Law & Order Season 13 Episodes
Season 13 Episode Guide
Episode 1 - American JihadLouise and Hugh Murdoch, both well-respected professors at Stuyvesant College, are found shot to death in their apartment. The murder weapon, a Beretta 9 mm, is recovered in a nearby trashcan. Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) begin their investigation at the unfortunate couple's offices. Hugh Murdoch was a biomedical researcher who was involved in a controversial type of stem cell research. Initially they think some pro-life groups might have been behind it, but they realize that's not the case.
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Episode 2 - Shangri-LaValerie Keenan, a young high school teacher, is found stabbed to death in the janitor's closet. The initial check of the surveillance tape doesn't turn up anything, but some of the students allude to the fact that another teacher, Mr. Bergen (Rob Campbell), was in a relationship with her. Bergen denies that anything was going on with Valerie and claims he was at the Mets game the night of the murder. The only problem is, the Mets game was rained out that night, but a local bartender verifies he stopped in. Then it hits Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin); if it was raining that day, why weren't there any signs of rain (i.e. umbrellas, raincoats) on the surveillance tape?
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Episode 3 - True CrimeSanitation workers find the body of a young woman, which they picked up inadvertently along their route. She's dead of a single gunshot wound to the head, has track marks on her arms, as well as cocaine and heroine in her system and no identification. The M.E.has pulled her breast implants and through a serial number, tracks down the cosmetic surgeon who grudgingly identifies the patient as Patty Voytek. Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) go to Patty's billing address, a talent agency, and realize she goes by her pseudonym, Jane Hunt, and she's a professional musician. Jane's a semisuccessful rock guitarist who is actually better known as the girlfriend of Shane Mallory, the lead guitarist of a hugely successful cult-punk band called Krisis. Jane's final hours are traced -- she checked out of a rehab facility to go on a drug binge.
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Episode 4 - Tragedy On RyeAn aspiring actress, Lucy Dolan, is found shot to death in her apartment above a busy delicatessen. Missing is an elaborate plasma screen television. Lucy worked at a seedy comedy club in Staten Island but obviously lived beyond her means. Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) search her locker at the club and find a stack of traffic violations, including a photo ticket. That leads them to the vehicle and intersection near the deli, where they see in the background, an out-of-town couple shooting videos. They track down the couple from Ohio, but they've already sold the footage to a local TV station. The cops get the tape and are able to track the vehicle, a beige Ford Explorer, and also in the photo see the suspects carrying the television. Tracking the vehicle through a Freemont Downs Racetrack VIP parking pass visible on the windshield, they have their suspects - Matt Carton (Omar Sharif Scroggins) and Harry Johnson (Malcolm Barrett). They get the third suspect, Daniel Otum (Dakoda Anderson), by sneaking around their high-end attorney's office.
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Episode 5 - The RingTwo young shoplifters hiding from a storeowner discover skeletal remains in a seedy part of Hell's Kitchen. The Medical Examiner explains that the woman's hand was chopped off and a ring that was on the other hand should have been found with the body. The young thugs have the ring, which is a very unusual $40,000 piece of jewelry. It's tedious but not impossible to track down everyone who bought a ring of its type. Bradley Hagen (Stevie Ray Dallimore), a wealthy Wall Street executive who is a member of one of the city's most prominent political families, bought one for his wife but hers is accounted for. DNA evidence on the skeleton comes back and now detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) know their victim - Kelly Sommers, who was thought to be killed at the World Trade Center.
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Episode 6 - HitmanTony Rosatti (Lou Bonacki), a well-to-do contractor with mob connections, is found dead in his brownstone. Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) immediately suspect the work of a professional and try to find the deceased's much younger second wife. Tony's wife, Sherri (Gretchen Egolf), was gone all weekend. She was supposed to be at a spa in Connecticut but she never checked in. She tells the cops she changed her mind, and at the last minute went to Bermuda. The detectives do some digging and figure out she wasn't alone; she was with Randy Porter (Bobby Cannavale), an electrician who worked for her husband. An off-duty cop, who was hired by Tony, also provides photos of the two in compromising positions.
