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 - Second Opinion
Release Date: 1994-09-21A woman's death exposes an unorthodox method of treating cancer that Executive Assistant DA McCoy intends to prove is negligent homicide.
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Episode 2 - Coma
Release Date: 1994-09-28A comedy-club owner comes under suspicion for having shot his wife, now comatose with a bullet in her head, after it's discovered he was abusive and she was about to divorce him.
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Episode 3 - Blue Bamboo
Release Date: 1994-10-05The killing of a Japanese nightclub owner who was visiting New York leads to the arrest of a singer who once worked for the deceased, and whose lawyer uses the ""battered-woman syndrome"" as a defense.
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Episode 4 - Family Values
Release Date: 1994-10-12After it's determined that a wealthy woman did not commit suicide but was murdered, the detectives question both her first and second husbands and her teenage daughter.
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Episode 5 - White Rabbit
Release Date: 1994-10-19A routine investigation uncovers evidence that leads Briscoe and Logan to a long-time fugitive, a radical Vietnam War opponent on the run since a 1971 burglary that left a policeman dead.
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Episode 6 - Competence
Release Date: 1994-11-02When Lt. Van Buren is the victim of an attempted holdup by two teens, she fires her gun and kills one of them, and the detectives are faced with the fact that she shot an unarmed child in the back.
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Episode 7 - Precious
Release Date: 1994-11-09When Briscoe and Logan suspect that a missing infant may have been murdered by her parents rather than kidnapped, they uncover a terrible family secret which hides a mentally ill serial killer.
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Episode 8 - Virtue
Release Date: 1994-11-23McCoy uses a charge of ""larceny by extortion"" against a councilman, whose former colleague claims he demanded sex in exchange for a law-firm partnership.
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Episode 9 - Scoundrels
Release Date: 1994-11-30Among the suspects in a lawyer's murder are a swindler, who conned a woman out of her family fortune, and the woman's once-wealthy son.
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Episode 10 - House Counsel
Release Date: 1995-01-04The killing of a man who had served as a juror in a mob trial leads to a battle of wills between McCoy and his long-time friend, the suspect's attorney.
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Episode 11 - Guardian
Release Date: 1995-01-11After the body of a young female junkie is identified as the daughter of a wealthy family, Briscoe and Logan try to find out who left her to die in the yard of a day-care center.
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Episode 12 - Progeny
Release Date: 1995-01-25The investigation into the killing of an abortion clinic doctor leads to an activist group led by a former priest.
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Episode 13 - Rage
Release Date: 1995-02-01A Wall Street broker accused of murdering his mentor uses the defense of ""black rage"" in court.
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Episode 14 - Performance
Release Date: 1995-02-08Briscoe and Logan set out to identify the apparent victim in a snuff film, but find her alive and really the victim of a points-for-sex club at her prestigious high school.
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Episode 15 - Seed
Release Date: 1995-02-15A routine investigation into a woman's death leads Briscoe and Logan to a fertility doctor guilty of unethical practices, but who cannot apparently be touched because of confidentiality rules, and patient reluctance to talk.
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Episode 16 - Wannabe
Release Date: 1995-03-15The shooting of a board member of an exclusive private school leads to a blue-collar family and a classist system.
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Episode 17 - Act of God
Release Date: 1995-03-22A bomb at a construction site kills a 12-year-old boy, and the suspects include the bankrupt contractor and a jealous husband.
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Episode 18 - Privileged
Release Date: 1995-04-05The investigation into a double murder leads to a young alcoholic whose family once lived in the victims' house and who had admitted to his AA group that he's had nightmares about killings.
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Episode 19 - Cruel and Unusual
Release Date: 1995-04-19The death of an autistic youth in custody reveals a multitude of unusual and possibly illegal therapies being used, but also parents reluctant to pursue a prosecution.
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Episode 20 - Bad Faith
Release Date: 1995-04-26Logan relives unhappy childhood memories when a friend is found dead, a presumed suicide, until the investigation reveals recent contact with a former priest, with a history of pedophilia.
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Episode 21 - Purple Heart
Release Date: 1995-05-03The investigation into a taxi driver's murder involves a loan shark, a forged check, a missing plumber and the victim's wife.
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Episode 22 - Switch
Release Date: 1995-05-17Suspects in a psychiatrist's murder include the victim's ex-husband, a patient suffering from multiple-personality disorder and her obstructive father.
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Episode 23 - Pride
Release Date: 1995-05-24A gay city councilman is murdered and the trail leads to a bigoted rival politician and a male prostitute.