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Law & Order Season 15 Episodes
Season 15 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 2004 - 2005
Episode 1
Paradigm
Wed, Sep 22, 200460 mins
Lustful lovers discover a woman's body in the abandoned office they use for their trysty getaway. The murdered woman is discovered to be a corporal in the US Army who served at Abu Garib prison. The detectives investigate the military and the woman's place of employment and eventually finger the wife of a man who works in the office building where the woman was found. The suspect's brother was abused at the Iraqi prison. Can McCoy sway the jury to dissuade the ignore the prisoner of war defense put up by Nadira and her lawyer?
Episode 2
The Dead Wives Club
Wed, Sep 22, 200441 mins
A death of a woman on a boat at first seems accidental but is found to be foul play. The detectives find out that the woman's husband, a firefighter, was killed during the September 11th attacks. She has since received a large pay-out, and has since re-married her husband's best friend (who is also her best friend's husband).
Episode 3
The Brotherhood
Wed, Sep 29, 200444 mins
A prison guard is charged with killing a released member of a white supremacist prison gang. The guard says the victim threatened him and his family. The gang also threatens the judge presiding over the trial.
Episode 4
Coming Down Hard
Wed, Oct 6, 200445 mins
Two student suicides are connected to a university drug study. The investigation uncovers that the pharmaceutical company that commissioned the study may have known about adverse side-effects, but tried to cover it up.
Episode 5
Gunplay
Wed, Oct 20, 200460 mins
Two undercover police officers are murdered during a gun purchase. Det. Green risks his life by going undercover to catch the murderers. McCoy and Southerlyn explore how the killers knew their victims were undercover officers - pointing to corruption in the courthouse.
Episode 6
Cut
Wed, Oct 27, 200460 mins
A novelist dies after undergoing multiple plastic surgeries. Detectives believe that her doctor took unnecessary risks and falsified documents to cover it up. The DA's office charges him with criminally negligent homicide.
Episode 7
Gov Love
Wed, Nov 10, 200460 mins
McCoy takes on gay marriage at the state Supreme Court when a man refuses to testify in a case involving the death of the governor of Connecticut's wife, because he says that he is married to the defendant.
Episode 8
Cry Wolf
Wed, Nov 17, 200443 mins
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.
Episode 9
All in the Family
Wed, Nov 24, 200443 mins
A diamond broker's wife is accused of hiring Russian mobsters to arrange a hit on her husband.
Episode 10
Enemy
Wed, Dec 1, 200444 mins
Detectives Green and Fontana investigate the murder of seven people, three of whom were high school girls from a prestigious private school. The other four were drug dealers and when the police find that their boss was also killed, they start working their way up the line and find it goes to Qaadar Khaleel, an Afghan warlord who is an ally of the United States government. Khaleel tries to claim diplomatic immunity and when that fails, the defense tries to embarrass the Federal government into arranging for his client's release by suggesting they had, implicitly or explicitly, supported his drug activities.
Episode 11
Fixed
Wed, Dec 8, 200444 mins
A frustrated prison social worker is accused of taking the law into her own hands with a dangerous man whom she knew was violating the terms of his parole agreement.
Episode 12
Mammon
Wed, Jan 5, 200544 mins
A contractor is suspected in the murder of an investment banker after detectives discover that the home's security system has been tampered with, and he was having an affair with the man's wife.
Episode 13
Ain't No Love
Wed, Jan 12, 200544 mins
A young hip-hop performer is accused of murdering a rap mogul, but his friend testifies during the trial that he is the killer. Serena objects to prosecution tactics, and Branch fires her.
Episode 14
Fluency
Wed, Jan 19, 200544 mins
Dr. Rogers discovers that more than a dozen people have died of the flu after supposedly receiving a flu shot. The detectives' investigation leads to a career con man selling saline solution disguised as the flu vaccine. Annie Parisse makes her first appearance as ADA Alexandra Borgia
Episode 15
Obsession
Wed, Feb 9, 200560 mins
The investigation into the death of a conservative talk show host leads to a stalker who claims to be having an affair with his wife. McCoy suspects that the wife manipulated her into killing him.
Episode 16
The Sixth Man
Wed, Feb 16, 200560 mins
When a man is murdered. Initially they suspect his landlord who's trying to get the man to move out of his rent controlled apartment. They eventually learn that the man is a basketball fanatic who's suing the star player of a rival team. And that he is constantly heckling the man. Eventually they match his fingerprint to what was found at the crime scene. But when his attorney has it suppressed cause h is fingerprint was not suppose to be in the system. That's when McCoy and Borgia find another to get him. That's when he asserts that the man was harassing the player.
Episode 17
License to Kill
Wed, Feb 23, 200544 mins
McCoy faces the unpopular decision to pursue charges against a vigilante who used his car to track down a man who murdered a group of hunters.
Episode 18
Dining Out
Wed, Mar 2, 200560 mins
The host of a popular cooking show is on trial for killing a television executive. However, the trial takes an unexpected turn when a juror enamored with the client is accused of trying to profit from the trial.
Episode 19
Sects
Wed, Mar 30, 200544 mins
A murder/attempted suicide investigation leads to a religious cult that promotes pedophilia, but finding charges that will stick to the group's leader proves to be difficult.
Episode 20
Tombstone
Wed, Apr 13, 200544 mins
An up-and-coming lawyer is found in the conference room, her head bashed in with an award found there. McCoy and Borgia must coax several reluctant witnesses to testify against another lawyer who is up for partner, including the married father of her unborn fetus...which has horrific consequences for the 27th precinct.
Episode 21
Publish and Perish
Wed, Apr 20, 200543 mins
Fontana and his new temporary partner, Nick Falco, investigate the murder of a porn star. After the woman charged with her murder is also killed, they uncover a connection to both victims and a politically ambitious ex-police commissioner.
Episode 22
Sport of Kings
Wed, May 4, 200543 mins
Fontana and Falco are investigating the murder of a man who might be a foreigner. They think he could be a jockey. So they go to the racetrack and find out they're right. They learn that the man was trying to get the owner of potential winning horse to let him ride the horse. They later learn that the owner lied about how much the horse is. So they wonder how he paid for the horse and they learn that he's been stealing from his company's employees pension fund.
Episode 23
In God We Trust
Wed, May 11, 200544 mins
A gun is found at the scene of a suspected arson fire and linked to a nine-year-old murder. This leads to a suspect who quickly confesses and whose lawyer argues should not be punished because he has found God and become a changed man since the crime.
Episode 24
Locomotion
Wed, May 18, 200560 mins
Detectives Joe Fontana and Nick Falco investigate when a commuter train strikes an SUV parked on the tracks. A dozen people are killed but it's not clear which of the dead or injured might have put the car there. It leads them to Davey Buckley who admits that he tried to commit suicide that day. In court his lawyer, Rodney Fallon, tries to present an insanity defense but mid-way through the trial, Buckley fires him and changes his plea to not guilty.
