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Executive ADA Jack McCoy is a fictional character portrayed by Sam Waterston in the TV series Law & Order.
In the first episode they appeared in, titled Second Opinion (season 5), they were 53 years old.
They appear in 400 episodes out of a total of 501 aired so far and have accumulated 9525 positive votes.
The character of Executive ADA Jack McCoy is mainly associated with ADA Claire Kincaid, ADA Jamie Ross and ADA Samantha Maroun.

Executive ADA Jack McCoy

by Sam Waterston

character

Episodes400

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    Second Opinion

    episode S5.E1 september 1994
    Kincaid's new partner in the DA's office, Jack McCoy, pursues murder charges for a woman who provided questionable alternative treatments for women suffering from breast cancer.
  • 8.1
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    Coma

    episode S5.E2 september 1994
    Detectives and prosecutors believe that a smug comedy club owner shot his wife and put her in a coma, but they can't come up with enough hard evidence to get him convicted.
  • 7.5
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    Blue Bamboo

    episode S5.E3 october 1994
    A singer claims Battered Woman Syndrome as an excuse for killing her former employer, whom she claims abused her during her employment.
  • 7.5
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    Family Values

    episode S5.E4 october 1994
    During the investigation into a wealthy publisher's death, the victim's daughter claims to be having a relationship with her mother's new husband.
  • 8.2
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    White Rabbit

    episode S5.E5 october 1994
    A conservative suburban wife and mother turns out to be a fugitive student radical who was involved in an armored car heist and murder of a police officer 23 years earlier.
  • 8
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    Competence

    episode S5.E6 november 1994
    Van Buren kills an intellectually disabled, unarmed teenager at an ATM. She claims it was a robbery attempt, and that there's a second, armed suspect on the loose. But not everyone believes her.
  • 7.6
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    Precious

    episode S5.E7 november 1994
    A false kidnapping claim leads to the prosecution of a married couple after detectives discover that three of their infants have died under mysterious circumstances.
  • 7.8
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    Virtue

    episode S5.E8 november 1994
    McCoy charges a city councilman with "larceny by extortion," after a female colleague claims that she had to sleep with him or lose her chance at partnership at their law firm.
  • 7.4
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    Scoundrels

    episode S5.E9 november 1994
    An attorney may have been killed for trying to further bilk people who have lost their life savings in an S&L scandal.
  • 8.2
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    House Counsel

    episode S5.E10 january 1995
    Briscoe and Logan learn that the murder of an unassuming Parks Department accountant may have actually been a mob hit when they discover that he was a juror in the trial of a crime boss.
  • 7.4
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    Guardian

    episode S5.E11 january 1995
    A financial advisor is implicated in the drug overdose death of one of his client's children.
  • 7.8
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    Progeny

    episode S5.E12 january 1995
    The murder of an abortion doctor leads to the prosecution of a radical pro-life leader, who hopes to use the trial to grandstand against abortion laws.
  • 8
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    Rage

    episode S5.E13 february 1995
    A smug African American stock broker who resents other people of his own race is accused of murder. However, he hires a high-profile civil rights attorney, who presents a "black rage" defense.
  • 7.8
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    Performance

    episode S5.E14 february 1995
    The discovery of a fake pornographic "snuff tape" leads detectives to a high school gang and an alleged points-for-sex contest.
  • 7.6
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    Seed

    episode S5.E15 february 1995
    While investigating a fertility doctor for a separate case of fraud, McCoy and Kincaid discover evidence that he may be inseminating his patients with his own sperm.
  • 7.5
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    Wannabe

    episode S5.E16 march 1995
    The murder of an admissions board member for a prestigious prep school is connected to the expulsion of a subway worker's son. But a false confession and a school cover-up make prosecuting the responsible parties difficult.
  • 7.7
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    Act of God

    episode S5.E17 march 1995
    Did a struggling contractor intentionally blow up the building he was working on, or was he the intended target of the explosion?
  • 7.8
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    Privileged

    episode S5.E18 april 1995
    An alcoholic young man is accused of murdering a married couple in their bed -- but they were strangers to him, and no motive can be discerned.
  • 8.1
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    Cruel and Unusual

    episode S5.E19 april 1995
    Evidence indicates that the death, in police custody, of an autistic teenager was the result of longstanding abuse. Suspicion falls on the treatment center where he lived and on its therapist, Dr. Colter.
  • 8.2
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    Bad Faith

    episode S5.E20 april 1995
    The investigation into a police officer's death uncovers 30-year-old accusations of molestation by a Catholic priest. Detective Logan takes a personal interest in the case because of his relationships with both parties.
  • 7.7
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    Purple Heart

    episode S5.E21 may 1995
    When the man who killed and robbed a cabbie turns up dead, detectives uncover a connection between the victim's wife, the killer, and the murder weapon.
  • 7.9
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    Switch

    episode S5.E22 may 1995
    A businessman is accused of killing the psychiatrist who diagnosed his daughter with multiple personality disorder. McCoy suspects that the psychiatrist may have uncovered a repressed memory involving her mother's possible murder.
  • 7.7
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    Pride

    episode S5.E23 may 1995
    A gay city councilman is murdered. The prime suspect is a conservative rival he may have double-crossed. The investigation also sets off a series of events that could cost Logan his detective position.
  • 7.8
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    Bitter Fruit

    episode S6.E1 september 1995
    Briscoe and his new partner, Rey Curtis, track down the man accused of kidnapping and killing a young girl. But before the suspect is arraigned, the girl's mother shoots and kills him in the courtroom.
  • 7.3
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    Rebels

    episode S6.E2 september 1995
    A biker who posts to an Internet bulletin board refuses to reveal information that could help a murder investigation, arguing that he's a journalist protecting his sources.
  • 8.2
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    Savages

    episode S6.E3 october 1995
    The death penalty has just been passed in New York and prosecutors must decide whether or not it is appropriate after an unlikely suspect murders an undercover police officer.
  • 8
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    Jeopardy

    episode S6.E4 november 1995
    A judge throws out all of the prosecution's key evidence and dismisses murder charges against a wealthy defendant. District Attorney Adam Schiff suspects that the judge, an old friend, may be on the take.
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    Hot Pursuit

    episode S6.E5 november 1995
    A man and a woman rob a nightclub and a deli, killing the owner. When they're caught, the woman claims she was forced to participate against her will.
  • 7.5
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    Paranoia

    episode S6.E6 november 1995
    The DA's office tries to prosecute a co-ed for brutally murdering her roommate, but the only evidence is a vague confession. However, Dr. Olivet suggests that she may have suffered from paranoia due to her tragic family history.
  • 7.8
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    Humiliation

    episode S6.E7 november 1995
    After a prostitute is murdered, the detectives believe she was blackmailing a wealthy client. Kincaid prosecutes the case, but has second thoughts after the defendant's wife takes the stand.
  • 7.8
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    Angel

    episode S6.E8 november 1995
    A woman claims that a Puerto Rican man kidnapped her infant daughter while she was in a church confessional. However, she later confesses to killing her baby and cremating her body.
  • 7.5
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    Blood Libel

    episode S6.E9 january 1996
    An anti-Semitic teen is accused of killing a Jewish teacher. His defense attorney argues that the accused is really the victim of a Jewish conspiracy.
  • 7.6
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    Remand

    episode S6.E10 january 1996
    A convicted rapist in a high-profile trial from 30 years earlier receives a new trial because of legal technicalities. In addition, prosecutors must try to convict this time without a confession.
  • 7.7
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    Corpus Delicti

    episode S6.E11 january 1996
    An investigation into a horse swindling scheme escalates into a murder investigation when one of the accused's possible victims--his ex fiancée--disappears.
  • 8.1
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    Trophy

    episode S6.E12 january 1996
    A man serving time in a serial killer case claims malicious prosecution and false imprisonment after a man who killed two more boys confesses to the other murders. All of the evidence points to Jack McCoy and his former assistant.
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    Charm City

    episode S6.E13 february 1996
    A man leaves a poisonous gas bomb on a train and kills a lot of people. The man is found guilty, but says this is just the tip of the iceberg.
  • 7.5
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    Custody

    episode S6.E14 february 1996
    A crack-addicted, African American mother is accused of murder and kidnapping the baby Child Welfare took from her. Her defense attorney, former A.D.A. Paul Robinette, argues that the entire child welfare system is racist.
  • 8.2
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    Encore

    episode S6.E15 february 1996
    A businessman most people suspect got away with conspiring to murder his first wife is now accused of conspiring to kill his second wife. The two cases share eerie similarities.
  • 7.8
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    Savior

    episode S6.E16 march 1996
    A hard-luck executive is accused of murdering his wife and son, and injuring his daughter. Dr. Olivet tells prosecutors that he fits the profile of a "family annihilator," but backs down when he refuses to confess on the stand.
  • 7.8
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    Deceit

    episode S6.E17 march 1996
    A married lawyer is charged with murdering a colleague with whom he was having a gay affair. However, his wife vehemently comes to his defense and threatens revenge on the prosecutors if they pursue the case.
  • 7.4
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    Atonement

    episode S6.E18 april 1996
    A model is murdered and the evidence points to her driver. He claims he acted under extreme emotional disturbance because he was infatuated with her. However, McCoy later uncovers a connection between the driver and a drug dealer.
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    Slave

    episode S6.E19 april 1996
    A woman is killed after stray bullets travel through her apartment window. Briscoe and Curtis learn that an abused 13-year-old who was forced to work for a drug dealer by his drug-addicted mother was the shooter.
  • 7.7
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    Girlfriends

    episode S6.E20 may 1996
    The death of a college student at her school library appears to be connected to her involvement in a prostitution ring.
  • 8.7
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    Pro Se

    episode S6.E21 may 1996
    A schizophrenic attorney who refuses to take medication defends himself against multiple charges of murder.
  • 7.9
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    Homesick

    episode S6.E22 may 1996
    A young British au pair is suspected of poisoning the baby in her care. Her defense tries to create reasonable doubt by emphasizing the neglect of the baby's working mother.
  • 9.1
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    Aftershock

    episode S6.E23 may 1996
    After witnessing an inmate's execution, McCoy, Kincaid, Briscoe, and Curtis react in different and extreme ways.
  • 7.8
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    Causa Mortis

    episode S7.E1 september 1996
    Jack McCoy and his new assistant, Jamie Ross, get off to a rocky start together as they try to prosecute a carjacking/murder suspect after the judge excludes a cassette tape that could prove his guilt.
  • 8.1
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    I.D.

