Domestic Violence 23 Law & Order episodes
Violence inside marriages, relationships and families, and how the courts respond to it.
- Season 1 · Episode 4
Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die
The death of a young Upper East Side woman leads detectives through her dating life to a polished ex-boyfriend with a history of violence.
- Season 1 · Episode 5
Happily Ever After
A well-off couple is ambushed in a garage near their home, and the surviving wife’s account starts to look too tidy.
- 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 3
Forgiveness
A college student is bludgeoned the night before she leaves for Italy, and her boyfriend confesses but says he cannot remember the attack.
- Season 4 · Episode 6
Pride and Joy
A Manhattan building superintendent seems to die stopping a burglary, until the evidence points to his gifted teenage son, who says he was defending himself from an abusive father.
- Season 4 · Episode 11
Golden Years
An elderly woman is found dead after a break-in, but the autopsy shows she starved, and suspicion moves from her fired maid to her granddaughter.
- Season 4 · Episode 17
Mayhem
In a single shift, Briscoe and Logan catch several unrelated killings, and the one that looks solved may have the wrong man in custody.
- Season 5 · Episode 2
Coma
A part-time newspaper columnist is shot in the head on Riverside Drive, and the investigation zeroes in on the controlling husband she was planning to divorce.
- Season 5 · Episode 3
Blue Bamboo
A visiting Tokyo nightclub owner is shot in a Manhattan hotel, and the American singer who once worked for him says years of abuse drove her to kill.
- Season 7 · Episode 7
Deadbeat
A father who skipped out on about $200,000 in support is shot in a Midtown hotel, and the evidence points to the grandfather of his son, a boy with leukemia.
- Season 7 · Episode 15
D-Girl
The murder of a Hollywood studio president, found in pieces in Manhattan, sends Briscoe and Curtis to Los Angeles to pry a blood sample from her personal trainer.
- Season 9 · Episode 5
Agony
The torture of a recently separated woman leads to a traveling serial killer who trades six bodies for a plea deal, before new evidence shows he may not be the man who attacked her.
- Season 9 · Episode 17
Shield
When a detective is gunned down during a stakeout, suspicion falls on the fellow officer he had been beating, and her trial exposes how the department ignored her complaints.
- Season 9 · Episode 19
Tabula Rasa
A philosophy professor goes under a subway train after recognizing a Cincinnati money manager as the man who disappeared with his two young daughters 15 years earlier.
- Season 10 · Episode 18
Mega
A helicopter bombing that kills six is traced to a passenger’s wife and to the charismatic couple whose self-improvement circle has collected a fortune from her and her husband.
- Season 11 · Episode 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.
- Season 12 · Episode 18
Equal Rights
When a Wall Street analyst is gunned down on his way to the ferry, the trail runs past a collapsed tech stock to his wife, who says years of beatings drove her to have him killed.
- Season 13 · Episode 13
Absentia
When the wounded eyewitness to a jewelry store killing skips the trial, the detectives learn he is a fugitive celebrity convicted in absentia of murdering his girlfriend two decades earlier.
- Season 13 · Episode 23
Couples
In a single day Briscoe and Green catch three murders and a kidnapping, led by the shooting of a woman who proves to be the wife a paroled man was convicted of killing ten years earlier.
- Season 16 · Episode 9
Criminal Law
A gunman working through the witness list from a nine-year-old office massacre puts McCoy in danger just as the convicted killer wins a new trial.
- Season 16 · Episode 10
Acid
When an old friend’s daughter, disfigured in a chemical attack, takes her own life, Van Buren drives the hunt for the attacker and then shades her testimony to keep him in jail.
- Season 16 · Episode 15
Choice of Evils
A teenage runaway is found shot in an empty Manhattan warehouse, and DNA leads to his mother, the former wife of a serial killer, who says she killed her son to stop him from becoming his father.
- Season 17 · Episode 22
The Family Hour
The beating death of a former senator’s ex-wife exposes years of abuse in his family, and then the senator kills his daughter and claims self-defense.