Law & Order: Season 3

1992 · 22 episodes · ★ 7.6

What Season 3 of Law & Order

Season 3 opens with the trail of a sleazy photographer and the models who worked for him as the main suspects. As in the rest of the series, each episode is split into two halves. First, homicide detectives follow the leads until they arrest someone. Then, Manhattan prosecutors prepare the charges and take the case to court. Stone leads many of those trials, while Cerreta, Logan and Briscoe chase suspects through the streets. The cases are varied: illegal sweatshop rackets, a Colombian hitman, and a jurisdictional fight with Brooklyn. The season moves forward one case at a time.

22episodes

Sep 23, 1992premiered

May 19, 1993latest episode

17.3 hrtotal runtime

Season 3 Episodes

3x01
3x01 Skin Deep
Sep 23, 1992 · 47 min · ★ 7.0
When a sleazy photographer is murdered, his models appear to be the most likely suspects.
Directed by: Daniel Sackheim · Written by: Robert Nathan, Gordon Rayfield · Starring: Paul Sorvino, Carolyn McCormick, Billy Van, Maeve McGuire
3x02
3x02 Conspiracy
Sep 30, 1992 · 48 min · ★ 7.4
The assassination of an African-American leader leads to the arrest of a man whose ex-wife was suspected of having an affair with the victim.
Directing: Edwin Sherin · Writing: René Balcer, Michael S. Chernuchin · Starring: Paul Sorvino, Carolyn McCormick, Michael Jace, Cynthia Martells
3x03
3x03 Forgiveness
Oct 7, 1992 · 48 min · ★ 7.4
A priest-turned-lawyer uses race and class as the basis for his defense of a young Mexican man who murdered his wealthy girlfriend after she broke up with him.
Directing: Bill D'Elia · Writing: Ed Zuckerman · Starring: Paul Sorvino, Carolyn McCormick, Laurence Luckinbill, Mara Hobel
3x04
3x04 The Corporate Veil
Oct 14, 1992 · 47 min · ★ 8.1
A teenager's fatal heart attack is traced to fraud and greed on the part of the manufacturer of his pacemaker and their supplier.
Directed by: Don Scardino · Written by: Michael S. Chernuchin, Joe Morgenstern · Starring: Paul Sorvino, Elizabeth Hubbard, George Murdock, Bruce Norris
3x05
3x05 Wedded Bliss
Oct 21, 1992 · 47 min · ★ 7.2
The discovery of a young woman's body in the river leads to an investigation of illegal sweatshops and the enslavement of young immigrants.
Directing: Vern Gillum · Writing: Robert Nathan, Edward Pomerantz · Starring: Paul Sorvino, Lisa Vidal, Patti D'Arbanville, Bill Fiore
3x06
3x06 Helpless
Nov 4, 1992 · 47 min · ★ 8.6
Dr. Olivet accuses her gynecologist of rape, but Stone finds his case in trouble when he discovers that Olivet tape-recorded the crime.
Directing: James Frawley · Writing: Christine Roum, Michael S. Chernuchin · Starring: Paul Sorvino, Carolyn McCormick, Ethan Phillips, Tovah Feldshuh
3x07
3x07 Self Defense
Nov 11, 1992 · 47 min · ★ 7.6
Cerreta and Stone find themselves on opposite sides of the fence when a storeowner kills two robbers and then claims self-defense as a justification.
Directed by: Edwin Sherin · Written by: Hall Powell, René Balcer · Starring: Paul Sorvino, Adam Arkin, Christine Farrell, Paul Schulze
3x08
3x08 Prince of Darkness
Nov 18, 1992 · 47 min · ★ 7.9
Cerreta poses as a weapons dealer to help Stone build a case against a Columbian hit man, but the deal takes an unexpected turn, resulting in bloodshed.
Directed by: Gilbert M. Shilton · Written by: Robert Nathan, William N. Fordes · Starring: Paul Sorvino, Rosanna DeSoto, Christine Farrell, Saundra Santiago
3x09
3x09 Point of View
Nov 25, 1992 · 47 min · ★ 7.8
Logan gets a new partner and Stone faces an old friend from law school as they investigate a woman's claim of self-defense in the shooting death of a small time hood.
Directing: Gilbert Moses · Writing: Walon Green, René Balcer · Starring: Jerry Orbach, Paul Sorvino, Carolyn McCormick, Elaine Stritch
3x10
3x10 Consultation
Dec 9, 1992 · 47 min · ★ 7.6
An engineer and a tribal chief become the chief suspects in the death of a Nigerian woman who died while smuggling heroin internally.
Directing: James Hayman · Writing: Joe Reinkemeyer, Matt Kiene · Starring: Jerry Orbach, Robert Katims, Roscoe Lee Browne, Andrew Robinson
3x11
3x11 Extended Family
Jan 6, 1993 · 47 min · ★ 7.7
The apparent abduction of a little girl by her natural mother becomes complicated by charges of sexual molestation.
