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Law & Order: LA Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 2010 - 2011
Episode 1
Hollywood
Wed, Sep 29, 201060 mins
Detectives suspect a spoiled young actress is involved in a burglary ring that targets celebrities' homes. But when the suspect becomes the victim and an assailant is killed, an unlikely new suspect begins to emerge.
Episode 2
Echo Park
Wed, Oct 6, 201060 mins
When murderous cult member "Baby" Jane Lee Rayburn is found stabbed to death, Detectives Rex Winters and Tomas "TJ" Jaruszalski question multiple suspects, including the cult ringleader Denis Watson and Jane's former cellmate, Maura Dillon. However, the case cuts very close to home for Detective Winters when his wife Lori, a former Detective, is questioned. DDA Dekker and DDA Stanton find themselves facing a trial where the line between suspect and victim is blurred.
Episode 3
Harbor City
Wed, Oct 13, 201060 mins
When former surf champion Trevor Knight returns home to help his ailing mother, it ultimately results in his untimely death. Initially, Detectives Rex Winters and Tomas "TJ" Jaruszalski are lead to believe that it was not only a robbery gone wrong, but possibly an inside job. Meanwhile, DDA Morales has a feeling that someone related to one of the suspects knows more than they are telling and goes to unusual lengths to flush them out.
Episode 4
Sylmar
Wed, Oct 20, 201060 mins
When two innocent children are killed in an accidental meth lab explosion, Detectives Rex Winters and Tomas "TJ" Jaruszalski track down the dealer's family. The investigation quickly takes a sharp turn when the detectives discover those involved in the explosion are planning something more destructive. As the federal government steps in and attempts to take over the case, DDA Dekker fights to keep the trial in California.
Episode 5
Pasadena
Wed, Nov 3, 201060 mins
An unborn child is killed in a hit-and-run case, and the investigation could expose a scandal that may potentially bring down an ambitious U.S. congressman.
Episode 6
Hondo Field
Wed, Nov 10, 201060 mins
A female oil rig supervisor is accused of murdering one of her male workers, but her celebrity defense attorney argues that she was the victim of constant sexual harassment, and that she was raped.
Episode 7
Ballona Creek
Wed, Nov 17, 201060 mins
The death of a city engineer helps uncover clues that could help catch a serial killer responsible for a series of slashings in South Central Los Angeles 20 years earlier.
Episode 8
Playa Vista
Wed, Dec 1, 201060 mins
Golf pro Kristin Halstead is murdered. Despite her preference for lesbian partners, the trail soon leads to golf superstar Chip Jarrow, who serially seduces and buys off the sluts' silence trough his agent. Chip's wife Monica, who knows and even has a adultery fine rate on paper, knows, as well as their son Luke, who sides with his mother, presumably due to a psychiatric syndrome. As Kristian was probably going public, all three had an interest in shutting her up. The trick is now who to charge with what part in the murder.
Episode 9
Zuma Canyon
Mon, Apr 11, 201160 mins
Businessman Alcazar's family and guests are shot by masked men at his daughter's 15 birthday party. He recently conceived and abandoned a real estate deal in a canyon valley, where the team finds a huge marijuana field and a scared-stiff, abuse-trained Mexican 'watchman', Fernando Ramirez. They trace it to a Mexican drug cartel, but the fiends find and murder Rex at home. Deputy D.A. Ricardo Morales spare no effort or risk in the case, but ends up resigning after the D.A. cuts his losses, having had to call markers to get past a Mexican consul in cahoots and offer the whole Ramirez family 'political asylum', only to lose the crucial testimony in a spectacularly cruel way.
Episode 10
Silver Lake
Mon, Apr 11, 201160 mins
Don Alvin's quiet life is destroyed when an intruder ambushes he and his family in their home, killing his wife and son. After searching for clues, the detectives discover similar cases that lead them to one powerful common thread. Meanwhile, DDA's Dekker and Rubirosa have to tread carefully in order to get a guilty verdict after Morales' puts their case in jeopardy.
Episode 11
East Pasadena
Mon, Apr 18, 201160 mins
Detectives Morales (Alfred Molina) and Jaruszalski (Corey Stoll) investigate the murder of a city worker.
