Law & Order

The show follows a crime, ususally adapted from current headlines, from two separate vantage points. The first half of the show concentrates on the investigation of the crime by the police, the second half follows the prosecution of the crime in court.

Cast

• Steven Zirnkilton
• S. Epatha Merkerson
• Sam Waterston
• Jerry Orbach
• Steven Hill
• Jesse L. Martin
• Fred Dalton Thompson
• Chris Noth
• Benjamin Bratt
• Michael Moriarty
• Alana De La Garza
• Elisabeth Röhm
• Angie Harmon
• Jill Hennessy
• Dann Florek
• Richard Brooks
• Linus Roache
• Jeremy Sisto
• Anthony Anderson
• Dianne Wiest
• Carey Lowell
• Dennis Farina
• Carolyn McCormick

• Season 1
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: Prescription for Death
  Sgt. Max Greevey: Look! Someone's lying! Whether it's Gunja Din or Doctor God, we don't know....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 2: Subterranean Homeboy Blues
  Executive A.D.A. Benjamin "Ben" Stone: You said 'Here's your taste'. Sounds rather cool!...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 3: The Reaper's Helper
  [Stone has just been punched in the face]::Ben Stone: It only hurts when I prosecute....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 4: Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die
  Det. Sgt. Maxwell "Max" Greevey: How many times would you go out with her before you went to bed wit...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 5: Happily Ever After
  Ben Stone: True love! They'd trade each other for a nickel....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 6: Everybody's Favorite Bagman
  [In a run-down Harlem apartment building]::Little Girl: Are you The Man?::Det. Sgt. Maxwell "Max" Gr...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 7: By Hooker, by Crook
  Hotel Worker: Fifty cents! I've been working hotels for 40 years, and I ain't seen a two-bit tip sin...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 8: Poison Ivy
  [the trial of a policeman has just ended in his suicide]::Ben Stone: It's the last one, no more cops...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 9: Indifference
  Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone: I didn't hear you knock.::Shambala Green: That's because I didn't. If I'...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 10: Prisoner of Love
  [searching a suspect's apartment, Stone finds assorted S&M; gear]::Elizabeth Hendrick: It's my hope c...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 11: Out of the Half-Light
  Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone: Do you think of yourself as a black lawyer or a lawyer who's black?...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 12: Life Choice
  Detective Mike Logan: Now, I don't care what you believe. Trying to prevent abortions by bombing goe...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 13: A Death in the Family
  Sgt. Max Greevey: I don't wanna see this guy without back-up.::Det. Mike Logan: Back-up? I don't wan...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 14: The Violence of Summer
  'Phillip Seymor Hoffman''s debut....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 15: The Torrents of Greed: Part 1
  The title of this 2-part episode is taken from Chapter 18, verse 251 of the Buddhist scripture The D...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 16: The Torrents of Greed: Part 2
  This episode, along with _"Law & Order" (1990) {Black Tie (#4.5)}_ (qv), are the only episodes that ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 17: Mushrooms
  Actress 'S. Epatha Merkerson' (qv) appears as Denise Winters, the mother of the shooting victims. Sh...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 18: The Secret Sharers
  Ben Stone: The commandment says, "Thou shalt not kill". It does not say, "Thou shalt not kill only n...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 19: The Serpent's Tooth
  The title is based upon a quote from 'William Shakespeare (I)' (qv)'s play "King Lear" (Act I, Scene...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 20: The Troubles
  While en route to the Downtown Courthouse, a Lebanese prisoner is found killed in the back of the pr...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 21: Sonata for Solo Organ
  [to a suspect who lied]::Ben Stone: That was very cutsy-poo! "A little over a million." It was a mil...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 22: The Blue Wall
  This episode marks the final appearance of 'George Dzundza' (qv)....
• Season 2
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: Confession
  [about Max Greevey's killer, who'd also considered trying to kill Max's wife]::Capt. Donald Cragen: ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 2: The Wages of Love
  Detective Mike Logan: Here you go. [Hands Cerreta a hot dog]::Sergeant Phil Cerreta: Best hot dog in...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 3: Aria
  Priscilla Blaine: Mama... are you awake? I couldn't sleep. I haven't slept in days. Last night in th...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 4: Asylum
  [a witness has a mental condition causing him to sometimes act irrationally]::Ben Stone: Your psychi...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 5: God Bless the Child
  After a little girl dies of strep throat, Cerretta and Logan investigate the reasons why and leads t...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 6: Misconception
  Detectives Cerreta and Logan investigate what appears to be the mugging of a pregnant woman, Amy New...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 7: In Memory Of
  During a building renovation, construction workers find human remains in the walls of the building. ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 8: Out of Control
  Detectives Ceretta and Logan investigate when university student Andrea Fermi claims she was raped b...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 9: Renunciation
  Cerreta and Logan investigate the hit and run murder of a prep school teacher's husband while going ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 10: Heaven
  [viewing bodies of people killed in a fire]::Det. Mike Logan: I've never seen this many. You?::Sgt. ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 11: His Hour Upon the Stage
  After the body of a Broadway producer is found in a dumpster in the Meat Packing District, Cerretta ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 12: Star Struck
  This episode represents a nifty bit of casting references to WWII-themed shows. First, Blanche Baker...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 13: Severance
  [Arthur Gold has just lost a case to Stone]::Arthur Gold: Call me for lunch.::[Gold drives away]::AD...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 14: Blood Is Thicker...
  After the wife of a wealthy husband is found with her skull bashed in outside of a nightclub, Cerret...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 15: Trust
  Cerretta and Logan investigate the murder of a school boy who's found shot in the head in an abandon...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 16: Vengeance
  A.D.A. Paul Robinette: Eye for an eye's worked for thousands of years....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 17: Sisters of Mercy
  Det. Mike Logan: Don't nuns have curfews?::Sister Bettina: That went out with the penguin suit....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 18: Cradle to Grave
  A baby is found frozen to death and abandoned at nearby hospital. Cerreta and Logan at first are lea...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 19: The Fertile Fields
  First episode to feature 'Leslie Hendrix' (qv) as Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 20: Intolerance
  Detectives Cerreta and Logan investigate the shooting death of Tim Chong a brilliant physics student...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 21: Silence
  Detectives Cerreta and Logan investigate the stabbing death of Councilman James Vogel who is found l...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 22: The Working Stiff
  Detectives Cerreta and Logan investigate the shooting death of Marshall McFadden, a merger and acqui...