Directing: Charles Correll · Writing: Robert Nathan, Wendell Rawls · Starring: Jerry Orbach, Carolyn McCormick, Barry Primus, Michael McGuire
3x12
3x12 Right to Counsel
Jan 13, 1993 · 47 min · ★ 7.5
After Stone accepts a plea bargain from the much younger and poorer lover of a wealthy older woman found murdered in her apartment, he begins to have doubts that he has sent the right man to prison, especially as he learns more about the attorney who handled the woman's estate.
Directing: James Frawley · Writing: Michael S. Chernuchin, Barry M. Schkolnick · Starring: Jerry Orbach, Mary Mara, Richard Cox, Darrell Larson
3x13
3x13 Night and Fog
Feb 3, 1993 · 47 min · ★ 7.6
The confession of an elderly man that he assisted his wife in committing suicide doesn't fully satisfy Stone when rumors surface that the man was once a Nazi collaborator.
Directing: Edwin Sherin · Writing: René Balcer, Michael S. Chernuchin · Starring: Jerry Orbach, Nehemiah Persoff, Reizl Bozyk, Chip Zien
3x14
3x14 Promises to Keep
Feb 10, 1993 · 47 min · ★ 7.6
The investigation into the murder of a young physician leads to the discovery of an unorthodox and illegal relationship between her fiance and his psychiatrist.
Directing: Edwin Sherin · Writing: Robert Nathan, Joshua Stern · Starring: Jerry Orbach, Carolyn McCormick, Lindsay Crouse, Fritz Weaver
3x15
3x15 Mother Love
Feb 24, 1993 · 47 min · ★ 7.8
The absence of a murder weapon complicates the investigation into the murder of a drug addict who stole from her family to support her habit.
Directing: Daniel Sackheim · Writing: Robert Nathan · Starring: Jerry Orbach, Mary Alice, Frances Foster, Edie Falco
3x16
3x16 Jurisdiction
Mar 3, 1993 · 47 min · ★ 7.7
Stone battles the Brooklyn DA's office over prosecutorial jurisdiction in the case of a mentally handicapped man who confesses to the stabbing deaths of two women.
Directing: Bruce Seth Green · Writing: Walon Green, René Balcer · Starring: Jerry Orbach, Carolyn McCormick, Michael Badalucco, Dan Hedaya
3x17
3x17 Conduct Unbecoming
Mar 10, 1993 · 47 min · ★ 6.7
Stone and the police battle the closed ranks of the Navy to investigate the death of a female Naval officer during a party in a Manhattan hotel.
Directed by: Arthur W. Forney · Written by: Michael S. Chernuchin, René Balcer · Starring: Jerry Orbach, Len Cariou, Boyd Gaines, George Coe
3x18
3x18 Animal Instinct
Mar 17, 1993 · 47 min · ★ 7.9
The initial investigation into the death of a research scientist leads to an animal-rights group until evidence surfaces that her husband's affair with a coworker may point to a possible motive for the murder.
Directing: Edwin Sherin · Writing: Sibyl Gardner, Michael S. Chernuchin · Starring: Jerry Orbach, Carolyn McCormick, Allan Arbus, George Murdock
3x19
3x19 Virus
Apr 21, 1993 · 47 min · ★ 7.7
While investigating several deaths at a diabetes clinic, Briscoe and Logan discover that teenage computer hackers may have tampered with the clinic's medical database.
Directed by: Steven Robman · Written by: René Balcer, Michael S. Chernuchin · Starring: Jerry Orbach, Steven Keats, Joanna Merlin, Stephen Elliott
3x20
3x20 Securitate
May 5, 1993 · 47 min · ★ 7.2
When a Romanian immigrant kills, his lawyer announces he will plead his client "not guilty due to cultural insanity" claiming the man had been conditioned to violence in his homeland.
Directing: James Hayman · Writing: Joe Reinkemeyer, Matt Kiene · Starring: Jerry Orbach, Carolyn McCormick, Morgan Weisser, Bordán Irén
3x21
3x21 Manhood
May 12, 1993 · 47 min · ★ 7.8
The statement of a drug dealer who survived a shoot-out that killed a cop leads Logan and Briscoe to suspect that the cop died because he was gay and his fellow officers were reluctant to back him up.
Directed by: Edwin Sherin · Written by: Robert Nathan · Starring: Jerry Orbach, Charles Hallahan, Adam Trese, Philip Bosco
3x22
3x22 Benevolence Season Finale
May 19, 1993 · 47 min · ★ 7.4
Logan and Briscoe begin their investigation into the death of a hearing-impaired young woman by questioning her two most recent boyfriends.
Directing: Edwin Sherin · Writing: René Balcer, Doug Palau · Starring: Jerry Orbach, George Bamford, Isha Manna Beck, Helen Lloyd Breed