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Law & Order Season 11 Episodes
Season 11 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 2000 - 2001
Episode 1
Endurance
Wed, Oct 18, 200060 mins
A frustrated, over-stressed mother is charged with murder after starting a fire that killed her disabled son, but the case weighs heavy on Jack McCoy's conscience. Nora Lewin is introduced as DA Adam Schiff's replacement.
Episode 2
Turnstile Justice
Wed, Oct 25, 200060 mins
A woman is killed by a homeless man. Later the man is caught and sent to prison. The woman's ex-husband thinks the prosecution should look into how the man, who is clearly deranged and had been imprisoned before, was released from prison. McCoy investigates and learns that the man's condition had been known before his release. McCoy also believes that an HMO that runs the prison health care system chooses not to treat inmates who need expensive care. So McCoy decides to prosecute the HMO.
Episode 3
Dissonance
Wed, Nov 1, 200060 mins
Detectives discover that a murdered concert violinist was having an affair with her orchestra conductor.
Episode 4
Standoff
Wed, Nov 8, 200060 mins
A corrections officer may have deliberately set up a confrontation in prison that resulted in the death of an inmate who raped his colleague and girlfriend.
Episode 5
Return
Wed, Nov 15, 200060 mins
When a suspected murderer tries to seek shelter in Israel, the DA's office faces the difficult task of extraditing and trying him in New York while also satisfying the Jewish community.
Episode 6
Burn Baby Burn
Wed, Nov 22, 200045 mins
A community activist who was formerly a Black Panther is accused of killing a police officer. He claims self-defense because of the history of police violence against African-Americans.
Episode 7
Amends
Wed, Nov 29, 200060 mins
A 1981 murder case is reopened. An ambassador's son is charged, but key evidence has disappeared. Further investigation reveals that the evidence may not have disappeared by accident.
Episode 8
Thin Ice
Wed, Dec 20, 200045 mins
A father confesses to killing his son's hockey coach over playing time. His defense is that he should not be considered responsible for his actions because he suffers from a mental defect known as "sports rage."
Episode 9
Hubris
Wed, Jan 10, 200160 mins
A charming conman acts as his own defense attorney during his murder trial. During the trial, he deliberately tries to taint the jury by flirting with the forewoman.
Episode 10
Whose Monkey Is It Anyway?
Wed, Jan 17, 200144 mins
An AIDS researcher is killed by a monkey released in a lab by animal rights activists. The subsequent trial turns into a test case on the ethics of using animals as test subjects.
Episode 11
Sunday in the Park with Jorge
Wed, Jan 24, 200144 mins
A woman is killed in the park at the same time that Puerto Rican Day was going on. The city wants a Puerto Rican arrested. But the investigation leads to her husband whom she is divorcing and she is also planning to force him to sell his business. When they clear her husband, they shift their attention towards his partner who stood to lose if the business is sold. They learn he was with her in the park. When questioned he claims he was with her but he left to get help when some Puerto Ricans were coming at them. He is charged and placed on trial. During the trial a Puerto Rican who was arrested on another charge claims he has information. McCoy questions him and places him on the stand. Briscoe claims what he said was not he said when he was first questioned. He then admits that he knows someone who can verify what he said. The man says that it was a Hispanic boy who killed the woman. They arrest and put him on trial. His defense lawyer claims the boy was just caught up in the moment of the Day's festivities.
Episode 12
Teenage Wasteland
Wed, Feb 7, 200145 mins
Detectives Lenny Briscoe and Ed Green investigate the death of a Chinese restaurant owner who was delivering a take-out order. The delivery was to a basement apartment where a homeless man frequently slept at the bottom of the stairs. They track him down and, while he's a suspect, he tells the police that several teenagers had hassled him the night the delivery man was killed. The detectives learned that one of the teens had a key to the apartment, a key they trace to Mitch Regan and several of his friends who had been using the vacant apartment as a place to hang out. The teens had ordered the Chinese food with no intention of ever paying. McCoy wants to seek the death penalty against Regan, the only teen who has reached the age of majority (18). DA Nora Lewin, uncomfortable that the defendant is barely 18 years old, has a major decision to make.
Episode 13
Phobia
Wed, Feb 14, 200145 mins
Did a baby's biological father kill one of the baby's adoptive parents in order to get him back, or because of his outrage that the child was adopted by a homosexual couple?