• Season 3
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: Skin Deep
  Detectives Cerreta and Logan investigate murder of professional photographer Julian Decker who is fo...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 2: Conspiracy
  Adam Schiff: Blame it on the CIA. They haven't been fingered in years....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 3: Forgiveness
  Detectives Cerreta and Logan investigate the murder of Beth Milgram, a college student who was kille...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 4: The Corporate Veil
  Detectives Cerreta and Logan investigate the death of a young man, Roberto Martinez, who died of a h...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 5: Wedded Bliss
  Detectives Cerreta and Logan investigate the murder of a young woman who is found floating in the ri...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 6: Helpless
  [Dr. Olivet has been raped while on an undercover mission]::Dr. Elizabeth Olivet: You have no idea w...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 7: Self Defense
  Detectives Cerreta and Logan investigate the shooting of two young men. They were known small-time d...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 8: Prince of Darkness
  Adam Schiff: I LOVE cases where a homicidal gun dealer is our best witness....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 9: Point of View
  Lanie Stieglitz: [Stieglitz, Stone's opponent of the week, has just realized that her client has bee...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 10: Consultation
  Detectives Briscoe and Logan investigate the death of a Nigerian woman, Kelani Amoda, who died soon ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 11: Extended Family
  Briscoe and Logan investigate a possible abduction of a young girl, Samantha Silver, who disappears ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 12: Right to Counsel
  Thomas Hill's final performance....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 13: Night & Fog
  Briscoe and Logan investigate the death of an elderly holocaust survivor who apparently took her own...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 14: Promises to Keep
  Detectives Briscoe and Logan investigate the murder of Jennifer Gorham who is found in Central Park....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 15: Mother Love
  [a woman is trying to convince a cop and his partner to raid an apartment for drugs]::Cop #1: Look, ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 16: Jurisdiction
  Detective Mike Logan: I have a little niece who's retarded, you ask her in the wrong tone to clear t...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 17: Conduct Unbecoming
  Detectives Briscoe and Logan investigate the death of Navy Lt. Tracy Hagen, who was found dead in he...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 18: Animal Instinct
  Detectives Briscoe and Logan investigate the death of Dr. Faye Walsh, a genetic researcher who is fo...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 19: Virus
  Lennie Briscoe was born on January 2, 1940....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 20: Securitate
  Detectives Briscoe and Logan investigate the murder of Nicholas Iliescu, a furniture dealer who was ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 21: Manhood
  Detective Lennie Briscoe: Next time you wanna get some bones broken, try falling down a flight of st...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 22: Benevolence
  [searching through piles of trash]::Det. Lennie Briscoe: How many apartments are in this building?::...
• Season 4
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: Sweeps
  [after he kills the man who molested his son]::Sid Fisher: Somebody shot an animal. Call a vet....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 2: Volunteers
  Detectives Briscoe and Logan investigate the severe beating of a homeless man, Roland Kirk. The man ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 3: Discord
  Det. Mike Logan: I've been eager myself. It's not a crime....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 4: Profile
  [Testifying against a racist killer]::Lionel Jackson: I remember the voice of the first white man wh...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 5: Black Tie
  EADA Ben Stone: I don't mind when you want to make new law, Norman, but next time I wish you'd choos...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 6: Pride and Joy
  Detectives Briscoe and Logan investigate the death of a building superintendent who is found dead in...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 7: Apocrypha
  After a car bomb explodes in a parking garage, Detectives Briscoe and Logan find themselves investig...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 8: American Dream
  Ben Stone: I guess you just weren't clever enough.::Phillip Swann: I got this far, Ben.::Ben Stone: ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 9: Born Bad
  D.A. Adam Schiff: You can't force the other side to play. You put a check in the win column and you ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 10: The Pursuit of Happiness
  Adam Schiff: Quick, lock the door. Someone might walk in with a case we can win....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 11: Golden Years
  Adam Schiff: Young people get impatient with old people. Especially cantankerous ones.::Ben Stone: O...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 12: Snatched
  EADA Ben Stone: Mr. Bregman, you are possibly the stupidest criminal I have ever met....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 13: Breeder
  Hotel Manager: [seeing bloody sheets on hotel bed] My God, what happened here?::Detective Lennie Bri...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 14: Censure
  Ben Stone: [a former judge has pleaded guilty to criminal harassment and is elocuting his guilt. Sto...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 15: Kids
  D.A. Adam Schiff: Dumb, stupid and idiotic.::A.D.A. Claire Kincaid: I think of her as generally fair...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 16: Big Bang
  Edward Manning: You're ruining me as a man of science!::Executive A.D.A. Ben Stone: Sir, you did tha...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 17: Mayhem
  [regarding a case where the wife cut her husband's penis off]::Lt. Anita Van Buren: She might as wel...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 18: Wager
  Ben Stone: He was never that boy's father. He just happened to be in the room when he was conceived....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 19: Sanctuary
  Adam Schiff: What happened to "Give me your huddled masses"? What the hell has happened to this city...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 20: Nurture
  This episode was originally written to have the girl sexually abused by a male kidnapper. However, s...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 21: Doubles
  Detectives Briscoe and Logan investigate the locker room assault on a rising young tennis star, Kore...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 22: Old Friends
  D.A. Adam Schiff: I never thought I'd get a letter of resignation from you. I thought you'd be here ...
