Law & Order Season 14 Episode Guide
Plot summaries for the fourteenth season of Law & Order, which aired on NBC from September 2003 to May 2004, featuring Det. Lennie Briscoe, Det. Ed Green, Lt. Anita Van Buren, Executive ADA Jack McCoy, ADA Serena Southerlyn and DA Arthur Branch.
- 1
Bodies
A teenager’s murder leads to a cab driver who boasts of many more victims, and when his Legal Aid lawyer refuses to reveal where the bodies are, McCoy puts the lawyer on trial.
- 2
Bounty
A bounty hunter is found dead in a cheap Manhattan hotel, and the trail leads to a star reporter whose interview with a fugitive heir may never have happened.
- 3
Patient Zero
A carjacking victim’s SUV holds a vial of SARS, and the trail leads to a celebrated virologist accused of infecting his former mistress during an outbreak that also strikes her young son.
- 4
Shrunk
A young actress is stabbed to death in the townhouse of a reclusive Broadway composer, and his confession raises questions about the psychiatrist who controls his life.
- 5
Blaze
Pyrotechnics at a rock show set off a fire that kills 23 people in a small club, and the band’s aging frontman is charged with murder until a devoted teenage fan’s story comes apart.
- 6
Identity
The murder of a man who hid his layoff from his family exposes an identity-theft scheme that cost an elderly Harlem veteran his home, and the case turns on whether the old man is fit to stand trial.
- 7
Floater
A woman pulled from the Hudson turns out to be a family court clerk, and her husband looks guilty until the prosecutors find a divorce lawyer paying to get his cases before a favored judge.
- 8
Embedded
A television correspondent accused of tipping off the enemy in Iraq is shot outside a Manhattan club, and the case against a soldier from the unit he covered becomes a battle over patriotism and the press.
- 9
Compassion
A psychic grief counselor dies of cyanide at lunch, and the trail leads to a celebrated pediatric oncologist he once robbed under another name, leaving McCoy to decide whether she wanted revenge or has lost touch with reality.
- 10
Ill-Conceived
The beating death of a garment-factory owner leads to an undocumented worker whose girlfriend’s newborn turns out to be the victim’s child, and a secret surrogacy arrangement reshapes the case.
- 11
Darwinian
A wealthy publicist confesses to leaving a homeless man she hit to die in her garage, but a defense autopsy shows he was already dying from a beating by another homeless man.
- 12
Payback
A former bookie who informed on a Mafia crew boss is executed in a Central Park carriage stable, and the killings that follow lead to a mild-mannered real estate broker working for the newly freed boss.
- 13
Married with Children
A motivational speaker is pushed from a hotel balcony, and suspicion falls on her former partner, who helped raise their daughter but has no legal claim to her under Florida’s ban on adoption by gay people.
- 14
City Hall
A gunman kills a city councilman inside City Hall, but his real target was a water inspector, and the murder weapon surfaces through a secret federal search.
- 15
Veteran's Day
A young antiwar activist is choked to death after a day of confrontations, and the killer turns out to be a decorated Gulf War veteran whose only son died in Afghanistan.
- 16
Can I Get a Witness?
A 19-year-old is gunned down in a park by a cyclist with a clouded eye, and the case against the accused collapses when one eyewitness backs out and the other is killed before cross-examination, sending McCoy after the cousin suspected of silencing them.
- 17
Hands Free
Body parts in East Village garbage lead to the victim’s supposedly deaf neighbor, who turns out to be Eli Madison, a wealthy heir long suspected in his wife’s disappearance, and when a jury acquits him, McCoy charges him with his wife’s murder.
- 18
Evil Breeds
A 78-year-old Holocaust survivor is killed in a push-in attack while helping the government deport a former SS camp guard, and McCoy tries the old man alongside a young neo-Nazi record producer whose prints are on her door.
- 19
Nowhere Man
The murder of a veteran appeals prosecutor reveals that he spent two decades in the DA’s office under a stolen identity, and a mob case he quietly dropped ten years earlier leads McCoy to his killers.
- 20
Everybody Loves Raimondo's
A barroom shooting at an exclusive restaurant favored by mobsters and celebrities covers a second killing, of a producer whose mob movie made him enemies, and the trail leads from the author of the book behind the film into the restaurant itself.
- 21
Vendetta
A baseball fan hated for touching a foul ball is killed in a bar fight by a man recently freed after 20 years for a murder he did not commit, and the case leads to the officer who framed him.
- 22
Gaijin
A Japanese tourist is fatally shot on an empty Manhattan street, and her husband’s story of a Black robber collapses only after he has gone home to Tokyo to denounce New York.
- 23
Caviar Emptor
A wealthy Persian Jewish caviar dealer dies in bed the day after his wedding, and a family fight over an autopsy opens a murder case against the daughter he was about to move out of his house.
- 24
C.O.D.
A delivery driver is shot after dropping off an empty envelope, and Lennie Briscoe’s last case uncovers two women who agreed to kill each other’s husbands.