    episode S7.E2 september 1996
    A woman is charged with murdering her sister, but prosecutors learn that the defendant is actually the other sister--who assumed the real victim's identity. Meanwhile, the judge becomes hostile to the prosecution during the trial.
  • 7.5
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    Good Girl

    episode S7.E3 october 1996
    A white teenager accused of murdering an African-American man claims that she was a date-rape victim, and racial overtones threaten to overpower the actual merits of the case.
  • 7.9
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    Survivor

    episode S7.E4 october 1996
    While investigating the murder of a coin collector, detectives discover the existence of extremely rare coins that belonged to a Holocaust survivor.
  • 8.3
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    Corruption

    episode S7.E5 october 1996
    To avoid the consequences of a bad shooting, a corrupt police officer makes a deal to cooperate with a commission investigating police corruption. During his testimony, he accuses Briscoe of stealing drugs after an arrest.
  • 7.9
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    Double Blind

    episode S7.E6 november 1996
    A schizophrenic chemistry student is on trial for killing a former school janitor, but a professor claims that he is part of one of his drug studies and that his sickness is under control.
  • 7.7
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    Deadbeat

    episode S7.E7 november 1996
    A man is accused of killing his deadbeat, abusive ex son-in-law. He claims self defense, and the outcome of the case rides on determining who was in possession of the murder weapon at the time.
  • 7.3
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    Family Business

    episode S7.E8 november 1996
    Two feuding daughters of a department store owner are suspects in a murder investigation. Both have motive and connections to the murder weapon, but getting a conviction on either daughter could prove to be difficult.
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    Entrapment

    episode S7.E9 january 1997
    Did the son of an assassinated African-American leader attempt to murder his father's successor, or is he the victim of an elaborate FBI frame-up?
  • 8.1
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    Legacy

    episode S7.E10 january 1997
    After a mother orders a professional hit on the new husband of her former daughter-in-law, detectives reopen an investigation into her son's death.
  • 7.8
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    Menace

    episode S7.E11 february 1997
    A woman jumps to her death off the Brooklyn Bridge, but evidence and eyewitnesses suggest that a crazed man made her jump after they were in an auto accident.
  • 8
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    Barter

    episode S7.E12 february 1997
    Detectives believe that a murder victim may have been mistaken for another target. But when the actual target is also killed, they discover that a loan shark had taken out a life insurance policy on her.
  • 8.1
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    Matrimony

    episode S7.E13 february 1997
    Evidence suggests that the murder of an elderly philanthropist was part of a conspiracy involving his lawyer and his much-younger trophy wife.
  • 7.6
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    Working Mom

    episode S7.E14 february 1997
    The death of a former police officer leads Briscoe and Curtis to a pair of suburban moms who work as prostitutes.
  • 7.9
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    D-Girl

    episode S7.E15 march 1997
    Briscoe and Curtis go to Los Angeles to question a personal trainer about a movie executive's murder. During the investigation, Curtis finds a potential romantic interest.
  • 8.1
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    Turnaround

    episode S7.E16 march 1997
    Briscoe and Curtis serve an arrest warrant on a Hollywood director in the film-executive murder case. Opposing counsel--Jamie's ex husband--challenges the warrant. Jack and Jamie now must go to L.A. to defend it.
  • 8.4
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    Showtime

    episode S7.E17 march 1997
    The prosecution's murder case against the Hollywood director threatens to fall apart. And the case could cost Jamie her job and custody of her child, and it could cost Curtis his marriage.
  • 8.2
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    Mad Dog

    episode S7.E18 april 1997
    A serial rapist recently granted parole against Jack's wishes is a suspect in a new rape and murder. Detectives can't get enough evidence to charge him, so Jack orders detectives to trail and harass him.
  • 8.3
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    Double Down

    episode S7.E19 april 1997
    Lawyers make a deal with a suspected cop killer in order to find a kidnapping victim. However, the DA's office wants to renege on the deal after the victim is found dead, and detectives suspect that he knew the victim was dead all along.
  • 8.2
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    We Like Mike

    episode S7.E20 april 1997
    A good Samaritan's life is thrown into turmoil when he is accused of murder. And when Jack asks him to testify against the real killer, things only get worse for him.
  • 7.4
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    Passion

    episode S7.E21 may 1997
    The investigation into the murder of an up-and-coming editor uncovers a love triangle between the victim, a pretentious writer, and a jealous attorney.
  • 7.8
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    Past Imperfect

    episode S7.E22 may 1997
    The death of a former model is connected to the daughter she gave up for adoption, and a possible multi-million dollar inheritance claim involving the woman's biological father.
  • 8.3
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    Terminal

    episode S7.E23 may 1997
    A man opens fire during the docking of a dinner cruise boat. The Governor appoints a special prosecutor because Schiff refuses to seek the death penalty; McCoy helps Schiff appeal while Ross helps the special prosecutor at trial. Schiff's wife is hospitalized following a stroke.
  • 7.8
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    Thrill

    episode S8.E1 september 1997
    Two punks kill a random victim for the thrill of it. But the prosecution faces the difficult task of convicting two people of the same crime.
  • 7.6
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    Denial

    episode S8.E2 october 1997
    Bloody sheets and an apparently stolen credit card lead Briscoe and Curtis to a pair of college age lovers who present McCoy and Ross with a united front of denial that one of them killed their newborn son and disposed of the body.
  • 7.6
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    Navy Blues

    episode S8.E3 october 1997
    A female Navy pilot kills an officer over their affair. However, McCoy suspects that the Navy may be impeding the D.A. office's investigation because she is a valuable asset and a positive female role model.
  • 8.1
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    Harvest

    episode S8.E4 october 1997
    The prosecution of the shooter in the death of a young mother and wife hits a snag when it is suggested that her doctor may have killed her to give away her organs and advance his career.
  • 7.7
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    Nullification

    episode S8.E5 november 1997
    An attempted armored car heist leads to the prosecution of a suburban right-wing militia group that claims to be at war with the U.S. government.
  • 7.7
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    Baby, It's You

    episode S8.E6 november 1997
    Baltimore homicide detectives Munch and Falsone help Briscoe and Curtis with a murder investigation. However, the victim's family attorney interferes with the investigation by leaking information and offering rewards.
  • 8.3
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    Blood

    episode S8.E7 november 1997
    Detectives discover that a recently-murdered white woman had recently given birth to a baby whose race reveals a well-kept secret about the baby's biological father.
  • 8.2
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    Shadow

    episode S8.E8 november 1997
    The D.A.'s office resorts to extreme measures in order to prove that a defense attorney is rigging trial outcomes, but Jamie discovers that the corruption can be traced back to one of her friends and colleagues.
  • 7.8
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    Burned

    episode S8.E9 december 1997
    A teenage boy is suspected of starting a fire that killed his younger sister. But his powerful and influential grandfather does everything in his power to make the case go away.
  • 7.9
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    Ritual

    episode S8.E10 december 1997
    An Egyptian man is murdered because he had hired an Egyptian doctor to perform a female circumcision on the man's niece. A.D.A.s McCoy and Ross have to deal with a clash between cultural convictions and the law.
  • 8.2
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    Under the Influence

    episode S8.E11 january 1998
    Three people are killed when a possible drunk driver runs them over. A.D.A. McCoy is bent on getting a questionable death sentence in the case, but Ross believes that he is trying to get revenge for Claire Kincaid's death.
  • 7.5
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    Expert

    episode S8.E12 january 1998
    The daughter of a convicted murderer goes on trial, accused of attempting to murder an expert witness who testified in her father's trial on his behalf.
  • 7.1
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    Castoff

    episode S8.E13 january 1998
    A serial killer who targets the New York S&M crowd claims that television is responsible for his violent behavior.
  • 7.7
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    Grief

    episode S8.E14 february 1998
    After a comatose woman dies during childbirth, McCoy pursues murder charges against the health-care worker who impregnated her, but the investigation reveals that the victim's mother may have played a role in the incident.
  • 7.8
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    Faccia a Faccia

    episode S8.E15 february 1998
    A mafia hit man who was in the witness protection program turns up dead in Central Park. A mafia boss is implicated, but his defense wants him declared mentally incompetent to stand trial.
  • 8.1
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    Divorce

    episode S8.E16 march 1998
    The murder of a couples psychologist is connected to a bitterly-contested Catholic annulment and the couple's two feuding lawyers.
  • 7.8
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    Carrier

    episode S8.E17 april 1998
    The investigation into a young woman's death leads detectives to a man who has been knowingly spreading the HIV virus to his partners. McCoy pursues murder charges in a case that could have have serious political implications for Schiff.
  • 7.9
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    Stalker

    episode S8.E18 april 1998
    A stalker accused of murdering a woman could go free because the victim may have lied to police about one of his earlier attacks.
  • 7.6
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    Disappeared

    episode S8.E19 april 1998
    A disturbed, self-righteous activist opposed to high-rent developments is wanted for the kidnappings of a property owner and two of his tenants. However, the D.A.'s office may have to renege on the deal made with his brother to find him.
  • 7.5
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    Burden

    episode S8.E20 april 1998
    A doctor is accused of maliciously killing a quadriplegic boy. However, the doctor claims that it was a mercy killing and that he was acting on the family's wishes.
  • 8
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    Bad Girl

    episode S8.E21 april 1998
    The pursuit of the death penalty for a police officer's killer who found religion in prison becomes a political football for the DA's office. Briscoe's daughter gets in trouble with the law.
  • 8.1
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    Damaged

    episode S8.E22 may 1998
    Jack prosecutes three teenage boys for raping an intellectually disabled girl in a high school. Lennie's daughter testifies in a drug trial.
  • 7.4
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    Tabloid

    episode S8.E23 may 1998
    A man confesses to killing the gossip columnist who was responsible for his wife's death. But his defense attorney tries to put the columnist's irresponsible journalistic practices on trial to avoid his client's conviction.
  • 7.9
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    Monster

    episode S8.E24 may 1998
    Political pressures and a lack of manpower force the detectives to coerce a confession out of their only suspect in a brutal sexual assault of a young girl.
  • 7.9
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    Cherished

    episode S9.E1 september 1998
    New assistant DA Abbie Carmichael aggressively investigates an infant's death and helps uncover a conspiracy involving a Russian adoption agency, gravely ill children, and an unethical doctor.
  • 8
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    DWB

    episode S9.E2 october 1998
    White police officers are accused of beating and dragging an African American man to his death. McCoy tries to prosecute while facing pressure from Federal prosecutors, who want to make a deal with one of the guilty parties.
  • 7.5
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    Bait

    episode S9.E3 october 1998
    A teenager who was shot in a drug deal gone bad claims to have been coerced into working as an informant for a corrupt narcotics officer.
  • 7.8
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    Flight

    episode S9.E4 october 1998
    Prosecutors have trouble making a case against a father accused of injecting his son with deadly bacteria, so Jack is forced to play hardball with the bio-supplier that may have supplied him with it.
  • 8.2
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    Agony

    episode S9.E5 november 1998
    After a woman is brutally attacked, the police believe they have stumbled on a serial killer. Prosecutors struggle with how to put him away for life with little evidence.
  • 7.6
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    Scrambled

    episode S9.E6 november 1998
    A murder at a fertility clinic leads to a complicated, bitterly-contested case involving frozen embryos, a wealthy man, his widow, and his ex-wife.
  • 7.7
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    Venom

    episode S9.E7 november 1998
    A murder case leads detectives to a mother/son team of con artists and accusations of incest.
  • 8.1
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    Punk

    episode S9.E8 november 1998
    An inmate accused of arranging a hit on a corrections officer says that the guard raped her. She also claims that assistant DA Abbie Carmichael has a personal vendetta against her.
  • 7.9
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    True North

    episode S9.E9 december 1998
    The Manhattan DA's office finds itself in the middle of a battle over the death penalty when it asks the Canadian government to extradite a Canadian-born woman facing multiple murder charges.
  • 7.9
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    Hate

    episode S9.E10 january 1999
    When a teenage girl is found dead in a park, the detectives uncover a group of teen racists and the adult who has encouraged them. The prosecution's case sparks a debate about hate speech and the First Amendment.
  • 8.1
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    Ramparts

    episode S9.E11 january 1999
    The discovery of a dead body inside a Volkswagen van dumped in a river leads Briscoe and Curtis to investigate the disappearance of a campus radical from the late 1960s.
  • 7.3
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    Haven

    episode S9.E12 february 1999
    The unlikely suspect in the murder of a community activist and director of a community center in Harlem is a teen from the neighborhood who got into an Ivy League school with his help.
  • 7.5
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    Hunters

    episode S9.E13 february 1999
    Two violent and overzealous bounty hunters working for a bail bondsman interfere with a murder investigation. They are ultimately responsible for two more deaths during their pursuit.
  • 8
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    Sideshow