• Season 5
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: Second Opinion
  Detective Lennie Briscoe: [after a nurse faints due to noxious fumes emanating from a corpse's mouth...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 2: Coma
  Michael Dobson: You know I don't need you to tell me I'm a sonuvabitch. Been one for a long time. Th...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 3: Blue Bamboo
  Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy: If you're gonna play stickball in Canarsie, learn Brooklyn rules!...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 4: Family Values
  Detectives Briscoe and Logan investigate the disappearance of Laura Madsen, a successful editor at a...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 5: White Rabbit
  William Kunstler is the only guest star to play himself in an episode....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 6: Competence
  Lt. Anita Van Buren: Were you born a smart-ass, or did it just come with the job?::Jack McCoy: I'm a...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 7: Precious
  Detectives Briscoe and Logan investigate the disappearance of a three month old baby, Emily, who was...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 8: Virtue
  Jack McCoy: [closing summation] Give me the keys to your house, or I'll charge you with murder. I'm ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 9: Scoundrels
  Detectives Briscoe and Logan investigate the death of lawyer Arthur Kapinski, who is found shot in t...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 10: House Counsel
  ADA Jack McCoy: Defense attorneys distort the facts. They twist evidence. They will not only go to t...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 11: Guardian
  Detectives Briscoe and Logan investigate the death of a young woman who is found dead behind a dumps...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 12: Progeny
  Det. Mike Logan: I thought she said she hadn't spoken to her ex in over a year?::Det. Lennie Briscoe...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 13: Rage
  A successful white stockbroker is found dead of rifle wound to the head. Although it initially looks...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 14: Performance
  Story based on the "Spur Posse", a group of high school boys from Lakewood, California, who used a p...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 15: Seed
  Briscoe and Logan's investigation of a shooting seems to be an open and shut case. A distraught woma...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 16: Wannabe
  Barclay: He and his father, they're all alike with their Irish temper. They lose control and next th...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 17: Act of God
  Detectives Briscoe and Logan investigate an explosion at a construction site that killed a 12 year-o...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 18: Privileged
  Detectives Briscoe and Logan investigate the murder of David and Eileen Lerner who were were found s...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 19: Cruel and Unusual
  "Facilitated communication" (the technique of "facilitating" the communicative abilities of a person...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 20: Bad Faith
  Detectives Briscoe and Logan investigate a death of one of their own, Det. Marino who is found by tw...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 21: Purple Heart
  Detectives Briscoe and Logan investigate the murder of a cabbie, Daniel Johnson, who is found shot t...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 22: Switch
  Detectives Briscoe and Logan investigate the murder of a psychiatrist, Dr. Lillian Hampton who is fo...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 23: Pride
  Towards the end of the fifth season, Executive Producer 'Dick Wolf (I)' (qv) decided not to renew 'C...
• Season 6
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: Bitter Fruit
  Mrs. Gaines: [shouts] I loved my daughter!::Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy: I don't doubt that, Mrs. Ga...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 2: Rebels
  When Briscoe & Curtis are looking at the laptop in the car, Curtis reads out "Another non-boring nig...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 3: Savages
  Detectives Briscoe and Curtis investigate the murder of an undercover policeman, Bobby Croft who wor...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 4: Jeopardy
  Peter Nicodos: But I'm innocent. I didn't kill anybody.::ADA Jack McCoy: You've already learned the ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 5: Hot Pursuit
  Detective Lennie Briscoe: You know, Rey, if you ever left the police department, you could have a he...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 6: Paranoia
  Jack McCoy: Are you kidding? Shelly Cates could convince a jury that Jeffrey Dahmer had an eating di...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 7: Humiliation
  Detectives Briscoe and Curtis investigate the murder of a prostitute, Gwen George, who was found sho...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 8: Angel
  Detectives Lenny Briscoe and Ray Curtis investigate a baby kidnapping when Leah Coleman reports that...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 9: Blood Libel
  Detectives Briscoe and Curtis investigate the murder of Sarah Aronson, a high school art teacher who...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 10: Remand
  When a mob arsonist is arrested, he wants to make a deal for a lighter sentence. He tells the police...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 11: Corpus Delicti
  Christopher's Attorney: We move to stay this proceeding, Your Honor, pending resolution of litigatio...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 12: Trophy
  Detectives Briscoe and Curtis investigate the murder of a young African-American boy who is found de...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 13: Charm City
  This is the first crossover storyline for "Law & Order" (1990)_ and _"Homicide: Life on the Street" ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 14: Custody
  Detectives Briscoe and Curtis investigate the murder of a social worker, Larry Mello, who is found d...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 15: Encore
  Detectives Briscoe and Logan investigate the murder of a woman in central park. After passersby shou...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 16: Savior
  In this episode, 'Ellen Pompeo' (qv) plays Jenna Weber, and 'Brooke Smith (I)' (qv) plays Margot Bel...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 17: Deceit
  After a gay man is found murdered, police discover he was suing the law firm who recently fired him....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 18: Atonement
  Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy: Isn't you're theory getting to be like yours? They say he's an outraged...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 19: Slave
  Lt. Anita Van Buren: Your conduct was unacceptable.::Detective Rey Curtis: Why? Cause I let a father...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 20: Girlfriends
  Jack McCoy: [referring to Barry Taggert] So this was a full-service family business? He provided the...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 21: Pro Se
  [reading his allocution in court]::James Smith: A man came toward me and I became afraid. I stabbed ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 22: Homesick
  Lt. Anita Van Buren: [referring to the Karmels] He's 48; she's 27?::Detective Lennie Briscoe: My her...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 23: Aftershock
  SPOILER: Sgt. Max Greevey ('George Dzundza' (qv)), Assistant District Attorneys Claire Kincaid ('Jil...
• Season 7
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: Causa Mortis
  ADA Jamie Ross: I believe in monsters and things that go bump in the night, Jack. May they rot in he...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 2: I.D.
  Lucy Sullivan: I want a lawyer.::Lt. Anita Van Buren: Honey, you need one....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 3: Good Girl
  Det. Rey Curtis: Hey, Lennie, look at this. "Mycenaean Amphorae, 1400-1375 BC."::Det. Lennie Briscoe...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 4: Survivor
  Detective Lennie Briscoe: You're the Contessa of Alto-Perugia?::Sophie Mercier: [strong southern US ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 5: Corruption
  Lt. John Flynn: [after shooting drug dealer] You make them when you have to, right, Lennie?::Detecti...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 6: Double Blind
  A.D.A. Jamie Ross: Freedom of the press isn't free, Mr Bailey, but turning over your mailing list wo...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 7: Deadbeat
  Prostitute: [in scotch section of liquor store] Lot of good labels up there. It'd be nice to share a...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 8: Family Business
  Detective Rey Curtis: What exactly is your relationship to Kate?::Jeffery Arbaugh: I'm her philosoph...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 9: Entrapment
  Det. Rey Curtis: Hey, didn't you learn anything from Mister Rogers? A policeman is your best friend....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 10: Legacy
  A.D.A. Jamie Ross: Almost a record! They convicted him in an hour and a half.::D.A. Adam Schiff: How...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 11: Menace
  Witness: It used to be that you honked when somebody cut you off. Now they drag you out of the car, ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 12: Barter
  Eric Hoffman: [referring to his co-op application] I was turned down because I run this establishmen...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 13: Matrimony
  Velma Darcy: [to Kim Triandos] You are as dumb as a bag of hair....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 14: Working Mom
  Detectives Briscoe and Curtis investigate the murder of Gilbert "Gilly" Keen, a retired cop who is f...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 15: D-Girl
  Detective Lennie Briscoe: [referring to Curtis's marital breakup] I thought if you said enough "Hail...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 16: Turnaround
  Jack McCoy: [a judge in L.A. has just ruled to nullify an extradition order] Speak up, Your Honor. T...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 17: Showtime
  Adam Schiff: Started with a murder, ends with an execution. You got what you wanted. Take the rest o...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 18: Mad Dog
  Detectives Briscoe and Curtis investigate the rape and murder of a young woman, Teresa Perez, who wa...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 19: Double Down
  Det. Lennie Briscoe: [Is waiting for McCoy outside a hospital] Did you put iron in your cheerios thi...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 20: We Like Mike
  Ricky Garcia: [Having just been instructed to write down his confession] Can I say how I didn't mean...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 21: Passion
  Detective Lennie Briscoe: [Referring to the victim] Looks like she had a little spare time. Diaphrag...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 22: Past Imperfect
  Detective Lennie Briscoe: [arriving in the victim's apartment] THE Christine Sandler?::CSU Dryden: Y...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 23: Terminal
  This episode paralleled real events that occurred in New York City in 1995 and 1996. First, Chapter ...
