Terrorism 22 Law & Order episodes
Bombings, plots and politically motivated violence, and the cases built against those behind them.
- Season 1 · Episode 12
Life Choice
A clinic bombing kills a young woman whom police first take for one of the bombers.
- Season 1 · Episode 20
The Troubles
When one of three shackled federal prisoners is found dead, the NYPD has to fight federal agencies to solve the murder.
- Season 4 · Episode 7
Apocrypha
A car bomb in a Wall Street-area parking garage kills the young woman who planted it, and the prosecutors set out to prove that the leader of her apocalyptic church is responsible.
- Season 4 · Episode 16
Big Bang
A mail bomb kills a physicist’s estranged wife, and the trail leads through a particle accelerator to a jobless scientist with a grudge against her husband.
- Season 5 · Episode 5
White Rabbit
Loot from a safe deposit burglary leads police to a 1971 payroll robbery in which a cop was killed, and to a suburban mother who has been a fugitive ever since.
- Season 5 · Episode 12
Progeny
The murder of a doctor who performs abortions leads to an anti-abortion activist and the defrocked priest who leads his movement.
- Season 8 · Episode 5
Nullification
A botched armored car robbery leads to a suburban militia whose leader acts as his own lawyer and asks the jury to set the law aside.
- 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 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 12 · Episode 8
The Fire This Time
A fire in a new apartment building put up over a community garden kills a schoolteacher, and the case leads to three young eco-radicals and the activist whose website seems to steer them to targets.
- 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 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 1
American Jihad
When two professors are gunned down at home, a taped telemarketing call points detectives to a 19-year-old convert to Islam, who fires his lawyer, then takes over his own defense and turns the courtroom into a platform.
- 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 15 · Episode 10
Enemy
A massacre at a Washington Heights heroin stash house that kills three prep school girls leads to an Afghan warlord who claims his work for the U.S. military shields him.
- Season 16 · Episode 17
America, Inc.
A security contractor home from Iraq is gunned down in a hotel room, and the men accused of avenging a beheaded colleague bring the war into the courtroom, until one of them offers the government a wanted terrorist.
- 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 1
Rumble
A stockbroker dies after an organized street fight in Union Square, and when his killer gets a lenient plea, a revenge brawl in a park leads McCoy to charge every fighter as a terrorist.
- 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 20 · Episode 1
Memo from the Dark Side
The killing of a former Marine who once guarded detainees in Iraq leads to the ex–Justice Department lawyer whose memos shaped the interrogation rules, and McCoy decides to put the memo itself on trial.
- Season 20 · Episode 3
Great Satan
A virtual-kidnapping scam turns up an informant inside a small group plotting to bomb a synagogue, but a second, real bombing and the informant’s own secrets put the prosecution at risk.
- Season 20 · Episode 23
Rubber Room
An anonymous blogger who has tested a pipe bomb threatens a New York City school, and the search for him leads detectives to the centers where accused teachers wait out their cases.