Law & Order: Season 15

2004 · 24 episodes · ★ 7.2

What Season 15 of Law & Order

Law & Order returns for season 15 with the same formula: New York as the backdrop and two halves per episode. In the first half, homicide detectives, such as Sergeant Max Greevey and Detective Mike Logan, reconstruct each crime on the street until they track down a suspect. In the second half, Manhattan prosecutors build the case and bring it before a court. The conflicts are varied: a hate crime that divides public opinion, an investigation into a major pharmaceutical company, a drug trafficking ring that reaches Afghanistan, or a trial over a botched cosmetic surgery. The series moves case by case and barely dwells on the personal lives of its leads.

24episodes

Sep 22, 2004premiered

May 18, 2005latest episode

18 hrtotal runtime

Season 15 Episodes

15x01 Paradigm
Sep 22, 2004 · 45 min · ★ 6.9
An Iraqi immigrant who murders a former military policewoman in retaliation for torturing her brother at Abu Ghraib prison claims that she is covered as an enemy combatant under the terms of the Geneva Convention.
Directed by: Matthew Penn, Dick Wolf · Written by: Richard Sweren · Starring: Elisabeth Röhm, Ron Silver, Joel Fabiani, Peter McRobbie
15x02 The Dead Wives Club
Sep 22, 2004 · 45 min · ★ 7.3
When a woman abandoned by her firefighter husband for his partner's widow is threatened with also losing custody of her children, she murders her romantic rival, claiming that 9/11 post-traumatic stress syndrome prompted her actions.
Directed by: David Platt · Written by: Nick Santora · Starring: Elisabeth Röhm, Billy Smith, Amy Carlson, Laurence Lau
15x03 The Brotherhood
Sep 29, 2004 · 45 min · ★ 7.8
When a prison gang puts out a contract on a Sing Sing corrections officer and his family, assigning the job to a newly released ex-con, the terrified officer pleads preemptive self-defense after he's brought to trial for the parolee's murder. As the trial proceeds, the gang attempts to affect the outcome of the case by sending a death threat to the presiding judge, who refuses to be intimidated. Shortly after the conclusion of the trial, McCoy discovers that the defendant's fears about the power and the reach of the gang were well-placed.
Directing: Jean de Segonzac · Writing: Alfredo Barrios Jr. · Starring: Elisabeth Röhm, Daniel von Bargen, Chuck Ardezzone, Eddie Marrero
15x04 Coming Down Hard
Oct 6, 2004 · 45 min · ★ 7.1
McCoy goes after the C.E.O. of a pharmaceutical company who knowingly commissioned further clinical trials on a drug to extend its patent protection yielding millions of dollars of profit without disclosing that previous clinical studies had demonstrated that the drug created a high risk of suicide in its users.
Directing: Richard Dobbs · Writing: Davey Holmes · Starring: Elisabeth Röhm, Roscoe Orman, Peter Strauss, Kim Director
15x05 Gunplay
Oct 20, 2004 · 45 min · ★ 7.6
After Green goes undercover to gather evidence on the gun dealers who murdered two detectives during a buy-and-bust, McCoy is able to connect the hit men to the attorney who paid them to avenge the death of his gun-running stepson at the hands of the same detectives during a similar buy-and-bust several years earlier.
Directed by: Constantine Makris · Written by: William N. Fordes, Elle Johnson · Starring: Elisabeth Röhm, Wendell Pierce, Isiah Whitlock Jr., John Speredakos
15x06 Cut
Oct 27, 2004 · 45 min · ★ 7.0
When a plastic surgeon's greed and narcissism contribute to his failure to care for a patient that ultimately results in her death, Branch insists that McCoy prosecute him for criminally negligent homicide, rather than leave the matter to the civil courts, after an investigation reveals a several instances of the doctor's inattention to patient care.
