8.6/10475 votes#1 - Bodies
Season 14 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/2003
While investigating the death of a teenaged girl, the detectives stumble on a pattern of crimes that indicate they are after a serial killer. The suspect, however, puts the prosecutors through an ethical ringer when he discloses his attorney's knowledge of the victims and their whereabouts.
Director: Constantine Makris
Writer: N/A
7.5/10290 votes#2 - Bounty
Season 14 Episode 2 - Aired 10/1/2003
The investigation into the murder of a bounty hunter leads to a reporter with compromised ethics and a dubious defense strategy.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: N/A
7.5/10313 votes#3 - Patient Zero
Season 14 Episode 3 - Aired 10/8/2003
The investigation into the carjacking of a vehicle containing vials of a deadly virus leads the detectives on a search for the first person infected with the virus and a biochemist whose sinister motivations were driven by passion.
Director: David Platt
Writer: N/A
7.4/10286 votes#4 - Shrunk
Season 14 Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/2003
The police and prosecutors investigate the connection between an award-winning songwriter and the young woman found murdered in his home to discover who would profit by her death at his hands.
Director: Jace Alexander
Writer: N/A
7.3/10291 votes#5 - Blaze
Season 14 Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/2003
A teenager's need for parental love, acceptance and recognition sets in motion the events leading to the deaths of 23 concert goers for a band's illegal pyrotechnics.
Director: Gloria Muzio
Writer: Marc Guggenheim, Aaron Zelman
8.6/10417 votes#6 - Identity
Season 14 Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/2003
When a man is found murdered shortly after depositing almost $400,000 in his savings account, the investigation into the source of funds reveals that the victim ran an identity theft scam which left an elderly man homeless and impoverished.
Director: Jace Alexander
Writer: N/A
7.9/10303 votes#7 - Floater
Season 14 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/2003
The husband of a woman whose partially decomposed body is found floating in the Hudson River becomes the prime suspect in her murder until the prosecutors uncover a connection between her prospective attorney and a judge who has heard a suspiciously high number of his cases.
Director: N/A
Writer: Eric Overmyer
7.1/10274 votes#8 - Embedded
Season 14 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/2003
After a reporter accused of causing the deaths of soldiers with whom he was embedded in Iraq by reporting on their troop movements is shot and wounded on the eve of his return to the front, the ballistics report indicates that the gun belonged to one of the dead soldiers, leading the detectives to uncover who brought the gun back from the front and committed the crime.
Director: Edwin Sherin
Writer: N/A
7.7/10283 votes#9 - Compassion
Season 14 Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/2003
When a con man passing himself off as a grief counselor is poisoned by a respected doctor he victimized, McCoy must determine whether revenge or insanity prompted the crime.
Director: Constantine Makris
Writer: N/A
7.3/10282 votes#10 - Ill-Conceived
Season 14 Episode 10 - Aired 12/3/2003
The owner of a clothing company with alien immigrant workers is found murdered which sends the detectives on a search for an unidentified evening caller whose girlfriend, also a worker in the factory, recently gave birth. Upon discovery that the victim was also the baby's father, the boyfriend is arrested with the motive being an office affair until the victim's widow discloses that it was a surrogate arrangement.
Director: David Platt
Writer: Aaron Zelman
7.8/10291 votes#11 - Darwinian
Season 14 Episode 11 - Aired 1/7/2004
The apparent hit-and-run of a homeless man send the detectives on a search for the driver, a high profile female publicist, which fuels the fire for the prosecutors to obtain a murder conviction. Forensic evidence given during the trial reveal that the victim was severely beaten before being hit by the car which leads to a suspect within the homeless community.
Director: Jace Alexander
Writer: Marc Guggenheim
7.5/10271 votes#12 - Payback
Season 14 Episode 12 - Aired 1/14/2004
The investigation into the murder of a former bookie turned mob informant reveals a disturbing new wrinkle in organized crime involving legitimate businessmen moonlighting as contract hitmen in a battle for mob leadership, and ends with a Federal ploy to nullify the plea bargain in the case, leaving McCoy seething and two more people dead.
