Law & Order Season 4, Episode 21: Doubles

1

Sweeps

A guest is murdered on-air on a controversial talk show. Meanwhile Logan and Briscoe have a new boss, Lt. Anita Van Buren, and Stone gets a new collague; the police and district attorney attempt to prosecute the show's abrasive host.

46 min

2

Volunteers

A disruptive, unbalanced homeless man is found severely beaten in an alley of the middle class neighborhood he calls home, leading Stone to try and prosecute one of the residents for premeditated murder.

47 min

3

Discord

A college student charges an admittedly promiscuous rock star with rape, but he claims the act was consensual.

46 min

4

Profile

Stone finds himself up against an ambitious black lawyer defending a white, racist serial killer.

45 min

5

Black Tie

The police suspect a cover up when they receive an anonymous tip that a wealthy man was murdered by his wife, who refuses to allow an autopsy after a physician declares that the death occurred from natural causes.

45 min

6

Pride and Joy

A 17-year-old boy becomes the chief suspect in the murder of his father, raising questions of self-defense and abuse that the family does not want to face.

47 min

7

Apocrypha

Stone and Kincaid try to prove that the young woman believed to have planted a bomb in a parking garage had been brainwashed and was acting under the direct orders of a charismatic cult leader.

47 min

8

American Dream

A skeleton unearthed at a building site resurrects one of Stone's old cases, and brings him face to face with the tenacious, brilliant culprit, who is seeking a new trial.

47 min

9

Born Bad

A lawyer decides to defend her teenage client charged with murder as an adult with the claim that he's violent because of a genetic predisposition due to an extra Y chromosome.

46 min

10

The Pursuit of Happiness

A "green-card" bride from Russia is suspected of murdering her rich, but cold husband, who was threatening to divorce her just weeks before she would qualify to remain in this country.

47 min

11

Golden Years

An emaciated elderly woman is found dead of an apparent heart attack and her granddaughter is charged with neglect and grave indifference to human life.

47 min

12

Snatched

A millionaire friend of Schiff's won't cooperate with the police following his son's kidnapping.

47 min

13

Breeder

While investigating a woman's claim that she passed out in a taxi and awoke to find her newborn missing, Briscoe and Logan uncover a scam involving private adoptions.

47 min

14

Censure

A phone call threatening a woman's young daughter leads to a case that causes Kincaid to resign from Schiff's office because of an affair in her past.

47 min

15

Kids

A 14-year-old's shooting death involves the son of a former police detective, who's also an old friend of Briscoe's.

47 min

16

Big Bang

A scientist becomes the chief suspect when his estranged wife, who's been delaying divorce proceedings, is the victim of a letter bomb.

47 min

17

Mayhem

During a 24-hour period, Briscoe and Logan have a heavy caseload that includes 5 unrelated murders and a domestic quarrel, which results in the maiming of the husband.

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18

Wager

Briscoe and Logan bet that the killing of a star athlete's father is linked to gambling debts and threats to the baseball player's family.

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19

Sanctuary

A black minister fans the flames of racial intolerance after a hit-and-run in Harlem claims the life of a 12-year-old and the Jewish driver isn't indicted.

47 min

20

Nurture

Briscoe and Logan investigate the disappearance of a child from her abusive foster home and find her being held by a loving but disturbed woman who insists she has acted only for the child's own good.

46 min

21

Doubles

An assailant breaks the wrist of a tennis player prior to a tournament, and a competitor is among the suspects.

46 min

22

Old Friends

A truck hits a pedestrian and the investigation reveals the victim's link to a baby-food company in which a new partner has connections to the Russian mob.

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