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Episode 7 - Open SeasonVance Grodie (Christopher Coucill) is a hotshot defense attorney, who is having a victory celebration after his client, Darnell Marbury (Curtiss Cook), is acquitted of attempted murder of police officer Chris Wilson (Chris Diamantopoulos). It's a hectic scene in the courtroom when the verdict is read, as the victim, now paralyzed, is present with his brother and numerous fellow police officers, who are outraged with the verdict. After Grodie leaves the restaurant for a smoke, his friends hear gunfire. Grodie is found lying dead on the sidewalk. The only thing missing is his palm pilot. Immediately the cops are forced to question their own colleagues, and even check out the blotter for the evening of the crime to see who might be considered a suspect.
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Episode 8 - *A man is found in Central Park, dead from a snapped neck. With no identification, it takes awhile to figure out who he is, but through unique tattoos they are able to identify him as Norman Pratt, a limo driver. Norman's last customer was Kevin Seleeby (Reynaldo Rosales), a star major-league baseball player, who is questioned by Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin). Kevin says he went to Atlantic City with his agent and cousin and returned around midnight. He has no idea what happened to Norman after that. Norman also offered Kevin "anything he needed," which turns out to be anabolic steroids; he procured from a chemist friend. The detectives now realize the ballplayer, whom they are enamored with, may now have an "*" next to his name in the record books if all this plays out.
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Episode 9 - The WheelThe charred body of a young Asian female is found outside the upscale penthouse of Li Chen (Tzi Ma), the Deputy Counsel General to China. It takes a while to identify the victim, who is a Falon Gong follower named Helen Quan. But the Medical Examiner explains what was initially thought to be a suicide is a homicide since it's evident she was strangled before burned. Tommy Wong (Ken Leung), a driver for an elderly woman in the building is questioned. He initially claims to know nothing but when detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) figure out he knew Helen, he admits to that. They then question Chen, who mysteriously has a sculpture by a local artist from Tianjen, China, where Helen's mother is a prisoner.
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Episode 10 - Mother's DayEmily Milius (Deja Kreutzberg) is out of her element, a Park Avenue private school rich girl in Washington Heights. Exiting a diner after she is "stood up" she is hit by a blue Saturn and killed. It's obvious this was no accident -- based on the tire marks the car was gunning for her. Emily's parents are horrified; she was a perfect student and had a bright future. The Saturn is found abandoned and the driver, Danny Payton, is later found dead. Emily's father, Ronald (Martin Kildare) owns a pharmaceutical company, and is concerned that shady business dealings may have put his daughter's life in danger. Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) question Danny's mother, Diane (Ellen McLaughlin), who has a "strange story": she said she had breakfast with her son the day before but based on the medical examiner's findings, he was already dead.
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Episode 11 - ChosenTwo hotshot young Wall Street executives think they are playing a prank on their buddy when they open the trunk of his Lexus. Little do they know it's the wrong car and there's a dead body. The deceased is Gordon Meeks, who runs a cash heavy bookie business. Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jessie L. Martin) question his associate Steve Strelznik (John Rothman). He lives on the Upper East Side and is the last person you'd expect to be in the bookie business. Strelznik is shocked to hear about Gordon's demise. He explains that they are both employees of First Run Gaming, a company based in Costa Rica. So technically, the high-class clientele thinks they are not really doing anything illegal. They interview a few clients but neither had any motives for the murder.
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Episode 12 - Under GodScott Giddins is a drug dealer, found dead near the Williamsburg Bridge. Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) canvass the neighborhood near his home and find a young woman in his apartment, close to death from a drug overdose. Scott was a bad guy - he had a reputation for selling drugs and hurting people. One of his acquaintances leads the cops to Bill Parker, a bus driver who was seen chasing Scott with a lead pipe because he was responsible for his teenage son's overdose and death. Briscoe is disturbed by the whole case, because it reminds him that his own daughter died at the age of 24, as a result of someone no different than Scott.
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Episode 13 - AbsentiaA jewelry store in the West Village is robbed. The owner is killed and a customer visiting from Chicago, Glen Fordyce (Mandy Patinkin) is shot. When the stolen goods turn up at a pawnshop, Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) are able to track down the pawner whose description matches the one given by Fordyce as well as the witnesses outside the store. Eddie Travandze (Gene Farber) is their man, and they pick him up and try him for murder. But when it's time for the star witness Fordyce to testify, he is missing. He never got on the plane from Chicago.
