Legal Privilege 27 Law & Order episodes
Attorney-client, spousal and doctor-patient privilege, and the secrets they protect.
- Season 2 · Episode 3
Aria
A young acting student who never touched drugs dies of an overdose, repeating that she didn’t want to do it.
- Season 2 · Episode 16
Vengeance
A young woman’s strangled body turns up on top of an elevator car, and the method matches two earlier unsolved killings.
- Season 4 · Episode 1
Sweeps
A molestation victim’s father shoots the abuser on a live talk show, and the detectives suspect the host steered him there for ratings.
- Season 5 · Episode 10
House Counsel
The murder of a bribed juror leads McCoy to prosecute a mob boss’s defense lawyer, his friend since law school.
- Season 5 · Episode 15
Seed
A woman shot in a bank leads detectives to a fertility doctor who faked pregnancies and secretly fathered dozens of his patients’ babies.
- Season 5 · Episode 18
Privileged
The stabbing of a couple in their brownstone leads to a young alcoholic whose foster family once lived in the house.
- 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 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 22
Past Imperfect
A former supermodel is found dead before her own surprise birthday party, and a DNA clue points investigators toward a blood relative.
- Season 8 · Episode 1
Thrill
A young delivery driver is gunned down on a bogus late-night order, and the two young men who killed him for kicks each insist the other one fired.
- Season 8 · Episode 16
Divorce
A hospital marriage counselor who evaluates Catholic annulments is stabbed in her office, and suspicion falls on an anxious ex-wife fighting her husband’s annulment while their divorce lawyers keep feuding.
- Season 9 · Episode 4
Flight
A child’s death from an exotic bacterium first looks like bioterrorism, then points to his father, and McCoy charges the company that mailed the germ to get the proof he needs.
- Season 9 · Episode 16
Harm
The beating of a retired divorce lawyer leads Carmichael to a busy gynecology practice where a patient died after an equipment saleswoman ran an unapproved fluid pump during routine surgery.
- Season 10 · Episode 5
Justice
The murder of a lawyer working on a death-row appeal suggests the wrong man was convicted, and McCoy finds Jamie Ross on the other side of the case.
- 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 11 · Episode 17
Ego
The murder of a young state Attorney General’s investigator leads to her former lover and supervisor, a rising prosecutor who quietly kept the search for her pointed at Albany.
- Season 11 · Episode 22
School Daze
A masked student opens fire in a New York City high school cafeteria and escapes, and the hunt for the shooter runs through several troubled teenagers before landing on one.
- 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 7
Open Season
A defense attorney is shot after winning a controversial acquittal, and the case against a white supremacist leaves his new lawyer, Danielle Melnick, accused of helping him arrange another killing.
- Season 14 · Episode 1
Bodies
A teenager’s murder leads to a cab driver who boasts of many more victims, and when his Legal Aid lawyer refuses to reveal where the bodies are, McCoy puts the lawyer on trial.
- Season 14 · Episode 4
Shrunk
A young actress is stabbed to death in the townhouse of a reclusive Broadway composer, and his confession raises questions about the psychiatrist who controls his life.
- Season 15 · Episode 7
Gov Love
The wife of Connecticut’s governor is stabbed at a Manhattan fundraiser, and the case exposes a developer’s favors, the governor’s secret affair with a man and a legal fight over same-sex marriage.
- Season 16 · Episode 16
Cost of Capital
A junior investment banker’s body is dumped far from where he died, the trail leads to the boss he was secretly sleeping with, and the murder case ends up depending on what her teenage daughter overheard on a late-night call.
- Season 18 · Episode 16
Strike
A Legal Aid paralegal is run down on a picket line, the suspect is a man freed by DNA after nine years in prison, and the strike leaves Rubirosa defending him against her own office.
- Season 19 · Episode 16
Take-Out
A freelance writer who spent six years in a Chinese prison is shot in a park, and the trail runs through the family of a man serving life for spying for China.
- Season 19 · Episode 22
The Drowned and the Saved
The murder of a charity executive with a secret S&M habit leads to the governor’s wife and a scheme to swap a Senate appointment for a prestigious job, just as McCoy’s election nears.
- Season 20 · Episode 20
The Taxman Cometh
An heiress’s heroin death points detectives to a fringe cancer clinic where wealthy patients all died in 2010, the one year their heirs owed no federal estate tax, and to the accountant who sent them there.