Informants 8 Law & Order episodes
Cases that hinge on informants, including jailhouse snitches.
- Season 2 · Episode 14
Blood Is Thicker...
A society wife’s killing seems to fit a string of muggings, until her husband’s alibi and his mother’s influence start to look suspicious.
- Season 7 · Episode 9
Entrapment
A gunman wounds activist Roland Books and kills his bodyguard, and the case against the son of Books’s murdered predecessor rests on an informant’s tape.
- 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 11 · Episode 21
Brother's Keeper
A medical-supply executive is shot at a Manhattan driving range, and the obvious suspect, a veteran Irish mobster, has two FBI agents vouching for his whereabouts.
- Season 15 · Episode 9
All in the Family
A diamond dealer cooperating with federal prosecutors is gunned down on a crowded sidewalk, and the hit leads from Russian mobsters to his wife, who was trapped in a marriage she could not leave.
- Season 19 · Episode 5
Knock Off
An upstate man is shot in Chinatown, and the case against the woman who accused him of rape unravels into a sheriff protecting his informant, with the governor’s office shielding a key witness.
- Season 20 · Episode 3
Great Satan
A virtual-kidnapping scam turns up an informant inside a small group plotting to bomb a synagogue, but a second, real bombing and the informant’s own secrets put the prosecution at risk.
- Season 20 · Episode 17
Four Cops Shot
Four police officers are gunned down in a pizzeria, and the shooter’s motive, along with a federal push for the death penalty, puts the dead officers’ own conduct under scrutiny.