Law & Order

The veteran drama continues its 14th series. In this week’s episode, an Iranian businessman is murdered the day after his wedding to a much younger woman. The investigation focuses on the widow, before turning to the victim’s daughter, who harboured a series of grievances against her father.

Detectives Briscoe and Green are called to an expensive townhouse where successful Iranian caviar importer Mr ‘Mani’ Soleimani has been found dead in bed. The ME reports that Mani is barely cold, but cannot establish cause of death without an autopsy. When Green hears that the 68-year-old old had just wed his 25-year-old bride, Yasmin, the day before, he thinks he has a possible explanation: “Young bride, old groom, wedding night – maybe he died of a heart attack?”

The veteran drama continues its 14th series. In this week’s episode, a Japanese businessman is accused of inflaming racial prejudice in a bid to cover up the assassination of his wife. As the man’s guilt becomes clear, Branch uses trickery to lure him back to New York to stand trial.

The national press has a field day when a visiting Japanese businessman and his celebrity wife are attacked by an armed robber in New York’s financial district. Hiroji Yoshida is shot in the arm and his wife is killed. The businessman claims a black man driving a red van is the culprit, prompting Detectives Briscoe and Green to canvass the area for leads.

The long-running crime drama continues its 14th series. In this week’s episode, a recently exonerated felon is accused of murdering a vilified baseball player, dredging up a 20-year-old murder case involving a detective with a grudge.

Detectives Briscoe and Green are called to a disreputable bar where baseball player Brendan Donner has been murdered by a blow to the head with a whisky bottle. Donner had recently cost his New York side the League Championship Series. “The suspect list is the Greater New York phonebook,” mutters Briscoe. The cops discover that Donner recently split with his wife after he became obsessed with reading the sackfuls of hatemail he was receiving on a daily basis. However, none of the more sinister threats Donner received point to an obvious suspect.

The long-running crime drama continues its 14th series. In this week’s episode, two men are gunned down at a popular Italian restaurant. What at first appears to be an open-and-shut case takes on a new complexion when police realise that there were two separate killers acting on rather different motives.

Detectives Briscoe and Green are called to a double homicide at Raimondo’s, an exclusive Italian restaurant famed for attracting a mix of politicians, judges, celebrities and mobsters. Diners fled in terror when shots broke out and two men ended up dead – Mafioso John Corollo and Hollywood producer Thomas Mitchell.

The fifth series of the crime drama spin-off focusing on an elite group of New York cops continues. This week, Goren and Eames expose a family’s shameful secret during their investigation into a series of church burnings.

When five churches are set alight in less than an hour, Goren and Eames are called in to examine the crime scenes. At St Gerald’s, they discover that a different modus operandi was used – a Molotov cocktail. The church was also the site of the only fatality – its secretary, Margaret, perished in the flames. The extent of the damage leads Goren to conclude that there are two firebugs working in tandem.

After interviewing the five priests and finding no major leads, the team is alerted to another rash of fires. Three more Molotov cocktails have been unleashed inside three churches, but with minimal impact. “Our dynamic duo’s getting sloppy,” observes Eames.

The long-running crime drama continues its 14th series. In this week’s episode, the investigation into the murder of a district attorney takes a sudden twist when police learn that the man was an impostor. The case is then connected to a mob hit ten years earlier.

New York City is stunned by the slaying of ADA Daniel Tenofsky in Central Park. With the mayor (Michael Bloomberg, appearing as himself) taking a personal interest in the case, detectives Briscoe and Green are under pressure to find the killer.

The cops learn that Tenofsky, a highly respected appeals lawyer, was seemingly lured out of his apartment at night by a phone call traced to a local pizza parlour. Briscoe and Green have no idea who placed the call and find few clues at Tenofsky’s apartment. The enigmatic lawyer – dubbed “the nowhere man” by Briscoe – seemingly lived for his work, with no known friends or family. “The more we learn about Tenofsky, the less we know,” Briscoe says.

The long-running crime drama continues its 14th series. In this week’s episode, an elderly woman is found murdered in her apartment. Suspects include a Nazi war criminal who stands to gain from her death and a record producer who promotes racist music.

The long-running crime drama continues its 14th
series. This week, prosecutors attempt to convict
a wealthy cross-dresser of killing and
dismembering his lover. When the defendant is
acquitted, McCoy digs up new evidence to try
and convict him of the murder of his wife, who
disappeared ten years before.

When a young boy discovers a severed hand in the garbage, Detectives Briscoe and Green are left to pick up the pieces. They recover assorted body parts from rubbish bins around the neighbourhood, but are unable to locate the victim’s head or heart. The ME report suggests the dead man was about 50 years old, suffered from arthritis and walked with a cane – enough information for the detectives to identify him as Roger Barry, a cantankerous former boxer who was loathed by his neighbours.

