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Anita Van Buren 389 Law & Order episodes

Lieutenant Anita Van Buren, played by S. Epatha Merkerson, appears in 389 of the 456 episodes, from “Sweeps” (1993) to “Rubber Room” (2010).

Played by
S. Epatha Merkerson
Role
Lieutenant, Seasons 4–20
Episodes
389 of 456
First episode
Sweeps (S4E1, 1993)
Last episode
Rubber Room (S20E23, 2010)
Worked most often with · episodes together

Season 4 1993–1994 · 22 episodes

  1. 1. Sweeps
  2. 2. Volunteers
  3. 3. Discord
  4. 4. Profile
  5. 5. Black Tie
  6. 6. Pride and Joy
  7. 7. Apocrypha
  8. 8. American Dream
  9. 9. Born Bad
  10. 10. The Pursuit of Happiness
  11. 11. Golden Years
  12. 12. Snatched
  13. 13. Breeder
  14. 14. Censure
  15. 15. Kids
  16. 16. Big Bang
  17. 17. Mayhem
  18. 18. Wager
  19. 19. Sanctuary
  20. 20. Nurture
  21. 21. Doubles
  22. 22. Old Friends

Season 5 1994–1995 · 23 episodes

  1. 1. Second Opinion
  2. 2. Coma
  3. 3. Blue Bamboo
  4. 4. Family Values
  5. 5. White Rabbit
  6. 6. Competence
  7. 7. Precious
  8. 8. Virtue
  9. 9. Scoundrels
  10. 10. House Counsel
  11. 11. Guardian
  12. 12. Progeny
  13. 13. Rage
  14. 14. Performance
  15. 15. Seed
  16. 16. Wannabe
  17. 17. Act of God
  18. 18. Privileged
  19. 19. Cruel and Unusual
  20. 20. Bad Faith
  21. 21. Purple Heart
  22. 22. Switch
  23. 23. Pride

Season 6 1995–1996 · 23 episodes

  1. 1. Bitter Fruit
  2. 2. Rebels
  3. 3. Savages
  4. 4. Jeopardy
  5. 5. Hot Pursuit
  6. 6. Paranoia
  7. 7. Humiliation
  8. 8. Angel
  9. 9. Blood Libel
  10. 10. Remand
  11. 11. Corpus Delicti
  12. 12. Trophy
  13. 13. Charm City
  14. 14. Custody
  15. 15. Encore
  16. 16. Savior
  17. 17. Deceit
  18. 18. Atonement
  19. 19. Slave
  20. 20. Girlfriends
  21. 21. Pro Se
  22. 22. Homesick
  23. 23. Aftershock

Season 7 1996–1997 · 23 episodes

  1. 1. Causa Mortis
  2. 2. I.D.
  3. 3. Good Girl
  4. 4. Survivor
  5. 5. Corruption
  6. 6. Double Blind
  7. 7. Deadbeat
  8. 8. Family Business
  9. 9. Entrapment
  10. 10. Legacy
  11. 11. Menace
  12. 12. Barter
  13. 13. Matrimony
  14. 14. Working Mom
  15. 15. D-Girl
  16. 16. Turnaround
  17. 17. Showtime
  18. 18. Mad Dog
  19. 19. Double Down
  20. 20. We Like Mike
  21. 21. Passion
  22. 22. Past Imperfect
  23. 23. Terminal

Season 8 1997–1998 · 24 episodes

  1. 1. Thrill
  2. 2. Denial
  3. 3. Navy Blues
  4. 4. Harvest
  5. 5. Nullification
  6. 6. Baby, It's You
  7. 7. Blood
  8. 8. Shadow
  9. 9. Burned
  10. 10. Ritual
  11. 11. Under the Influence
  12. 12. Expert
  13. 13. Castoff
  14. 14. Grief
  15. 15. Faccia a Faccia
  16. 16. Divorce
  17. 17. Carrier
  18. 18. Stalker
  19. 19. Disappeared
  20. 20. Burden
  21. 21. Bad Girl
  22. 22. Damaged
  23. 23. Tabloid
  24. 24. Monster