• Season 8
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: Thrill
  [trying to prosecute two thrill-killers]::Jack McCoy: I'm playing legal tiddlywinks with these punks...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 2: Denial
  This is J.K. Simmons first appearance as Dr. Emil Skoda....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 3: Navy Blues
  Jack McCoy: Statement or not, the facts are on our side.::D.A. Adam Schiff: Facts don't win cases....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 4: Harvest
  Jack McCoy: Jamie, do dead people feel pain?::A.D.A. Jamie Ross: Is that a trick question, Jack? The...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 5: Nullification
  Detectives Briscoe and Curtis investigate an armored car robbery at an off track betting parlor that...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 6: Baby, It's You
  The storyline of this episode is continued in _"Homicide: Life on the Street" (1993) {Baby, It's You...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 7: Blood
  Adam Schiff's quote "Back then they had lynch mobs and bull-whips; now they use toilet plungers" lik...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 8: Shadow
  A.D.A. Charlie Harmon: It went too far; I am sorry about that. Try to understand, Jamie.::A.D.A. Jam...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 9: Burned
  Detective Lennie Briscoe: Ok, let me see if I got this straight: Stanley Somebody who's a fashion ph...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 10: Ritual
  Mr. Tobak: [upon seeing his car on the back of a tow truck] You have heard of diplomatic immunity?::...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 11: Under the Influence
  Jack McCoy: Kills three people and hides behind the bottle.::Jamie Ross: The law says he can.::Jack ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 12: Expert
  Jack McCoy: She shot Mayer with her father's gun? Freud must be having a good laugh....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 13: Castoff
  Detectives Briscoe and Curtis investigate the murder of Jennifer Gaylin who was possibly the victim ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 14: Grief
  Detectives Briscoe and Curtis investigate the severe beating of George Harding who is found under a ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 15: Faccia a Faccia
  Detective Lennie Briscoe: [carrying a suspect's book, JFK Jr., to Rey] Don't worry, I just bought it...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 16: Divorce
  Det. Lennie Briscoe: Divorce lawyers... God's way of telling you to stay single.::Det. Rey Curtis: O...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 17: Carrier
  Kenny 'Twist' Stark: [to his lover] Hey no baby, I don't wear rubbers... it's more fun bareback!...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 18: Stalker
  Detective Lennie Briscoe: So all we have to do is find the invisible man, see if he has roof tar on ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 19: Disappeared
  Danielle Melnick: You turning soft on me, Jack?::Jack McCoy: You know I'm a sucker for an execution....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 20: Burden
  Leslie Hendrix was pregnant while filming this episode....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 21: Bad Girl
  Police believe a young woman is responsible for the stabbing of a police officer. McCoy is stunned d...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 22: Damaged
  [Lennie has just found out that one of his daughters has been murdered]::Det. Lennie Briscoe: She wa...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 23: Tabloid
  This episode was co-written by actor 'Alec Baldwin' (qv), who based the episode in part on his own e...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 24: Monster
  Lennie's daughter Cathy Briscoe was born on June 23, 1971 and was murdered on March 4, 1998....
• Season 9
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: Cherished
  Abbie Carmichael: I have a solution that will make us all happy.::ADA Jack McCoy: What's that?::Abbi...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 2: DWB
  Jack McCoy: I bought lunch. I didn't know what you like, so I got salad, lo-cal dressing...::Abbie C...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 3: Bait
  Detective Rivera: You know, McCoy, you wanna put the bad guys behind bars you have to get your hands...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 4: Flight
  Theresa Copeland: Aaron needed me. He said there was something missing until I came along.::Detectiv...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 5: Agony
  A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: With that butcher looking at me like a carcass on a meathook?...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 6: Scrambled
  Det. Rey Curtis: Scientists! If they can do it, they do it. They never think whether they *should* d...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 7: Venom
  Adam Schiff: What? A mother and son killing each other's spouses. What the heck kind of family is th...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 8: Punk
  Detectives Briscoe and Curtis investigate the death of Charles Tyner who was shot in what they belie...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 9: True North
  D.A. Adam Schiff: File the notice, Miss Carmichael, we're seeking the death penalty.::A.D.A. Abbie C...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 10: Hate
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 11: Ramparts
  When an old Volkswagen Van is found in the river and in it is a body. The body is identified as that...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 12: Haven
  Detective Lennie Briscoe: [about Affirmative Action] You wouldn't have gotten any complaints from me...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 13: Hunters
  Phil: Mr Dow isn't here. A couple of other detectives picked him up an hour ago.::Detective Rey Curt...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 14: Sideshow
  Det. John Munch: [in lesbian bar] I don't believe a woman is gay until she personally rejects me.::W...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 15: Disciple
  Woman: Three kids home with the flu for a week!::Detective Rey Curtis: Yeah, I know how it is.::Woma...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 16: Harm
  Lt. Anita Van Buren: If Lennie's siding with the ex-wife, there's GOT to be more to this....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 17: Shield
  Detectives Briscoe and Curtis investigate the killing of a police officer Danny Pelham who along wit...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 18: Juvenile
  Gerald Fox: Sometimes the facts get in the way of the story.::Detective Rey Curtis: Tell that to Joh...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 19: Tabula Rasa
  Jack McCoy: It's like Jonestown without the Kool-Aid....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 20: Empire
  Katrina Ludlow: [referring to Curtis, and the evidence of the Viagra pills] He seemed more worried a...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 21: Ambitious
  Stripper: Can you guys make it quick? I gotta cram for my psych exam before the happy hour crunch!::...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 22: Admissions
  Eddie Clayman: I'm not into that rough stuff any more. I got my medication.::Detective Rey Curtis: Y...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 23: Refuge: Part 1
  Officer Jasper: [pulls over gray Towncar at night] Can you get out of the car, sir? [driver gets out...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 24: Refuge: Part 2
  Detective Lennie Briscoe: [putting his hand on Rey's shoulder] Hey, if you ever need anything, Rey.....
