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Law & Order : Season 5
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Air date: 21 Sep '94 - 23 episodesLaw & Order is an American police procedural and legal drama television series, created by Dick Wolf and part of the Law & Order franchise. It originally aired on NBC and, in syndication, on various cable networks. Law & Order premiered on September 13, 1990, and completed its 20th and final season on May 24, 2010. At the time of its cancellation, Law & Order was the longest-running crime drama on American primetime television. After The Simpsons, both Law & Order and Gunsmoke tied for the second longest-running scripted American primetime series with ongoing characters.
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List of Episodes (23)
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Law & Order (1990)
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1. Second Opinion
21 Sep '94A woman's death exposes an unorthodox method of treating cancer that Executive Assistant DA McCoy intends to prove is negligent homicide.
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Law & Order (1990)
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2. Coma
28 Sep '94A comedy-club owner comes under suspicion for having shot his wife, now comatose with a bullet in her head, after it's discovered he was abusive and she was about to divorce him.
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Law & Order (1990)
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3. Blue Bamboo
05 Oct '94The killing of a Japanese nightclub owner who was visiting New York leads to the arrest of a singer who once worked for the deceased, and whose lawyer uses the ""battered-woman syndrome"" as a defense.
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Law & Order (1990)
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4. Family Values
12 Oct '94After it's determined that a wealthy woman did not commit suicide but was murdered, the detectives question both her first and second husbands and her teenage daughter.
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Law & Order (1990)
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5. White Rabbit
19 Oct '94A routine investigation uncovers evidence that leads Briscoe and Logan to a long-time fugitive, a radical Vietnam War opponent on the run since a 1971 burglary that left a policeman dead.
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Law & Order (1990)
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6. Competence
02 Nov '94When Lt. Van Buren is the victim of an attempted holdup by two teens, she fires her gun and kills one of them, and the detectives are faced with the fact that she shot an unarmed child in the back.
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Law & Order (1990)
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7. Precious
09 Nov '94When Briscoe and Logan suspect that a missing infant may have been murdered by her parents rather than kidnapped, they uncover a terrible family secret which hides a mentally ill serial killer.
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Law & Order (1990)
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8. Virtue
23 Nov '94McCoy uses a charge of ""larceny by extortion"" against a councilman, whose former colleague claims he demanded sex in exchange for a law-firm partnership.
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Law & Order (1990)
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9. Scoundrels
30 Nov '94Among the suspects in a lawyer's murder are a swindler, who conned a woman out of her family fortune, and the woman's once-wealthy son.
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Law & Order (1990)
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10. House Counsel
04 Jan '95The killing of a man who had served as a juror in a mob trial leads to a battle of wills between McCoy and his long-time friend, the suspect's attorney.
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Law & Order (1990)
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11. Guardian
11 Jan '95After the body of a young female junkie is identified as the daughter of a wealthy family, Briscoe and Logan try to find out who left her to die in the yard of a day-care center.
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Law & Order (1990)
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12. Progeny
25 Jan '95The investigation into the killing of an abortion clinic doctor leads to an activist group led by a former priest.
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Law & Order (1990)
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13. Rage
01 Feb '95A Wall Street broker accused of murdering his mentor uses the defense of ""black rage"" in court.
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Law & Order (1990)
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14. Performance
08 Feb '95Briscoe and Logan set out to identify the apparent victim in a snuff film, but find her alive and really the victim of a points-for-sex club at her prestigious high school.
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Law & Order (1990)
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15. Seed
15 Feb '95A routine investigation into a woman's death leads Briscoe and Logan to a fertility doctor guilty of unethical practices, but who cannot apparently be touched because of confidentiality rules, and patient reluctance to talk.
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Law & Order (1990)
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16. Wannabe
15 Mar '95The shooting of a board member of an exclusive private school leads to a blue-collar family and a classist system.
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Law & Order (1990)
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17. Act of God
22 Mar '95A bomb at a construction site kills a 12-year-old boy, and the suspects include the bankrupt contractor and a jealous husband.
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Law & Order (1990)
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18. Privileged
05 Apr '95The investigation into a double murder leads to a young alcoholic whose family once lived in the victims' house and who had admitted to his AA group that he's had nightmares about killings.
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Law & Order (1990)
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19. Cruel and Unusual
19 Apr '95The death of an autistic youth in custody reveals a multitude of unusual and possibly illegal therapies being used, but also parents reluctant to pursue a prosecution.
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Law & Order (1990)
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20. Bad Faith
26 Apr '95Logan relives unhappy childhood memories when a friend is found dead, a presumed suicide, until the investigation reveals recent contact with a former priest, with a history of pedophilia.
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Law & Order (1990)
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21. Purple Heart
03 May '95The investigation into a taxi driver's murder involves a loan shark, a forged check, a missing plumber and the victim's wife.
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Law & Order (1990)
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22. Switch
17 May '95Suspects in a psychiatrist's murder include the victim's ex-husband, a patient suffering from multiple-personality disorder and her obstructive father.
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Law & Order (1990)
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23. Pride
24 May '95A gay city councilman is murdered and the trail leads to a bigoted rival politician and a male prostitute.
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