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Episode 14 - Star CrossedHal Garber, a Jaguar salesman, is found beaten to death in Harlem. The license used to take the car for a test drive was stolen and now the cops are linking a string of robberies to the homicide. The common link is Tina Montoya (Vanessa Ferlito), who was at a bar when it was held up. Tina ikes nice things and is a neat freak. She is also carrying a $20,000 Sorken bag, which is way out of line with her lifestyle. Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) trace the bag and it turns out to be stolen. Robby Delgado (Chandler Adrian Parker) was the delivery man when the bag disappeared enroute from Paris, and when Robby delivered the box to the store all they found inside were rocks. He is now working at a low rent coffee shop, and when the detectives search his apartment, they find a very expensive painting that was just stolen, the keys to Garber's Jaguar and many stolen wallets. Robby is mentally challenged, so his attorney Dean Conners (Peter Gerety) is looking to make a deal, citing his mental state.
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Episode 15 - B*tchBrad Osterhaus, a successful stockbroker who was very friendly with numerous women, is found dead in his upscale apartment. He fell down the stairs but the cause of death is a blow to the head. Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) discover he has multiple female friends, and had recently purchased three expensive pieces of lingerie. One was for a friend who is about to get married (she also has an airtight alibi); another is for Lindsay Tucker (Melissa Errico), a photographer with a young child. She considered herself Brad's true girlfriend (the other women were just dalliances) and she is very upset. Her alibi is she was at the office of world-renowned cosmetics maven Jackie Scott (Lucie Arnaz) at the time Brad was killed. The detectives question Jackie but she isn't much help. She's an empire unto herself and corroborates Lindsay's alibi. But when the detectives ask a few more questions about the people in Jackie's and Lindsay's lives, they discover Jackie is Lindsay's mother and both mother and daughter were sleeping with Brad.
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Episode 16 - Suicide BoxAlice Cushman (Claire Lautier), a beat cop in the 204, is shot as she exits a diner frequented by her colleagues. A fellow officer, Al Brennan (Chris Tardio), was at the scene (they had a brief extramarital fling) but no one knows who would want to kill Alice, a mother of a young child. Witnesses saw a blue car fleeing the scene, and when a nearby traffic accident arouses suspicion, they are able to get enough information from the BMW hit by the blue car (by analyzing the paint, which gives data on the type of car) and a partial identification from the license plate to find their vehicle. It's registered to Janet Thomas (Oni Faida Lampley), a nurse who claims her car was stolen.
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Episode 17 - GeniusA man is found stabbed to death under a cab. He was moonlighting for a cab driver he attended AA meetings with. The deceased is a former KKK member who is living in New York under an alias. The victim had a book, "A Season in Hell" and rare Cuban cigar on him when he was killed. The book purchase is traced to Nelson Lambert (Stanley Anderson), another author who claims he was extremely drunk the night before. Lambert has a long and detailed conversation about murder with Detective Green (Jesse L. Martin) over a few drinks, while Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) checks out his alibi. Lambert was at Helen's restaurant catering to the literati. He talks with Helen (Sonia Braga) and she informs him he was with another author named Clay Warner (David Wike). Clay's prints are found on the book and the detectives learn he had served time in Sing Sing on a drug charge. He also describes the type of killing (stab wound to the chest) that killed the victim. The detectives arrest Clay, but Lambert, who was Clay's patron saint while he was in prison, is now starting his "save the genius" campaign.
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Episode 18 - MaritimeThe body of a twenty-something woman is found floating in the East River, with no identification. A sorority ring and the victim's photo are enough to get her identified. She's Julie Eastman, a successful real estate agent who was nicknamed Eve Harrington by her co-workers because of her blind ambition. She was dating Adam Makris, a sports agent with top-drawer clients. Adam, Julie and Darryl Ridgeway, a superstar NFL quarterback, had last been seen partying on Darryl's yacht. Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) question Darryl's parents and brother Shawn (Craig Walker) who apparently has a drug problem. The boat is found anchored in a cove, along with bullet holes and everyone's blood on board.
