episodes
S. Epatha MerkersonAnita Van Buren391 episodes
Jerry OrbachLennie Briscoe274 episodes
Steven HillAdam Schiff229 episodes
Jesse L. MartinEd Green202 episodes
Leslie HendrixElizabeth Rodgers142 episodes
Fred ThompsonArthur Branch116 episodes
Chris NothMike Logan111 episodes
Benjamin BrattRey Curtis95 episodes
Hugh DancyNolan Price88 episodes
Odelya HaleviSamantha Maroun88 episodes
Michael MoriartyBen Stone88 episodes
Alana de la GarzaConnie Rubirosa85 episodes
Elisabeth RöhmSerena Southerlyn85 episodes
Angie HarmonAbbie Carmichael72 episodes
Dann FlorekDonald Cragen69 episodes
Richard BrooksPaul Robinette69 episodes
Jill HennessyClaire Kincaid68 episodes

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