Depraved Indifference 11 Law & Order episodes
Prosecutions for deaths caused by extreme recklessness rather than an intent to kill.
- Season 1 · Episode 9
Indifference
A little girl who can’t be woken at school becomes the center of a case about a family where drugs and violence went unchecked for years.
- Season 3 · Episode 21
Manhood
A patrolman dies in a shootout while backup units take their time, and detectives learn his fellow officers knew he was gay.
- Season 5 · Episode 9
Scoundrels
A lawyer’s murder exposes a scheme to fleece victims of a savings and loan swindler, and McCoy goes after the swindler himself.
- Season 9 · Episode 1
Cherished
A little girl dies days after her adoption, her troubled older brother is arrested, and new ADA Abbie Carmichael follows the case back to the couple and the Russian doctor who passed along a dying child.
- Season 10 · Episode 10
Loco Parentis
A high school student is found with his throat cut after selling candy door to door, and McCoy takes the untested step of charging the killer’s father with murder.
- Season 11 · Episode 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.
- Season 12 · Episode 16
Born Again
An adopted girl with severe behavioral problems dies during an unlicensed rebirthing session, and McCoy must sort out how much blame belongs to the therapist and how much to the mother who brought her there.
- Season 13 · Episode 21
House Calls
A Russian immigrant model who supports her family dies in a store dressing room, and the trail leads to a self-styled “Doctor to the Stars” who sees patients in a restaurant and pays house calls.
- Season 15 · Episode 24
Locomotion
A rush-hour commuter train slams into an SUV parked on the tracks, killing 12, and the man who left it there says he meant to kill only himself, setting up an insanity defense he later throws out.
- Season 17 · Episode 5
Public Service Homicide
A man caught in a tabloid TV sting meeting a supposed 12-year-old is stabbed to death the night his segment airs, and the case exposes a reality-show producer who sent his killer to his door.
- Season 19 · Episode 19
All New
The torture-murders of an FDNY lieutenant and his wife lead to decades-old drug money hidden in their house, and when the hazed rookie under suspicion dies in a warehouse fire, Cutter charges a senior firefighter with his death.