Directing: Richard Dobbs · Writing: Wendy Battles · Starring: Elisabeth Röhm, Carolyn McCormick, Don Amendolia, Roxanna Hope Radja
15x07 Gov Love
Nov 10, 2004 · 45 min · ★ 7.3
The investigation into the death of a governor's wife uncovers a web of infidelity, greed, and corruption which forces McCoy to counter a defense based on a ground-breaking interpretation of spousal privilege.
Directed by: Michael Pressman · Written by: Richard Sweren, Ross Berger · Starring: Elisabeth Röhm, Chris Sarandon, Don Sparks, Robin Thomas
15x08 Cry Wolf
Nov 17, 2004 · 45 min · ★ 6.6
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.
Directing: Don Scardino · Writing: Nick Santora, Lorenzo Carcaterra · Starring: Elisabeth Röhm, Joe Piscopo, Irma St. Paule, José Zúñiga
15x09 All in the Family
Nov 24, 2004 · 45 min · ★ 6.6
When the investigation into the contract killing of a jeweler uncovers his plan to roll over on his Russian mob connections to a federal prosecutor, as well as an unhappy wife whom he refused to divorce, McCoy must determine who financed the hit.
Directed by: Jace Alexander · Written by: William N. Fordes · Starring: Elisabeth Röhm, Mercedes Ruehl, Ileen Getz, Karen Shallo
15x10 Enemy
Dec 1, 2004 · 45 min · ★ 6.7
The prosecution of a drug trafficker responsible for a stash house massacre is hampered when McCoy discovers that the defendant claims diplomatic immunity, and has been working as an undercover operative aiding the U.S. military in Afghanistan.
Directed by: Richard Dobbs · Written by: Alfredo Barrios Jr. · Starring: Elisabeth Röhm, Elizabeth Hess, Samrat Chakrabarti, Kavi Ladnier
15x11 Fixed
Dec 8, 2004 · 45 min · ★ 6.9
When a paroled child murderer is run down, the investigation leads to a terrified social worker and an experimental prison therapy program.
Directing: Edwin Sherin · Writing: Eric Overmyer, Roz Weinman · Starring: Dann Florek, Elisabeth Röhm, David Groh, David Margulies
15x12 Mammon
Jan 5, 2005 · 45 min · ★ 7.3
The investigation into the murder of a wealthy husband leads to the uncovering of a conspiracy involving infidelity and greed and leads to one defendant attempting to evade justice by killing the other.
Directed by: Jace Alexander · Written by: William N. Fordes, Douglas Stark · Starring: Elisabeth Röhm, Gary Cowling, Tracie Thoms, Andrea Roth
15x13 Ain't No Love
Jan 12, 2005 · 45 min · ★ 7.5
When a rap producer is found shot to death in his studio, detectives focus on his protege, whose demos link him and a friend to a second murder. As the investigation unfolds, Southerlyn's opinions put her sharply at odds with both McCoy and Branch.
Directed by: Paris Barclay · Written by: Richard Sweren, Elle Johnson · Starring: Elisabeth Röhm, Al Sapienza, Keith Powell, David Chandler
15x14 Fluency
Jan 19, 2005 · 45 min · ★ 7.9
Fontana and Green are baffled by a series of flu-related deaths until they discover that the victims were given fake vaccine. McCoy goes after the con man who distributed the vaccine for murder.
Directed by: Matthew Penn · Written by: Nick Santora · Starring: Annie Parisse, Michael Ornstein, Xander Berkeley, Karen Shallo
15x15 Obsession
Feb 9, 2005 · 45 min · ★ 7.3
A conservative talk show host involved in a sexual harassment scandal is murdered, but the trail leads to the victim's wife and an obsessed stalker.
Directing: Constantine Makris · Writing: Wendy Battles, Alfredo Barrios Jr. · Starring: Annie Parisse, Dana Eskelson, Joseph Cross, Timothy Adams
15x16 The Sixth Man
Feb 16, 2005 · 45 min · ★ 6.8