    episode S9.E14 february 1999
    The death of a government official in New York leads Jack McCoy to cross swords with the Independent Counsel in Washington, as he tries to keep the identity of a key witness secret.
  • 7.4
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    Disciple

    episode S9.E15 february 1999
    A rebellious child dies during an unsanctioned exorcism ceremony. The defendant claims that St. Michael instructed her to perform the exorcism.
  • 7.7
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    Harm

    episode S9.E16 march 1999
    Carmichael aggressively pursues criminally negligent homicide charges against a group of greedy doctors and a medical supplies saleswoman after a patient dies in surgery under unusual circumstances.
  • 7.5
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    Shield

    episode S9.E17 march 1999
    A female police officer is accused of killing a fellow police officer, her ex-boyfriend. She firmly maintains her innocence. However, she also says that he abused her, but nobody on the force heeded her warnings or helped her.
  • 7.7
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    Juvenile

    episode S9.E18 april 1999
    An investigative reporter is shot, and evidence indicates a link to a 20-year-old murder case. Prosecutors learn that one of the reporter's stories on the case may have helped convict an innocent man of the crime.
  • 8.1
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    Tabula Rasa

    episode S9.E19 april 1999
    The prime suspect in the murder of a college professor is a domineering father who kidnapped his children and disappeared 15 years earlier.
  • 7.6
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    Empire

    episode S9.E20 may 1999
    A businessman planning to build a new football stadium in New York City is on trial for murder. But the prosecution's star witness, a professional fundraiser who was having an affair with the victim, may have her own sinister motives.
  • 7.7
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    Ambitious

    episode S9.E21 may 1999
    The son of an imprisoned crime boss and a couple of strip club owners become the central figures in a murder investigation.
  • 7.5
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    Admissions

    episode S9.E22 may 1999
    An Hispanic mathematics professor is the prime suspect in the murder of a graduate student. He claims he is being racially profiled, but detectives have two potential motives. However, they cannot place him at the scene of the crime.
  • 8.5
    /10

    Refuge: Part 1

    episode S9.E23 may 1999
    A brutal murder of a Russian man has ties to the Russian mob. However, the only witness who isn't compromised is a traumatized 10-year-old boy who is reluctant to testify.
  • 8.6
    /10

    Refuge: Part 2

    episode S9.E24 may 1999
    Hitmen reach the last witness in the Russian mob case, which leads to the discovery of a money laundering scheme. And a related bomb scare at the police precinct forces McCoy to defy Schiff and go all out to prosecute the offenders.
  • 7.8
    /10

    Gunshow

    episode S10.E1 september 1999
    After Jack is forced to settle the prosecution of a shooter who committed mass murder in Central Park, he decides to prosecute the gun manufacturer.
  • 8.3
    /10

    Killerz

    episode S10.E2 september 1999
    A 10-year-old girl may be responsible for the murder of a little boy in her neighborhood.
  • 7.9
    /10

    DNR

    episode S10.E3 october 1999
    Judge Denise Grobman is shot and seriously wounded when a man steals her car. Yet when investigation leads to a hired hit ordered by her husband, she vehemently refuses to believe in his guilt.
  • 7.8
    /10

    Merger

    episode S10.E4 october 1999
    The 15-year-old daughter of a wealthy family is killed. When the child of another wealthy family is implicated, the DAs find themselves being stonewalled by both families.
  • 8.1
    /10

    Justice

    episode S10.E5 november 1999
    A lawyer's murder is related to a case involving a death row inmate's innocence. Former prosecutor Jamie Ross represents the lawyer's accused killer, and she faces an ethical dilemma involving an "anonymous" tip and her attorney-client privilege.
  • 8.1
    /10

    Marathon

    episode S10.E6 november 1999
    Detective Briscoe's integrity is brought into question more than once as he pursues a Hispanic robbery/murder suspect.
  • 8.2
    /10

    Patsy

    episode S10.E7 november 1999
    A man once accused of killing his girlfriend is now accused of assaulting the girlfriend's sister. However, he vehemently claims that he is the victim of a setup in both cases.
  • 8.1
    /10

    Blood Money

    episode S10.E8 december 1999
    The motive in the murder of a retired insurance salesman appears to be related to a series of policies he sold to Jews in Poland during the Holocaust.
  • 7.7
    /10

    Sundown

    episode S10.E9 december 1999
    Is a man with Alzheimer's Disease competent enough to stand trial for murder? And if he is found guilty, should he be subjected to the near-inhumane conditions common for prisoners of his type?
  • 7.8
    /10

    Loco Parentis

    episode S10.E10 january 2000
    A school bully is accused of killing a classmate. The killer's father is found to have helped foster his son's violent behavior, so the DA's office charges him with murder on account of depraved indifference.
  • 7.4
    /10

    Collision

    episode S10.E11 january 2000
    A homeless man with bipolar disorder accused of killing a schizophrenic woman refuses to take his medications during the trial.
  • 7.4
    /10

    Mother's Milk

    episode S10.E12 february 2000
    Jack asks Abbie to try a case involving a young mother accused of starving her baby to death.
  • 7.4
    /10

    Panic

    episode S10.E13 february 2000
    Detectives suspect that a best-selling novelist was shot because she was having an affair with a married FBI agent who was helping her with research. It turns out that they have the right motive, but the wrong suspect.
  • 7.4
    /10

    Entitled

    episode S10.E14 february 2000
    With the help of SVU detectives, investigators discover that the matriarch of a powerful family may have resorted to extreme measures to cover-up a murder in which her daughter is a prime suspect.
  • 8.2
    /10

    Fools for Love

    episode S10.E15 february 2000
    A man is accused of raping and killing his girlfriend's sister and another victim. Prosecutors make a deal with the girlfriend for her testimony against the accused, but they also suspect that she was a willing participant in the murders.
  • 7.5
    /10

    Trade This

    episode S10.E16 march 2000
    The murder of a stockbroker leads Briscoe and Green to a coworker of the victim, a coworker who is involved with a stock fraud scheme with ties to organized crime.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Black, White and Blue

    episode S10.E17 march 2000
    A lapse in judgment by two police officers results in two African-Americans killing a white teen in Harlem. The case promises to set off a racial powder-keg, and it drives a split between between Jack McCoy and Adam Schiff.
  • 7.7
    /10

    Mega

    episode S10.E18 april 2000
    Six people die in a helicopter explosion. Evidence points to a millionaire con-man who provides self-actualization seminars for his wealthy clients.
  • 7.3
    /10

    Surrender Dorothy

    episode S10.E19 april 2000
    The DA's office believes that a well-known psychologist/author may have driven his daughter-in-law to suicide because her increasing rebellion against his "submissive wife" philosophy would have ruined his reputation and lucrative career.
  • 7.1
    /10

    Untitled

    episode S10.E20 may 2000
    A man claims he acted under extreme emotional disturbance after he murders the woman who sponsored a graphic painting.
  • 7.4
    /10

    Narcosis

    episode S10.E21 may 2000
    A prostitute's murder leads detectives on a complex investigation involving an Asian prostitution/slavery ring, police shakedowns, stolen credit cards, and a teenage Internet sex addict.
  • 7.5
    /10

    High & Low

    episode S10.E22 may 2000
    A college coed, who is a stripper by night, gets murdered. Two drug dealers are arrested by the detectives. The dealers link her death to a famous porn star, a top business exec, and an illegal insider trading scam.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Stiff

    episode S10.E23 may 2000
    A wealthy middle-aged woman is in a coma after an apparent prescription drug overdose. The incident is tied to a twisted sexual practice involving the husband, but her daughter also turns out to have a financial motive.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Vaya Con Dios

    episode S10.E24 may 2000
    The DA's office prosecutes a Chilean colonel for the murder of a New Yorker working with the Communists during the Pinochet military coup. But has the office overstepped its jurisdiction?
  • 8
    /10

    Endurance

    episode S11.E1 october 2000
    A frustrated, over-stressed mother is charged with murder after starting a fire that killed her disabled son, but the case weighs heavy on Jack McCoy's conscience. Nora Lewin is introduced as DA Adam Schiff's replacement.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Turnstile Justice

    episode S11.E2 october 2000
    After a homeless man is accused of killing a woman at a subway station, McCoy learns that a health care provider may not have provided him with appropriate medical attention in order to save money.
  • 7.5
    /10

    Dissonance

    episode S11.E3 november 2000
    Detectives discover that a murdered concert violinist was having an affair with her orchestra conductor.
  • 7.5
    /10

    Standoff

    episode S11.E4 november 2000
    A corrections officer may have deliberately set up a confrontation in prison that resulted in the death of an inmate who raped his colleague and girlfriend.
  • 7.4
    /10

    Return

    episode S11.E5 november 2000
    When a suspected murderer tries to seek shelter in Israel, the DA's office faces the difficult task of extraditing and trying him in New York while also satisfying the Jewish community.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Burn Baby Burn

    episode S11.E6 november 2000
    A community activist who was formerly a Black Panther is accused of killing a police officer. He claims self-defense because of the history of police violence against African-Americans.
  • 7.8
    /10

    Amends

    episode S11.E7 november 2000
    A 1981 murder case is reopened. An ambassador's son is charged, but key evidence has disappeared. Further investigation reveals that the evidence may not have disappeared by accident.
  • 7.2
    /10

    Thin Ice

    episode S11.E8 december 2000
    A father confesses to killing his son's hockey coach over playing time. His defense is that he should not be considered responsible for his actions because he suffers from a mental defect known as "sports rage."
  • 8.2
    /10

    Hubris

    episode S11.E9 january 2001
    A charming conman acts as his own defense attorney during his murder trial. During the trial, he deliberately tries to taint the jury by flirting with the forewoman.
  • 7
    /10

    Whose Monkey Is It Anyway?

    episode S11.E10 january 2001
    An AIDS researcher is killed by a monkey released in a lab by animal rights activists. The subsequent trial turns into a test case on the ethics of using animals as test subjects.
  • 7.2
    /10

    Sunday in the Park with Jorge

    episode S11.E11 january 2001
    A dead woman is found in Central Park after a Puerto Rican Day parade. Was the death the result of the actions of a violent Hispanic mob that was harassing women at the parade?
  • 8
    /10

    Teenage Wasteland

    episode S11.E12 february 2001
    The murder of a man delivering Chinese food is linked to five bored teens who ordered the food without intending to pay for it.
  • 7.7
    /10

    Phobia

    episode S11.E13 february 2001
    Did a baby's biological father kill one of the baby's adoptive parents in order to get him back, or because of his outrage that the child was adopted by a homosexual couple?
  • 7.2
    /10

    A Losing Season

    episode S11.E14 february 2001
    A convicted drug dealer is accused of killing a pregnant loan officer, but it turns out to be part of a larger plot involving a professional basketball player who may be the baby's father.
  • 7.2
    /10

    Swept Away - A Very Special Episode

    episode S11.E15 february 2001
    A reality show cast member kills one of his castmates during a heated argument. But was the confrontation staged, and who is ultimately responsible?
  • 8
    /10

    Bronx Cheer

    episode S11.E16 march 2001
    The Manhattan DA's office tries a drug dealer for a murder that took place in the Bronx two years previously. Another man had been convicted of the crime by the Bronx DA's office and has been serving time.
  • 7.7
    /10

    Ego

    episode S11.E17 march 2001
    Detectives discover that an Assistant Attorney General was having an affair with a murdered investigator in his office, and that he had made threatening statements about her to his psychiatrist.
  • 7.4
    /10

    White Lie

    episode S11.E18 april 2001
    A drug dealer's murder leads detectives to a military officer's wife who was smuggling cocaine from Colombia.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Whiplash

    episode S11.E19 april 2001
    Two personal injury attorneys go on trial, accused of masterminding an insurance fraud scam involving staged rear-end automobile accidents.
  • 7.5
    /10