• Season 10
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: Gunshow
  Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy: You're willing to bet your client's life on that? You must have quite a...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 2: Killerz
  Ms. Sharkey: Your Honor, my client is ten years old. She has teddy bears on her bedspread and a Big ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 3: DNR
  Det. Ed Green: There must be ten, fifteen grand here. Where'd you get the money, Bobby?::Bobby: Bite...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 4: Merger
  A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: The laws for the rich are different....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 5: Justice
  Detective Lennie Briscoe: [investigating the scene of a crime] Gate's always open.::Detective Ed Gre...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 6: Marathon
  Diego Garza: Should I say how I didn't mean to do it?::Det. Lennie Briscoe: You mean how you only ki...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 7: Patsy
  D.A. Adam Schiff: Well, you got an innocent man to confess to a crime he didn't commit. Maybe this j...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 8: Blood Money
  D.A. Adam Schiff: Your day of reckoning isn't today....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 9: Sundown
  Detective Ed Green: She came in for a biopsy and they managed to kill her?::Det. Lennie Briscoe: Tha...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 10: Loco Parentis
  Detectives Lennie Briscoe and Ed Green investigate the murder of teenager Chris Skinner who was foun...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 11: Collision
  Danielle Melnick: Look McCoy. My client may be legally sane, but it doesn't mean he's not crazy....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 12: Mother's Milk
  Detectives Lennie Briscoe and Ed Green investigate a possible crime when a landlord discovers broken...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 13: Panic
  Detective Lennie Briscoe: All this milk of human kindness is going to make me puke....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 14: Entitled: Part 2
  A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: Why is everyone afraid of this woman?::D.A. Adam Schiff: Regina's favorite ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 15: Fools for Love
  Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy: Did Peter Williams kill them?...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 16: Trade This
  Joey Dantoni, Sr.: My son's a moron but not a murdered.::A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: So he's only half ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 17: Black, White and Blue
  USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 18: Mega
  Elias Grace: Isn't it great to say exactly what you feel?::Det. Lennie Briscoe: I tried that with my...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 19: Surrender Dorothy
  Detective Ed Green: Harlan Graham just called; he wants us to meet with him and his son to get this ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 20: Untitled
  D.A. Adam Schiff: [to Jack McCoy] Can't you see the little picture for a change?...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 21: Narcosis
  Lt. Anita Van Buren: Have Lamont check out the topless bars.::Detective Lennie Briscoe: He'll be thr...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 22: High & Low
  SEC Investigator: [completely deadpan expression] The SEC doesn't make threats. There are those that...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 23: Stiff
  Abbie Carmichael: ...I know what you're going to say, but we don't hand out Brownie points for helpi...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 24: Vaya Con Dios
  Detective Lennie Briscoe: If he killed this guy's kid, he'd better run, 27 years later or not....
• Season 11
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: Endurance
  Dr. Emil Skoda: She's very appealing.::A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: Well, when she's released from priso...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 2: Turnstile Justice
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 3: Dissonance
  [as Carl Reger is being arrested by Briscoe and Green]::Carl Reger: My lawyer will have your jobs!::...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 4: Standoff
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 5: Return
  Eli Becker was born on January 5, 1965....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 6: Burn Baby Burn
  Latiff Miller was born on April 28, 1948....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 7: Amends
  Ambassador Peter Sarno: I'm going to call your boss; I'm going to get both of you busted down the ra...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 8: Thin Ice
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 9: Hubris
  Beth Fazekas disappeared on October 3, 1994....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 10: Whose Monkey Is It Anyway?
  [searching for escaped lab animals]::Det. Lennie Briscoe: Any idea where monkeys hole up when they'r...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 11: Sunday in the Park with Jorge
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 12: Teenage Wasteland
  Detectives Lenny Briscoe and Ed Green investigate the death of a Chinese restaurant owner who was de...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 13: Phobia
  RAT:1.78 : 1...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 14: A Losing Season
  Based on the 1999 shooting of the pregnant girlfriend of NFL football player Rae Carruth....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 15: Swept Away - A Very Special Episode
  Wesley Tatum was killed by Paul Wyler on February 21, 2001....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 16: Bronx Cheer
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 17: Ego
  During the interview with the convict, Lenny cracks, "Women - can't live with 'em, can't kill 'em". ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 18: White Lie
  Daniel and Rosa Alvarez were murdered on January 4, 2001....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 19: Whiplash
  When an Hispanic male is found dead from a severe chest trauma, Detectives Briscoe and Green discove...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 20: All My Children
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 21: Brother's Keeper
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 22: School Daze
  When a masked student opens fire on classmates, killing four and wounding eleven, Detectives Briscoe...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 23: Judge Dread
  D.A. Nora Lewin: Why do you always believe the worst in people, Jack?::Jack McCoy: Who, me?::A.D.A. ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 24: Deep Vote
  The episode's title refers to _Deep Throat (1972)_ (qv)...
• Season 12
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: Who Let the Dogs Out?
