Jurisdiction and Extradition 18 Law & Order episodes
Cases that cross state, federal or national lines, and fights over who gets to prosecute.
- Season 1 · Episode 20
The Troubles
When one of three shackled federal prisoners is found dead, the NYPD has to fight federal agencies to solve the murder.
- Season 3 · Episode 13
Night and Fog
An apparent assisted suicide by a devoted husband turns into a murder case tied to wartime collaboration in a Nazi ghetto.
- 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 7 · Episode 1
Causa Mortis
A night-school teacher is killed in a carjacking, and a recording of her last minutes sets off fights over evidence, jurisdiction and the death penalty.
- Season 7 · Episode 16
Turnaround
The murder weapon in the Heidi Ellison case surfaces near a Long Island airport, shifting suspicion to her ex-husband and pulling McCoy and Ross into a hostile California courtroom.
- Season 8 · Episode 3
Navy Blues
A Navy chief found shot in a Manhattan park turns out to have been involved with his pilot, a celebrated female aviator whose account of an accidental shooting keeps shifting.
- Season 8 · Episode 6
Baby, It's You
A 14-year-old fashion model dies of an infection caused by an untreated rape, and her wealthy parents’ combative lawyer fights the police while the case reaches back to Baltimore.
- 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 21
Ambitious
An audio installer is beaten to death after leaving a strip club, and the trail leads to the son of a jailed mob boss who has been extorting the club’s owners.
- Season 10 · Episode 24
Vaya Con Dios
An old man who spent decades hunting the people behind his son’s 1973 murder in Chile dies in a Manhattan stairwell, and McCoy goes after a retired Chilean colonel receiving medical care in New York.
- 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 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 14 · Episode 20
Everybody Loves Raimondo's
A barroom shooting at an exclusive restaurant favored by mobsters and celebrities covers a second killing, of a producer whose mob movie made him enemies, and the trail leads from the author of the book behind the film into the restaurant itself.
- Season 17 · Episode 19
Fallout
A Russian émigré dies of military-grade ricin, and the case uncovers a ring trafficking young Russian women and a Moscow policeman searching for his missing daughter.
- Season 18 · Episode 7
Quit Claim
A hit-and-run that kills a visiting mother and daughter uncovers a scheme to cheat struggling homeowners out of their houses, and a title closer who keeps slipping out of the prosecutors’ reach.
- Season 18 · Episode 9
Executioner
A visiting doctor is beaten to death in a borrowed hotel room, and the intended target turns out to be a New York physician who quietly carries out executions in South Carolina.
- Season 19 · Episode 3
Lost Boys
A teenager expelled from a fundamentalist Mormon sect is stabbed in Central Park, and the case exposes a plot by the sect’s Prophet to kidnap the young wife who fled him.
- 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.