Episode 12
Benedict Canyon
Mon, Apr 25, 201160 mins
When successful Hollywood stylist Lily Walker is gunned down while driving, the seemingly random murder sends shock waves throughout the city. Following leads, the detectives uncover an unlikely twist that forces them to delve deep into Lily's past for clues to help solve the murder. Meanwhile, DDA's Dekker and Rubirosa must navigate their way through the details in hopes of bringing the real culprit to justice.
Episode 13
Reseda
Mon, May 2, 201160 mins
District Attorney Hardin pushes Dekker to manipulate California's "Three Strike" law to put away a bank robber, but the action may have some unexpected consequences.
Episode 14
Runyon Canyon
Mon, May 9, 201144 mins
Dekker is bent on prosecuting a co-ed after one of her classmates is killed after a night of rough sex in an abandoned mansion, even though the evidence is slim and the police are encouraged to pursue other leads.
Episode 15
Hayden Tract
Mon, May 16, 201160 mins
A mentally disturbed man goes on a shooting spree that kills a state senator and several onlookers. But did he do it because of a mental defect, or was he aware of his actions?
Episode 16
Big Rock Mesa
Mon, May 23, 201160 mins
When three homicide victims are found after a wildfire near Big Rock Mesa, detectives uncover a long-standing, bitter feud between the residents of that community and the homeless.
Episode 17
Angel's Knoll
Wed, May 25, 201143 mins
After a mutilated dead body is found in a hotel room bathtub, detectives later connect the murder to a casino heist involving the daughter of an imprisoned con artist who stole millions from his clients.
Episode 18
Plummer Park
Mon, May 30, 201160 mins
Two people are kidnapped from homes, rather clumsily, for ransom from rich Moscow relatives. The team identifies the culprits but has endless trouble with victims/witnesses, as the latest couple are Russian spies, which even their daughter ignored, and she'll do anything to avoid deportation when her parents are exchanged to Moscow.
Episode 19
Carthay Circle
Mon, Jun 6, 201160 mins
PR professional Derrick Joyner seems abducted from his home, where his Korean fiancée Kim Ho Lee was murdered. The detectives discover his corpse and suspect his faked kidnapping to cover up some fraud, notably in the controversial anti-gay-marriage campaign conducted by state senator Ben Corrigan, black rights-champion reverend Davidson and his son and heir Roland. they find not only money missing, with political and legal ramifications complicating the trial options greatly, as do changing pleas and contradictory testimonies.
Episode 20
El Sereno
Mon, Jun 20, 201160 mins
Real estate firm founder Armando Vela and five of his junior partners are shot in the office. After eliminating the surviving Latino colleagues as suspects, also in tampering with credit files, LAPD hands sole and poorest-performing Afro Al Hayes over to the D.A.'s office. The defense gets crucial evidence eliminated after an edited interview on Internet exposes lieutenant Arleen Gonzalez as an apparent practitioner of racist discrimination on the job. She seems to prefer discharge to a public trial for her pre-teen son's sake. Squeeky-clean Rex Winters helps with both the budding police credibility crisis and alternative evidence.
Episode 21
Van Nuys
Mon, Jun 27, 201160 mins
Wealthy, squeaky clean David and Chloe Schwab and their guests at a birthday party are murdered by viciously violent robbers, fitting a premeditated crime spree. Team Winters finds the only survivor, B-porn actress Erin Gradin, in whom TJ clearly is unhealthily interested. She puts them on the trace of fellow actor Jackie Lee, who left the party before the bloody intrusion, and turns out to be the informer, mixed up with Ben Sarkissian's reputedly bloodthirsty Armenian mob. Lee's whereabouts and Adam Brennan's porn studio however inspire another, partly medical line of thought after the DA's TV speech fixates on the Armenians.
Episode 22
Westwood
Mon, Jul 11, 201160 mins
Latino Javier Gomez's coat-hanger-strangled corpse is found under the UCLA campus grandstand where his beloved and devoted sister Malia plays soccer. Javier had no enemies of his own. Malia however secretly played lucratively in Mexico, which would have ended her scholarship is found out by PA Carl Davies. Malia's true lover, Eric Kentner, is the only son of coat-hangers manufacturer Bob Kentner, who wanted a more suitable daughter in law and is murdered himself at home shortly after.