Infidelity 19 Law & Order episodes
Affairs and betrayals that end in crime.
- Season 5 · Episode 17
Act of God
A bombing that topples a building under renovation pits a bankrupt contractor against a jealous husband trained in explosives.
- Season 6 · Episode 7
Humiliation
A street prostitute is shot dead in a Hell’s Kitchen alley with $2,000 in her purse, and the evidence points to a married plastic surgeon who admits paying her for sex.
- Season 6 · Episode 15
Encore
A jogger killed in Central Park proves to be Michael Dobson’s second wife, and years earlier the case over his first wife’s murder fell apart.
- Season 6 · Episode 17
Deceit
A closeted corporate lawyer is shot dead hours after threatening to sue the law firm that fired him for being gay, and suspicion settles on the senior partner who had been pursuing him.
- Season 10 · Episode 19
Surrender Dorothy
A teacher’s body in a car trunk leads to her father-in-law, a self-help author and therapist, and McCoy must decide whether her death was murder or a suicide he drove her to.
- Season 11 · Episode 3
Dissonance
The murder of the Manhattan Symphony Orchestra’s star young violinist exposes her affair with the married conductor, and his trial ends with a confession nobody can disprove.
- Season 12 · Episode 14
Missing
The disappearance of a 24-year-old state aide leads to the head of the State Gaming Board, a married family friend who denies any affair while his old buddy confesses to her murder.
- Season 12 · Episode 22
Attorney Client
A defense attorney’s wife is shot in his car, and the hunt for a vengeful client gives way to evidence that the lawyer staged the killing himself.
- Season 13 · Episode 5
The Ring
Remains dumped in a Hell’s Kitchen lot belong to a young woman everyone believed died in the September 11 attacks, and a $40,000 ring ties her to a married man from a powerful political family.
- Season 13 · Episode 6
Hitman
A Manhattan contractor is shot in what looks like a professional hit, and a trail of money and phone calls leads from his unfaithful wife and her lover to a hit man already in federal custody.
- 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 14 · Episode 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.
- Season 14 · Episode 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.
- Season 15 · Episode 12
Mammon
A wealthy venture capitalist is beaten to death in his renovated townhouse, and suspicion falls on his young wife and the contractor who installed the alarm system and shared her bed.
- Season 15 · Episode 15
Obsession
A conservative TV host accused of sexual harassment is shot dead outside his book signing, and the woman who pulled the trigger claims his wife talked her into it.
- Season 15 · Episode 18
Dining Out
A TV executive is strangled in a private park after a charity gala, and suspicion moves from the twins who run the charity to her husband and finally to the celebrity chef she was sleeping with.
- Season 20 · Episode 4
Reality Bites
A mother of ten adopted special-needs children is beaten to death at home, and her husband’s eagerness to put the family on a reality show makes him the prime suspect.
- Season 20 · Episode 11
Fed
A community organizer found dead with “FED” inked on his chest turns out to have been a conservative secretly filming his liberal employer, and the case widens into embezzlement and an affair at the top.
- Season 20 · Episode 19
Crashers
A young model who crashed a party at Gracie Mansion is beaten to death and burned, and the investigation leads from her troubled brother to a senator’s office and home.