Law & Order

Seasons

1990

USA

7.8

TV-14

Two Part drama which focuses on the New York criminal Justice System by showing a violent crime investigated by police detectives in the first half and then the trial of the accused in court by the prosecutors in the second half.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Prescription For Death

Greevey and Logan discover that a hospital is covering up an accomplished doctor's mistake which resulted in a patient's death. They later find out that the doctor might have been drunk at the time.

S1 • E2

Subterranean Homeboy Blues

A woman claims she shot two punks on a subway car in self-defense, but investigators and prosecutors are not sure that they believe her.

S1 • E3

The Reaper's Helper

A gay man with AIDS is accused of murdering another gay man. However, he claims that the victim also had AIDS, and that it was a mercy killing.

S1 • E4

Kiss the Girls And Make Them Die

A young woman is sexually assaulted and eventually dies from her injuries. However, the only suspect is a charming, handsome businessman with a fiancée from a powerful New York family.

S1 • E5

Happily Ever After

A family man is shot to death inside a parking garage. Police soon discover the crime was not a random act of violence. Stone tries to get one of the suspects to testify against the other.

S1 • E6

Everybody's Favorite Bagman

The assault of a city councilman uncovers a scandal involving organized crime, elected city officials, and a deputy police commissioner.

S1 • E7

By Hooker, By Crook

A murder investigation leads detectives to a madam accused of running a prostitution ring disguised as a catering service.

S1 • E8

Poison Ivy

A police officer is accused of planting a gun on an unarmed African-American youth that he shot. The victim was beloved in his community, but the investigation reveals that he may have also been a drug dealer.

S1 • E9

Indifference

A child's collapse in school from mortal injuries leads to an investigation that uncovers a family steeped in horrific abuse.

S1 • E10

Prisoner Of Love

The investigation into the death of a controversial artist reveals that he was involved in twisted sex games with two powerful figures.

S1 • E11

Out Of The Half-Light

A young black girl claims to have been raped by white police officers. Police and prosecutors struggle to get the truth after an ambitious black congressman claims the investigation is a racially-motivated cover-up.

S1 • E12

Life Choice

After an anti-abortion protester is killed in an abortion center bombing, detectives search for all of her potential co-conspirators.

S1 • E13

A Death In The Family

A police officer is shot to death on a rooftop. Assistant D.A. Stone's investigation reveals that the officer may have been dirty.

S1 • E14

The Violence Of Summer

Stone temporarily dismisses rape charges against three defendants because the victim's testimony has too many holes. Greevey and Logan's subsequent reinvestigation uncovers a possible fourth assailant.

S1 • E15

The Torrents Of Greed (1)

Stone makes a deal with a group of low-level mobsters when they offer to testify that a crime boss murdered a missing union leader. However, the prosecution's case unravels at trial, causing all parties involved to walk.

S1 • E16

The Torrents Of Greed (2)

After crime boss Frank Masucci's murder case gets thrown out, Stone turns up the heat on the witnesses who played him in order to find charges against Masucci that will stick.

S1 • E17

Mushrooms

A twelve-year-boy is injured and his infant brother is killed by gunshots. The investigation reveals they were the accidental victims of a hit ordered by a drug dealer against a real estate broker.

S1 • E18

The Secret Sharers

Stone faces a Texas cowboy lawyer and a hostile community as he tries to prosecute a young man accused of murdering a drug dealer for raping the man's sister.

S1 • E19

The Serpent's Tooth

A businessman and his wife are killed. The couple's two sons emerge as the most likely suspects, but detectives later find business ties to the Russian mob.

S1 • E20

The Troubles

Detectives and prosecutors face resistance from federal authorities as they pursue murder charges against an suspected IRA member serving time in federal prison, after he is suspected of killing another federal prisoner.

S1 • E21

Sonata For Solo Organ

Greevey and Logan discover that an apparent mugging victim found unconscious on a park bench has had his kidney removed. The case leads to a powerful man whose daughter desperately needed a transplant and the doctor who may have helped him.

S1 • E22

The Blue Wall

Captain Cragen ends up in the cross-hairs of an internal investigation into evidence tampering, and the DA's office is forced to put him in a precarious situation to implicate the conspirators.