Search and Seizure 23 Law & Order episodes
Warrants, wiretaps and suppressed evidence: cases that turn on how the police got their proof.
- Season 2 · Episode 4
Asylum
A street stabbing leads police to two homeless men, and to a constitutional question about whether a cardboard shelter in Central Park counts as a home.
- Season 2 · Episode 20
Intolerance
A 17-year-old honors student from Chinatown is shot three times in a dead-end courtyard on his way home from school.
- Season 3 · Episode 18
Animal Instinct
A university scientist is shot in her lab, and Stone’s case against her husband collapses when his supposed mistress turns out to be living a fantasy.
- Season 3 · Episode 19
Virus
Patients at a diabetes clinic die of insulin overdoses after someone tampers with its computer, and the trail leads to a teenage hacker with a grudge.
- Season 4 · Episode 5
Black Tie
An anonymous caller says a Manhattan millionaire was murdered, and a hard-won exhumation points to his wife, until a ruling on a private investigator’s search undoes the case.
- Season 5 · Episode 11
Guardian
A young heroin addict from a wealthy family is found dead outside a daycare center, and the trail leads to the man who manages her family’s money.
- Season 5 · Episode 13
Rage
A Wall Street executive’s staged suicide leads to his top trader, whose lawyers argue that a lifetime of racism drove him to kill.
- 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 9
Blood Libel
An art teacher at an elite public high school is strangled in her classroom after uncovering a teacher who sells grades, and an anti-Semitic message hidden in the yearbook points to a former class president.
- Season 6 · Episode 22
Homesick
A five-month-old dies of nicotine poisoning after a jar of strained plums, and suspicion falls on his unhappy English au pair.
- Season 7 · Episode 4
Survivor
A rare-coin dealer is killed in his gallery, and the hunt for a missing collection leads from a flamboyant tycoon to the daughter of a Holocaust survivor.
- 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 2
Denial
Blood in a cheap hotel room leads to two college sweethearts who deny their newborn son ever lived, until his body is found in the middle of their trial.
- Season 10 · Episode 6
Marathon
A daylight robbery-murder in upper Manhattan turns into a long chase as evidence against the suspect is thrown out piece by piece, and the strain splits Briscoe and Green.
- Season 11 · Episode 9
Hubris
Four people, including a six-year-old girl, are shot in a jewelry store, and the trail leads to a smooth con man who takes over his own defense and sets out to charm the jury.
- 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 14 · Episode 9
Compassion
A psychic grief counselor dies of cyanide at lunch, and the trail leads to a celebrated pediatric oncologist he once robbed under another name, leaving McCoy to decide whether she wanted revenge or has lost touch with reality.
- Season 14 · Episode 14
City Hall
A gunman kills a city councilman inside City Hall, but his real target was a water inspector, and the murder weapon surfaces through a secret federal search.
- 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 17 · Episode 4
Fear America
A Muslim American lawyer’s videotaped killing is dressed up as an anti-Muslim hate crime, but he turns out to have been a would-be informant against a terror cell that included his wife’s cousin.
- 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 9
By Perjury
A plaintiff in a class action over a fatal airliner crash is shot after offering the airline a way out, and the trail leads to the families’ own lawyer, whom Cutter comes to believe has killed before to protect his payday.
- Season 20 · Episode 19
Crashers
A young model who crashed a party at Gracie Mansion is beaten to death and burned, and the investigation leads from her troubled brother to a senator’s office and home.