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51.
Dragnet (2003–2004)
Episode:
Well Endowed
(2003)
40 min | Crime, Drama
A woman is found dead, as Friday begins to investigate he finds himself being lead through the unsavory side of the Los Angeles elite.
Director: Andy Wolk | Stars: Ed O'Neill, Ethan Embry, Christina Pickles, Erick Avari
Votes: 58
52.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Absentia
(2003)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A 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.
Directors: Darnell Martin, Martha Mitchell | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 301
53.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Access Nation
(2002)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
McCoy takes on a cyber investigating company after information it sells to a convicted rapist is used in the murder of his therapist.
Director: Constantine Makris | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 245
54.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Ain't No Love
(2005)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A young hip-hop performer is accused of murdering a rap mogul, but his friend testifies during the trial that he is the killer. Serena objects to prosecution tactics, and Branch fires her.
Director: Paris Barclay | Stars: Dennis Farina, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 298
55.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
All in the Family
(2004)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A diamond broker's wife is accused of hiring Russian mobsters to arrange a hit on her husband.
Director: Jace Alexander | Stars: Dennis Farina, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 248
56.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
American Jihad
(2002)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A 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.
Director: Constantine Makris | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 328
57.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Asterisk
(2002)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A star baseball player accused of killing a limo driver claims that "roid rage" made him do it.
Director: Steve Shill | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 274
58.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Attorney Client
(2002)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A sleazy criminal defense attorney is accused of killing his wife and using knowledge he obtained as a lawyer to frame a client. During the trial, he tries to further manipulate the system to avoid a conviction.
Director: Matthew Penn | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 243
59.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
B*tch
(2003)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A 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.
Director: Constantine Makris | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 292
60.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Blaze
(2003)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The leader of a rock band is accused of tampering with a flamethrower at a concert, which caused the deaths of 23 people. However, an enamored teenage fan may be willing to commit perjury to give him an alibi.
Director: Gloria Muzio | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 276
61.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Bodies
(2003)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A serial killer refuses to tell Jack McCoy the names and locations of all of his victims. The killer's defense attorney has the information too, but refuses to disclose it because of attorney-client privilege.
Director: Constantine Makris | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 440
62.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Born Again
(2002)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A therapist is charged with murder after an 11-year-old girl dies during a "rebirthing" procedure.
Director: Jace Alexander | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 233
63.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Bounty
(2003)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A bounty hunter's murder in a motel room is connected to a journalist who may have fabricated a story about the criminal the bounty hunter was chasing.
Director: Matthew Penn | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 273
64.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
C.O.D.
(2004)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two women are accused of conspiring to murder each other's husbands, but Jack and Serena are forced to try the cases simultaneously and separately. Meanwhile, Detective Briscoe announces his retirement.
Director: Matthew Penn | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 341
65.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Can I Get a Witness?
(2004)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A boy is murdered in the park in front of two witnesses by a man on a bicycle. When the witnesses are repeatedly threatened and one turns up dead, the case against the murderer begins to unravel.
Director: Don Scardino | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 276
66.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Caviar Emptor
(2004)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A Persian caviar businessman is found dead in his bed, and the victim's children and new young wife become murder suspects.
Director: Richard Dobbs | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 259
67.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Chosen
(2003)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A defense attorney tries to exploit the jury's sympathy for Israel in the hopes that it will get his bookie client found not guilty of a murder charge.
Director: Edwin Sherin | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 301
68.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
City Hall
(2004)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A city councilman and a water inspector are victims of a shooting in City Hall. Prosecution of the guilty party is difficult because the murder weapon was obtained through a secretive FISA warrant.
Director: Gloria Muzio | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 243
69.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Coming Down Hard
(2004)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Two student suicides are connected to a university drug study. The investigation uncovers that the pharmaceutical company that commissioned the study may have known about adverse side-effects, but tried to cover it up.
Director: Richard Dobbs | Stars: Dennis Farina, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 258
70.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Compassion
(2003)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Did a pediatric oncologist kill a con artist over a failed investment, or did she actually crack mentally over the stress of dealing with terminally-ill children?
Director: Constantine Makris | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 266
71.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Couples
(2003)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Briscoe 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.
Director: David Platt | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 417
72.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Cry Wolf
(2004)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A mob boss is accused of ordering a hit on a urban vigilante group leader who was seeing his mistress. However, when the mistress is killed before the trial, he insists that he truly loved her and had absolutely nothing to do with it.
Director: Don Scardino | Stars: Dennis Farina, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 250
73.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Cut
(2004)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A novelist dies after undergoing multiple plastic surgeries. Detectives believe that her doctor took unnecessary risks and falsified documents to cover it up. The DA's office charges him with criminally negligent homicide.
Director: Richard Dobbs | Stars: Dennis Farina, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 245
74.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
DR 1-102
(2002)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Serena is asked as a lawyer to help resolve a hostage situation. But her actions threaten to get her disbarred because she didn't disclose to the captor that she works as a prosecutor and wasn't his personal counsel.
Director: Richard Dobbs | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 254
75.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Darwinian
(2004)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A homeless man goes on trial for manslaughter, accused of killing another homeless man. His defense attorney argues that the laws of civilized society should not apply to homeless people because of their realities.
Director: Jace Alexander | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 275
76.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Dazzled
(2002)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A pregnant woman falls to her death off her balcony, and the evidence suggests that her husband's ex-wife and the victim's ex-boyfriend may have conspired to kill her.
