Media and Celebrity 71 Law & Order episodes
Celebrities, the press and cases tried in the court of public opinion.
- Season 1 · Episode 11
Out of the Half-Light
A teenager’s accusation against police officers becomes a political battle before anyone can establish what happened.
- Season 2 · Episode 11
His Hour Upon the Stage
A body in a tuxedo, frozen for five years, revives the disappearance of a Broadway producer on the eve of his big hit.
- Season 2 · Episode 12
Star Struck
A woman found beaten and strangled in Central Park turns out to be a daytime soap star.
- Season 2 · Episode 21
Silence
A well-liked city councilman falls from a bridge onto 10th Avenue, and the evidence suggests he was murdered first.
- Season 3 · Episode 1
Skin Deep
A fashion photographer is found stabbed in his loft, and his secret business pimping out models past their prime points detectives toward one of his women.
- Season 3 · Episode 6
Helpless
The squad’s own psychiatrist accuses a prominent gynecologist of sexual assault, and her decision to gather evidence herself puts the case at risk.
- Season 3 · Episode 7
Self-Defense
A Greek immigrant jeweler shoots two armed robbers, and Stone must decide whether chasing one into the street turned self-defense into murder.
- 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 4 · Episode 3
Discord
A college junior says a heavy-metal star raped her in his hotel suite, but her credibility unravels on the stand and strains Stone’s trust in his new partner.
- Season 5 · Episode 23
Pride
An openly gay city councilman is shot on a Greenwich Village street, and suspicion falls on his young live-in partner and on a conservative rival.
- Season 6 · Episode 2
Rebels
An NYU student is stabbed to death in a biker bar, and the one witness the police can find says his online writing makes him a reporter who can keep his sources secret.
- Season 6 · Episode 4
Jeopardy
A triple shooting at a computer magazine points to the editor’s wealthy brother, but a judge dismisses the case midtrial, and the reason turns out to be a bribe.
- Season 6 · Episode 6
Paranoia
A Mount Amsterdam College student is stabbed to death in her dorm room, and suspicion shifts from an online stalker to her violinist roommate, whose sealed juvenile record becomes McCoy’s only way into court.
- Season 6 · Episode 18
Atonement
A young model disappears after an all-night party, and the limousine driver who killed her claims a crime of passion that covers for a drug dealer.
- Season 7 · Episode 3
Good Girl
A white 18-year-old says she stabbed a young Black man after he drugged and raped her, and his parents pressure the DA’s office to put her on trial.
- Season 7 · Episode 15
D-Girl
The murder of a Hollywood studio president, found in pieces in Manhattan, sends Briscoe and Curtis to Los Angeles to pry a blood sample from her personal trainer.
- 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 7 · Episode 17
Showtime
Eddie Newman’s murder trial becomes a media spectacle as his defense team builds a case against a Hollywood psychiatrist and Ross fights her ex-husband for custody of their daughter.
- Season 7 · Episode 21
Passion
A young book editor is found beaten to death inside a novelist’s loft, and suspicion turns to the novelist’s longtime companion, a lawyer who insists their relationship was intact.
- 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 8 · Episode 13
Castoff
A beloved Harlem social worker is shot dead outside her community center, and her secret life in the S&M scene leads to a former kept man killing wealthy past partners across the country.
- Season 8 · Episode 19
Disappeared
A couple and their building’s developer vanish amid letters attacking gentrification, and the man who turns in his mentally ill brother watches him face the death penalty after refusing any psychiatric defense.
- Season 8 · Episode 23
Tabloid
A law professor married into a famous family dies running from a gossip columnist into traffic, and when the columnist is later shot, her husband admits the killing and blames the tabloid press.
- Season 9 · Episode 14
Sideshow
A former White House staffer is found dead in Battery Park, and a joint investigation with Baltimore homicide draws McCoy into a fight with an Independent Counsel who wants his secret witness.
- Season 9 · Episode 18
Juvenile
The shooting of a star newspaper columnist leads back to the 1978 death of a Broadway actress, a mobster wrongly imprisoned for it, and a killer who was a juvenile at the time.
- Season 10 · Episode 17
Black, White and Blue
A prep-school student is killed in Harlem after two patrol officers leave him there to teach him a lesson, and the prosecution of the officers turns into a fight over race, politics and venue.