  Sherri Quinn: [after the ferocious dog has been brought into the courtroom] You must have done somet...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 2: Armed Forces
  When a homeless man is found dead an investigation uncovers that he's a Vietnam veteran. And it's di...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 3: For Love or Money
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 4: Soldier of Fortune
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 5: Possession
  Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy: $362 a month for a 3 bedroom apartment? *I*'d kill for it....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 6: Formerly Famous
  Inspired by the 2001 murder of Bonny Lee Bakley, wife of actor Robert Blake (he was her 10th husband...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 7: Myth of Fingerprints
  While investigating the murder of an ex-con leads to the revelation that a man who was convicted of ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 8: The Fire This Time
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 9: 3 Dawg Night
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 10: Prejudice
  Ray Burrows: Do you know your ass from your elbow, detective?::Detective Ed Green: I know an ass whe...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 11: The Collar
  When s priest is killed in the confessional, an investigation into to who may have wanted him dead i...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 12: Undercovered
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 13: DR 1-102
  This episode is often used in law schools as a teaching tool for discussions on attorney ethics....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 14: Missing
  Detective Ed Green: It'll be nice not looking at a dead body for a change.::Detective Lennie Briscoe...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 15: Access Nation
  Some interesting tidbits about Jack McCoy's personal life: he banks at Citibank; uses his grandmothe...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 16: Born Again
  Paula Weston was murdered on January 7, 2002....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 17: Girl Most Likely
  A.D.A. Serena Southerlyn: [referring to Alicia Milford] You can't seriously be considering "outing" ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 18: Equal Rights
  D.A. Nora Lewin: [referring to the defendant, who is using battered woman syndrome as a defense to m...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 19: Slaughter
  A.D.A. Serena Southerlyn: [after reading off a list of people who died because of the infected meat]...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 20: Dazzled
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 21: Foul Play
  Det. Ed Green: Frank Leahy, you're going to have to come with us.::Frank Leahy: Why?::Det. Ed Green:...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 22: Attorney Client
  Detective Lennie Briscoe: We'd offer to call a lawyer for you except that you are one....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 23: Oxymoron
  The body of a scantily clad woman believed to be a high-class escort is found on the Upper East Side...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 24: Patriot
  Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy: [paraphrasing Emma Lazarus' poem] Give us your tired, your poor, your t...
• Season 13
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: American Jihad
  [Discussing Arthur Branch, the new DA]::Jack McCoy: Nice fella.::ADA Serena Southerlyn: And his poli...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 2: Shangri-La
  Detective Ed Green: They found the [teacher's] body over here in this janitor's closet with a whole ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 3: True Crime
  D.A. Arthur Branch asks, "Since when does freedom of the press apply only to the nattering nabobs of...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 4: Tragedy on Rye
  D.A. Arthur Branch: [after defendants convicted of first-degree murder have been exonerated] You kno...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 5: The Ring
  A.D.A. Serena Southerlyn: People ask that the suspect be remanded without bail, Your Honor.::Judge J...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 6: Hitman
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 7: Open Season
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 8: Asterisk
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 9: The Wheel
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 10: Mother's Day
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 11: Chosen
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 12: Under God
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 13: Absentia
  Despite its opening disclaimer that the story is fictional, the second half of the script is reminis...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 14: Star Crossed
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 15: B*tch
  Jackie Scott: [half to herself] Pick a lane.::D.A. Arthur Branch: [turns around] Hmm?::Jackie Scott:...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 16: Suicide Box
  Lt. Anita Van Buren: [watching defense attorney Carl Halpert leave the squadroom] There he goes: Joh...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 17: Genius
  [after Ed had an informal discussion with a suspect that led to a partial confession]::Lt. Anita Van...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 18: Maritime
  May have been based on the 2002 disappearance of 'Bison Dele' (qv), former Detroit Piston center, wh...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 19: Seer
  Jack McCoy: [at a self-proclaimed psychic's trial] So, how will this trial turn out?::Defense attorn...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 20: Kid Pro Quo
  Wyatt Scofield: Admissions makes teaching kindergarten look like a day at the beach. The parents can...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 21: House Calls
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 22: Sheltered
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 23: Couples
  Judge Janice Goldberg: Shall we take this from the top?::Carla Perazzo: No need to, your honor. Dom ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 24: Smoke
  Detective Ed Green: People get around stars, they get stupid.::Detective Lennie Briscoe: Waiting in ...
• Season 14
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: Bodies
  [discussing a serial killer's defense attorney]::D.A. Arthur Branch: Yeah, who is that stupid S.O.B....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 2: Bounty
  [to a reluctant witness]::Detective Lennie Briscoe: There's no such thing as hooker-client confident...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 3: Patient Zero
  Uniform Cop: He jumped into the car and took off like a bat out of H. E. double hockey sticks.::Dete...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 4: Shrunk
  Dr. Frederick Barrett: Your Honor, if I may?::Arraignment Judge Elizabeth Mizener: And you are?::Dr....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 5: Blaze
  This episode is "ripped from the headlines" of the deadly night club fire during a Great White conce...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 6: Identity
  Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy: Do you know what a Pyrrhic victory is, Mr Jackson?::Lonnie Jackson: I'm...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 7: Floater
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 8: Embedded
  Loosely based on Geraldo Rivera's embedment for Fox News during the Afghanistan/Iraq War....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 9: Compassion
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 10: Ill-Conceived
  A.D.A. Serena Southerlyn: [looking from Vanessa, as she walks away, to Jack] Am I missing something ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 11: Darwinian
  This episode presents a fictionalized account of the Chante Mallard case, in which an intoxicated wo...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 12: Payback
  The investigation into the murder of a former bookie turned mob informant reveals a disturbing new w...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 13: Married with Children
  A wealthy motivational speaker is murdered. Briscoe and Green soon discover that the victim's sister...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 14: City Hall
  When there's a shooting at city hall that leaves a councilman dead the detectives try to find out wh...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 15: Veteran's Day
  USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 16: Can I Get a Witness?
  Foster Keyes: I didn't do nothing!::Detective Lennie Briscoe: Good, then you can come out of the clo...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 17: Hands Free
  D.A. Arthur Branch: A murder conviction without a body, it's a prosecutor's quadruple jump.::Jack Mc...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 18: Evil Breeds
  Detective Lennie Briscoe: You remember the seven rings of Saturn? Well, these are the two rings of R...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 19: Nowhere Man
  When Brisoce and Green are looking through the victim's papers, Lennie talks about the length of tim...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 20: Everybody Loves Raimondo's
  [At the scene of a double homicide]::Detective Lennie Briscoe: I knew being Chief of Detectives had ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 21: Vendetta
  The murder victim is based on notorious Chicago Cubs fan Steve Bartman. Bartman was vilified by many...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 22: Gaijin
  When a female Japanese tourist is killed, her husband who survives, claims that they were attacked b...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 23: Caviar Emptor
  'Frank Converse' (qv) plays a stable manager, his 4th appearance since 1991. In Corpus Dilecti (6.11...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 24: C.O.D.
