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The Worst Episodes of Law & Order

Every episode of Law & Order ranked from worst to best. Explore 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...
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Worst Episodes Summary

"Greater Good" is the worst rated episode of "Law & Order". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/23/2025. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "Free Speech".

  • Greater Good
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    #1 - Greater Good

    Season 24 Episode 10

    Aired 1/23/2025

    When a music mogul is found dead, Shaw and Riley clash with an undercover officer unwilling to cooperate. Price and Baxter disagree on whether the victim's reputation could help or hinder the jury's decision in the case.

    Director: N/A

    Writer: N/A

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  • Free Speech
    6.1/10(493)
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    #2 - 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

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  • Black and Blue
    6.3/10(326)
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    #3 - 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

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  • Impossible Dream
    6.5/10(505)
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    #4 - 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

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  • The Right Thing
    6.6/10(1,011)
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    #5 - 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

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  • Legacy
    6.6/10(348)
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    #6 - 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

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  • Freedom of Expression
    6.6/10(391)
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    #7 - 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

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  • The Great Pretender
    6.8/10(286)
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    #8 - 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

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  • Private Lives
    6.8/10(260)
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    #9 - 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

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  • The Fire This Time
    6.9/10(252)
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    #10 - 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

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  • Severance
    6.9/10(274)
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    #11 - 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

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  • Doubles
    7.0/10(304)
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    #12 - 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

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  • Entrapment
    7.0/10(290)
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    #13 - 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

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  • Whose Monkey is it Anyway?
    7.0/10(282)
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    #14 - 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

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  • Foul Play
    7.0/10(218)
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    #15 - 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

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  • Melting Pot
    7.0/10(271)
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    #16 - 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

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  • Wicked Game
    7.0/10(360)
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    #17 - 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

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  • Second Chance
    7.0/10(225)
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    #18 - 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

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  • Wager
    7.1/10(291)
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    #19 - 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

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  • Castoff
    7.1/10(324)
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    #20 - 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

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  • Untitled
    7.1/10(283)
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    #21 - 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

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  • Soldier of Fortune
    7.1/10(259)
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    #22 - 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

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  • Formerly Famous
    7.1/10(267)
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    #23 - 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

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  • Equal Rights
    7.1/10(230)
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    #24 - 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

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  • Embedded
    7.1/10(278)
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    #25 - 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

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