- Season 10 · Episode 20
Untitled
The killing of a wealthy patron of transgressive art leads to a failed painter who claims a violent canvas she backed pushed him over the edge, and McCoy refuses to let the defense put art on trial.
- Season 11 · Episode 11
Sunday in the Park with Jorge
A woman is found dead in Central Park on the afternoon of the Puerto Rican Day Parade, and political pressure follows a case that switches suspects in the middle of a trial.
- Season 11 · Episode 15
Swept Away
A cast member of a reality show falls to his death from the roof of the cast’s loft, and the case climbs from the castmate who pushed him to the network executive who arranged the fight.
- Season 11 · Episode 24
Deep Vote
A former teacher is shot dead in her car in Tribeca, and the detectives discover the bullet was meant for an investigative reporter digging into a close State Senate election.
- Season 12 · Episode 6
Formerly Famous
When a washed-up singer’s much younger wife is shot minutes after they leave his favorite pub, the detectives look at his manager, his grown sons and a custody deal that hid a secret about the couple’s baby.
- Season 12 · Episode 9
3 Dawg Night
When an aspiring DJ is shot in a crowded nightclub after insulting a hip-hop star, the evidence points at the star, but his silence protects someone else.
- Season 12 · Episode 24
Patriot
A gas explosion in a tenement covers up the murder of an undocumented Yemeni man, and his killer, a Gulf War veteran, claims he was fighting terrorism.
- Season 13 · Episode 3
True Crime
The killing of a troubled rock singer draws in a retired NYPD detective writing a book about her husband’s fatal fall, and the gun he takes from a suspect’s apartment nearly sinks the prosecution.
- Season 13 · Episode 4
Tragedy on Rye
A struggling actress is found shot in her soundproofed apartment over a deli, and a tourist video of three men hauling away her TV becomes the centerpiece of a capital murder case that Branch insists on pursuing.
- Season 13 · Episode 8
Asterisk
A limousine driver is found dead in a park, and the star ballplayer charged with his murder claims steroids drove him to it while the real reason for the killing stays hidden from the jury.
- Season 13 · Episode 18
Maritime
A young real estate broker is found shot and floating in the East River, and the trail leads to a retired star quarterback’s abandoned yacht, the blood of three people and the quarterback’s drug-addicted older brother.
- Season 13 · Episode 24
Smoke
A popular comedian’s adopted baby falls to his death from a burning hotel suite, and the investigation uncovers a child sex abuse case the star paid to keep quiet.
- Season 14 · Episode 2
Bounty
A bounty hunter is found dead in a cheap Manhattan hotel, and the trail leads to a star reporter whose interview with a fugitive heir may never have happened.
- Season 14 · Episode 8
Embedded
A television correspondent accused of tipping off the enemy in Iraq is shot outside a Manhattan club, and the case against a soldier from the unit he covered becomes a battle over patriotism and the press.
- 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 14 · Episode 22
Gaijin
A Japanese tourist is fatally shot on an empty Manhattan street, and her husband’s story of a Black robber collapses only after he has gone home to Tokyo to denounce New York.
- Season 15 · Episode 8
Cry Wolf
A radio shock jock who once staged attacks on himself for publicity is shot for real, and the hit traces back to a mob boss whose mistress he was secretly seeing.
- 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 16
The Sixth Man
A reclusive basketball fan is found with a broken neck in his rent-controlled apartment, and the trail leads to the visiting star he spent two seasons taunting from the stands and over the phone.
- Season 15 · Episode 17
License to Kill
An SUV crashes into a Washington Heights restaurant at the end of a chase, and its dead driver proves to be a gunman who has just killed five hunters upstate, leaving McCoy to prosecute the motorist who pursued him.
- 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 15 · Episode 21
Publish and Perish
An adult-film star turned memoirist is found shot in her Manhattan sublet, and Fontana and Nick Falco, his fill-in partner, follow the case from her enraged editor to a former police commissioner nominated for a top national security post.
- Season 16 · Episode 1
Red Ball
A five-year-old girl vanishes with her mother’s car, and the ex-convict arrested for taking her uses the child as a bargaining chip, offering to reveal where she is if prosecutors set him free.