    All My Children

    episode S11.E20 may 2001
    A young man's murder appears to be connected to a paternity test and extortion attempt involving the victim's wealthy father.
  • 8.1
    /10

    Brother's Keeper

    episode S11.E21 may 2001
    Briscoe and Green are suspicious of two FBI agents who provide an alibi for an Irish mobster suspected of murder. The case is further complicated by the murder of a witness and the emergence of the mobster's lookalike brother.
  • 8
    /10

    School Daze

    episode S11.E22 may 2001
    Jack goes head-to-head with his former assistant, Jamie Ross, as he prosecutes the gunman in a high-school mass shooting.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Judge Dread

    episode S11.E23 may 2001
    An accountant goes on trial after being charged with ordering a hit on the hard-as-nails judge who imposed an unusually harsh prison sentence on the accountant just to send a message.
  • 7.8
    /10

    Deep Vote

    episode S11.E24 may 2001
    Jack tries to prove that a state senator and a mobster conspired to kill a journalist investigating voting irregularities. But connecting the dots is difficult without cooperation from the journalist's confidential source.
  • 7.8
    /10

    Who Let the Dogs Out?

    episode S12.E1 september 2001
    A jogger is mauled to death by a pit bull, and detectives discover that the dog's original owner may have tortured it and trained it to be a killer.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Armed Forces

    episode S12.E2 october 2001
    A murdered shoe-shine man turns out to be a veteran who was trying to return the Bronze Star he received during the Vietnam War.
  • 7.7
    /10

    For Love or Money

    episode S12.E3 october 2001
    A career criminal is murdered, and the investigation leads detectives to a manipulative widow who may have hired the victim to murder her husband.
  • 7.1
    /10

    Soldier of Fortune

    episode S12.E4 october 2001
    A diamond broker's death may have happened because he was on the verge of exposing a powerful Swiss diamond concern's connection to "blood diamonds" mined in Sierra Leone.
  • 7.4
    /10

    Possession

    episode S12.E5 october 2001
    A pair of feuding siblings who share ownership of a building are suspects in the murder of a tenant who may have been keeping them from selling the building for millions of dollars.
  • 7.1
    /10

    Formerly Famous

    episode S12.E6 november 2001
    Briscoe and Green suspect that a washed-up former Vegas lounge singer may be connected to his wife's murder. But they also discover that his wife had a history as a con artist.
  • 8.1
    /10

    Myth of Fingerprints

    episode S12.E7 november 2001
    A fingerprint analyst's error put an innocent man in prison. Detectives discover that this may not have been the only error she has made in favor of prosecutors.
  • 6.9
    /10

    The Fire This Time

    episode S12.E8 november 2001
    A schoolteacher dies in a building fire. The fire is linked to a group of young radical environmentalists. McCoy tries to go after the man who influenced them.
  • 7.2
    /10

    3 Dawg Night

    episode S12.E9 november 2001
    A hip-hop star goes on trial for the murder of a nightclub patron who accused him of being a sellout.
  • 7.5
    /10

    Prejudice

    episode S12.E10 december 2001
    The DA's office charges a racist who killed an African-American CEO over a taxicab with a hate crime. The defense responds by arguing that racism is a mental defect.
  • 7.3
    /10

    The Collar

    episode S12.E11 january 2002
    A priest is murdered in his confessional, but another priest was the actual target. However, the targeted priest refuses to cooperate with the investigation, claiming that his communication with the killer is privileged.
  • 7.3
    /10

    Undercovered

    episode S12.E12 january 2002
    An insurance company employee is killed because he was on a committee that rejected coverage of an expensive but effective drug for a young girl suffering from leukemia.
  • 8
    /10

    DR 1-102

    episode S12.E13 january 2002
    Serena is asked as a lawyer to help resolve a hostage situation. But her actions threaten to get her disbarred because she didn't disclose to the captor that she works as a prosecutor and wasn't his personal counsel.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Missing

    episode S12.E14 february 2002
    A former aide for a state senator disappears and later turns up dead. The investigation uncovers the aide's affair with a powerful state official and her being pregnant.
  • 7.8
    /10

    Access Nation

    episode S12.E15 february 2002
    McCoy takes on a cyber investigating company after information it sells to a convicted rapist is used in the murder of his therapist.
  • 7.4
    /10

    Born Again

    episode S12.E16 march 2002
    A therapist is charged with murder after an 11-year-old girl dies during a "rebirthing" procedure.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Girl Most Likely

    episode S12.E17 march 2002
    Was a high school girl killed because she was going to report a sexual assault by two classmates, or because another classmate was afraid that she was going to "out" her?
  • 7.1
    /10

    Equal Rights

    episode S12.E18 april 2002
    The DA's office believes that an abused wife hired her brother-in-law to kill her husband. The defense claims that the woman suffers from battered wife syndrome, but was is it a case of self-defense or revenge?
  • 7.3
    /10

    Slaughter

    episode S12.E19 april 2002
    An activist college student is killed for investigating a meat packing plant. McCoy later uncovers a connection between the plant and five E. coli deaths at a fast food chain.
  • 7.7
    /10

    Dazzled

    episode S12.E20 april 2002
    A woman is drugged and falls to her death, and the evidence suggests that her ex-boyfriend and her current husband's ex-wife may have conspired to kill her.
  • 7
    /10

    Foul Play

    episode S12.E21 may 2002
    An investigation into the murder of a private investigator leads to the discovery of a Honduran immigrant illegally playing in a New York youth baseball league.
  • 7.4
    /10

    Attorney Client

    episode S12.E22 may 2002
    A sleazy criminal defense attorney is accused of killing his wife and using knowledge he obtained as a lawyer to frame a client. During the trial, he tries to further manipulate the system to avoid a conviction.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Oxymoron

    episode S12.E23 may 2002
    A doctor's murder helps detectives uncover an organized crime attempt to corner the prescription oxycodone market.
  • 7.5
    /10

    Patriot

    episode S12.E24 may 2002
    A Desert Storm veteran who fancies himself a soldier on the War on Terror is charged with murdering an Arab man. The case becomes more complicated when evidence after the fact suggests that the victim may have indeed been a terrorist.
  • 7.7
    /10

    American Jihad

    episode S13.E1 october 2002
    A teenage converted Muslim from a wealthy New York family acts as his own counsel in his murder trial, claiming that he is a victim of an American Anti-Muslim conspiracy.
  • 8.3
    /10

    Shangri-La

    episode S13.E2 october 2002
    The investigation into the murder of a high-school teacher unearths some unsettling truths about another teacher and one of the students.
  • 7.4
    /10

    True Crime

    episode S13.E3 october 2002
    McCoy becomes suspicious of a former police officer and current true crime writer investigating the death of a controversial rock singer, when the singer's wife is killed.
  • 7.8
    /10

    Tragedy on Rye

    episode S13.E4 october 2002
    Three suspects are arrested when a tourist's home video shows them leaving the victim's apartment with stolen property. McCoy and Southerlyn are surprised when Branch announces they will seek the death penalty.
  • 8.1
    /10

    The Ring

    episode S13.E5 november 2002
    A ring found on a skeleton in Hell's Kitchen indicates that the victim is a woman who was reportedly killed in the World Trade Center on 9-11. A member of a powerful political New York family is charged with her murder.
  • 7.8
    /10

    Hitman

    episode S13.E6 november 2002
    A mob-connected contractor is murdered, and his wife and her lover are connected to a hit man hired to kill him. But the case turns out to be much more complicated than it seems.
  • 8.3
    /10

    Open Season

    episode S13.E7 november 2002
    A defense attorney is murdered hours after his client accused of shooting a cop is acquitted. Detectives suspect that a right-wing militia group is involved, and that the lives of other attorneys may be in jeopardy.
  • 7.3
    /10

    Asterisk

    episode S13.E8 november 2002
    A star baseball player accused of killing a limo driver claims that "roid rage" made him do it.
  • 7.2
    /10

    The Wheel

    episode S13.E9 december 2002
    The discovery of a badly-burned dead body outside a Chinese official's penthouse puts the Manhattan DA's office in the middle of a dispute between the Chinese government and a religion it officially considers a cult.
  • 7.5
    /10

    Mother's Day

    episode S13.E10 january 2003
    A mother claims self-defense after she kills her schizophrenic son who was involved in a hit-and-run death.
  • 7.8
    /10

    Chosen

    episode S13.E11 january 2003
    A defense attorney tries to exploit the jury's sympathy for Israel in the hopes that it will get his bookie client found innocent of a murder charge.
  • 7.5
    /10

    Under God

    episode S13.E12 february 2003
    A drug dealer turns up dead, leading detectives to members of a neighborhood watch group whose lives were poisoned by the victim. The priest who leads the group confesses to the crime, claiming that God told him to do it.
  • 7.8
    /10

    Absentia

    episode S13.E13 february 2003
    A man scheduled to testify in a murder trial disappears. The DA's office discovers that he's actually a radical who disappeared 20 years earlier after being charged with killing his girlfriend.
  • 7.8
    /10

    Star Crossed

    episode S13.E14 february 2003
    A young man with an 80 IQ confesses to committing a murder. However, assistant DA Southerlyn suspects that a beautiful but manipulative woman he was trying to impress may have talked him into his plea.
  • 7.5
    /10

    B*tch

    episode S13.E15 february 2003
    A successful businesswoman is accused of killing her stock broker and lover over insider trading issues. However, she claims she suffered a psychotic break because she was undergoing hormone replacement therapy.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Suicide Box

    episode S13.E16 march 2003
    An African-American teenager shoots a police officer because he's angry about the lack of investigation into his brother's death. A reopening of that investigation aggravates some deep racial tensions.
  • 7.5
    /10

    Genius

    episode S13.E17 april 2003
    A promising young writer confesses to the murder and robbery of a cabbie and demands that he receive the death penalty.
  • 7.2
    /10

    Maritime

    episode S13.E18 april 2003
    A former star quarterback and his agent go missing after an all-night boating party and are presumed dead. The quarterback's deadbeat, drug-addicted brother quickly becomes the prime suspect.
  • 7.5
    /10

    Seer

    episode S13.E19 april 2003
    A murder suspect uses his "psychic powers" to lead detective Green to the crime scene and murder weapon. Is he truly psychic, or just an obsessed stalker?
  • 7.5
    /10

    Kid Pro Quo

    episode S13.E20 april 2003
    A prep school headmaster is accused of murdering his school's admissions director after overruling her on a controversial admissions selection.
  • 7.6
    /10

    House Calls

    episode S13.E21 may 2003
    Did a shady doctor irresponsibly prescribe pain-killing drugs to one of his patients, which resulted in her death?
  • 8.1
    /10

    Sheltered

    episode S13.E22 may 2003
    As the DA's office tries to prosecute a teenage sniper who killed four people, prosecutors discover that he was abducted from his real family as a child and emotionally abused by the man he was living with.
  • 8.7
    /10

    Couples

    episode S13.E23 may 2003
    Briscoe and Green catch three murder cases and one kidnapping on the same day, and one murder is tied to a fourth murder which happened ten years ago. Each case apparently involves domestic disputes gone wrong.
  • 8
    /10

    Smoke

    episode S13.E24 may 2003
    The child of a popular comic dies after he is reportedly thrown out of a window during a fire. However, the investigation also uncovers allegations that the comic molested an 11-year-old boy years earlier.
  • 8.6
    /10

    Bodies

    episode S14.E1 september 2003
    A serial killer refuses to tell Jack McCoy the names and locations of all of his victims. The killer's defense attorney has the information too, but refuses to disclose it because of attorney-client privilege.
  • 7.5
    /10