The long-running crime drama continues its 14th
series. This week, a man is arrested for the fatal
shooting of a teenager, only to escape conviction
when the prosecution’s star witness is murdered.
Incensed by the killing, McCoy vows to go after those responsible, uncovering a web of fear and intimidation in the process.

The long-running crime drama continues its 14th
series. This week, a Gulf War veteran is arrested
on suspicion of murdering an anti-war protestor.
In court, the man claims to have undergone
extreme emotional disturbance, having recently
lost his son in Afghanistan.

A young anti-war protestor named Brian Teague is
found strangled to death in the street, the victim of
a ‘choke hold’ that could be the hallmark of a killer
with military training. The only other clue is a
button in Teague’s stomach, which he may have
torn off his assailant during the struggle.
It does not take long for detectives Briscoe and
Green to establish that the impetuous Teague had
been arrested numerous times for his anti-war
activities. On the day he died, he was seen
arguing with Kenny Silver, a postman, before
being arrested for abusing a policeman. Teague

The veteran crime drama continues its 14th
series. This week, Briscoe and Green investigate
a shooting at city hall which leaves a councilman
dead and a water inspector injured. Once the
shooter is caught, the prosecution has a hard time
securing the murder weapon, which has been
seized by the FBI in an underhand raid.
Detectives Briscoe and Green are called to city
hall, where Councilman Clarence Johnson has
been shot dead and a water inspector named
Ron Tabachnik has been injured. Suspecting the
councillor may have been targeted by a rival with a
grudge, the cops probe the whereabouts of his
most vociferous opponent – Sonny Rodino, who
was set to stand against Johnson in the elections.
However, Rodino has a cast-iron alibi, and the
case takes a sharp turn when Briscoe and Green
learn that city hall was hosting a hearing about
business water rates at the time of the shooting.

The veteran crime drama continues its 14th
series. This week, the death of a woman who fell
from a hotel balcony leads detectives to a custody
battle between the victim and her lesbian expartner.
McCoy finds himself embroiled in a battle
over gay rights as he struggles to prove the death
was murder.
Detectives Briscoe and Green probe the death of
Lisa Winslow, a successful motivational speaker
who plunged to her death from a hotel balcony.
The trajectory of her fall suggests she was pushed,
and the only clue from the scene is a discarded
contact lens. The cops visit Lisa’s house and meet
Renee Bishop (Lucinda Jenney, ‘The Shield’, ‘24’),
who claims to be Lisa’s sister. A distraught Renee
wonders how she can break the tragic news to
Lisa’s seven-year-old daughter, Sophie.
Meanwhile, forensics report that the DNA on the
contact lens does not belong to Lisa and may be
that of her killer. Bruising on the victim’s body

The veteran crime drama continues its 14th series.
This week, the execution of a former bookie turned
mob informant leads Briscoe and Green into a
murky world of hit men and gangsters.
Detectives Briscoe and Green are called to the
stables of a carriage-hire company where driver
Jerry Tortino has been shot dead. The murder has
all the hallmarks of a mob execution, and the killer
has left a calling card in the form of a crescent
moon branded behind the victim’s ear. Van Buren
has the obvious question on her lips: “Who’d hire
a hit for a part-time carriage driver?”
The detectives take a step towards answering
that when they learn that Tortino was a former
bookie and ex-con with mob connections. His
time in jail was cut short after he informed on a
mafia boss named Federico Righetti. On Tortino’s
testimony, Righetti was sentenced to ten years in
prison – despite pleading insanity at his trial.
Righetti is now a free man, and it seems likely that

The veteran crime drama continues its 14th
season. This week, police investigate a hit-andrun
accident that left a homeless man dead. But
the driver of the vehicle escapes a manslaughter
charge when it transpires the victim was already
fatally injured in a beating, and detectives must
begin their search for the killer all over again.
Detectives Briscoe and Green are on the trail of a
driver who knocked down and killed a homeless
man. The decomposition of the body suggests
that it was kept in a refrigerated environment for
several hours before being dumped in a park. After
a number of enquiries, the detectives identify the
victim as Alan Fisher, a schizophrenic man who
had been living rough for two years.
Shattered glass from the car that hit Fisher leads
Briscoe and Green to a luxury Aston Martin
owned by Carrie Salter, a high-powered publicist.
Salter denies being in an accident, and her car
proves to be in perfect condition – prompting

The veteran crime drama continues its 14th season. This week, the murder of a con man leads　detectives to one of his victims, a dedicated doctor who treats terminally ill children. In court, McCoy struggles to prove that the motive for the murder was revenge and not insanity.

When Gideon Blake keels over in a restaurant, Briscoe and Green are surprised to discover that somebody laced his bottle of hot sauce with cyanide. Blake was due to have lunch with Dr Bethany Allison, a paediatric oncologist who was interviewing him for a book about bereavement. Dr Allison reveals that Blake offered a form of grief counselling through seances, and charged a great deal of money for “communicating” with dead relatives.