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Immunity Deals 15 Law & Order episodes

Witnesses granted immunity in exchange for testimony, and diplomats shielded from prosecution.

  1. Season 2 · Episode 19

    The Fertile Fields

    Aired April 7, 1992 · Murder / money laundering

    A diamond dealer’s burned body is found in an Upper West Side alley after witnesses see a group of Black teenagers running from the area.

  2. Season 3 · Episode 10

    Consultation

    Aired December 9, 1992 · Drug smuggling / felony murder

    A young Nigerian woman dies carrying heroin in her stomach, and the people who sent her include a tribal chief with diplomatic protection.

  3. Season 7 · Episode 8

    Family Business

    Aired November 20, 1996 · Murder

    The finance chief of a family-owned Manhattan department store is shot in his office, and suspicion falls on both of the owner’s daughters.

  4. Season 7 · Episode 12

    Barter

    Aired February 12, 1997 · Murder for hire / insurance murders

    A co-op treasurer is shot in her building’s garage, apparently mistaken for a neighbor, and the killings lead back to a lender who holds life insurance on his borrowers.

  5. Season 8 · Episode 2

    Denial

    Aired October 8, 1997 · Infanticide / murder

    Blood in a cheap hotel room leads to two college sweethearts who deny their newborn son ever lived, until his body is found in the middle of their trial.

  6. Season 9 · Episode 2

    DWB

    Aired October 7, 1998 · Murder by police officers

    The dragging death of a Black man is traced to white patrol officers, and McCoy fights both the U.S. Attorney and Schiff to prosecute the officer who bought immunity with his testimony.

  7. Season 10 · Episode 22

    High & Low

    Aired May 17, 2000 · Murder / insider trading

    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.

  8. Season 13 · Episode 9

    The Wheel

    Aired December 11, 2002 · Murder disguised as self-immolation

    A young woman found burning outside a Chinese diplomat’s apartment looks like a Falun Gong protester, but her lawsuit against him suggests murder and pulls Branch’s old law firm into the case.

  9. Season 14 · Episode 19

    Nowhere Man

    Aired March 31, 2004 · Murder of a prosecutor / mob murder

    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.

  10. Season 15 · Episode 10

    Enemy

    Aired December 1, 2004 · Murder / drug trafficking

    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.

  11. Season 16 · Episode 6

    Birthright

    Aired November 2, 2005 · Manslaughter / forced sterilization

    A 16-year-old murder suspect dies in a holding cell, and her autopsy points to a free-clinic nurse who has been quietly sterilizing young women she considers unfit to raise children.

  12. Season 16 · Episode 12

    Family Friend

    Aired January 11, 2006 · Murder / home invasion / revenge killing

    When the man accused of killing a mob-connected accountant is acquitted, a decorated retired detective shoots him dead, then threatens to unravel dozens of his old cases if McCoy prosecutes him.

  13. Season 18 · Episode 1

    Called Home

    Aired January 2, 2008 · Assisted suicide / murder

    Det. Cyrus Lupo returns from four years overseas when his brother dies of a lethal injection, and a second assisted suicide points to the daughter of a paroled right-to-die doctor.

  14. Season 19 · Episode 14

    Rapture

    Aired February 18, 2009 · Murder

    The murder of the man behind a website that emails unbelievers after the rapture leads to stolen gold, a Christian charity that sends Jews to Israel, and a suspect who takes shelter in Iran’s diplomatic mission.

  15. Season 20 · Episode 12

    Blackmail

    Aired January 15, 2010 · Murder / extortion

    The murder of a freelance gossip writer exposes a daytime talk-show host’s affairs with women on her staff and a $3 million extortion scheme run out of the website she wrote for.

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