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Law & Order Season 13 Episodes
Season 13 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 2002 - 2003
Episode 1
American Jihad
Wed, Oct 2, 200244 mins
When a couple is killed, Briscoe and Green investigate. They assume the husband, a scientist doing stem cell research, was the target and the wife a teacher was collateral damage. But when they reexamine what happened, they believe the wife was the target and the husband was just at the wrong place at the wrong time. They learn the woman is a staunch feminist and she's battling a Muslim over women's rights. They try to find the guy and learn he's an American who converted. When they arrest him, the guy is very difficult, going so far as to defend himself. Jack tries to find out why he did it.
Episode 2
Shangri-La
Wed, Oct 9, 200245 mins
The investigation into the murder of a high-school teacher unearths some unsettling truths about another teacher and one of the students.
Episode 3
True Crime
Wed, Oct 16, 200245 mins
Investigating the death of a rock band singer who had large amounts of cocaine and heroin in her system, the detectives question a former boyfriend who was a disgruntled band mate of her late husband. The prosecutors are hampered by the actions of a retired detective, who worked a case with Briscoe several years back, turned writer whose unconventional research tactics makes him a suspect as well.
Episode 4
Tragedy on Rye
Wed, Oct 30, 200244 mins
Three suspects are arrested when a tourist's home video shows them leaving the victim's apartment with stolen property. McCoy and Southerlyn are surprised when Branch announces they will seek the death penalty.
Episode 5
The Ring
Wed, Nov 6, 200260 mins
When a skeleton is discovered with an unusual ring, it seems related to a victim of the WTC tragedy that had been involved with a member of a politically powerful NYC family. The Law and Order team must sort out the case without stepping on toes or giving in to pressure.
Episode 6
Hitman
Wed, Nov 13, 200260 mins
A mob-connected contractor is murdered, and his wife and her lover are connected to a hit man hired to kill him. But the case turns out to be much more complicated than it seems.
Episode 7
Open Season
Wed, Nov 20, 200245 mins
A defense attorney is murdered hours after his client accused of shooting a cop is acquitted. Detectives suspect that a right-wing militia group is involved, and that the lives of other attorneys may be in jeopardy.
Episode 8
Asterisk
Wed, Nov 27, 200244 mins
A star baseball player accused of killing a limo driver claims that "roid rage" made him do it.
Episode 9
The Wheel
Wed, Dec 11, 200243 mins
The discovery of a badly-burned dead body outside a Chinese official's penthouse puts the Manhattan DA's office in the middle of a dispute between the Chinese government and a religion it officially considers a cult.
Episode 10
Mother's Day
Wed, Jan 8, 200345 mins
A mother claims self-defense after she kills her schizophrenic son who was involved in a hit-and-run death.
Episode 11
Chosen
Wed, Jan 15, 200360 mins
A defense attorney tries to exploit the jury's sympathy for Israel in the hopes that it will get his bookie client found not guilty of a murder charge.
Episode 12
Under God
Wed, Feb 5, 200345 mins
A drug dealer turns up dead, leading detectives to members of a neighborhood watch group whose lives were poisoned by the victim. The priest who leads the group confesses to the crime, claiming that God told him to do it.
Episode 13
Absentia
Wed, Feb 12, 200345 mins
A man scheduled to testify in a murder trial disappears. The DA's office discovers that he's actually a radical who disappeared 20 years earlier after being charged with killing his girlfriend.
Episode 14
Star Crossed
Wed, Feb 19, 200345 mins
A young man with an 80 IQ confesses to committing a murder. However, assistant DA Southerlyn suspects that a beautiful but manipulative woman he was trying to impress may have talked him into his plea.
Episode 15
B*tch
Wed, Feb 26, 200345 mins
An acquaintance and stockbroker of cosmetics mogul Jackie Scott - and who had a romantic relationship with her - is found murdered. The investigation reveals that Scott's sale of stock benefited from insider trading, so when Briscoe and Green make her a prime suspect and apply the heat, it's no surprise when she solicits help from an old friend - DA Arthur Branch. But Jackie doesn't bank on Arthur turning the tables on her.
Episode 16
Suicide Box
Wed, Mar 26, 200360 mins
Briscoe and Green are investigating the shooting of a female cop. Initially they think it might have to do with her having an affair another cop. But when they rule it out. They follow a lead on the shooter and arrest him - a young black man. When questioned why he did. He says it's because he's irate at the police for messing up the investigation into his brother's shooting. Green decide to look into it and learns that there were a few oversights made or the evidence is no longer there. When the shooter's lawyer decide to mount a defense on the botched investigation, McCoy tries to make sure that it wasn't botched. So they have the body exhumed so another autopsy could be done but the body is not in the casket. So they turn to the medical examiner who did the original autopsy but she's not exactly forthcoming.
Episode 17
Genius
Wed, Apr 2, 200344 mins
A promising young writer confesses to the murder and robbery of a cabbie and demands that he receive the death penalty.
Episode 18
Maritime
Thu, Apr 17, 200344 mins
A former star quarterback and his agent go missing after an all-night boating party and are presumed dead. The quarterback's deadbeat, drug-addicted brother quickly becomes the prime suspect.
Episode 19
Seer
Wed, Apr 23, 200343 mins
A murder suspect uses his "psychic powers" to lead detective Green to the crime scene and murder weapon. Is he truly psychic, or just an obsessed stalker?
Episode 20
Kid Pro Quo
Wed, Apr 30, 200343 mins
A prep school headmaster is accused of murdering his school's admissions director after overruling her on a controversial admissions selection.
Episode 21
House Calls
Wed, May 7, 200343 mins
Did a shady doctor irresponsibly prescribe pain-killing drugs to one of his patients, which resulted in her death?
Episode 22
Sheltered
Wed, May 14, 200360 mins
As the DA's office tries to prosecute a teenage sniper who killed four people, prosecutors discover that he was abducted from his real family as a child and emotionally abused by the man he was living with.
Episode 23
Couples
Wed, May 21, 200342 mins
Briscoe and Green catch four murders and a kidnapping on the same day, and get handed confessions in each case.
Episode 24
Smoke
Wed, May 21, 200345 mins
The child of a popular comic dies after he is reportedly thrown out of a window during a fire. However, the investigation also uncovers allegations that the comic molested an 11-year-old boy years earlier.