- Season 16 · Episode 4
Age of Innocence
A husband fighting to end his brain-damaged wife’s life support is killed by a car bomb outside her hospital, and the trail runs from a bomb maker to an outspoken minister and the woman’s own family.
- Season 16 · Episode 5
Life Line
A young journalist posing as a gang member is shot dead, and the trail leads to a Long Island real estate broker whose imprisoned son is at the mercy of the gang she was exposing.
- Season 16 · Episode 20
Kingmaker
An undercover narcotics detective is executed after a newspaper column reveals she is a cop, and the leak traces back to a congressman’s combative chief of staff.
- Season 17 · Episode 1
Fame
A police detective is killed when he walks in on a burglary at a nightlife photographer’s apartment, and the search for the gunman leads to the hard-partying husband of a movie star whose embarrassing photos were the target.
- Season 17 · Episode 2
Avatar
Photos of a murdered mother posted on a teen social networking site lead to a mentally ill man who abducts her daughter, then insists the girl recruited him online to kill her mother.
- Season 17 · Episode 5
Public Service Homicide
A man caught in a tabloid TV sting meeting a supposed 12-year-old is stabbed to death the night his segment airs, and the case exposes a reality-show producer who sent his killer to his door.
- Season 17 · Episode 7
In Vino Veritas
A fading sitcom actor arrested for drunk driving in bloodstained clothes rants against Jews, and the trail leads to a murdered Jewish producer and the actor’s 14-year-old son.
- Season 17 · Episode 8
Release
The bludgeoning of a wealthy heir on a racy party-video bus leads to a college student who says she was fending off a second assault, and McCoy charges the man who first raped her with felony murder.
- Season 17 · Episode 12
Charity Case
A producer is shot dead outside an ice cream parlor as he holds the baby he and his actress wife adopted from Africa, and the case uncovers what became of the real child.
- Season 17 · Episode 13
Talking Points
A sophomore is killed when protesters rush a conservative commentator’s campus lecture, and prosecutors must prove the gunman was really aiming at the speaker.
- Season 17 · Episode 16
Murder Book
The publisher of an acquitted ex-ballplayer’s book on how he would have killed his wife is beaten and strangled, reopening McCoy’s old loss to the same man.
- Season 18 · Episode 1
Called Home
Det. Cyrus Lupo returns from four years overseas when his brother dies of a lethal injection, and a second assisted suicide points to the daughter of a paroled right-to-die doctor.
- Season 18 · Episode 12
Submission
A dog-fighting bust turns into a murder case when one of the dogs turns out to have swallowed a woman’s finger, and a reporter romancing the suspect complicates Cutter’s prosecution of the missing woman’s husband.
- Season 18 · Episode 17
Personae Non Gratae
A car-stereo worker beaten to death had tried to expose his boss’s online romance with a girl whose messages were really written by her mother.
- Season 19 · Episode 6
Sweetie
The best-selling author of a memoir about a childhood in prostitution is stabbed near the piers, and the detectives learn the man was an actor hired to play a writer who may never have existed.
- Season 19 · Episode 13
Crimebusters
A firebomb at an Army recruiting center kills a sleeping baby, and while a band of internet crime-solvers chases the case on its own, the evidence points both to a grieving soldier’s brother and to the baby’s mother.
- Season 19 · Episode 17
Anchors Away
A demoted TV reporter is killed while pursuing a tip that a celebrated hedge fund is a fraud, and the case exposes a jealous anchor, a Ponzi scheme and a devoted marriage.
- Season 19 · Episode 18
Promote This!
Three Long Island high school athletes who record themselves attacking Hispanic men are tied to the beating of a Honduran day laborer and the murder of a laid-off autoworker.
- 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 6
Human Flesh Search Engine
When the founder of a racy clothing label is found dead in what looks like a sex game gone wrong, the trail leads to an online vigilante forum that published his address and door code, and Cutter tries to hold its members responsible for his murder.
- Season 20 · Episode 10
Shotgun
A Spanish Harlem tax preparer in his late sixties becomes a folk hero after gunning down three would-be robbers, but the detectives learn the holdup was meant to scare him into selling a valuable building, and McCoy asks a grand jury to charge him with murder.
- Season 20 · Episode 12
Blackmail
The murder of a freelance gossip writer exposes a daytime talk-show host’s affairs with women on her staff and a $3 million extortion scheme run out of the website she wrote for.