Season 20
🎬 23 Episodes 📅 2009 ⏱ 43 min
A prominent banker is found dead in his Park Avenue penthouse, and the investigation spirals into Manhattan's elite circles where secrets run deeper than money. Law & Order follows detectives as they uncover a web of affairs, embezzlement, and revenge, each suspect harboring a motive. When the DA's office takes over, they discover the real crime may not be murder at all. In the end, justice becomes a question of what you can prove, not what you know to be true.
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23
Episodes
2009
Year
43
min / ep
16.5
Watch Hours
20/25
Season No.
⭐ 7.8
Best Episode
Ep. 16 · Innocence
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🎬 Episodes 23 episodes
1
⭐ 6.4
Memo from the Dark Side
The body of a young war veteran is found in a parking garage and the murder is connected to a law professor who used to work for the Department of Justice.
🎬 Fred Berner ✍️ Dick Wolf
2
⭐ 7.2
Just a Girl in the World
A crime scene investigator is murdered in her apartment. Her fiance is suspected, but then a journalist is attacked and DNA is found at the scene that links this crime to the murder.
🎬 Marisol Adler ✍️ Dick Wolf
3
⭐ 6.8
Great Satan
Detectives Lupo and Bernard investigate when an aspiring musician is found dead. A bag of cash leads them to multiple suspects.
🎬 Michael Dinner ✍️ Ed Zuckerman
4
⭐ 6.0
Reality Bites
A mother of ten adopted special needs children is murdered. The day after her murder, her husband appears on reality TV.
🎬 Constantine Makris ✍️ Ed Zuckerman
5
⭐ 6.2
Dignity
A doctor who performs late-term abortions is murdered in church. The case falls apart for Cutter when Rubirosa is touched by an abortion nurse's testimony.
🎬 Jim McKay ✍️ Dick Wolf
6
⭐ 7.0
Human Flesh Search Engine
Bernard becomes the target of a dangerous website that is partly responsible for a homicide the detectives are investigating
🎬 Darnell Martin ✍️ Ed Zuckerman
7
⭐ 6.0
Boy Gone Astray
When a young woman is found dead in her apartment, a few tell-tale signs quickly lead Detectives Cyrus Lupo and Kevin Bernard to believe that the killer was not after her wealth.
🎬 Rose Troche ✍️ René Balcer
8
⭐ 6.9
Doped
A deadly drunk-driving car accident brings Detectives Cyrus Lupo and Kevin Bernard to the scene when a suspicious nasal spray is found. After the medical examiner realizes the nasal spray is a powerful anesthetic that could easily disorient its user, the detectives become suspicious of the victim's …
🎬 Mario Van Peebles ✍️ Richard Sweren
9
⭐ 5.5
For the Defense
A case that begins as a search for a missing witness spirals into a murder conspiracy with ADA Connie Rubirosa caught in the middle.
🎬 William Klayer ✍️ Ed Zuckerman
10
⭐ 7.0
Shotgun
When an elderly man defends his shop from an armed robbery, Detectives Kevin Bernard and Cyrus Lupo suspect that this incident could have been an inside job. After further investigation, the detectives discover that the mugging might have been a scare tactic for a shakedown.
🎬 Roger Young ✍️ Julie Martin
11
⭐ 7.2
Fed
After a community activist is murdered and labeled "FED", Detectives Bernard and Lupo find it difficult to eliminate multiple suspects. Also, Lieutenant Van Buren hears from Detective Rey Curtis.
🎬 Alex Chapple ✍️ René Balcer
12
⭐ 7.0
Blackmail
Blackmail is the twelfth episode of the twentieth season of the television series Law & Order. It aired on NBC January 15, 2010.
🎬 Marc Levin ✍️ Ed Zuckerman
13
⭐ 6.8
Steel-Eyed Death
When a family of four is found murdered in their home, Detectives Cyrus Lupo and Kevin Bernard discover that the deaths may be related to the deceased teenage daughter's troubled friend, Bonnie.
🎬 Michael Pressman ✍️ Julie Martin
14
⭐ 6.8
Boy on Fire
When detectives Cyrus Lupo and Kevin Bernard come upon the burning body of Cesar, a sixteen-year-old charter school student from a bad neighborhood, they begin to question his young mentee Moses, who was the last person to see him alive.
🎬 Rose Troche ✍️ Ed Zuckerman
15
⭐ 7.5
Brilliant Disguise
A young woman is found murdered in a hotel and the evidence leads to a medical student.
🎬 Alex Chapple ✍️ René Balcer
16
⭐ 7.8
Innocence
A man is convicted of a hate crime for allegedly killing a gay man, but a group called the Innocence Coalition is determined to clear his name.
🎬 Fred Berner ✍️ Julie Martin
17
⭐ 7.6
Four Cops Shot
The debate rages over how to treat an informant who shot and killed four police officers. However, did one of the officers try to put undue pressure on him to help catch a dangerous criminal?
🎬 Jim McKay ✍️ Ed Zuckerman
18
⭐ 7.0
Brazil
When an environmental scientist, Dr. Oscar Silva, is poisoned during a global warming symposium, Detectives Cyrus Lupo and Kevin Bernard initially suspect competitors from Dr. Silva's field of study. It is soon discovered that Dr. Silva is involved in a messy custody battle with his wife's ex-husban…
🎬 Jean de Segonzac ✍️ René Balcer
19
⭐ 5.1
Crashers
When the body of a model is found burning in an alley, Detectives Lupo and Bernard search for her killer.
🎬 Darnell Martin ✍️ Julie Martin
20
⭐ 7.8
The Taxman Cometh
Lupo and Bernard uncover a possible conspiracy to kill off wealthy cancer patients, so their inheritors don't have to pay an estate tax. However, legal roadblocks make the case difficult to prosecute.
🎬 Fred Berner ✍️ Ed Zuckerman
21
⭐ 7.7
Immortal
A man's double life is discovered after he is stabbed to death.
🎬 Jim McKay ✍️ Julie Martin
22
⭐ 7.7
Love Eternal
When a reality TV crew finds a dead man's body locked in a dog cage, detectives suspect the victim's wife.
🎬 William Klayer ✍️ Ed Zuckerman
23
⭐ 7.6
Rubber Room
Detectives search for an anonymous blogger who has posted plans to blow up a school. Lt. Van Buren struggles to keep her personal issues private.
🎬 René Balcer ✍️ René Balcer