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The Best Episodes of Law & Order Season 14

Every episode of Law & Order Season 14 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Law & Order Season 14!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Law & Order Season 14 Episode 1 - Bodies
    8.6/10(536 votes)

    #1 - Bodies

    S14:E1

    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:Unknown

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  2. Law & Order Season 14 Episode 2 - Bounty
    7.5/10(325 votes)

    #2 - Bounty

    S14:E2

    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:Unknown

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  3. Law & Order Season 14 Episode 3 - Patient Zero
    7.4/10(347 votes)

    #3 - Patient Zero

    S14:E3

    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:Unknown

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  4. Law & Order Season 14 Episode 4 - Shrunk
    7.4/10(317 votes)

    #4 - Shrunk

    S14:E4

    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:Unknown

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  5. Law & Order Season 14 Episode 5 - Blaze
    7.2/10(332 votes)

    #5 - Blaze

    S14:E5

    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
    Writers:Marc Guggenheim, Aaron Zelman

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  6. Law & Order Season 14 Episode 6 - Identity
    8.6/10(466 votes)

    #6 - Identity

    S14:E6

    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:Unknown

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  7. Law & Order Season 14 Episode 7 - Floater
    7.9/10(338 votes)

    #7 - Floater

    S14:E7

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Eric Overmyer

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  8. Law & Order Season 14 Episode 8 - Embedded
    7.0/10(308 votes)

    #8 - Embedded

    S14:E8

    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:Unknown

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  9. Law & Order Season 14 Episode 9 - Compassion
    7.7/10(319 votes)

    #9 - Compassion

    S14:E9

    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:Unknown

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  10. Law & Order Season 14 Episode 10 - Ill-Conceived
    7.3/10(312 votes)

    #10 - Ill-Conceived

    S14:E10

    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

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  11. Law & Order Season 14 Episode 11 - Darwinian
    7.7/10(322 votes)

    #11 - Darwinian

    S14:E11

    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

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  12. Law & Order Season 14 Episode 12 - Payback
    7.5/10(302 votes)

    #12 - Payback

    S14:E12

    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:Unknown

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  13. Law & Order Season 14 Episode 13 - Married with Children
    7.4/10(305 votes)

    #13 - Married with Children

    S14:E13

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Law & Order Season 14 Episode 14 - City Hall
    7.7/10(293 votes)

    #14 - City Hall

    S14:E14

    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

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  15. Law & Order Season 14 Episode 15 - Veteran's Day
    7.5/10(291 votes)

    #15 - Veteran's Day

    S14:E15

    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:Unknown

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  16. Law & Order Season 14 Episode 16 - Can I Get a Witness?
    7.7/10(326 votes)

    #16 - Can I Get a Witness?

    S14:E16

    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

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  17. Law & Order Season 14 Episode 17 - Hands Free
    7.8/10(305 votes)

    #17 - Hands Free

    S14:E17

    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:Unknown

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  18. Law & Order Season 14 Episode 18 - Evil Breeds
    7.9/10(315 votes)

    #18 - Evil Breeds

    S14:E18

    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:Unknown

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  19. Law & Order Season 14 Episode 19 - Nowhere Man
    8.2/10(362 votes)

    #19 - Nowhere Man

    S14:E19

    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:Unknown

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  20. Law & Order Season 14 Episode 20 - Everybody Loves Raimondo's
    7.5/10(329 votes)

    #20 - Everybody Loves Raimondo's

    S14:E20

    Greed, treachery and disrespect shape the motives for murder when two men are gunned down at an exclusive restaurant.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Law & Order Season 14 Episode 21 - Vendetta
    7.6/10(291 votes)

    #21 - Vendetta

    S14:E21

    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:Unknown

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  22. Law & Order Season 14 Episode 22 - Gaijin
    7.6/10(297 votes)

    #22 - Gaijin

    S14:E22

    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:Unknown

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  23. Law & Order Season 14 Episode 23 - Caviar Emptor
    7.3/10(305 votes)

    #23 - Caviar Emptor

    S14:E23

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Law & Order Season 14 Episode 24 - C.O.D.
    8.4/10(412 votes)

    #24 - C.O.D.

    S14:E24

    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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Season 14 Ratings Summary

"Bodies" is the best rated episode of "Law & Order" season 14. It scored 8.6/10 based on 536 votes. Directed by Constantine Makris and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/24/2003. This episode is rated 1.1 points higher than the second-best, "Bounty".