Organized Crime 61 Law & Order episodes
Mob bosses, crime families and the gangs and rackets that operate like them.
- Season 1 · Episode 6
Everybody's Favorite Bagman
A city councilman’s death looks like a street mugging until the detectives learn he once carried bribes for powerful people.
- Season 1 · Episode 15
The Torrents of Greed: Part 1
An assault on a small shopkeeper leads Stone to a chance at the head of the Masucci crime family.
- Season 1 · Episode 16
The Torrents of Greed: Part 2
Barred from retrying the mob boss for murder, the prosecutors look for another way to reach him.
- Season 1 · Episode 19
The Serpent's Tooth
When a businessman and his wife are murdered in their home, everything points to the sons who stand to inherit.
- Season 2 · Episode 6
Misconception
A mugging that costs a young woman her pregnancy looks like a cover for something more deliberate.
- Season 2 · Episode 13
Severance
A professional hit in a parking garage turns out to have been aimed at someone the police didn’t know was there.
- Season 2 · Episode 19
The Fertile Fields
A diamond dealer’s burned body is found in an Upper West Side alley after witnesses see a group of Black teenagers running from the area.
- Season 3 · Episode 8
Prince of Darkness
A cartel assassin guns down a couple in a crowded restaurant, and the hunt for the murder weapon costs Cerreta dearly.
- Season 3 · Episode 9
Point of View
A woman claims she killed a man in self-defense against rape, but the evidence suggests a contract killing for a mob boss.
- Season 4 · Episode 13
Breeder
A young woman who gave birth alone says her newborn has vanished, and the search for the baby uncovers several couples who each paid her expecting to adopt it.
- Season 4 · Episode 14
Censure
Threats against a wealthy couple’s young daughter lead to a respected appellate judge, and the case exposes Kincaid’s own past affair with him.
- Season 4 · Episode 18
Wager
A rising baseball star’s father is killed over huge gambling debts, and the bookie charged with the murder may not be the one who struck the fatal blow.
- Season 4 · Episode 19
Sanctuary
After a Jewish driver avoids charges for killing a Black boy in Harlem, a riot leaves an innocent man dead, and his young killer takes refuge in a church.
- Season 4 · Episode 22
Old Friends
A baby food executive’s death on a busy street is revealed as a mob hit, and Stone’s case depends on a terrified witness.
- Season 5 · Episode 8
Virtue
A young campaign worker’s death after a fundraiser leads to a city councilman and a novel extortion charge over sex demanded for a law partnership.
- 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 21
Purple Heart
A radio-car driver with a Purple Heart is shot dead in his cab, and the robbery behind it starts to look like a contract killing.
- 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 3
Savages
An undercover detective is shot dead, the killer turns out to be a respectable accountant, and the DA’s office must decide whether to seek New York’s newly restored death penalty.
- Season 6 · Episode 15
Encore
A jogger killed in Central Park proves to be Michael Dobson’s second wife, and years earlier the case over his first wife’s murder fell apart.
- Season 7 · Episode 10
Legacy
A professional hit man’s near miss on a T-shirt printer leads to the grandmother who hired him, and to her son’s death five years earlier.
- Season 7 · Episode 12
Barter
A co-op treasurer is shot in her building’s garage, apparently mistaken for a neighbor, and the killings lead back to a lender who holds life insurance on his borrowers.
- Season 7 · Episode 20
We Like Mike
A bellhop who helped a young Wall Street worker change a flat tire minutes before the man was shot goes from murder suspect to the prosecution’s only eyewitness.
- Season 8 · Episode 15
Faccia a Faccia
A Mafia hit man turned federal witness is found shot in Central Park, and the prosecution of the aging boss blamed for it is threatened by a dementia claim and a confession that does not hold up.
- Season 9 · Episode 8
Punk
A corrections officer is executed in a Manhattan playground, and the case leads to a women’s prison, where an inmate Carmichael once sent away says the guard had been raping her.
- 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 9 · Episode 23
Refuge, Part 1
A traffic stop ends with a dead gunman and a mutilated body in the trunk, and the case leads through a traumatized 10-year-old witness to the Russian mob and a Moscow bank.
- Season 9 · Episode 24
Refuge, Part 2
After a prosecutor and a child witness’s mother are murdered, McCoy follows the Russian mob’s money to a New York banker shipping planeloads of U.S. cash to Moscow.
