Law & Order (1990)
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Episode 1 - Sweeps
Release Date: 1993-09-15A guest is murdered on-air on a controversial talk show. Meanwhile Logan and Briscoe have a new boss, Lt. Anita Van Buren, and Stone gets a new collague; the police and district attorney attempt to prosecute the show's abrasive host.
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Episode 2 - Volunteers
Release Date: 1993-09-29A disruptive, unbalanced homeless man is found severely beaten in an alley of the middle class neighborhood he calls home, leading Stone to try and prosecute one of the residents for premeditated murder.
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Episode 3 - Discord
Release Date: 1993-10-06A college student charges an admittedly promiscuous rock star with rape, but he claims the act was consensual.
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Episode 4 - Profile
Release Date: 1993-10-13Stone finds himself up against an ambitious black lawyer defending a white, racist serial killer.
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Episode 5 - Black Tie
Release Date: 1993-10-20The police suspect a cover up when they receive an anonymous tip that a wealthy man was murdered by his wife, who refuses to allow an autopsy after a physician declares that the death occurred from natural causes.
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Episode 6 - Pride and Joy
Release Date: 1993-10-27A 17-year-old boy becomes the chief suspect in the murder of his father, raising questions of self-defense and abuse that the family does not want to face.
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Episode 7 - Apocrypha
Release Date: 1993-11-03Stone and Kincaid try to prove that the young woman believed to have planted a bomb in a parking garage had been brainwashed and was acting under the direct orders of a charismatic cult leader.
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Episode 8 - American Dream
Release Date: 1993-11-09A skeleton unearthed at a building site resurrects one of Stone's old cases, and brings him face to face with the tenacious, brilliant culprit, who is seeking a new trial.
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Episode 9 - Born Bad
Release Date: 1993-11-16A lawyer decides to defend her teenage client charged with murder as an adult with the claim that he's violent because of a genetic predisposition due to an extra Y chromosome.
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Episode 10 - The Pursuit of Happiness
Release Date: 1993-12-01A "green-card" bride from Russia is suspected of murdering her rich, but cold husband, who was threatening to divorce her just weeks before she would qualify to remain in this country.
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Episode 11 - Golden Years
Release Date: 1994-01-05An emaciated elderly woman is found dead of an apparent heart attack and her granddaughter is charged with neglect and grave indifference to human life.
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Episode 12 - Snatched
Release Date: 1994-01-12A millionaire friend of Schiff's won't cooperate with the police following his son's kidnapping.
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Episode 13 - Breeder
Release Date: 1994-01-19While investigating a woman's claim that she passed out in a taxi and awoke to find her newborn missing, Briscoe and Logan uncover a scam involving private adoptions.
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Episode 14 - Censure
Release Date: 1994-02-02A phone call threatening a woman's young daughter leads to a case that causes Kincaid to resign from Schiff's office because of an affair in her past.
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Episode 15 - Kids
Release Date: 1994-02-09A 14-year-old's shooting death involves the son of a former police detective, who's also an old friend of Briscoe's.
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Episode 16 - Big Bang
Release Date: 1994-03-02A scientist becomes the chief suspect when his estranged wife, who's been delaying divorce proceedings, is the victim of a letter bomb.
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Episode 17 - Mayhem
Release Date: 1994-03-09During a 24-hour period, Briscoe and Logan have a heavy caseload that includes 5 unrelated murders and a domestic quarrel, which results in the maiming of the husband.
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Episode 18 - Wager
Release Date: 1994-03-30Briscoe and Logan bet that the killing of a star athlete's father is linked to gambling debts and threats to the baseball player's family.
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Episode 19 - Sanctuary
Release Date: 1994-04-13A black minister fans the flames of racial intolerance after a hit-and-run in Harlem claims the life of a 12-year-old and the Jewish driver isn't indicted.
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Episode 20 - Nurture
Release Date: 1994-05-04Briscoe and Logan investigate the disappearance of a child from her abusive foster home and find her being held by a loving but disturbed woman who insists she has acted only for the child's own good.
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Episode 21 - Doubles
Release Date: 1994-05-18An assailant breaks the wrist of a tennis player prior to a tournament, and a competitor is among the suspects.
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Episode 22 - Old Friends
Release Date: 1994-05-25A truck hits a pedestrian and the investigation reveals the victim's link to a baby-food company in which a new partner has connections to the Russian mob.