Law & Order (1991)
The show follows a crime, usually 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.
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Episode 1 - American Jihad
Release Date: 2 Oct. 2002A 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.
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Episode 2 - Shangri-La
Release Date: 9 Oct. 2002The investigation into the murder of a high-school teacher unearths some unsettling truths about another teacher and one of the students.
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Episode 3 - True Crime
Release Date: 16 Oct. 2002McCoy 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.
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Episode 4 - Tragedy on Rye
Release Date: 30 Oct. 2002Three 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.
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Episode 5 - The Ring
Release Date: 6 Nov. 2002A 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.
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Episode 6 - Hitman
Release Date: 13 Nov. 2002A 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.
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Episode 7 - Open Season
Release Date: 20 Nov. 2002A 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.
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Episode 8 - Asterisk
Release Date: 27 Nov. 2002A star baseball player accused of killing a limo driver claims that "roid rage" made him do it.
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Episode 9 - The Wheel
Release Date: 11 Dec. 2002The 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.
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Episode 10 - Mother's Day
Release Date: 8 Jan. 2003A mother claims self-defense after she kills her schizophrenic son who was involved in a hit-and-run death.
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Episode 11 - Chosen
Release Date: 15 Jan. 2003A 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.
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Episode 12 - Under God
Release Date: 5 Feb. 2003A 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.
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Episode 13 - Absentia
Release Date: 12 Feb. 2003A 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.
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Episode 14 - Star Crossed
Release Date: 19 Feb. 2003A 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.
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Episode 15 - B*tch
Release Date: 26 Feb. 2003A 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.
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Episode 16 - Suicide Box
Release Date: 26 Mar. 2003An African-American teenager shoots a police officer because he's angry about the lack of investigation into his brother's death. And a re-opening of that investigation aggravates some deep racial tensions.
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Episode 17 - Genius
Release Date: 2 Apr. 2003A promising young writer confesses to the murder and robbery of a cabbie and demands that he receive the death penalty.
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Episode 18 - Maritime
Release Date: 17 Apr. 2003A 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.
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Episode 19 - Seer
Release Date: 23 Apr. 2003A 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?
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Episode 20 - Kid Pro Quo
Release Date: 30 Apr. 2003A prep school headmaster is accused of murdering his school's admissions director after overruling her on a controversial admissions selection.
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Episode 21 - House Calls
Release Date: 7 May 2003Did a shady doctor irresponsibly prescribe pain-killing drugs to one of his patients, which resulted in her death?
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Episode 22 - Sheltered
Release Date: 14 May 2003As 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.
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Episode 23 - Couples
Release Date: 21 May 2003Briscoe 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.
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Episode 24 - Smoke
Release Date: 21 May 2003The 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.