Director: Constantine Makris
Writer: N/A
7.4/10273 votes#13 - Married with Children
Season 14 Episode 13 - Aired 2/4/2004
The death of a woman who fell from a hotel balcony leads to a case involving a lesbian couple and a state law banning gay adoption
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10259 votes#14 - City Hall
Season 14 Episode 14 - Aired 2/11/2004
A city employee's clerical error sets in motion a chain of events which culminates in a fatal shooting at City Hall and a secret Federal court proceeding with sinister implications.
Director: Gloria Muzio
Writer: Marc Guggenheim
7.5/10259 votes#15 - Veteran's Day
Season 14 Episode 15 - Aired 2/18/2004
A decorated Gulf War veteran grief-stricken over the Afghanistan combat death of his son murders an anti-war protester, claiming at trial that he acted under extreme emotional distress.
Director: David Platt
Writer: N/A
7.7/10291 votes#16 - Can I Get a Witness?
Season 14 Episode 16 - Aired 2/25/2004
McCoy faces an uphill battle in proving that witnesses to the murder of a drug mule were bribed, intimidated, and eventually murdered on the orders of the drug dealer accused of the crime.
Director: Don Scardino
Writer: Aaron Zelman
7.8/10274 votes#17 - Hands Free
Season 14 Episode 17 - Aired 3/3/2004
When McCoy fails to win a murder conviction against an eccentric cross dressing millionaire for the death of his neighbor, he redoubles the effort to convict the man for murdering his second wife years earlier by demonstrating that he murdered a witness to the crime.
Director: Gloria Muzio
Writer: N/A
7.8/10284 votes#18 - Evil Breeds
Season 14 Episode 18 - Aired 3/24/2004
When a Holocaust survivor is murdered on the eve of her testimony in the deportation trial of a former concentration camp guard, McCoy prosecutes the man and the Neo-Nazi sympathizer who's running a fundraising web site for him, and must debunk a Holocaust denial defense which claims that the millions of deaths resulted from disease, pestilence and wartime conditions.
Director: Constantine Makris
Writer: N/A
8.2/10326 votes#19 - Nowhere Man
Season 14 Episode 19 - Aired 3/31/2004
The District Attorney's Office is set on its ear when the investigation into the death of an A.D.A. uncovers a scandal that could imperil hundreds of cases.
Director: Martha Mitchell
Writer: N/A
7.5/10295 votes#20 - Everybody Loves Raimondo's
Season 14 Episode 20 - Aired 4/14/2004
Greed, treachery and disrespect shape the motives for murder when two men are gunned down at an exclusive restaurant.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/10261 votes#21 - Vendetta
Season 14 Episode 21 - Aired 4/21/2004
The investigation into a bar room brawl fatality reveals a detective's decades-old vendetta against a petty criminal turned murderer who was falsely accused of one murder after evading conviction on another.
Director: David Platt
Writer: N/A
7.6/10266 votes#22 - Gaijin
Season 14 Episode 22 - Aired 4/28/2004
Van Buren has reservations about Branch's tactics in luring a Ginza nightclub owner back to New York after the Japanese government is unwilling to extradite him to face charges of conspiracy and murder in the death of his wife on a New York City vacation.
Director: Jace Alexander
Writer: N/A
7.3/10274 votes#23 - Caviar Emptor
Season 14 Episode 23 - Aired 5/12/2004
When a caviar importer is murdered the day after his wedding to a much-younger woman, the large pool of suspects includes his new wife, his children, and his chief competitor, each of whom has a compelling motive for committing the crime.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.3/10364 votes#24 - C.O.D.
Season 14 Episode 24 - Aired 5/19/2004
Briscoe bids farewell to the 27 as the prosecution of two women for killing each other's husbands comes to a successful conclusion.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: Marc Guggenheim
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Network:NBC
Season 14 Ratings Summary
"Bodies" is the best rated episode of "Law & Order" season 14. It scored 8.6/10 based on 475 votes. Directed by Constantine Makris and written by N/A, it aired on 9/24/2003. This episode is rated 1.1 points higher than the second-best, "Bounty".