Law & Order Season 11 Episode Guide
Plot summaries for the eleventh season of Law & Order, which aired on NBC from October 2000 to May 2001, featuring Det. Lennie Briscoe, Det. Ed Green, Lt. Anita Van Buren, Executive ADA Jack McCoy, ADA Abbie Carmichael and DA Nora Lewin.
- 1
Endurance
A 12-year-old boy with a severe developmental disorder dies after someone sets a fire in his family’s building, and the case against his devoted, worn-out mother tests how hard McCoy is willing to push.
- 2
Turnstile Justice
A woman is struck down with a paving stone in a subway station by a psychotic man freed from Rikers Island the night before, and McCoy charges the executive whose company ran the jail’s medical care.
- 3
Dissonance
The murder of the Manhattan Symphony Orchestra’s star young violinist exposes her affair with the married conductor, and his trial ends with a confession nobody can disprove.
- 4
Standoff
When the leader of the Latin Lobos is knifed during a staged brawl at Rikers Island, McCoy charges the corrections officer who wanted him dead, and a jury has to weigh a hated victim against a sympathetic defendant.
- 5
Return
When the son of a murdered store owner’s partner flees to Tel Aviv to avoid a murder-for-hire charge, the DA’s office has to fight Israel’s Law of Return to bring him back.
- 6
Burn Baby Burn
A robbery detective hunting a reluctant witness at the wrong address is killed at a Harlem apartment door, and the former Black Panther charged with shooting him argues he was defending his life.
- 7
Amends
Pushed to raise her squad’s clearance rate, Van Buren has Briscoe and Green reopen the 1981 killing of a 16-year-old girl, and the case leads to an ambassador’s son and a cover-up by Briscoe’s old boss.
- 8
Thin Ice
A volunteer hockey coach is stomped to death in a rink garage, and suspicion moves from a 16-year-old player to his father, whose lawyer argues that uncontrollable rage left him legally insane.
- 9
Hubris
Four people, including a six-year-old girl, are shot in a jewelry store, and the trail leads to a smooth con man who takes over his own defense and sets out to charm the jury.
- 10
Whose Monkey Is It Anyway?
A researcher dies of a bite after a lab security guard sets free 17 monkeys used in AIDS vaccine studies, and the guard’s manslaughter trial turns into a test of whether saving animals can justify a crime.
- 11
Sunday in the Park with Jorge
A woman is found dead in Central Park on the afternoon of the Puerto Rican Day Parade, and political pressure follows a case that switches suspects in the middle of a trial.
- 12
Teenage Wasteland
A Chinese restaurant owner is beaten to death on a delivery to an empty apartment, and the case against five Queens teenagers forces DA Nora Lewin to weigh the death penalty for an 18-year-old.
- 13
Phobia
A gay man is beaten to death and his partner’s adopted son is taken, and the case turns on whether the boy’s birth father killed for custody or out of hatred.
- 14
A Losing Season
A pregnant bank loan officer is found shot in the trunk of a stolen car, and the case moves from two car thieves to a drug dealer, a hired gunman and a professional basketball player.
- 15
Swept Away
A cast member of a reality show falls to his death from the roof of the cast’s loft, and the case climbs from the castmate who pushed him to the network executive who arranged the fight.
- 16
Bronx Cheer
With too little evidence to charge a drug dealer in a young woman’s strangling, Manhattan prosecutors pursue him for an older Bronx shooting, even though another man is already serving a life term for it.
- 17
Ego
The murder of a young state Attorney General’s investigator leads to her former lover and supervisor, a rising prosecutor who quietly kept the search for her pointed at Albany.
- 18
White Lie
The execution-style killing of a cocaine dealer and his wife leads detectives to an Army officer’s wife who has been carrying drugs from Colombia on military flights.
- 19
Whiplash
An undocumented day laborer collapses and dies a day after a staged car accident, and the insurance scam that put him in the car leads from a moving-company boss to a chiropractor and a personal-injury law firm.
- 20
All My Children
The shooting of a wealthy developer’s estranged son exposes a blackmail plot built on a paternity claim, and suspicion shifts from the young woman behind it to the father himself.
- 21
Brother's Keeper
A medical-supply executive is shot at a Manhattan driving range, and the obvious suspect, a veteran Irish mobster, has two FBI agents vouching for his whereabouts.
- 22
School Daze
A masked student opens fire in a New York City high school cafeteria and escapes, and the hunt for the shooter runs through several troubled teenagers before landing on one.
- 23
Judge Dread
A hard-line Manhattan judge survives a shooting outside the courthouse, and the dead gunman’s trail leads to a white-collar defendant she sent to Rikers.
- 24
Deep Vote
A former teacher is shot dead in her car in Tribeca, and the detectives discover the bullet was meant for an investigative reporter digging into a close State Senate election.