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Episode 19 - SeerAn attractive young woman is found bludgeoned to death in an alley in Soho. She was dressed very provocatively and her address book is smudged from sitting in a puddle all night. The cops finally get an ID - she's Rachel Cardwell, who works for a top of the line graphic design firm. Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) search her apartment and are met by the man across the hall, Tim Grayson (Robert Stanton). He's rather nerdy but he claims to be friendly with Rachel. He said he saw her the night before when he was coming upstairs from the laundry room and didn't like the way she was dressed. The only evidence at the scene is a usable footprint and the detectives retrace Rachel's last night. There is a message on her machine from her friend Leanne Parks (Robin Weigert) who obviously had a good time - they were at a special, upscale club called Tart for professional women who must be members.
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Episode 20 - Kid Pro QuoA woman is found on a park bench with her head bashed in by a walking stick, which turns out to be hers. She is Debra Landon, head of admissions for the Knowles School, one of the city's most elite private schools. The environment is beyond competitive for admissions and parents will do "anything" to get their kids in. The Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) find some angry messages on her voice mail. One of them is from Marvin Waters (Curtis McClarin), who was upset because his daughter Cassie didn't get the scholarship to Knowles she deserved. Instead the spot went to a Jared Anchin. The Detectives check out Marvin's alibi -- he's telling the truth and is no longer a suspect. An ultra fine blue cashmere fiber was found on the walking stick, and when the Detectives question Wyatt Scofield (Roger Rees), Knowles's headmaster, he's wearing a blue cashmere sweater.
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Episode 21 - House CallsA young model is shopping when the security cameras pick her up shoplifting. When the store manager attempts to confront her in the dressing room there's no response, because she is lying there dead. The victim, Nadia Parkova, is an aspiring model. Found by her body is an empty syringe with traces of Demerol. Cause of death was cardiac arrest and it was a lethal combination of asthma medicine and the Demerol that did her in. But her body showed serious signs of abuse and internal injuries. The Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) think perhaps her boyfriend or father was beating her, but her younger sister Lena (Alexis Dziena) says that's not true, she's accident-prone and fell down the stairs.
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Episode 22 - ShelteredThere are four seemingly random shootings by a sniper. The first victim is a young mother who is shot while pushing her baby stroller in Chinatown, the second an accountant, the third a construction manager, and a 14-year-old junior high school student. There are notes left too, but they seem to contradict one another. One gives the impression that the perpetrator is psychotic, the others that he's taunting the cops. These supposed random killings have left the city in a state of panic. The Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) get a break when they discover that one of the victims, Charlie Rodriguez, had a serious problem with one of his employees, Herman Capshaw (Ty Burrell).
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Episode 23 - SmokeThe police are called to a luxury hotel, where the body of a one-year-old baby lies dead on the ground. The baby fell from the room occupied by Monty Bender (Adam Ferrara), one of the world's most famous comedians. Members of his entourage tell the cops the same story - a fire had started in the room next door, Monty held the baby outside and he slipped. The Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Greene (Jesse L. Martin) start investigating by digging into Monty's past. His baby was adopted and they discover he has a "masseuse" named Harvey (James Villemaire) who for some reason has a key to Monty's room. There's also a rumor that seems to follow Monty that he has the reputation of molesting young boys. In addition, the M.E. Rodgers (Leslie Hendrix) claims the fire was set after the baby fell, since there was no smoke in his lungs. So Monty's reckless behavior with the child most likely caused the accident.
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Episode 24 - CouplesA cop reporting to the scene of a dead jogger, Andy Corvo (Tim Gallin), who had a fatal heart attack, discovers the body of a woman, Anna Briseno, who is shot dead in Central Park. When Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) question her husband Rafael (Carlos Leone), he is grief stricken. He said he was at work the night it happened, but it turns out he left work early and had a drink. The Detectives suspect he could be the one who killed her. They find Rafael drunk and he points the finger at his brother, Renaldo (Otto Sanchez). In fact, Anna was really Marcella Celaya (based on a search of her social security number) and when they find Renaldo, who has just been released from prison, he says he can't be tried for her murder because he was accused of killing Marcella ten years ago. But the case was botched and even though he was convicted, obviously he wasn't guilty and based on double jeopardy rules; he can't be tried for the same crime twice.
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