Director: Lewis Gould | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 257
77.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
The Dead Wives Club
(2004)
TV-14 | 41 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A "9-11 Widow" who received a lucrative settlement after her firefighter husband's death is murdered. Another firefighter's ex-wife, who was dumped for the victim after 9-11, is charged.
Director: David Platt | Stars: Dennis Farina, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 297
78.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Embedded
(2003)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A reporter, just back from Iraq, is shot in the back by a military-issue handgun. Did he put soldiers' lives at risk with his reporting, and was the shooting payback for it?
Director: Edwin Sherin | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 256
79.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Enemy
(2004)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An Afghani drug lord is implicated in a drug-related massacre in New York. However, prosecution is difficult because the government considers him an ally in the War on Terror in Afghanistan.
Director: Richard Dobbs | Stars: Dennis Farina, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 246
80.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Equal Rights
(2002)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The DA's office believes that an abused wife hired her brother-in-law to kill her husband. The defense claims that the woman suffers from battered wife syndrome, but was is it a case of self-defense or revenge?
Director: James Quinn | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 215
81.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Everybody Loves Raimondo's
(2004)
TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A film producer is killed at Raimondo's, a restaurant known for its mob ties and celebrity clientèle. Briscoe and Green discover that the producer was feuding with a novelist over profits ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Dobbs | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 276
82.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Evil Breeds
(2004)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The main witness in the deportation trial of a purported Nazi war criminal is found beaten to death in her home. Suspicion soon falls upon the former guard, as well as a white supremacist entrepreneur who supported his cause.
Director: Constantine Makris | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 270
83.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Fixed
(2004)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A frustrated prison social worker is accused of taking the law into her own hands with a dangerous man whom she knew was violating the terms of his parole agreement.
Director: Edwin Sherin | Stars: Dennis Farina, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 256
84.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Floater
(2003)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A murder investigation leads detectives to a judge who may be taking bribes from a select group of divorce lawyers to rig their cases.
Director: Richard Dobbs | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 283
85.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Fluency
(2005)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Sixteen people die from influenza after they received counterfeit flu vaccine shots. New A.D.A. Alexandra Borgia helps Jack McCoy prosecute the responsible party for manslaughter.
Director: Matthew Penn | Stars: Dennis Farina, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 272
86.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Foul Play
(2002)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An investigation into the murder of a private investigator leads to the discovery of a Honduran immigrant illegally playing in a New York youth baseball league.
Director: Richard Dobbs | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 205
87.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Gaijin
(2004)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The murder of a prominent Japanese model visiting New York City may have been a Yakuza-related murder for hire.
Director: Jace Alexander | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 251
88.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Genius
(2003)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A promising young writer confesses to the murder and robbery of a cabbie and demands that he receive the death penalty.
Director: Jace Alexander | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 297
89.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Girl Most Likely
(2002)
TV-14 | 45 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Was a high school girl killed because she was going to report a sexual assault by two classmates, or because another classmate was afraid that she was going to "out" her?
Director: Steve Shill | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 246
90.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Gov Love
(2004)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
McCoy takes on gay marriage at the state Supreme Court when a man refuses to testify in a case involving the death of the governor of Connecticut's wife, because he says that he is married to the defendant.
Director: Michael Pressman | Stars: Dennis Farina, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 254
91.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Gunplay
(2004)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Black market gun dealers murder two undercover officers during a gun buy. During prosecution, McCoy begins to suspect that a bitter defense attorney may have masterminded the entire episode.
Director: Constantine Makris | Stars: Dennis Farina, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 268
92.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Hands Free
(2004)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Some of a man's body parts are found in separate garbage cans and an early suspect is his deaf girlfriend. The investigation soon discovers that this woman is nowhere close to who she seems.
Director: Gloria Muzio | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 259
93.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Hitman
(2002)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A 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.
Director: Richard Dobbs | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 295
94.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
House Calls
(2003)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Did a shady doctor irresponsibly prescribe pain-killing drugs to one of his patients, which resulted in her death?
Director: Jace Alexander | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 274
95.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Identity
(2003)
TV-14 | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An 80-year-old man is accused of killing the man who stole his identity and caused him to lose his home. However, the defendant's son wants him declared incompetent to stand trial.
Director: Jace Alexander | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 387
96.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Ill-Conceived
(2003)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An illegal Mexican immigrant is accused of killing his wife's sweatshop boss because he was their baby's father. He claims, however, that his wife was forced to be her boss's surrogate mother.
Director: David Platt | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 261
97.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Kid Pro Quo
(2003)
TV-14 | 43 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A prep school headmaster is accused of murdering his school's admissions director after overruling her on a controversial admissions selection.
Director: David Platt | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 275
98.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
License to Kill
(2005)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
McCoy faces the unpopular decision to pursue charges against a vigilante who used his car to track down a man who murdered a group of hunters.
Director: Constantine Makris | Stars: Dennis Farina, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 261
99.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Mammon
(2005)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A contractor is suspected in the murder of an investment banker after detectives discover that the home's security system has been tampered with, and he was having an affair with the man's wife.
Director: Jace Alexander | Stars: Dennis Farina, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 234
100.
Law & Order (1990– )
Episode:
Maritime
(2003)
TV-14 | 44 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A 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.
Director: Gloria Muzio | Stars: Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston
Votes: 268