Kidnapping 14 Law & Order episodes
Abductions, ransom demands and missing-person cases.
- Season 4 · Episode 12
Snatched
A real estate magnate caught carrying millions in cash says his son has been kidnapped, but the case turns back on the son himself.
- Season 6 · Episode 5
Hot Pursuit
Police end a deadly robbery spree and free the gunman’s female partner, a Connecticut kidnapping victim, but McCoy believes she became a willing accomplice.
- Season 7 · Episode 19
Double Down
An armed robber caught after a liquor store shooting that killed an off-duty cop offers to reveal where a kidnapped car-service driver is held, if the DA’s office signs his plea deal.
- Season 9 · Episode 19
Tabula Rasa
A philosophy professor goes under a subway train after recognizing a Cincinnati money manager as the man who disappeared with his two young daughters 15 years earlier.
- Season 11 · Episode 13
Phobia
A gay man is beaten to death and his partner’s adopted son is taken, and the case turns on whether the boy’s birth father killed for custody or out of hatred.
- Season 12 · Episode 4
Soldier of Fortune
A diamond dealer is seized at gunpoint in an attack that kills two people, and the case leads to $100 million in conflict diamonds, soldiers from Sierra Leone and the head of the world’s dominant diamond cartel.
- Season 13 · Episode 22
Sheltered
A sniper terrorizes Lower Manhattan with daylight shootings from the rooftops, and the hunt leads to an ex-Marine marksman and the teenage boy he has raised as his son.
- 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 13
Married with Children
A motivational speaker is pushed from a hotel balcony, and suspicion falls on her former partner, who helped raise their daughter but has no legal claim to her under Florida’s ban on adoption by gay people.
- Season 16 · Episode 18
Thinking Makes It So
A bank manager helps rob his own branch while his six-year-old daughter is held hostage, and the rough way Fontana gets her location out of the kidnapper threatens to sink the whole prosecution.
- Season 17 · Episode 20
Captive
The kidnapping and murder of a young boy lead to a man who abducted another boy five years earlier, and the prosecutors come to doubt which of the two did the killing.
- Season 18 · Episode 2
Darkness
During a citywide blackout, kidnappers kill a housekeeper and seize a hedge fund manager’s wife and daughter, and the search for the plot’s organizer uncovers a scheme to rig the power market.
- 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 19 · Episode 15
Bailout
The mistress of a disgraced investment-bank CEO dies while escaping a ransom kidnapping, and the evidence points to the devoted manager of a program for young offenders.