6.1/10489 votesLoading...#1 - Free Speech
Season 21 Episode 5 - Aired 4/7/2022
Bernard and Cosgrove investigate the murder of a congressional candidate. ADAs Price and Maroun contend with an extremist plot hellbent on thwarting the candidate's agenda by any means necessary.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.3/10322 votesLoading...#2 - Black and Blue
Season 21 Episode 10 - Aired 5/19/2022
The murder of an off-duty NYPD detective threatens to tear the city apart; Cosgrove mourns the loss of a friend and asks Capt. Benson for help solving the case; McCoy and Price disagree on how to prosecute the culprit.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.5/10501 votesLoading...#3 - Impossible Dream
Season 21 Episode 2 - Aired 3/3/2022
The COO of a major tech company is found murdered in Central Park. Price and Maroun work to untangle a web of deceit to expose a cunning narcissist.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.6/101,004 votesLoading...#4 - The Right Thing
Season 21 Episode 1 - Aired 2/24/2022
Newly acquainted partners Bernard and Cosgrove investigate the murder of a notorious entertainer. A dispute over throwing out a confession creates a rift in the DA's office.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.6/10345 votesLoading...#5 - Legacy
Season 21 Episode 7 - Aired 4/28/2022
Bernard and Cosgrove are confronted with several suspects in the shooting of a headmaster at an elite private school. A teenager's life hangs in the balance as Price and Maroun debate who's more culpable - the shooter or the enabler.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.6/10381 votesLoading...#6 - Freedom of Expression
Season 23 Episode 1 - Aired 1/18/2024
In the wake of a murder on campus, the line between free speech and hate speech at a university is examined.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.8/10283 votesLoading...#7 - The Great Pretender
Season 21 Episode 9 - Aired 5/12/2022
Bernard and Cosgrove must sift through fact and fiction to find the killer of a young Manhattan socialite. The murder trial takes a turn that becomes personal for Price and puts Maroun in a compromising situation.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.8/10257 votesLoading...#8 - Private Lives
Season 22 Episode 19 - Aired 4/27/2023
Cosgrove and Shaw investigate the murder of a family physician whose outspoken politician wife suspects she was the intended target. Price and Maroun's case hangs in the balance when the defense calls one of the doctor's young patients to testify as a witness.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.9/10248 votesLoading...#9 - The Fire This Time
Season 12 Episode 8 - Aired 11/21/2001
When a building is set ablaze, a girl must be identified despite her fatal burns. Through further investigation, it turns out that an extreme environmentalist group struck the match...
Director: David Platt
Writer: David Black
6.9/10270 votesLoading...#10 - Severance
Season 21 Episode 8 - Aired 5/5/2022
When the CFO of a Fortune 500 company is found strangled in her home, Bernard and Cosgrove work to connect multiple dead ends to find her killer. The prosecution is faced with an uphill battle as McCoy and Price butt heads over a choice that could cost them the case.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/10292 votesLoading...#11 - Doubles
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 5/18/1994
An assailant breaks the wrist of a tennis player prior to a tournament, and a competitor is among the suspects.
Director: Edwin Sherin
Writer: René Balcer
7.0/10281 votesLoading...#12 - Entrapment
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 1/8/1997
The case against Huey Tate, a young man accused of shooting the well-known leader of the African-American Congress comes undone when the New York authorities learn that their chief witness was once an informant for the FBI, and is still under their protection.
Director: Matthew Penn
Writer: N/A
7.0/10278 votesLoading...#13 - Whose Monkey is it Anyway?
Season 11 Episode 10 - Aired 1/17/2001
The death of a lab technician and the abduction of 17 infected monkeys lead to a trial involving the treatment of research animals.
Director: Vincent Misiano
Writer: William M. Finkelstein
7.0/10215 votesLoading...#14 - Foul Play
Season 12 Episode 21 - Aired 5/1/2002
The investigation into the death of a private investigator uncovers corruption, deceit, and immigration fraud in a Youth Baseball League whose manager will go to any lengths to win.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/10269 votesLoading...#15 - Melting Pot
Season 17 Episode 15 - Aired 2/16/2007
After an actress is found dead in her apartment, Green and Cassady attempt to prove that her death was not a suicide.
Director: Jean de Segonzac
Writer: N/A
7.0/10356 votesLoading...#16 - Wicked Game
Season 21 Episode 6 - Aired 4/14/2022
When a young man is found dead of an apparent overdose, Dixon fiercely pursues a homicide investigation as an old unsolved case comes back to haunt her. Price and Maroun risk putting a witness in harm's way to expose their suspect.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.0/10222 votesLoading...#17 - Second Chance
Season 22 Episode 11 - Aired 1/12/2023
When an ex-con is found beaten to death, Cosgrove and Shaw arrest an unlikely culprit. Maroun must put her personal feelings for the suspect aside and take the lead in court when she and Price can't agree on the best trial strategy.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/10279 votesLoading...#18 - Wager
Season 4 Episode 18 - Aired 3/30/1994
Briscoe and Logan bet that the killing of a star athlete's father is linked to gambling debts and threats to the baseball player's family.
Director: Edwin Sherin
Writer: N/A
7.1/10316 votesLoading...#19 - Castoff
Season 8 Episode 13 - Aired 1/28/1998
The street murder of a woman who worked with underprivileged kids takes a turn towards the bizarre when the detectives uncover she had a predilection for kinky sex, and that one of her current partners appears to be a serial killer, who offers an overexposure to television violence as his defense during his trial.
Director: Gloria Muzio
Writer: David Black
7.1/10277 votesLoading...#20 - Untitled
Season 10 Episode 20 - Aired 5/3/2000
A wealthy woman, who is a patron of the arts, is found dead in her apartment and the ensuing investigation leads to a suspect whose violence was spurred by a painting similar to the crime scene.
Director: Jace Alexander
Writer: N/A
7.1/10252 votesLoading...#21 - Soldier of Fortune
Season 12 Episode 4 - Aired 10/24/2001
The daring daylight kidnapping of a diamond dealer which results in two murders at the scene uncovers an international dynasty of diamond sales and its links to a foreign civil war.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/10263 votesLoading...#22 - Formerly Famous
Season 12 Episode 6 - Aired 11/7/2001
The shooting death of a former singer's wife leads the detectives to investigate his manager and sons after his explanation of the events surrounding her death have no credibility.
Director: N/A
Writer: Marc Guggenheim
7.1/10226 votesLoading...#23 - Equal Rights
Season 12 Episode 18 - Aired 4/3/2002
A stock analyst's murder leads the detectives to a corporation whose stock had fallen ... and plenty of suspects in the investors.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.1/10274 votesLoading...#24 - 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
7.1/10256 votesLoading...#25 - Rapture
Season 19 Episode 14 - Aired 2/18/2009
The creator of a religious website is murdered and the trail leads to a corrupt charitable organization.
Director: Fred Berner
Writer: N/A
The Worst Episodes of Law & Order
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In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into...
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Network:NBC
Worst Episodes Summary
"Free Speech" is the worst rated episode of "Law & Order". It scored 6.1/10 based on 489 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 4/7/2022. This episode scored 0.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Black and Blue".