  [Lennie is retiring]::Det. Lennie Briscoe: So what's it been for you and me... 11 years?::Lt. Anita ...
• Season 15
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: Paradigm
  [knock on Van Buren's door]::Lt. Anita Van Buren: Can I help you?::Det. Joe Fontana: I'm Fontana.::L...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 2: The Dead Wives Club
  The trademark "donk-donk" sound first appears in this episode during the introductory segment before...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 3: The Brotherhood
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 4: Coming Down Hard
  A ''ripped from the headlines'' episode inspired by the 2001 case of Kansas City pharmacist Robert R...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 5: Gunplay
  Two undercover police officers are murdered during a gun purchase. Det. Green risks his life by goin...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 6: Cut
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 7: Gov Love
  This episode is "ripped from the headlines" of the scandalous resignation of New Jersey Governor Jam...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 8: Cry Wolf
  The fictional Christoff, founder of the Ministers of Justice, radio "shock jock", and target of atte...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 9: All in the Family
  [Fontana and Green are questioning the bartender in an obviously mobbed up "social club"]::Detective...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 10: Enemy
  Detectives Green and Fontana investigate the murder of seven people, three of whom were high school ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 11: Fixed
  [a paroled ex-con has been murdered]::Det. Joe Fontana: I love a public service homicide, don't you?...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 12: Mammon
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 13: Ain't No Love
  D.A. Arthur Branch: [to Serena] You're fired.::ADA Serena Southerlyn: [pauses, shocked] Is this beca...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 14: Fluency
  Dr. Rogers discovers that more than a dozen people have died of the flu after supposedly receiving a...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 15: Obsession
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 16: The Sixth Man
  The subplot involving a brawl between basketball players and fans was inspired by a real-life incide...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 17: License to Kill
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 18: Dining Out
  The episode "Dining Out" from season 15 features the set from the Food Network series "30 Minute Mea...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 19: Sects
  Richard 'Daniel' Ranson: Taking a human life was the hardest thing I've ever done. [chuckles bitterl...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 20: Tombstone
  Detective Joe Fontana: I'm thinking. Just thinking....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 21: Publish and Perish
  [Discussing a murdered porn star]::Detective Nick Falco: The porn world is gonna be in mourning toni...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 22: Sport of Kings
  'Jesse L. Martin' (qv) was absent from the last four episodes of the fifteenth season. He left the s...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 23: In God We Trust
  'Jesse L. Martin' (qv) was absent from the last four episodes of the fifteenth season. He left the s...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 24: Locomotion
  'Jesse L. Martin' (qv) was absent from the last four episodes of the fifteenth season. He left the s...
• Season 16
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: Red Ball
  SPOILER: At the end, Jack ('Sam Waterston' (qv)) tell Arthur ('Fred Dalton Thompson' (qv)) to "Go ah...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 2: Flaw
  Yet another instance of when an actor, having made a one-off appearance as one character, is brought...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 3: Ghosts
  Sarah Dolan was murdered on August 22, 1995....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 4: Age of Innocence
  USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 5: Life Line
  Fontana and Green investigate the murder of an aspiring journalist who was working undercover on a s...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 6: Birthright
  New York City, New York, USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 7: House of Cards
  Det. Joe Fontana: He seems like a pretty stand-up guy.::Lt. Anita Van Buren: Yeah, well, so did Scot...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 8: New York Minute
  Terry Dorn: [while getting arrested.] What kind of country locks up its patriots?::Det. Ed Green: Th...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 9: Criminal Law
  Leland Barnes: [growls] You shoulda been at the top of the list....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 10: Acid
  Jack McCoy: If I don't leave here with a guilty plea, Mr. Corley, I promise, you'll do 45 years hard...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 11: Bible Story
  D.A. Arthur Branch: Religious fervor.::Jack McCoy: The nitroglycerin of the 21st century....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 12: Family Friend
  Jack McCoy: Juries aren't stupid.::Ernie Krahulik: Really. We must be working different courtrooms....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 13: Heart of Darkness
  USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 14: Magnet
  USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 15: Choice of Evils
  USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 16: Cost of Capital
  USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 17: America, Inc.
  USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 18: Thinking Makes It So
  The episode title is from Hamlet, Act 2, Scene 2: "... there is nothing either good or bad, but thin...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 19: Positive
  Detectives Joe Fontana and Ed Green investigate the shooting of the owner of a neighborhood restaura...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 20: Kingmaker
  When an undercover cop is found dead, there's a lot concern that her cover may have been blown. When...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 21: Hindsight
  This is the only episode in which the opening crime implicates a character on the show. During the p...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 22: Invaders
  This is 'Annie Parisse' (qv)'s final episode....
• Season 17
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: Fame
  A police officer is murdered during the burglary of a paparazzi's apartment. The investigation revea...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 2: Avatar
  An internet posting of a slashed soccer mom provocatively dressed provokes a slew of 911 calls which...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 3: Home Sweet
  Jenna Wechsler was murdered on September 14, 2006....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 4: Fear America
  Ben Faoud: [in Arabic] Burn! Burn!::Imam Ibrahim: [in Arabic] God bless the United States of America...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 5: Public Service Homicide
  Just hours after pedophile Carl Mullaly was outed on a so-called reality news program he is found mu...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 6: Profiteer
  USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 7: In Vino Veritas
  Inspired by the drunken driving stops of actor Mel Gibson and U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-Rhode Isl...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 8: Release
  Cheryl Perkins committed suicide on October 24, 2004....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 9: Deadlock
  A convicted killer goes on a killing spree after escaping police custody. The new victims include tw...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 10: Corner Office
  Jack McCoy: Ask me how I sleep at night.::Consuela Rubirosa: How do you sleep at night?::Jack McCoy:...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 11: Remains of the Day
  Famous model and tabloid queen Ashley Jones finds her teenage son dead in her hospital room. The cau...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 12: Charity Case
  USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 13: Talking Points
  [a despondent Ed is staring at his coffee; Cassady enters]::Detective Ed Green: Hey. You want a hot ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 14: Church
  Dawn Sterling: Can I help you?::Detective Ed Green: We need to speak with Reverend Sterling.::Dawn S...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 15: Melting Pot
  USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 16: Murder Book
  USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 17: Good Faith
  Detective Nina Cassady: [observing a burnt church where a body was found] Whoever did this is going ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 18: Bling
  The name Roxy Black is derived from the real-life rapper 'Foxy Brown (I)' (qv)....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 19: Fallout
  Karl Rostov: Your case is based on what, what some whores say about me? You know I'm the one who los...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 20: Captive
  USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 21: Over Here
  USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 22: The Family Hour
  The casting problems come to the fore with this episode. We see a bearded 'Jeremy Sisto' (qv) as bar...