    Bounty

    episode S14.E2 october 2003
    A bounty hunter's murder in a motel room is connected to a journalist who may have fabricated a story about the criminal the bounty hunter was chasing.
  • 7.5
    /10

    Patient Zero

    episode S14.E3 october 2003
    A carjacking murder investigation becomes complicated by a SARS outbreak in New York City, and the discovery of medical container with the virus in the stolen car.
  • 7.4
    /10

    Shrunk

    episode S14.E4 october 2003
    A popular Broadway composer is accused of murder. His psychiatrist blames it on a traumatic episode he had as a teenager, but McCoy discovers that the doctor may also have a motive.
  • 7.3
    /10

    Blaze

    episode S14.E5 october 2003
    The leader of a rock band is accused of tampering with a flamethrower at a concert, which caused the deaths of 23 people. However, an enamored teenage fan may be willing to commit perjury to give him an alibi.
  • 8.6
    /10

    Identity

    episode S14.E6 november 2003
    An 80-year-old man is accused of killing the man who stole his identity and caused him to lose his home. However, the defendant's son wants him declared incompetent to stand trial.
  • 7.8
    /10

    Floater

    episode S14.E7 november 2003
    A murder investigation leads detectives to a judge who may be taking bribes from a select group of divorce lawyers to rig their cases.
  • 7.1
    /10

    Embedded

    episode S14.E8 november 2003
    A reporter, just back from Iraq, is shot in the back by a military-issue handgun. Did he put soldiers' lives at risk with his reporting, and was the shooting payback for it?
  • 7.7
    /10

    Compassion

    episode S14.E9 november 2003
    Did a pediatric oncologist kill a con artist over a failed investment, or did she actually crack mentally over the stress of dealing with terminally-ill children?
  • 7.3
    /10

    Ill-Conceived

    episode S14.E10 december 2003
    An illegal Mexican immigrant is accused of killing his wife's sweatshop boss because he was their baby's father. He claims, however, that his wife was forced to be her boss's surrogate mother.
  • 7.8
    /10

    Darwinian

    episode S14.E11 january 2004
    A homeless man goes on trial for manslaughter, accused of killing another homeless man. His defense attorney argues that the laws of civilized society should not apply to homeless people because of their realities.
  • 7.5
    /10

    Payback

    episode S14.E12 january 2004
    A real estate broker is accused of being an unlikely hit man for a former mob boss recently released from prison and trying to get his old crew back.
  • 7.4
    /10

    Married with Children

    episode S14.E13 february 2004
    The detectives break the news of a woman's murder to her sister, but she turns out to really be her ex-wife and disappears with the victim's adopted child, who had previously lived with the couple.
  • 7.7
    /10

    City Hall

    episode S14.E14 february 2004
    A city councilman and a water inspector are victims of a shooting in City Hall. Prosecution of the guilty party is difficult because the murder weapon was obtained through a secretive FISA warrant.
  • 7.5
    /10

    Veteran's Day

    episode S14.E15 february 2004
    An angry veteran whose son died in Iraq claims extreme emotional disturbance after he is charged with killing a young Iraq War protester he thought was provoking him.
  • 7.7
    /10

    Can I Get a Witness?

    episode S14.E16 february 2004
    A boy is murdered in the park in front of two witnesses by a man on a bicycle. When the witnesses are repeatedly threatened and one turns up dead, the case against the murderer begins to unravel.
  • 7.8
    /10

    Hands Free

    episode S14.E17 march 2004
    Some of a man's body parts are found in separate garbage cans and an early suspect is his deaf girlfriend. The investigation soon discovers that this woman is nowhere close to who she seems.
  • 7.9
    /10

    Evil Breeds

    episode S14.E18 march 2004
    The main witness in the deportation trial of a purported Nazi war criminal is found beaten to death in her home. Suspicion soon falls upon the former guard, as well as a white supremacist entrepreneur who supported his cause.
  • 8.2
    /10

    Nowhere Man

    episode S14.E19 march 2004
    Detectives discover that a murdered assistant district attorney had an assumed identity, and that he never graduated from law school. They also discover that he made a mob-related murder case in his files disappear.
  • 7.5
    /10

    Everybody Loves Raimondo's

    episode S14.E20 april 2004
    A film producer is killed at Raimondo's, a restaurant known for its mob ties and celebrity clientèle. Briscoe and Green discover that the producer was feuding with a novelist over profits for a movie based on the writer's book about Raimondo's.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Vendetta

    episode S14.E21 april 2004
    A former prisoner exonerated on murder charges kills another man. He claims he wouldn't have done it if he wasn't wrongfully imprisoned in the first place, so prosecutors must prove that he had a prior history of criminal behavior.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Gaijin

    episode S14.E22 april 2004
    The murder of a prominent Japanese model visiting New York City may have been a Yakuza-related murder for hire.
  • 7.3
    /10

    Caviar Emptor

    episode S14.E23 may 2004
    A Persian caviar businessman is found dead in his bed, and the victim's children and new young wife become murder suspects.
  • 8.3
    /10

    C.O.D.

    episode S14.E24 may 2004
    Two women are accused of conspiring to murder each other's husbands, but Jack and Serena are forced to try the cases simultaneously and separately. Meanwhile, Detective Briscoe announces his retirement.
  • 7.3
    /10

    Paradigm

    episode S15.E1 september 2004
    Green and his new partner, Joe Fontana, investigate the murder of an Iraq War veteran who has more incriminating Abu Ghraib prison photos. An Iraqi woman who is an American citizen is charged, but she claims to be a prisoner of war.
  • 7.8
    /10

    The Dead Wives Club

    episode S15.E2 september 2004
    A "9-11 Widow" who received a lucrative settlement after her firefighter husband's death is murdered. Another firefighter's ex-wife, who was dumped for the victim after 9-11, is charged.
  • 8
    /10

    The Brotherhood

    episode S15.E3 september 2004
    A prison guard is charged with killing a released member of a white supremacist prison gang. The guard says the victim threatened him and his family. The gang also threatens the judge presiding over the trial.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Coming Down Hard

    episode S15.E4 october 2004
    Two student suicides are connected to a university drug study. The investigation uncovers that the pharmaceutical company that commissioned the study may have known about adverse side-effects, but tried to cover it up.
  • 7.8
    /10

    Gunplay

    episode S15.E5 october 2004
    Black market gun dealers murder two undercover officers during a gun buy. During prosecution, McCoy begins to suspect that a bitter defense attorney may have masterminded the entire episode.
  • 7.7
    /10

    Cut

    episode S15.E6 october 2004
    A novelist dies after undergoing multiple plastic surgeries. Detectives believe that her doctor took unnecessary risks and falsified documents to cover it up. The DA's office charges him with criminally negligent homicide.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Gov Love

    episode S15.E7 november 2004
    McCoy takes on gay marriage at the state Supreme Court when a man refuses to testify in a case involving the death of the governor of Connecticut's wife, because he says that he is married to the defendant.
  • 7.3
    /10

    Cry Wolf

    episode S15.E8 november 2004
    A mob boss is accused of ordering a hit on a urban vigilante group leader who was seeing his mistress. However, when the mistress is killed before the trial, he insists that he truly loved her and had absolutely nothing to do with it.
  • 7.4
    /10

    All in the Family

    episode S15.E9 november 2004
    A diamond broker's wife is accused of hiring Russian mobsters to arrange a hit on her husband.
  • 7.5
    /10

    Enemy

    episode S15.E10 december 2004
    An Afghani drug lord is implicated in a drug-related massacre in New York. However, prosecution is difficult because the government considers him an ally in the War on Terror in Afghanistan.
  • 7.7
    /10

    Fixed

    episode S15.E11 december 2004
    A frustrated prison social worker is accused of taking the law into her own hands with a dangerous man whom she knew was violating the terms of his parole agreement.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Mammon

    episode S15.E12 january 2005
    A contractor is suspected in the murder of an investment banker after detectives discover that the home's security system has been tampered with, and he was having an affair with the man's wife.
  • 7.4
    /10

    Ain't No Love

    episode S15.E13 january 2005
    A young hip-hop performer is accused of murdering a rap mogul, but his friend testifies during the trial that he is the killer. Serena objects to prosecution tactics, and Branch fires her.
  • 8.1
    /10

    Fluency

    episode S15.E14 january 2005
    Sixteen people die from influenza after they received counterfeit flu vaccine shots. New A.D.A. Alexandra Borgia helps Jack McCoy prosecute the responsible party for manslaughter.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Obsession

    episode S15.E15 february 2005
    The investigation into the death of a conservative talk show host leads to a stalker who claims to be having an affair with his wife. McCoy suspects that the wife manipulated her into killing him.
  • 7.4
    /10

    The Sixth Man

    episode S15.E16 february 2005
    A hot-tempered basketball star is accused of killing one of his hecklers. The investigation and trial, however, reveal that the heckler's pattern of harassment may have crossed the line of decency on several occasions.
  • 7.7
    /10

    License to Kill

    episode S15.E17 february 2005
    McCoy faces the unpopular decision to pursue charges against a vigilante who used his car to track down a man who murdered a group of hunters.
  • 7.4
    /10

    Dining Out

    episode S15.E18 march 2005
    The host of a popular cooking show is on trial for killing a television executive. However, the trial takes an unexpected turn when a juror enamored with the client is accused of trying to profit from the trial.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Sects

    episode S15.E19 march 2005
    A murder/attempted suicide investigation leads to a religious cult that promotes pedophilia, but finding charges that will stick to the group's leader proves to be difficult.
  • 8
    /10

    Tombstone

    episode S15.E20 april 2005
    A lawyer from a prestigious corporate law firm is murdered. One of the firm's senior partners is reluctant to testify against the accused for selfish reasons. Detective Green is critically wounded escorting a reluctant witness.
  • 7.9
    /10

    Publish and Perish

    episode S15.E21 april 2005
    Fontana and his new temporary partner, Nick Falco, investigate the murder of a porn star. After the woman charged with her murder is also killed, they uncover a connection to both victims and a politically ambitious ex-police commissioner.
  • 7.5
    /10

    Sport of Kings

    episode S15.E22 may 2005
    A jockey's murder leads detectives to a businessman who is accused of stealing from his company's pension fund to purchase personal luxury items.
  • 7.4
    /10

    In God We Trust

    episode S15.E23 may 2005
    A man confesses to a nine-year-old racially motivated murder. His defense attorney argues that he should not be punished because he is a born-again Christian and has already done his penance.
  • 7.5
    /10

    Locomotion

    episode S15.E24 may 2005
    A failed suicide attempts leads to a train crash that kills 12 people. The defendant's attorney initially offers an insanity defense. However, he is soon fired, as the defendant represents himself and changes his plea.
  • 8.4
    /10

    Red Ball

    episode S16.E1 september 2005
    When a little girl is abducted as part of a car-jacking, McCoy must bargain with the devil in the form of a system-savvy criminal.
  • 8.1
    /10

    Flaw

    episode S16.E2 september 2005
    The death of a con-man who tried to call Olivia Benson just before he was murdered brings Olivia and Fin to the assistance of Fontana and Green, and leads to a slippery mother/daughter team.
  • 7.9
    /10

    Ghosts

    episode S16.E3 october 2005
    A deathbed confession reopens one of Fontana's old murder cases involving a young model, one in which he believed that the father was the killer. Branch and the father want the case to go away, but McCoy is bent on going to trial.
  • 7.3
    /10

    Age of Innocence

    episode S16.E4 october 2005
    The bombing death of a husband set to remove the feeding tube of his wife, who's in a persistent vegetative state, focuses the investigation on the protesters.
  • 7.8
    /10

