Drugs 40 Law & Order episodes
Cases involving drug dealing, addiction and the money that moves through the drug trade.
- Season 1 · Episode 8
Poison Ivy
A police shooting during a drug arrest is ruled self-defense almost immediately, but Greevey doubts the gun found on the dead man was ever his.
- Season 1 · Episode 17
Mushrooms
Gunfire through an apartment door kills a baby, and the investigation leads from a teenage shooter to the man who sent him.
- Season 2 · Episode 11
His Hour Upon the Stage
A body in a tuxedo, frozen for five years, revives the disappearance of a Broadway producer on the eve of his big hit.
- Season 3 · Episode 8
Prince of Darkness
A cartel assassin guns down a couple in a crowded restaurant, and the hunt for the murder weapon costs Cerreta dearly.
- Season 3 · Episode 10
Consultation
A young Nigerian woman dies carrying heroin in her stomach, and the people who sent her include a tribal chief with diplomatic protection.
- Season 3 · Episode 15
Mother Love
A former honor student turned crack addict is shot in her apartment, and the trail leads from her dealer back to her own family.
- Season 3 · Episode 16
Jurisdiction
A mentally disabled man confesses to stabbing two nurses, and Stone must cross borough lines to prove a Brooklyn detective steered him.
- Season 4 · Episode 2
Volunteers
A violent, mentally ill homeless man is beaten nearly to death in an alley, and the trail leads to the Bedford Street neighbors he had tormented for years.
- 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 11
Guardian
A young heroin addict from a wealthy family is found dead outside a daycare center, and the trail leads to the man who manages her family’s money.
- Season 6 · Episode 3
Savages
An undercover detective is shot dead, the killer turns out to be a respectable accountant, and the DA’s office must decide whether to seek New York’s newly restored death penalty.
- Season 6 · Episode 18
Atonement
A young model disappears after an all-night party, and the limousine driver who killed her claims a crime of passion that covers for a drug dealer.
- Season 6 · Episode 19
Slave
A woman is killed in her bed by a stray bullet fired from a nearby rooftop, and the shooter turns out to be a 13-year-old boy working for a crack dealer.
- Season 7 · Episode 5
Corruption
A veteran detective kills a drug dealer during a buy-and-bust, and Curtis’s doubts expose a payoff scheme that ends with Briscoe accused of stealing evidence.
- Season 8 · Episode 8
Shadow
A bail bondsman’s murder exposes a lawyer selling fixed cases, and a secret sham prosecution meant to find his inside man leads to one of Jamie Ross’s colleagues.
- Season 8 · Episode 21
Bad Girl
A young drifter who stabbed an off-duty police officer is sentenced to death, then refuses to appeal after a religious conversion, while Schiff faces a challenger backed by an old friend and Briscoe’s daughter Cathy is arrested on drug charges.
- Season 8 · Episode 22
Damaged
A schoolyard shootout that wounds a teacher exposes three popular boys who had sex with a mentally disabled classmate, while Briscoe’s daughter Cathy testifies against the dealer she supplied.
- Season 9 · Episode 3
Bait
A suburban teenager’s lies about a shooting hide his work as an unregistered informant, and McCoy goes after the narcotics detective who ignored a warning that his snitch was about to be killed.
- Season 9 · Episode 9
True North
A software executive and his young daughter are shot in their townhouse, and suspicion turns to his Canadian wife, whose escape across the border sets off a standoff with Canada over the death penalty.
- Season 9 · Episode 20
Empire
A powerful bond analyst dies after a massive Viagra dose, and a charity fundraiser with her own angle helps the DA’s office go after the developer behind a new stadium.
- Season 10 · Episode 22
High & Low
A business student who secretly danced at strip clubs is raped and strangled in her dorm, and the trail runs from skinhead drug dealers to a banker leaking stock tips to a former porn star.
- Season 11 · Episode 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.
- Season 11 · Episode 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.
- Season 11 · Episode 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.
- Season 11 · Episode 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.
- Season 12 · Episode 20
Dazzled
When a much younger second wife plunges from a rooftop, the suspects include her husband, her former boyfriend and the husband’s embittered ex-wife, but the answer lies inside the family.
- Season 12 · Episode 23
Oxymoron
A cosmetic dermatologist found strangled and dumped from a car turns out to have been writing forged painkiller prescriptions for a mobster’s son.
- Season 13 · Episode 3
True Crime
The killing of a troubled rock singer draws in a retired NYPD detective writing a book about her husband’s fatal fall, and the gun he takes from a suspect’s apartment nearly sinks the prosecution.
- Season 13 · Episode 8
Asterisk
A limousine driver is found dead in a park, and the star ballplayer charged with his murder claims steroids drove him to it while the real reason for the killing stays hidden from the jury.
- Season 13 · Episode 12
Under God
The shooting of a dealer blamed for a boy’s overdose points to the grieving father, until the family’s parish priest confesses and claims the killing was God’s will.
- Season 13 · Episode 18
Maritime
A young real estate broker is found shot and floating in the East River, and the trail leads to a retired star quarterback’s abandoned yacht, the blood of three people and the quarterback’s drug-addicted older brother.
- 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 10
Enemy
A massacre at a Washington Heights heroin stash house that kills three prep school girls leads to an Afghan warlord who claims his work for the U.S. military shields him.
- Season 15 · Episode 13
Ain't No Love
When a pioneering DJ is shot dead in his studio, his young protégé’s lyrics about a real killing make him the prime suspect, while Southerlyn’s doubts about the case put her at odds with McCoy and Branch.
- Season 16 · Episode 14
Magnet
A gifted scholarship student at a Manhattan magnet school is strangled with a cello bow, and the wealthy classmate charged with killing him claims his attention deficit medication made him do it.
- Season 16 · Episode 22
Invaders
Two home invaders armed with counterfeit DEA badges wipe out the family of the man who made the badges, and the hunt for them costs ADA Alexandra Borgia her life.
- Season 17 · Episode 1
Fame
A police detective is killed when he walks in on a burglary at a nightlife photographer’s apartment, and the search for the gunman leads to the hard-partying husband of a movie star whose embarrassing photos were the target.
- Season 18 · Episode 10
Tango
A high school girl is raped and killed after straying from a Manhattan tow pound, and the case turns on whether a pimp or his drug-addicted girlfriend dealt the fatal blow.
- Season 19 · Episode 7
Zero
A woman whose family has given up electricity, cars and paper goods is killed with a shovel in a community garden, and the family car she quietly lent out ties her death to a police shooting in New Jersey.
- Season 20 · Episode 7
Boy Gone Astray
An interior designer who secretly supplies marijuana is gunned down at her door, the shooters turn out to be young teenagers trained as killers by a Mexican cartel, and their lawyer is a former Manhattan prosecutor.