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The Worst Episodes of Law & Order

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...
  1. Background image for Gimme Shelter (III)
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    #1 - Gimme Shelter (III)

    S22:E1

    A girl is shot and Cosgrove teams with Det. Jalen Shaw to track down her killer. Benson and Stabler assist and realize it's more than a typical homicide. McCoy and Price seek justice against an international crime ring. The crossover begins on Law & Order: Organized Crime S03E01 Gimme Shelter (I) and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S24E01 Gimme Shelter (II).

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Heroes
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    #2 - Heroes

    S22:E14

    After shots are fired in a popular nightclub, Cosgrove and Shaw suspect the spree was a ruse to target a sole victim. When security footage mysteriously disappears, Price and Maroun must rely on a witness who values reputation over facts.

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    Director:Alex Hall
    Writer:Rick Eid
  3. Background image for Land of Opportunity
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Land of Opportunity

    S22:E10

    When a homeless migrant is murdered, evidence leads Cosgrove and Shaw to a mysterious cover-up at a construction site. Price and Maroun push a key witness to testify, knowing that speaking out could lead to legal consequences.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  4. Background image for Free Speech
    6.1/10(504 votes)

    #4 - Free Speech

    S21:E5

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Age of Innocence
    6.2/10(6 votes)

    #5 - Age of Innocence

    S16:E4

    The bombing death of a husband set to remove the feeding tube of his wife, who's in a persistent vegetative state, focuses the investigation on the protesters.

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    Director:David Platt
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Positive
    6.2/10(5 votes)

    #6 - Positive

    S16:E19

    When a teenage boy commits suicide after firing on a doctor and hitting an innocent party, Fontana and Green investigate why he was after the doctor to begin with.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  8. Background image for Family Business
    6.3/10(7 votes)

    #7 - Family Business

    S7:E8

    The murder of Richard Speigel, chief financial officer for an exclusive, family-owned department store goes from the sitting room to the bedroom and into the board room as suspicion shifts from co-workers to family members.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Cry Wolf
    6.3/10(6 votes)

    #8 - Cry Wolf

    S15:E8

    The detectives are skeptical when a former street activist turned shock jock with a history of staging phony muggings to gain publicity for his causes appears to be the subject of an attempt on his life after publicly assailing a mobster, but they begin to believe his story after they discover that the married jock was involved with the mobster's mistress.

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    Director:Don Scardino
  10. Background image for All in the Family
    6.3/10(6 votes)

    #9 - All in the Family

    S15:E9

    When the investigation into the contract killing of a jeweler uncovers his plan to roll over on his Russian mob connections to a federal prosecutor, as well as an unhappy wife whom he refused to divorce, McCoy must determine who financed the hit.

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    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Black and Blue
    6.3/10(335 votes)

    #10 - Black and Blue

    S21:E10

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Whose Monkey is it Anyway?
    6.4/10(8 votes)

    #11 - Whose Monkey is it Anyway?

    S11:E10

    The death of a lab technician and the abduction of 17 infected monkeys lead to a trial involving the treatment of research animals.

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  13. Background image for Ill-Conceived
    6.5/10(6 votes)

    #12 - 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.

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    Director:David Platt
  14. Background image for Enemy
    6.5/10(6 votes)

    #13 - Enemy

    S15:E10

    The prosecution of a drug trafficker responsible for a stash house massacre is hampered when McCoy discovers that the defendant claims diplomatic immunity, and has been working as an undercover operative aiding the U.S. military in Afghanistan.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for House of Cards
    6.5/10(4 votes)

    #14 - House of Cards

    S16:E7

    The team investigates the killing of a single mother and the abduction of her child.

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    Writer:Unknown
  16. Background image for Impossible Dream
    6.5/10(520 votes)

    #15 - Impossible Dream

    S21:E2

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for In Memory Of
    6.6/10(10 votes)

    #16 - In Memory Of

    S2:E7

    The renovation of a brownstone uncovers the remains of a boy who disappeared 31 years earlier, reviving a wrenching and long-suppressed memory in his childhood friend and neighbor.

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    6.6/10(8 votes)

    #17 - Pride

    S5:E23

    A gay city councilman is murdered and the trail leads to a bigoted rival politician and a male prostitute.

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    Director:Edwin Sherin
    Writer:Unknown
  19. Background image for Working Mom
    6.6/10(7 votes)

    #18 - Working Mom

    S7:E14

    The murder of an ex-cop with a penchant for blackmail and illicit sex brings feminist lawyer Lanie Stieglitz into court against McCoy to defend a suburban wife and mother.

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    Writer:Unknown
  20. Background image for D-Girl
    6.6/10(7 votes)

    #19 - D-Girl

    S7:E15

    A headless corpse fished out of the river sends Briscoe and Curtis out to Los Angeles to obtain a blood sample from their chief suspect while McCoy and Ross back in New York try to obtain a court order for the procedure.

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  21. Background image for The Sixth Man
    6.6/10(5 votes)

    #20 - The Sixth Man

    S15:E16

    McCoy prosecutes a famous basketball star accused of murdering a man who was suing him because of a massive brawl between players and fans.

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    Director:David Platt
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for The Right Thing
    6.6/10(1.0k votes)

    #21 - The Right Thing

    S21:E1

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Legacy
    6.6/10(358 votes)

    #22 - Legacy

    S21:E7

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for His Hour Upon The Stage
    6.7/10(10 votes)

    #23 - His Hour Upon The Stage

    S2:E11

    The discovery of a frozen corpse in a dumpster leads to rival Broadway producers.

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    Director:Unknown
  25. Background image for Matrimony
    6.7/10(7 votes)

    #24 - Matrimony

    S7:E13

    The discovery of a would-be thief refocuses a murder investigation, leaving the prosecutors the task of making a conspiracy case against the deceased's attorney and the pretty young widow.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for High & Low
    6.7/10(10 votes)

    #25 - High & Low

    S10:E22

    Detectives Briscoe and Green probe the strangulation of a college coed who moonlighted as a stripper, and while they believe a pair of drug-dealing skinheads committed the murder, they struggle to determine the motive of the strip club owner who paid them for the hit. However, as they work their way up the ladder of complicity, the cops learn that the slaying is keyed to an insider trading scam that forces Assistant D.A. McCoy to connect a former porn star with a businessman.

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    Director:Unknown

Worst Episodes Summary

"Gimme Shelter (III)" is the worst rated episode of "Law & Order". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/22/2022. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Heroes".