    Life Line

    episode S16.E5 october 2005
    A businessman is coerced by a gang to murder an investigative journalist in order to guarantee protection for his son, who is serving time in prison.
  • 7.8
    /10

    Birthright

    episode S16.E6 november 2005
    A nurse is accused of performing illegal sterilizations on troubled teens without their knowledge, which resulted in the death of one of her patients.
  • 7.3
    /10

    House of Cards

    episode S16.E7 november 2005
    A single mother is killed and her baby stolen, and police find the child with a woman who took the baby while pretending to be pregnant.
  • 7.7
    /10

    New York Minute

    episode S16.E8 november 2005
    The murder of a trucker blows open a case involving illegal trafficking and the citizen border patrol
  • 8.4
    /10

    Criminal Law

    episode S16.E9 november 2005
    Three women with identical names are murdered with the same m.o.. And Fontana and Green's investigation turns up a "hit list" with Jack McCoy's name on it, as well as a number of witnesses in one of his trials.
  • 8.3
    /10

    Acid

    episode S16.E10 november 2005
    Van Buren relentlessly pursues a cocky suspect she believes was responsible for driving a friend's daughter to suicide, because he allegedly attacked her with drain cleaner. But her resulting actions could put the case in jeopardy.
  • 7.3
    /10

    Bible Story

    episode S16.E11 december 2005
    A synagogue's Chumash is stolen and desecrated, and the crime must be solved before a religious war breaks out in downtown Manhattan.
  • 7.4
    /10

    Family Friend

    episode S16.E12 january 2006
    After an accountant for the mob is stabbed to death, a corrupt police officer who grew up with the victim takes justice into his own hands. However, pursuing the case could put the officer's other convictions in jeopardy.
  • 7.5
    /10

    Heart of Darkness

    episode S16.E13 january 2006
    McCoy pursues murder charges against a woman in an assisted suicide case, but he finds out during the trial that a third party may have also been involved.
  • 7.5
    /10

    Magnet

    episode S16.E14 february 2006
    A teenager from a rich family kills a schoolmate because he refused to sell him test answers. His defense argues that he was not responsible for his actions because of the medication he was prescribed.
  • 7.5
    /10

    Choice of Evils

    episode S16.E15 march 2006
    A suburban mom ends up admitting to the detectives that she shot and killed her own teenage son out of fear that the boy would become a menace to society.
  • 8.1
    /10

    Cost of Capital

    episode S16.E16 march 2006
    The murder of a banker leads to the discovery that he was having a relationship with his boss. McCoy's case rides on the testimony of the defendant's 14-year-old daughter. However, her testimony also reveals a shocking family secret.
  • 7.5
    /10

    America, Inc.

    episode S16.E17 march 2006
    While Jack is prosecuting a man who murdered a military contractor, the prosecution is interrupted by the recent capture of a terrorist.
  • 8
    /10

    Thinking Makes It So

    episode S16.E18 march 2006
    Fontana is accused of using excessively violent tactics to force a kidnapping suspect to reveal the location of the victim. Prosecutors are left to decide whether the ends justified the means.
  • 7.2
    /10

    Positive

    episode S16.E19 april 2006
    A boy's suicide note alleging misconduct of his sister's doctor results in the investigation of a physician administering illegal AIDS drugs.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Kingmaker

    episode S16.E20 may 2006
    A paper reveals the identity of an undercover officer, getting her killed, and the trail may lead to a politician's office.
  • 7.8
    /10

    Hindsight

    episode S16.E21 may 2006
    Fontana and Green investigate Green's former replacement, Nick Falco, who becomes a suspect in an investigation after a woman he had spent the night with is found slashed to death in his bathroom.
  • 8.8
    /10

    Invaders

    episode S16.E22 may 2006
    A case involving fake DEA badges leads to the death of A.D.A. Borgia. McCoy is forced to resort to dubious legal tactics to ensure that Borgia's killers are brought to justice.
  • 7.2
    /10

    Fame

    episode S17.E1 september 2006
    A botched burglary ends in murder, and the apartment in question belongs to a paparazzi who may have compromising photos of a celebrity and her baby.
  • 7.7
    /10

    Avatar

    episode S17.E2 september 2006
    A murder is discovered on a social-networking website, and sorting out all the suspects and those who have moral responsibility complicates convicting the killer.
  • 7.7
    /10

    Home Sweet

    episode S17.E3 october 2006
    A girl is killed in a building explosion. The owner was offered millions to sell the property, but turned down the highest offer--much to the chagrin of his ex-wife.
  • 7.3
    /10

    Fear America

    episode S17.E4 october 2006
    An Arab man killed on video, purportedly by a white supremacist group, may have actually been killed for helping the FBI infiltrate an Arab terrorist cell in New York city.
  • 7.4
    /10

    Public Service Homicide

    episode S17.E5 october 2006
    Green and Cassady investigate the murder of a child molester exposed on a national television news program.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Profiteer

    episode S17.E6 october 2006
    An executive of a body armor company is gunned down while arriving at his daughter's $2 million sweet-16 party; detectives tie the incident to a U.S. soldier killed in Iraq when his vest failed.
  • 7.7
    /10

    In Vino Veritas

    episode S17.E7 november 2006
    A washed-up, anti-Semitic actor is arrested with blood on his clothes. Detectives later discover that a Jewish television producer he has connections to has been murdered. But what role, if any, did he play in it?
  • 7.4
    /10

    Release

    episode S17.E8 november 2006
    A co-ed is accused of murdering a man inside a "Babes Being Bad" tour bus. But was she raped by the owner of the company, and is he ultimately responsible for the murder?
  • 8.2
    /10

    Deadlock

    episode S17.E9 november 2006
    An ambitious defense attorney tries to use a murder case as a referendum on the death penalty, but Jack is worried that her client may not be getting the best advice.
  • 7.5
    /10

    Corner Office

    episode S17.E10 december 2006
    A high-end escort is arrested for the murder of a lawyer tied to a corporate scandal and scheduled to testify before Congress. But somebody other than the victim may have been paying for her services.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Remains of the Day

    episode S17.E11 january 2007
    The investigation into the death of a gold-digger's drug addict son uncovers a potential plot to illegally harvest dead body parts for medical transplants.
  • 7.8
    /10

    Charity Case

    episode S17.E12 january 2007
    The adopted infant of a soap opera star and a relative of the baby's biological father are central to a murder investigation.
  • 7.3
    /10

    Talking Points

    episode S17.E13 february 2007
    A Ph.D. student working on stem cell research goes on trial after the attempted murder of a controversial, outspoken right-wing pundit results in the death of an audience member.
  • 7.4
    /10

    Church

    episode S17.E14 february 2007
    The death of a gay male actor exposes a scandal that threatens to bring down the powerful pastor of a large New York church who preaches intolerance toward homosexuals.
  • 7
    /10

    Melting Pot

    episode S17.E15 february 2007
    The murder of a film director leads to motives that include immigration and Muslim fanaticism, but picking the correct one may be difficult.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Murder Book

    episode S17.E16 february 2007
    Green and Cassady investigate the death of a publishing agent who approved a book written by an ex-athlete that describes how he would have murdered his wife if he was in fact the real killer.
  • 7.3
    /10

    Good Faith

    episode S17.E17 march 2007
    A fundamentalist Christian goes on trial for murder, but he claims that he was protecting his daughter from Divine Retribution for learning Evolution theory in school.
  • 7.3
    /10

    Bling

    episode S17.E18 april 2007
    A jeweler who caters to the hip-hop community pleads guilty to killing a female rap star. But he later claims that a violent record producer intimidated him into confessing to the crime.
  • 7.8
    /10

    Fallout

    episode S17.E19 april 2007
    The DA's office prosecutes a Russian police officer for poisoning to death a Russian immigrant who kidnapped his daughter for a prostitution ring in New York.
  • 7.9
    /10

    Captive

    episode S17.E20 may 2007
    While investigating a kidnapping and murder of a young boy, a second kidnapped boy, missing for years, is found living with his captor. But how will Jack handle prosecuting the case when things are not as clear as they seem at first?
  • 7.6
    /10

    Over Here

    episode S17.E21 may 2007
    While prosecuting an Iraq War veteran for murder, Jack discovers that his crime may be related to the deplorable conditions he was subjected to at a V.A. hospital.
  • 7.9
    /10

    The Family Hour

    episode S17.E22 may 2007
    While investigating the murder of a senator's ex-wife, detectives find an alarming history of domestic abuse involving the entire family. However, the investigation comes to an abrupt halt when another dead body turns up.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Called Home

    episode S18.E1 january 2008
    Former New York detective Cyrus Lupo returns after his brother's suicide. The investigation reveals a relationship between two assisted suicides, a notorious assisted suicide doctor, his daughter, and an investigative journalist.
  • 7.7
    /10

    Darkness

    episode S18.E2 january 2008
    A mother and daughter are kidnapped during a blackout, and the blackout impedes Green and Lupo's investigation. Once the kidnappers are located, A.D.A. Cutter discovers that they had prior knowledge that the blackout was going to happen.
  • 7.2
    /10

    Misbegotten

    episode S18.E3 january 2008
    A pipe bomb injures a pregnant security guard, and when Lupo crosses a line gathering evidence it may harm the DA's case.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Bottomless

    episode S18.E4 january 2008
    A murder over a missing pair of dry-cleaned pants leads the DA's office to a public health scandal involving a giant discount department store chain.
  • 7.9
    /10

    Driven

    episode S18.E5 january 2008
    The DA's office faces the difficult task of ensuring equal justice for an African American father and a white mother for their roles in the shooting deaths of two people during a racially-motivated confrontation.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Political Animal

    episode S18.E6 january 2008
    A fugitive con artist working as a political fund-raiser is charged in a triple homicide. In order to cast reasonable doubt during the trial, he points the finger at several prominent politicians he supported.
  • 8
    /10

    Quit Claim

    episode S18.E7 february 2008
    A.D.A. Cutter matches wits with a slippery, manipulative con artist who is the lone surviving suspect connected to a real estate scam involving organized crime.
  • 8
    /10

    Illegal

    episode S18.E8 february 2008
    An auxiliary police officer is accused of shooting and killing a protester at an immigration rally. McCoy is accused of having a liberal ax to grind when he vigorously pursues charges against the officer.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Executioner

    episode S18.E9 february 2008
    An innocent doctor is murdered in a case of mistaken identity. The intended target performed a botched lethal injection in South Carolina.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Tango

    episode S18.E10 february 2008
    Cutter prosecutes a junkie and her pimp boyfriend for the brutal rape and murder of a young woman. But is he exploiting ADA Rubirosa's attractiveness to gain favor with a juror and improve their chances at a conviction?
  • 7.9
    /10

    Betrayal

    episode S18.E11 march 2008
    A wife is accused of shooting her therapist husband over an inappropriate relationship with a teenage client. She acts as her own counsel and claims she was also one of his teenage victims
  • 7.9
    /10

    Submission

    episode S18.E12 march 2008
    The discovery of a dog fighting ring leads to an investigation of the disappearance of one of the participants' wives. A television reporter's testimony helps charge the husband, but did she conspire to frame him?
  • 7.3
    /10

    Angelgrove

    episode S18.E13 march 2008
    A fanatical Christian teenager is implicated in the stoning death of his mother because of her adultery. Did the boy's pastor incite him to take action, and is he criminally responsible?
  • 8.3
    /10

    Burn Card

    episode S18.E14 april 2008
    When Detective Green shoots a murder suspect, an internal investigation reveals that he had a gambling problem and once owed money to the suspect. The DA's office reluctantly pursues murder charges against him.
  • 7.4
    /10