- Season 10 · Episode 3
DNR
A judge is gravely wounded in what looks like a carjacking, and as the case turns to her husband, she defends him while seeking to end her own treatment.
- Season 10 · Episode 14
Entitled
In the second half of a crossover with Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a mob hit man reveals that a killing pinned on a serial gunman was staged to protect a powerful family’s daughter.
- Season 10 · Episode 16
Trade This
The shooting of a junior broker uncovers a rigged internet stock, a staged harassment settlement and a mob family’s missing millions, and McCoy builds a death-penalty case with gangsters as his victims.
- Season 11 · Episode 4
Standoff
When the leader of the Latin Lobos is knifed during a staged brawl at Rikers Island, McCoy charges the corrections officer who wanted him dead, and a jury has to weigh a hated victim against a sympathetic defendant.
- Season 11 · Episode 14
A Losing Season
A pregnant bank loan officer is found shot in the trunk of a stolen car, and the case moves from two car thieves to a drug dealer, a hired gunman and a professional basketball player.
- Season 11 · Episode 20
All My Children
The shooting of a wealthy developer’s estranged son exposes a blackmail plot built on a paternity claim, and suspicion shifts from the young woman behind it to the father himself.
- 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 11 · Episode 23
Judge Dread
A hard-line Manhattan judge survives a shooting outside the courthouse, and the dead gunman’s trail leads to a white-collar defendant she sent to Rikers.
- 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 3
For Love or Money
A paroled thief shot in a West Side parking lot turns out to have been paid to kill a wealthy electronics retailer, and the trail leads to the man’s widow and her college-age daughter.
- Season 12 · Episode 14
Missing
The disappearance of a 24-year-old state aide leads to the head of the State Gaming Board, a married family friend who denies any affair while his old buddy confesses to her murder.
- Season 12 · Episode 18
Equal Rights
When a Wall Street analyst is gunned down on his way to the ferry, the trail runs past a collapsed tech stock to his wife, who says years of beatings drove her to have him killed.
- Season 12 · Episode 23
Oxymoron
A cosmetic dermatologist found strangled and dumped from a car turns out to have been writing forged painkiller prescriptions for a mobster’s son.
- Season 13 · Episode 6
Hitman
A Manhattan contractor is shot in what looks like a professional hit, and a trail of money and phone calls leads from his unfaithful wife and her lover to a hit man already in federal custody.
- Season 13 · Episode 11
Chosen
The killing of a bookie who served wealthy Manhattan gamblers leads to his partner, whose lawyer turns a murder trial into a referendum on support for Israel.
- Season 14 · Episode 12
Payback
A former bookie who informed on a Mafia crew boss is executed in a Central Park carriage stable, and the killings that follow lead to a mild-mannered real estate broker working for the newly freed boss.
- Season 14 · Episode 19
Nowhere Man
The murder of a veteran appeals prosecutor reveals that he spent two decades in the DA’s office under a stolen identity, and a mob case he quietly dropped ten years earlier leads McCoy to his killers.
- 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 14 · Episode 24
C.O.D.
A delivery driver is shot after dropping off an empty envelope, and Lennie Briscoe’s last case uncovers two women who agreed to kill each other’s husbands.
- 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 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 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 12
Family Friend
When the man accused of killing a mob-connected accountant is acquitted, a decorated retired detective shoots him dead, then threatens to unravel dozens of his old cases if McCoy prosecutes him.
- 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 14
Burn Card
Ed Green shoots the suspect in a referee’s murder outside an illegal gambling club, and an Internal Affairs probe exposes his old gambling habit and lands him on trial for murder.
- Season 20 · Episode 7
Boy Gone Astray
An interior designer who secretly supplies marijuana is gunned down at her door, the shooters turn out to be young teenagers trained as killers by a Mexican cartel, and their lawyer is a former Manhattan prosecutor.
- Season 20 · Episode 9
For the Defense
The murder of a prosecution witness outside her Manhattan hotel exposes a mobbed-up car exporter and his lawyer, former ADA Marcus Woll, and Rubirosa must confront her own past with Woll to bring him to trial.
- Season 20 · Episode 11
Fed
A community organizer found dead with “FED” inked on his chest turns out to have been a conservative secretly filming his liberal employer, and the case widens into embezzlement and an affair at the top.
- 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.
- Season 20 · Episode 15
Brilliant Disguise
A young woman who secretly worked as an escort is executed in a hotel room, and suspicion moves from a smitten lab technician to a charming graduate student whose fiancée will do anything he asks.