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Prostitution 13 Law & Order episodes

Cases set in the sex trade, involving the people who work in it and those who profit from it.

  1. Season 1 · Episode 7

    By Hooker, by Crook

    Aired November 13, 1990 · Prostitution ring / manslaughter

    An unconscious man in Central Park turns out to have spent his last evening with a high-priced escort, not with a mugger.

  2. Season 2 · Episode 3

    Aria

    Aired October 1, 1991 · Overdose / manslaughter

    A young acting student who never touched drugs dies of an overdose, repeating that she didn’t want to do it.

  3. Season 3 · Episode 1

    Skin Deep

    Aired September 23, 1992 · Murder

    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.

  4. Season 3 · Episode 14

    Promises to Keep

    Aired February 10, 1993 · Murder / criminally negligent homicide

    A surgical resident’s murder reveals that her fiancé was sleeping with his psychiatrist, and Stone tries to hold the doctor criminally responsible.

  5. Season 5 · Episode 3

    Blue Bamboo

    Aired October 5, 1994 · Murder

    A visiting Tokyo nightclub owner is shot in a Manhattan hotel, and the American singer who once worked for him says years of abuse drove her to kill.

  6. Season 6 · Episode 7

    Humiliation

    Aired November 22, 1995 · Murder / frame-up

    A street prostitute is shot dead in a Hell’s Kitchen alley with $2,000 in her purse, and the evidence points to a married plastic surgeon who admits paying her for sex.

  7. Season 6 · Episode 20

    Girlfriends

    Aired May 1, 1996 · Murder / prostitution ring

    A senior is found dead in her college library, and the search for a campus rapist turns into a case about a student escort ring and a father’s shoe business.

  8. Season 7 · Episode 14

    Working Mom

    Aired February 26, 1997 · Murder (self-defense claim)

    A retired cop turned corporate security chief is shot with his own gun on a Manhattan prostitution stroll, and the trail leads to a suburban mother who works as a call girl.

  9. Season 10 · Episode 21

    Narcosis

    Aired May 10, 2000 · Murder / human smuggling

    A strangled madam is found near the massage parlor she ran with smuggled Chinese women, and the search for her killer moves from crooked vice cops to an online customer’s desperate family.

  10. Season 17 · Episode 10

    Corner Office

    Aired December 8, 2006 · Murder / corporate eavesdropping

    The murder of a company’s general counsel, days before he is due to testify to Congress about corporate eavesdropping, leads to a former call girl and the CEO who supports her.

  11. Season 17 · Episode 19

    Fallout

    Aired April 27, 2007 · Murder by poisoning / human trafficking

    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.

  12. Season 18 · Episode 18

    Excalibur

    Aired May 21, 2008 · Murder / prostitution ring

    A gold refiner’s murder leads to his brother-in-law’s escort agency, and one of its clients turns out to be the governor who holds McCoy’s political future.

  13. Season 19 · Episode 6

    Sweetie

    Aired December 10, 2008 · Murder / literary hoax

    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.

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