    Bogeyman

    episode S18.E15 april 2008
    Lupo and his new partner, Kevin Bernard, discover that a woman's suicide may actually be a murder. The case appears to be tied to a secretive religious group that some people consider a cult, but is the group to blame?
  • 8.1
    /10

    Strike

    episode S18.E16 may 2008
    A legal aid strike forces A.D.A. Rubirosa to go head-to-head with Cutter in a murder trial, when she is appointed as the defendant's counsel.
  • 7.7
    /10

    Personae Non Grata

    episode S18.E17 may 2008
    A murder investigation leads Lupo and Bernard to Plattsburgh, where a con artist is posing as her runaway daughter on a social networking website to lure men out of their money.
  • 8.2
    /10

    Excalibur

    episode S18.E18 may 2008
    While preparing a murder case, the DA's office stumbles on a potential scandal involving a prostitution business and the governor of New York, and it could have serious implications on Jack McCoy's future as District Attorney.
  • 7.8
    /10

    Rumble

    episode S19.E1 november 2008
    Jack McCoy uses a post-9/11 terrorism statute to prosecute a group of street fighters involved in a deadly retaliatory brawl--a move that A.D.A. Cutter strongly disagrees with.
  • 7.7
    /10

    Challenged

    episode S19.E2 november 2008
    A intellectually disabled man who witnessed a murder holds the key to revealing the victim's shocking family secret, as well as shocking information about the identity of the killer.
  • 7.5
    /10

    Lost Boys

    episode S19.E3 november 2008
    An investigation into the death of a 17-year-old boy leads Lupo and Bernard into the world of a fundamentalist Mormon sect, its polygamist leader, and one of his wives who is trying to get away from him.
  • 7.4
    /10

    Falling

    episode S19.E4 november 2008
    A fatality in a crane accident leads prosecutors to a case involving the victim's wife, who is discovered to be in a coma, and a controversial procedure that could intentionally stunt a handicapped young girl's growth.
  • 8.1
    /10

    Knock Off

    episode S19.E5 december 2008
    The investigation into the murder of an upstate New York man in Chinatown appears to be cut and dry, until detectives discover a possible cover-up in the case that leads all the way to the governor's office.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Sweetie

    episode S19.E6 december 2008
    While investigating the death of a former male prostitute whose memoirs have become a best-seller, Lupo and Bernard discover that the writer was a fraud and that his memoirs were based on another person's life.
  • 8.2
    /10

    Zero

    episode S19.E7 december 2008
    A law clerk enamored with A.D.A. Cutter may have an undue influence over the judge she works for in one of Cutter's trials, but could there be another reason for her actions?
  • 8
    /10

    Chattel

    episode S19.E8 january 2009
    While investigating the deaths of two married divorce lawyers, Lupo and Bernard uncover a connection to couple running a Haitian child slavery ring.
  • 8.3
    /10

    By Perjury

    episode S19.E9 january 2009
    Cutter finds himself pitted against a lawyer whose manipulation of the legal system keeps letting him get away with murder, and Lupo's mistake risks the current case and Cutter's life.
  • 8
    /10

    Pledge

    episode S19.E10 january 2009
    The prime suspect in the murders of the son and housekeeper of married university researchers is a journalist who appears to be obsessed with girls from a particular sorority.
  • 7.5
    /10

    Lucky Stiff

    episode S19.E11 january 2009
    A con artist is convicted in the death of one of his "business partners." But when he and his wife are killed after his conviction, a new motive--and new suspects--emerge in the original crime.
  • 7.7
    /10

    Illegitimate

    episode S19.E12 february 2009
    The DA's office tries to prove that a businessman who believes that he is the illegitimate son of President Kennedy was the mastermind of a plot that ended with three dead bodies.
  • 7.3
    /10

    Crimebusters

    episode S19.E13 february 2009
    Detectives have two viable suspects in the firebombing of an Army recruiting center that killed an infant inside the building, but an overzealous vigilante crime-fighting group interferes with the investigation
  • 7.1
    /10

    Rapture

    episode S19.E14 february 2009
    The owner of a Rapture website is killed by a man working to return Soviet Jews to Israel to fulfill Biblical prophecy. However, the killer seeks shelter at the Iranian embassy, leaving the DA's office in an unenviable position.
  • 7.3
    /10

    Bailout

    episode S19.E15 march 2009
    The manager of a failing youth recreation center faces trial in the kidnapping and death of a young woman. However, he blames his troubles on a disgraced Wall Street CEO--the victim's lover--who failed to provide an important donation.
  • 7.5
    /10

    Take-Out

    episode S19.E16 march 2009
    The investigation into the murder of a journalist could shed new light on an espionage case involving a man serving life in prison for spying for the Chinese government.
  • 7.7
    /10

    Anchors Away

    episode S19.E17 march 2009
    A murdered television news reporter was investigating allegations that a billionaire Wall Street investment adviser was a fraud, but figuring out who killed her proves to be difficult
  • 7.6
    /10

    Promote This!

    episode S19.E18 april 2009
    The prosecution of a group of teenagers for the brutal beating of an illegal Honduran immigrant proves to be a thorny and delicate issue for the District Attorney's office.
  • 7.6
    /10

    All New

    episode S19.E19 may 2009
    A firefighter and his wife are brutally killed. The DA's office faces the politically unpopular decision to prosecute another firefighter, who may have resorted to extreme measures to cover up his crime.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Exchange

    episode S19.E20 may 2009
    As Cutter and Rubirosa prosecute a mentally disturbed woman for the deaths of two British researchers, they begin to suspect that the defendant's brother may have orchestrated the entire episode for personal gain.
  • 8.1
    /10

    Skate or Die

    episode S19.E21 may 2009
    The murders of three homeless men lead detectives to a possible serial killer.
  • 8.2
    /10

    The Drowned and the Saved

    episode S19.E22 june 2009
    A murder investigation uncovers connections to the governor's wife, and perhaps a scandal involving the governor and an appointment for an open US Senate seat. But can Jack McCoy successfully prosecute and not risk his chances at being elected?
  • 7.6
    /10

    Memo from the Dark Side

    episode S20.E1 september 2009
    The shooting death of a veteran of the War on Terror leads to an investigation and conspiracy indictment against a former Bush Justice Department employee on conspiracy charges involving the torture of prisoners.
  • 8.1
    /10

    Just a Girl in the World

    episode S20.E2 october 2009
    A crime scene technician is killed, and Detective Lupo jeopardizes the investigation when he gets sexually involved with a second victim who later becomes a suspect in the original case.
  • 7.7
    /10

    Great Satan

    episode S20.E3 october 2009
    The DA's office is forced to tackle an embarrassing case involving domestic terrorists, the explosion of a synagogue with materials supplied by the police, and an informant who may have been lying all along to keep out of trouble.
  • 7.3
    /10

    Reality Bites

    episode S20.E4 october 2009
    The father of several adopted special needs children is accused of killing his wife over her reluctance to sign off on a reality show based on their family, and the subsequent trial threatens to turn into a media circus.
  • 7.7
    /10

    Dignity

    episode S20.E5 october 2009
    A late-term abortion doctor is killed, which leads to the emotionally-charged trial of a pro-life advocate, and threatens to drive a wedge between Cutter and Rubirosa.
  • 7.8
    /10

    Human Flesh Search Engine

    episode S20.E6 october 2009
    The DA's office takes on the operator of a website dedicated to righting social wrongs after a delusional woman used information gathered on a website to kill a man.
  • 7.5
    /10

    Boy Gone Astray

    episode S20.E7 november 2009
    The DA's office has to deal with a drug-related murder by two young teenage boys who have been trained as assassins by a Mexican drug cartel.
  • 8
    /10

    Doped

    episode S20.E8 november 2009
    What appears to be a tragic drunk driving accident with multiple fatalities becomes more complicated when investigators discover that the driver was about to blow the whistle on the pharmaceutical company she worked for.
  • 8.3
    /10

    For the Defense

    episode S20.E9 november 2009
    The DA's office discovers that a former prosecutor now working as a defense attorney has been getting damaging witnesses in his trials killed, and that Rubirosa was unknowingly a co-conspirator in one of his cases.
  • 7.8
    /10

    Shotgun

    episode S20.E10 november 2009
    A small businessman in Spanish Harlem becomes a hero after shooting three armed robbers. However, the investigation later discovers that there are holes in his story and that it may not have been a case of self-defense.
  • 7.7
    /10

    Fed

    episode S20.E11 december 2009
    Lupo and Bernard discover that a murdered member of a progressive community activist group may have been a conservative trying to expose the group's wrongdoings. Meanwhile, Van Buren gets bad news from former detective Rey Curtis.
  • 7.3
    /10

    Blackmail

    episode S20.E12 january 2010
    The death of a journalist who worked for a celebrity gossip website leads detectives to her publisher, who sought to use information she gathered for a story to blackmail a well-known talk show host.
  • 7.8
    /10

    Steel-Eyed Death

    episode S20.E13 march 2010
    A family of four is brutally murdered. The investigation leads detectives to "horrorcore" culture, an accomplice who claims to have suffered from amnesia, and an accused killer with an unlikely post-traumatic stress disorder defense.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Boy on Fire

    episode S20.E14 march 2010
    Two teens from an underachieving high school are accused of burning to death a student from a more successful charter school, and Lupo and Bernard suspect that their principal is providing them with a phony alibi.
  • 7.7
    /10

    Brilliant Disguise

    episode S20.E15 march 2010
    Is a graduate student working in the medical lab at a prestigious university robbing and killing female escorts to support his gambling addictions? And how far will his loyal fiancée go to protect him?
  • 8.1
    /10

    Innocence

    episode S20.E16 march 2010
    Cutter is forced to play hardball with his mentor after her Innocence Project group gets his guilty verdict in a murder trial set aside, but is he ready to handle the unexpected consequences of his actions?
  • 8
    /10

    Four Cops Shot

    episode S20.E17 march 2010
    The debate rages over how to treat an informant who shot and killed four police officers. However, did one of the officers try to put undue pressure on him to help catch a dangerous criminal?
  • 7.2
    /10

    Brazil

    episode S20.E18 march 2010
    When an environmental scientist, Dr. Oscar Silva, is poisoned during a global warming symposium, Detectives Cyrus Lupo and Kevin Bernard initially suspect competitors from Dr. Silva's field of study. It is soon discovered that Dr. Silva is involved in a messy custody battle with his wife's ex-husband, Phillip Shoemaker and the focus of the investigation quickly shifts to the victim's family. Meanwhile, the case becomes personal for Cutter as it stirs up unpleasant memories from his own past.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Crashers

    episode S20.E19 may 2010
    A 20-year-old is accused of killing his sister after they crashed the mayor's black-tie party, but detectives also soon find unexpected links between the suspect and the office of a New York senator who was also at the party.
  • 7.6
    /10

    The Taxman Cometh

    episode S20.E20 may 2010
    Lupo and Bernard uncover a possible conspiracy to kill off wealthy cancer patients in the calendar year 2010 so that their inheritors don't have to pay an Estate Tax, but legal roadblocks make the case difficult to prosecute.
  • 8
    /10

    Immortal

    episode S20.E21 may 2010
    A fatal stabbing leads to the discovery that a bio-research firm has been exploiting the cells of an African American man who died 50 years ago for medical research, but has never compensated his dirt-poor descendants.
  • 7.8
    /10

    Love Eternal

    episode S20.E22 may 2010
    Detectives suspect that a tacky and volatile wife murdered her husband, but they soon discover that the victim may have backed out of a conspiracy with fellow husbands to hide assets from their wives until their divorces.
  • 8.6
    /10