Episode 14
A Losing Season
Wed, Feb 21, 200144 mins
A pregnant woman is shot and placed in the trunk of her car. The car is stolen and runs into another car and she is found. Briscoe and Green learn that the woman works in a bank. They learn that she met two men before she was shot, one of whom is a drug dealer and the other is a professional basketball player. They learn that she was helping them bankroll a drug business. They learn that she wanted out which is why they tried to kill her. The basketball player implicates the drug dealer. The dealer then claims the player wanted her dead because he's the father of her baby and didn't want to be liable for child support.
Episode 15
Swept Away - A Very Special Episode
Wed, Feb 28, 200144 mins
A reality show cast member kills one of his castmates during a heated argument. But was the confrontation staged, and who is ultimately responsible?
Episode 16
Bronx Cheer
Wed, Mar 14, 200160 mins
Briscoe and Green are investigating the murder of a woman who may have been dealing Ecstasy. They think her murder may have been the result of a dispute with her supplier, but they don't have any evidence against the supplier. They do accumulate overwhelming evidence that the supplier killed someone else in the Bronx a few years earlier, but someone had been convicted of that earlier murder, so they must prove that the Bronx police and D.A.'s case was flawed.
Episode 17
Ego
Wed, Mar 21, 200144 mins
Detectives discover that an Assistant Attorney General was having an affair with a murdered investigator in his office, and that he had made threatening statements about her to his psychiatrist.
Episode 18
White Lie
Wed, Apr 4, 200160 mins
A drug dealer's murder leads detectives to a military officer's wife who was smuggling cocaine from Colombia.
Episode 19
Whiplash
Wed, Apr 18, 200144 mins
When an Hispanic male is found dead from a severe chest trauma, Detectives Briscoe and Green discover that he and two other illegal immigrants had been in a staged automobile accident. As evidence mounts linking numerous similar car crashes with the same employer, chiropractor, insurance adjuster, and lawyers, ADAs McCoy and Carmichael must determine who is ultimately responsible for the man's death from which so many others profited.
Episode 20
All My Children
Wed, May 2, 200145 mins
A young man's murder appears to be connected to a paternity test and extortion attempt involving the victim's wealthy father.
Episode 21
Brother's Keeper
Wed, May 9, 200160 mins
Briscoe and Green are investigating a murder and they learn the victim had dealings with a known criminal. They find a witness who says the criminal was there when the man was killed. But he has an alibi; he was with two FBI agents. And when the witness is killed, Green sets out to get the criminal. And when a witness says the criminal was the one who killed the witness they try to find him. They eventually find the man and arrest him at his brother's and discover that the brother resembles the criminal. And they later learn that the man who was killed was responsible for the brother's daughter's death. So who killed who.
Episode 22
School Daze
Wed, May 16, 200145 mins
When a masked student opens fire on classmates, killing four and wounding eleven, Detectives Briscoe and Green soon discover the unsettling fact that more than one student fits the profile of a youth heading toward committing such violence. The urgency of the investigation compounds when an e-mail threat of more murders is received by the student council president. Former assistant prosecutor Jamie Ross returns as a defense attorney trying to spare her troubled client from life in prison.
Episode 23
Judge Dread
Wed, May 23, 200160 mins
Judge Linda Karlin is a hard line judge and well-known for handing out the maximum sentence for even the most minor crimes. Detectives Lenny Briscoe and Ed Green find themselves investigating an attempt on her life when Frank Morris, who stole a gun from his bartender uncle, takes a shot at her and is gunned down by her police detective bodyguard. The police find that Morris visited Randall Wylie, who has a case before Judge Karlin, in jail not long before the shooting. Judge Karlin rejected a plea bargain the DA and Wylie had agreed to, and it looks like he may have hired Morris to make the hit.
Episode 24
Deep Vote
Wed, May 23, 200160 mins
Brisco and Green investigate the shooting death of 31 year-old Martha Krasner who was shot while driving her car out of a downtown parking garage. Her husband has no idea of who might have wanted her dead. With good reason as it turns out that the intended victim was in fact some who drove the same color car, investigative journalist Kate Pierce. It leads them to the inept hit man Marty Blatt who claims he was hired by a hood Albert Bennato. He also says the hit was about vote rigging in a State Senate race. It just so happens that Bennato's one-time lawyer was State Senator Anne Benton and suddenly McCoy has a very political case on his hands.
