Law & Order

Episode 1 | Cherished

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.

Episode 2 | DWB

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.

Episode 3 | Bait

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.

Episode 4 | Flight

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.

Episode 5 | Agony

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.

Episode 6 | Scrambled

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.

Episode 7 | Venom

A murder case leads detectives to a mother/son team of con artists and accusations of incest.

Episode 8 | Punk

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.

Episode 9 | True North

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.

Episode 10 | Hate

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.

Episode 11 | Ramparts

The discovery of bones inside a Volkswagen van dumped in the Hudson River leads Briscoe and Curtis to investigate the disappearance of a campus radical from the late 1960s.

Episode 12 | Haven

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.

Episode 13 | Hunters

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.

Episode 14 | Sideshow

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.

Episode 15 | Disciple

A rebellious child dies during an unsanctioned exorcism ceremony. The defendant claims that St. Michael instructed her to perform the exorcism.

Episode 16 | Harm

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.

Episode 17 | Shield

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.

Episode 18 | Juvenile

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.

Episode 19 | Tabula Rasa

The prime suspect in the murder of a college professor is a domineering father who kidnapped his children and disappeared 15 years earlier.

Episode 20 | Empire

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 moti...

Episode 21 | Ambitious

The son of an imprisoned crime boss and a couple of strip club owners become the central figures in a murder investigation.

Episode 22 | Admissions

A 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.

Episode 23 | Refuge: Part 1

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.

Episode 24 | Refuge: Part 2

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.