McCoy prosecutes a famous basketball star accused of murdering a man who was suing him because of a massive brawl between players and fans.
Directed by: David Platt · Written by: Elle Johnson · Starring: Annie Parisse, Richard Bekins, Lamman Rucker, Hettienne Park
15x17 License to Kill
Feb 23, 2005 · 45 min · ★ 7.7
The investigation into a fatal traffic accident leads Fontana and Green to a slaughtered hunting party in the woods and an unknown man who may have been pursuing vigilante justice.
Directed by: Constantine Makris · Written by: Richard Sweren, Stuart Feldman · Starring: Annie Parisse, Matthew Stocke, Mike Pniewski, Stracy Diaz
15x18 Dining Out
Mar 2, 2005 · 45 min · ★ 7.1
When a TV network executive is found murdered, Detectives Fontana and Green suspect a pair of twins who were stealing from the organization until they discover a celebrity chef with whom the married victim shared an affair. The nimble and charming chef is adroit at cultivating relationships with judges and juries alike, but prosecutor McCoy intends to reveal that the suspect's cooking show was about to be cancelled by his late lover.
Directed by: Jean de Segonzac · Written by: Davey Holmes · Starring: Annie Parisse, Randy Sklar, Lisby Larson, Wendie Malick
15x19 Sects
Mar 30, 2005 · 45 min · ★ 7.4
Police and prosecutors go after a fanatical cult leader who encourages sex with children among her followers.
Directed by: Richard Dobbs · Written by: Frank Pugliese · Starring: Annie Parisse, Clifford David, Marisa Ryan, Merritt Wever
15x20 Tombstone (I)
Apr 13, 2005 · 45 min · ★ 7.8
The bludgeoned corpse of a promiscuous lawyer is found in her office and detectives treat her former lovers as suspects until DNA evidence points to a co-worker. This crossover continues on Law & Order: Trial By Jury S01E08 Skeleton (II).
Directed by: Eric Stoltz · Written by: Rick Eid · Starring: Annie Parisse, Linda Emond, Fritz Weaver, Jonathan Walker
15x21 Publish and Perish
Apr 20, 2005 · 45 min · ★ 7.4
Fontana and his temporary partner, Det. Nick Falco, must tread lightly when they discover links between a powerful police commissioner and the murders of an infamous porn actress and a maverick publisher.
Directed by: Constantine Makris · Written by: Tom Szentgyorgyi · Starring: Annie Parisse, Alison Bartlett, Paul Schulze, Michael Imperioli
15x22 Sport of Kings
May 4, 2005 · 45 min · ★ 7.2
The shooting of a Panamanian jockey sends Fontana and Falco into the colorful world of horse racing, and they learn that the animal's owner used stolen funds for the purchase.
Directing: Michael Pressman · Writing: Richard Sweren, Wendy Battles · Starring: Annie Parisse, Michael Imperioli, Scott Wilson, Jayne Atkinson
15x23 In God We Trust
May 11, 2005 · 45 min · ★ 7.3
When Fontana and Falco investigate an arson which caused the death of a firefighter, they discover a murder weapon tied to a nine year old murder and a hate crime in which the defendent attempts to have his case dismissed because he became a born again Christian after committing the murder.
Directed by: David Platt · Written by: Dick Wolf, Richard Sweren · Starring: Annie Parisse, Michael Imperioli, Jim True-Frost, Mimi Lieber
15x24 Locomotion Season Finale
May 18, 2005 · 45 min · ★ 7.0
After a man causes a massive train crash that results in multiple deaths, McCoy tries to prosecute him for murder despite his insanity defense. But McCoy finds himself hampered by a defense attorney whose own agenda may undercut that of his client.
Directing: Matthew Penn · Writing: Eric Overmyer · Starring: Annie Parisse, Michael Imperioli, Peter McRobbie, Joseph Lyle Taylor