Law & Order: Season 14
Season 14 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Law & Order Season 13.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 14 Progress Shield
Bodies
Sep 24, 2003 · 45 min
While investigating the death of a teenaged girl, the detectives stumble on a pattern of crimes that indicate they are after a serial killer. The suspect, however, puts the prosecu
Bounty
Oct 1, 2003 · 45 min
The investigation into the murder of a bounty hunter leads to a reporter with compromised ethics and a dubious defense strategy.
Patient Zero
Oct 8, 2003 · 45 min
The investigation into the carjacking of a vehicle containing vials of a deadly virus leads the detectives on a search for the first person infected with the virus and a biochemist
Shrunk
Oct 22, 2003 · 45 min
The police and prosecutors investigate the connection between an award-winning songwriter and the young woman found murdered in his home to discover who would profit by her death a
Blaze
Oct 29, 2003 · 45 min
A teenager's need for parental love, acceptance and recognition sets in motion the events leading to the deaths of 23 concert goers for a band's illegal pyrotechnics.
Identity
Nov 5, 2003 · 45 min
When a man is found murdered shortly after depositing almost $400,000 in his savings account, the investigation into the source of funds reveals that the victim ran an identity the
Floater
Nov 12, 2003 · 45 min
The husband of a woman whose partially decomposed body is found floating in the Hudson River becomes the prime suspect in her murder until the prosecutors uncover a connection betw
Embedded
Nov 19, 2003 · 45 min
After a reporter accused of causing the deaths of soldiers with whom he was embedded in Iraq by reporting on their troop movements is shot and wounded on the eve of his return to t
Compassion
Nov 26, 2003 · 45 min
When a con man passing himself off as a grief counselor is poisoned by a respected doctor he victimized, McCoy must determine whether revenge or insanity prompted the crime.
Ill-Conceived
Dec 3, 2003 · 45 min
The owner of a clothing company with alien immigrant workers is found murdered which sends the detectives on a search for an unidentified evening caller whose girlfriend, also a wo
Darwinian
Jan 7, 2004 · 45 min
The apparent hit-and-run of a homeless man send the detectives on a search for the driver, a high profile female publicist, which fuels the fire for the prosecutors to obtain a mur
Payback
Jan 14, 2004 · 45 min
The investigation into the murder of a former bookie turned mob informant reveals a disturbing new wrinkle in organized crime involving legitimate businessmen moonlighting as contr
Married with Children
Feb 4, 2004 · 45 min
The death of a woman who fell from a hotel balcony leads to a case involving a lesbian couple and a state law banning gay adoption
City Hall
Feb 11, 2004 · 45 min
A city employee's clerical error sets in motion a chain of events which culminates in a fatal shooting at City Hall and a secret Federal court proceeding with sinister implications
Veteran's Day
Feb 18, 2004 · 45 min
A decorated Gulf War veteran grief-stricken over the Afghanistan combat death of his son murders an anti-war protester, claiming at trial that he acted under extreme emotional dist
Can I Get a Witness?
Feb 25, 2004 · 45 min
McCoy faces an uphill battle in proving that witnesses to the murder of a drug mule were bribed, intimidated, and eventually murdered on the orders of the drug dealer accused of th
Hands Free
Mar 3, 2004 · 45 min
When McCoy fails to win a murder conviction against an eccentric cross dressing millionaire for the death of his neighbor, he redoubles the effort to convict the man for murdering
Evil Breeds
Mar 24, 2004 · 45 min
When a Holocaust survivor is murdered on the eve of her testimony in the deportation trial of a former concentration camp guard, McCoy prosecutes the man and the Neo-Nazi sympathiz
Nowhere Man
Mar 31, 2004 · 45 min
The District Attorney's Office is set on its ear when the investigation into the death of an A.D.A. uncovers a scandal that could imperil hundreds of cases.
Everybody Loves Raimondo's
Apr 14, 2004 · 45 min
Greed, treachery and disrespect shape the motives for murder when two men are gunned down at an exclusive restaurant.
Vendetta
Apr 21, 2004 · 45 min
The investigation into a bar room brawl fatality reveals a detective's decades-old vendetta against a petty criminal turned murderer who was falsely accused of one murder after eva
Gaijin
Apr 28, 2004 · 45 min
Van Buren has reservations about Branch's tactics in luring a Ginza nightclub owner back to New York after the Japanese government is unwilling to extradite him to face charges of
Caviar Emptor
May 12, 2004 · 45 min
When a caviar importer is murdered the day after his wedding to a much-younger woman, the large pool of suspects includes his new wife, his children, and his chief competitor, each
C.O.D.
May 19, 2004 · 45 min
Briscoe bids farewell to the 27 as the prosecution of two women for killing each other's husbands comes to a successful conclusion.