    Rubber Room

    episode S20.E23 may 2010
    Lupo and Bernard believe they are in a race against time to find a student threatening on an Internet blog to blow up a school--only to discover that they are looking for a disgruntled teacher instead.
  • 6.6
    /10

    The Right Thing

    episode S21.E1 february 2022
    Newly acquainted partners Detective Kevin Bernard and Detective Frank Cosgrove investigate the murder of a notorious entertainer. A dispute over throwing out a confession creates a rift in the District Attorney's office.
  • 6.5
    /10

    Impossible Dream

    episode S21.E2 march 2022
    The COO of a major tech company is found murdered in Central Park. Price and Maroun work to untangle a web of deceit to expose a cunning narcissist.
  • 7.1
    /10

    Filtered Life

    episode S21.E3 march 2022
    Detectives Kevin Bernard and Frank Cosgrove investigate the disappearance of a social media star whose case takes the internet by storm; whilst A.D.A.'s Nolan Price and Samantha Maroun must weigh their decisions regarding the case against the wishes of the missing woman's family.
  • 7
    /10

    Fault Lines

    episode S21.E4 march 2022
    After a family court judge is murdered, Bernard and Cosgrove dig into the many grievances against him. When the DA's office is faced with unforeseen challenges, Maroun takes matters into her own hands to save the case.
  • 6.1
    /10

    Free Speech

    episode S21.E5 april 2022
    Bernard and Cosgrove investigate the murder of a congressional candidate. Price and Maroun contend with an extremist plot hellbent on thwarting the candidate's agenda by any means necessary.
  • 6.9
    /10

    Wicked Game

    episode S21.E6 april 2022
    When a young man is found dead of an apparent overdose, Dixon fiercely pursues a homicide investigation as an old unsolved case comes back to haunt her. Price and Maroun risk putting a witness in harm's way to expose their suspect and reveal the monster underneath.
  • 6.5
    /10

    Legacy

    episode S21.E7 april 2022
    Bernard and Cosgrove are confronted with several suspects in the shooting of a headmaster at an elite private school. A teenager's life hangs in the balance as Price and Maroun debate who's more culpable: the shooter or the enabler.
  • 6.9
    /10

    Severance

    episode S21.E8 may 2022
    When the CFO of a Fortune 500 company is found strangled in her home, Bernard and Cosgrove work to connect multiple dead ends to find her killer. The prosecution is faced with an uphill battle as McCoy and Price butt heads over a choice that could cost them the case.
  • 6.8
    /10

    The Great Pretender

    episode S21.E9 may 2022
    Bernard and Cosgrove must sift through fact and fiction to find the killer of a young Manhattan socialite. The murder trial takes a turn that becomes personal for Price and puts Maroun in a compromising situation.
  • 6.3
    /10

    Black and Blue

    episode S21.E10 may 2022
    The murder of an off-duty NYPD detective threatens to tear the city apart. Cosgrove mourns the loss of a friend and asks Capt. Benson for help solving the case. McCoy and Price disagree on how to prosecute the culprit, sparking sharp condemnation from all sides.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Gimme Shelter - Part Three

    episode S22.E1 september 2022
    After uncovering key evidence, McCoy and Price seek justice against an international crime ring, but complications threaten the outcome of their case.
  • 7.1
    /10

    Battle Lines

    episode S22.E2 september 2022
    Cosgrove and Shaw investigate the murder of a teenage girl who was in NYC for a college visit. The case is complicated when it's revealed that the victim was the daughter of the staunchly pro-life governor of Texas, and it's discovered that the victim was actually in NYC to have an abortion.
  • 7.3
    /10

    Camouflage

    episode S22.E3 october 2022
    A 32-year-old white man murders seven Asian-Americans in the NYC subway by firearm. Nolan Price normally opposes the death penalty but the circumstances of the case are such that he is willing to advocate for capital punishment.
  • 7.3
    /10

    Benefit of the Doubt

    episode S22.E4 october 2022
    When the young author of a tell-all book is found dead, Cosgrove asks a former mentor for help with the case. Price has an uphill battle in court when a search and seizure is deemed illegal.
  • 7.4
    /10

    12 Seconds

    episode S22.E5 october 2022
    Cosgrove and Shaw piece together the clues of what happened to a murdered law student, uncovering a web of blackmail and lies. Price fights to have a piece of shocking testimony thrown out.
  • 7.3
    /10

    Vicious Cycle

    episode S22.E6 november 2022
    When a fashion designer is killed on the night of his boutique opening, Cosgrove and Shaw must track down a suspect with very little evidence and no witnesses. Maroun is shocked to find her own name on the defense's witness list.
  • 7.7
    /10

    Only the Lonely

    episode S22.E7 november 2022
    A crisis consultant who's made many enemies on behalf of her clients is murdered. Price and Maroun must set aside the potential damage to a witness's reputation in order to strengthen their case.
  • 7.4
    /10

    Chain of Command

    episode S22.E8 november 2022
    When a decorated military veteran is found murdered in his own home, Cosgrove and Shaw work with his daughter to uncover an important clue. Price and Maroun must untangle the stories of other service members connected to the victim.
  • 7.3
    /10

    The System

    episode S22.E9 december 2022
    A suspect arrested for murder escapes police custody after months of waiting for his day in court; as a hostage situation erupts, Shaw must re-examine his conduct as the arresting officer; Price questions his faith in the justice system.
  • 7.1
    /10

    Land of Opportunity

    episode S22.E10 january 2023
    When a homeless migrant is murdered, evidence leads Cosgrove and Shaw to a mysterious cover-up at a construction site. Price and Maroun push a key witness to testify, knowing that speaking out could lead to legal consequences.
  • 7
    /10

    Second Chance

    episode S22.E11 january 2023
    When an ex-con is found beaten to death, Cosgrove and Shaw arrest an unlikely culprit. Maroun must put her personal feelings for the suspect aside and take the lead in court when she and Price can't agree on the best trial strategy.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Almost Famous

    episode S22.E12 january 2023
    After a teenager is killed, Cosgrove and Shaw discover what lengths kids will go to these days to become Internet famous.
  • 7.3
    /10

    Mammon

    episode S22.E13 february 2023
    A student found dead in her home, leads Cosgrove and Shaw who seems to be without a motive. Price and Maroun reveal a church embezzling the money of their followers, but have difficulty suing clergy men.
  • 7.6
    /10

    Heroes

    episode S22.E14 february 2023
    Following a shooting in a night club, resulting in the murder of a famous model, the police investigate whether this was a random or targeted shooting.
  • 7.8
    /10

    Fear and Loathing

    episode S22.E15 february 2023
    Cosgrove and Shaw must unravel a string of false crime reports to get to the truth surrounding a respected doctor's murder; Shaw becomes the target of retaliation when he files a complaint against two patrol officers.
  • 7.3
    /10

    Deadline

    episode S22.E16 march 2023
    When a celebrated journalist is killed, Cosgrove and Shaw explore an unpublished report involving a prominent politician. Price and Maroun fight an uphill battle when their only credible witness is currently awaiting trial for another heinous crime.
  • 7.5
    /10

    Bias

    episode S22.E17 march 2023
    When a public defender is murdered, Cosgrove and Shaw are surprised to find Price at the crime scene; his involvement in the trial compromises the case.
  • 7.5
    /10

    Collateral Damage

    episode S22.E18 april 2023
    When a young woman dies a slow and painful death from an untreated infection, Cosgrove and Shaw suspect she was under the influence of a powerful cult; Price and Maroun put pressure on its members to find the cult's true mastermind.
  • 6.9
    /10

    Private Lives

    episode S22.E19 april 2023
    Cosgrove and Shaw investigate the murder of a family physician whose outspoken politician wife suspects she was the intended target. The case hangs in the balance when the defense calls one of the doctor's young patients to testify.
  • 7.7
    /10

    Class Retreat

    episode S22.E20 may 2023
    When a businessman is found murdered, his surprising connection to Cosgrove's daughter helps the police make a break in the case. Price and Maroun disagree on how to proceed when the defendant's age brings up precedent they must follow.
  • 7.9
    /10

    Appraisal

    episode S22.E21 may 2023
    Cosgrove and Shaw suspect an art dealer was murdered but can't make an arrest until they locate her body; Price and Maroun must go to trial with a circumstantial case and a suspect with unlimited resources; the squad celebrates a birthday.
  • 7.4
    /10

    Open Wounds

    episode S22.E22 may 2023
    When a senator is gunned down at his daughter's wedding, McCoy pushes for a severe sentence and squares up against a formidable defense attorney - his own daughter. Price can't help but empathize with the defendant over a shared trauma.

Best moments10

  • 8.4
    /10
    86% of the votes

    Criminal Law

    episode S16.E9 november 2005
    Three women with identical names are murdered with the same m.o.. And Fontana and Green's investigation turns up a "hit list" with Jack McCoy's name on it, as well as a number of witnesses in one of his trials.
  • 8.2
    /10
    84% of the votes

    Excalibur

    episode S18.E18 may 2008
    While preparing a murder case, the DA's office stumbles on a potential scandal involving a prostitution business and the governor of New York, and it could have serious implications on Jack McCoy's future as District Attorney.
  • 7.6
    /10
    84% of the votes

    Vaya Con Dios

    episode S10.E24 may 2000
    The DA's office prosecutes a Chilean colonel for the murder of a New Yorker working with the Communists during the Pinochet military coup. But has the office overstepped its jurisdiction?
  • 8
    /10
    82% of the votes

    Illegal

    episode S18.E8 february 2008
    An auxiliary police officer is accused of shooting and killing a protester at an immigration rally. McCoy is accused of having a liberal ax to grind when he vigorously pursues charges against the officer.
  • 8.1
    /10
    80% of the votes

    Tabula Rasa

    episode S9.E19 april 1999
    The prime suspect in the murder of a college professor is a domineering father who kidnapped his children and disappeared 15 years earlier.
  • 7.9
    /10
    79% of the votes

    DNR

    episode S10.E3 october 1999
    Judge Denise Grobman is shot and seriously wounded when a man steals her car. Yet when investigation leads to a hired hit ordered by her husband, she vehemently refuses to believe in his guilt.
  • 7.8
    /10
    79% of the votes

    Progeny

    episode S5.E12 january 1995
    The murder of an abortion doctor leads to the prosecution of a radical pro-life leader, who hopes to use the trial to grandstand against abortion laws.
  • 8.1
    /10
    76% of the votes

    Blood Money

    episode S10.E8 december 1999
    The motive in the murder of a retired insurance salesman appears to be related to a series of policies he sold to Jews in Poland during the Holocaust.
  • 7.8
    /10
    75% of the votes

    Gunshow

    episode S10.E1 september 1999
    After Jack is forced to settle the prosecution of a shooter who committed mass murder in Central Park, he decides to prosecute the gun manufacturer.
  • 7.5
    /10
    75% of the votes

    High & Low

    episode S10.E22 may 2000
    A college coed, who is a stripper by night, gets murdered. Two drug dealers are arrested by the detectives. The dealers link her death to a famous porn star, a top business exec, and an illegal insider trading scam.

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1
E14
0
E15
0
E16
2
E17
0
E18
2
E19
1
E20
0
E21
2
E22
16
E23
66
E1
41
E2
57
E3
15
E4
20
E5
2
E6
29
E7
198
E8
17
E9
4
E10
16
E1
18
E2
10
E3
8
E4
10
E5
11
E6
9
E7
13
E8
6
E9
6
E10
3
E11
1
E12
1
E13
2
E14
5
E15
17
E16
14
E17
2
E18
8
E19
19
E20
1
E21
189
E22
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E2
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E3
--
E4
--
E5
--
E6
--
E7
--
E8
--
E9
--
E10
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E11
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E12
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E13