• Season 18
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: Called Home
  D.A. Jack McCoy: The more I learn about Mr. Nolan, the less I want to make a deal with him....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 2: Darkness
  D.A. Jack McCoy: What do you do for recreation Mike, juggle chainsaws with my neck on the line?...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 3: Misbegotten
  D.A. Jack McCoy: I hear Pandora's Box slowly creaking open....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 4: Bottomless
  USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 5: Driven
  USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 6: Political Animal
  USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 7: Quit Claim
  USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 8: Illegal
  A.D.A. Josh Lethem: So... there it is. some of us were wondering how long it'd take the real Jack Mc...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 9: Executioner
  USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 10: Tango
  USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 11: Betrayal
  Dr. Elizabeth Olivet: That hurt, Jack.::D.A. Jack McCoy: I warned you.::Dr. Elizabeth Olivet: You be...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 12: Submission
  Det. Ed Green: You sure this is kosher? Because we got a search warrant for body parts.::A.D.A. Conn...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 13: Angelgrove
  USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 14: Burn Card
  USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 15: Bogeyman
  USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 16: Strike
  Det. Cyrus Lupo: [examining pictures of the body at the morgue] What is this crud in his wounds?::Me...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 17: Personae Non Grata
  USA...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 18: Excalibur
  USA...
• Season 19
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: Rumble
  [last lines]::Female Reporter: Mr. McCoy! We hear you've been asked to join the Obama administration...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 2: Challenged
  A.D.A. Connie Rubirosa: What kind of pathological prosecutor would actually charge him? [Cutter slow...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 3: Lost Boys
  The original Lost Boys were the cohort who lived with Peter Pan in Neverland in the 1904 play by 'J....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 4: Falling
  Detective Cyrus Lupo: [Looking at financial records] 'Who needs math?' I told my teachers, 'I'm gonn...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 5: Knock Off
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• Play in Full Screen Episode 6: Sweetie
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• Play in Full Screen Episode 7: Zero
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• Play in Full Screen Episode 8: Chattel
  D.A. Jack McCoy: Eight and a half million, that's how many children are sold into slavery each year....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 9: By Perjury
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• Play in Full Screen Episode 10: Pledge
  Lupo and Bernard investigate the death of 12 year-old Eric Foley and his housekeeper both of whom we...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 11: Lucky Stiff
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• Play in Full Screen Episode 12: Illegitimate
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• Play in Full Screen Episode 13: Crimebusters
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• Play in Full Screen Episode 14: Rapture
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• Play in Full Screen Episode 15: Bailout
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• Play in Full Screen Episode 16: Take-Out
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• Play in Full Screen Episode 17: Anchors Away
  Is based upon the case of Larry Mendte, a Philadelphia news anchor who received probation for access...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 18: Promote This!
  The Hospital that Oswaldo Morales is staying in is located in is in Puerto Lempira, which is no wher...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 19: All New
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• Play in Full Screen Episode 20: Exchange
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• Play in Full Screen Episode 21: Skate or Die
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• Play in Full Screen Episode 22: The Drowned and the Saved
  A murder investigation uncovers connections to the governor's wife, and perhaps a scandal involving ...
• Season 20
• Play in Full Screen Episode 1: Memo from the Dark Side
  When young war veteran Greg Tanner is found murdered in a Hudson University parking garage, Detectiv...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 2: Just a Girl in the World
  Executive A.D.A. Michael Cutter: Little Orphan Annie doesn't have anything on you, Ms. Kim....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 3: Great Satan
  When an aspiring musician is found dead behind a trash can, Detectives Cyrus Lupo and Kevin Bernard ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 4: Reality Bites
  D.A. Jack McCoy: [watching an excerpt from the reality show] Not very entertaining, what happened to...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 5: Dignity
  Executive A.D.A. Michael Cutter: I'd like to show you something... People's 32 this is the wallet th...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 6: Human Flesh Search Engine
  When Sid Maxwell, owner of a fashion company is found dead, Detectives Cyrus Lupo and Kevin Bernard ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 7: Boy Gone Astray
  Detectives Lupo and Bernard investigate the shooting murder of Nina Wilshire, who was found dead in ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 8: Doped
  [first lines]::Announcer: [voiceover narration] In the criminal justice system, the people are repre...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 9: For the Defense
  After a key witness for a murder trial is found dead outside her hotel room, Detectives Cyrus Lupo a...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 10: Shotgun
  When an elderly man defends his shop from an armed robbery, Detectives Kevin Bernard and Cyrus Lupo ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 11: Fed
  Former Detective Rey Curtis's wife dies from multiple sclerosis (he left the precinct to take care o...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 12: Blackmail
  When Detectives Cyrus Lupo and Kevin Bernard find journalist Megan Kerr dead in an abandoned apartme...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 13: Steel-Eyed Death
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• Play in Full Screen Episode 14: Boy on Fire
  This episode is based on the September 2009 murder of of Chicago high school student Derrion Albert,...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 15: Brilliant Disguise
  Detective Kevin Bernard: Robbie, put the rat down!...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 16: Innocence
  Detectives Cyrus Lupo and Kevin Bernard detain a man who is tried and found guilty of killing a gay ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 17: Four Cops Shot
  The story for this episode is based on four Lakewood, WA cops who were shot in November, 2009 in a C...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 18: Brazil
  When an environmental scientist, Dr. Oscar Silva, is poisoned during a global warming symposium, Det...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 19: Crashers
  When the body of a young model, Brenna Lane, is found burning in an alley, Detective Cyrus Lupo and ...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 20: The Taxman Cometh
  Detectives Cyrus Lupo and Kevin Bernard are called in to investigate the death of a young heiress, A...
• Play in Full Screen Episode 21: Immortal
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• Play in Full Screen Episode 22: Love Eternal
  Marielle Di Napoli: How can you murder your own soul?::Judge Mark Lee: Stick around. You'll see....
• Play in Full Screen Episode 23: Rubber Room
  D.A. Jack McCoy: Just how far up your ass is your head? A member of your union is threatening to sho...