Season 9 1998–1999 · 24 episodes

  1. 1. Cherished
  2. 2. DWB
  3. 3. Bait
  4. 4. Flight
  5. 5. Agony
  6. 6. Scrambled
  7. 7. Venom
  8. 8. Punk
  9. 9. True North
  10. 10. Hate
  11. 11. Ramparts
  12. 12. Haven
  13. 13. Hunters
  14. 14. Sideshow
  15. 15. Disciple
  16. 16. Harm
  17. 17. Shield
  18. 18. Juvenile
  19. 19. Tabula Rasa
  20. 20. Empire
  21. 21. Ambitious
  22. 22. Admissions
  23. 23. Refuge, Part 1
  24. 24. Refuge, Part 2

Season 10 1999–2000 · 24 episodes

  1. 1. Gunshow
  2. 2. Killerz
  3. 3. DNR
  4. 4. Merger
  5. 5. Justice
  6. 6. Marathon
  7. 7. Patsy
  8. 8. Blood Money
  9. 9. Sundown
  10. 10. Loco Parentis
  11. 11. Collision
  12. 12. Mother's Milk
  13. 13. Panic
  14. 14. Entitled
  15. 15. Fools for Love
  16. 16. Trade This
  17. 17. Black, White and Blue
  18. 18. Mega
  19. 19. Surrender Dorothy
  20. 20. Untitled
  21. 21. Narcosis
  22. 22. High & Low
  23. 23. Stiff
  24. 24. Vaya Con Dios

Season 11 2000–2001 · 24 episodes

  1. 1. Endurance
  2. 2. Turnstile Justice
  3. 3. Dissonance
  4. 4. Standoff
  5. 5. Return
  6. 6. Burn Baby Burn
  7. 7. Amends
  8. 8. Thin Ice
  9. 9. Hubris
  10. 10. Whose Monkey Is It Anyway?
  11. 11. Sunday in the Park with Jorge
  12. 12. Teenage Wasteland
  13. 13. Phobia
  14. 14. A Losing Season
  15. 15. Swept Away
  16. 16. Bronx Cheer
  17. 17. Ego
  18. 18. White Lie
  19. 19. Whiplash
  20. 20. All My Children
  21. 21. Brother's Keeper
  22. 22. School Daze
  23. 23. Judge Dread
  24. 24. Deep Vote

Season 12 2001–2002 · 24 episodes

  1. 1. Who Let the Dogs Out?
  2. 2. Armed Forces
  3. 3. For Love or Money
  4. 4. Soldier of Fortune
  5. 5. Possession
  6. 6. Formerly Famous
  7. 7. Myth of Fingerprints
  8. 8. The Fire This Time
  9. 9. 3 Dawg Night
  10. 10. Prejudice
  11. 11. The Collar
  12. 12. Undercovered
  13. 13. DR 1-102
  14. 14. Missing
  15. 15. Access Nation
  16. 16. Born Again
  17. 17. Girl Most Likely
  18. 18. Equal Rights
  19. 19. Slaughter
  20. 20. Dazzled
  21. 21. Foul Play
  22. 22. Attorney Client
  23. 23. Oxymoron
  24. 24. Patriot

Season 13 2002–2003 · 23 episodes

  1. 1. American Jihad
  2. 2. Shangri-La
  3. 3. True Crime
  4. 4. Tragedy on Rye
  5. 5. The Ring
  6. 6. Hitman
  7. 7. Open Season
  8. 8. Asterisk
  9. 9. The Wheel
  10. 10. Mother's Day
  11. 11. Chosen
  12. 12. Under God
  13. 13. Absentia
  14. 14. Star Crossed
  15. 15. Bitch
  16. 16. Suicide Box
  17. 17. Genius
  18. 18. Maritime
  19. 19. Seer
  20. 21. House Calls
  21. 22. Sheltered
  22. 23. Couples
  23. 24. Smoke

Season 14 2003–2004 · 24 episodes

  1. 1. Bodies
  2. 2. Bounty
  3. 3. Patient Zero
  4. 4. Shrunk
  5. 5. Blaze
  6. 6. Identity
  7. 7. Floater
  8. 8. Embedded
  9. 9. Compassion
  10. 10. Ill-Conceived
  11. 11. Darwinian
  12. 12. Payback
  13. 13. Married with Children
  14. 14. City Hall
  15. 15. Veteran's Day
  16. 16. Can I Get a Witness?
  17. 17. Hands Free
  18. 18. Evil Breeds
  19. 19. Nowhere Man
  20. 20. Everybody Loves Raimondo's
  21. 21. Vendetta
  22. 22. Gaijin
  23. 23. Caviar Emptor
  24. 24. C.O.D.

Season 15 2004–2005 · 24 episodes

  1. 1. Paradigm
  2. 2. The Dead Wives Club
  3. 3. The Brotherhood
  4. 4. Coming Down Hard
  5. 5. Gunplay
  6. 6. Cut
  7. 7. Gov Love
  8. 8. Cry Wolf
  9. 9. All in the Family
  10. 10. Enemy
  11. 11. Fixed
  12. 12. Mammon
  13. 13. Ain't No Love
  14. 14. Fluency
  15. 15. Obsession
  16. 16. The Sixth Man
  17. 17. License to Kill
  18. 18. Dining Out
  19. 19. Sects
  20. 20. Tombstone
  21. 21. Publish and Perish
  22. 22. Sport of Kings
  23. 23. In God We Trust
  24. 24. Locomotion

Season 16 2005–2006 · 22 episodes

  1. 1. Red Ball
  2. 2. Flaw
  3. 3. Ghosts
  4. 4. Age of Innocence
  5. 5. Life Line
  6. 6. Birthright
  7. 7. House of Cards
  8. 8. New York Minute
  9. 9. Criminal Law
  10. 10. Acid
  11. 11. Bible Story
  12. 12. Family Friend
  13. 13. Heart of Darkness
  14. 14. Magnet
  15. 15. Choice of Evils
  16. 16. Cost of Capital
  17. 17. America, Inc.
  18. 18. Thinking Makes It So
  19. 19. Positive
  20. 20. Kingmaker
  21. 21. Hindsight
  22. 22. Invaders

Season 17 2006–2007 · 22 episodes

  1. 1. Fame
  2. 2. Avatar
  3. 3. Home Sweet
  4. 4. Fear America
  5. 5. Public Service Homicide
  6. 6. Profiteer
  7. 7. In Vino Veritas
  8. 8. Release
  9. 9. Deadlock
  10. 10. Corner Office
  11. 11. Remains of the Day
  12. 12. Charity Case
  13. 13. Talking Points
  14. 14. Church
  15. 15. Melting Pot
  16. 16. Murder Book
  17. 17. Good Faith
  18. 18. Bling
  19. 19. Fallout
  20. 20. Captive
  21. 21. Over Here
  22. 22. The Family Hour

Season 18 2008 · 18 episodes

  1. 1. Called Home
  2. 2. Darkness
  3. 3. Misbegotten
  4. 4. Bottomless
  5. 5. Driven
  6. 6. Political Animal
  7. 7. Quit Claim
  8. 8. Illegal
  9. 9. Executioner
  10. 10. Tango
  11. 11. Betrayal
  12. 12. Submission
  13. 13. Angelgrove
  14. 14. Burn Card
  15. 15. Bogeyman
  16. 16. Strike
  17. 17. Personae Non Gratae
  18. 18. Excalibur

Season 19 2008–2009 · 22 episodes

  1. 1. Rumble
  2. 2. Challenged
  3. 3. Lost Boys
  4. 4. Falling
  5. 5. Knock Off
  6. 6. Sweetie
  7. 7. Zero
  8. 8. Chattel
  9. 9. By Perjury
  10. 10. Pledge
  11. 11. Lucky Stiff
  12. 12. Illegitimate
  13. 13. Crimebusters
  14. 14. Rapture
  15. 15. Bailout
  16. 16. Take-Out
  17. 17. Anchors Away
  18. 18. Promote This!
  19. 19. All New
  20. 20. Exchange
  21. 21. Skate or Die
  22. 22. The Drowned and the Saved

Season 20 2009–2010 · 23 episodes

  1. 1. Memo from the Dark Side
  2. 2. Just a Girl in the World
  3. 3. Great Satan
  4. 4. Reality Bites
  5. 5. Dignity
  6. 6. Human Flesh Search Engine
  7. 7. Boy Gone Astray
  8. 8. Doped
  9. 9. For the Defense
  10. 10. Shotgun
  11. 11. Fed
  12. 12. Blackmail
  13. 13. Steel-Eyed Death
  14. 14. Boy on Fire
  15. 15. Brilliant Disguise
  16. 16. Innocence
  17. 17. Four Cops Shot
  18. 18. Brazil
  19. 19. Crashers
  20. 20. The Taxman Cometh
  21. 21. Immortal
  22. 22. Love Eternal
  23. 23. Rubber Room

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