The following is a list of Law & Order episodes from the series' thirteenth season (2002–2003):[1]
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| 278 | 1 | "American Jihad" | Constantine Makris | Aaron Zelman, Marc Guggenheim |
2 October 2002 |
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An American Muslim becomes the prime suspect in a double murder after an academic challenges his religious beliefs.
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| 279 | 2 | "Shangri-La" | Constantine Makris | Michael S. Chernuchin | 9 October 2002 |
| The murder of a female high school English teacher uncovers a love triangle that includes a female student and a male teacher, both of whom become suspects. The prosecutors have to deal with the student's multiple identities and refusal to live past adolescence. | |||||
| 280 | 3 | "True Crime" | Martha Mitchell | Wendy Battles, Noah Baylin |
16 October 2002 |
| Investigating the death of a rock band singer who had large amounts of cocaine and heroin in her system, the detectives question a former boyfriend who was a disgruntled band mate of her late husband. The prosecutors are hampered by the actions of a retired detective-turned-writer, who worked a case with Briscoe several years back and whose unconventional research tactics make him a suspect as well. | |||||
| 281 | 4 | "Tragedy on Rye" | David Platt | William N. Fordes | 30 October 2002 |
| A struggling actress is murdered in an apparent robbery-homicide where a videotape, made by a couple touring the city and sold to a local news station, shows three suspects loading the stolen property into an SUV. They are charged with felony murder, a capital crime, and this causes unrest with Southerlyn surrounding the death penalty. | |||||
| 282 | 5 | "The Ring" | Richard Dobbs | Michael S. Chernuchin | 6 November 2002 |
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The discovery of a body in Hell's Kitchen that had been wearing a $40,000 diamond ring leads Briscoe and Green back to the September 11th attacks, as the victim had been reported to have died on the 89th floor of the World Trade Center. The ensuing investigation leads to a fiancee and a lover and the determination that the events of 9/11 may have been convenient timing to hide the fact that she was murdered the night before.
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| 283 | 6 | "Hitman" | Richard Dobbs | Eric Overmyer | 13 November 2002 |
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The execution-style shooting of a city contractor leads Briscoe and Green to suspect a professional hitman. They first focus upon possible enemies of the victim, but end up suspecting the victim's wife and her boyfriend of hiring the killer. However, as they investigate every possibility, the evidence leads McCoy and Southerlyn to a conspirator that no one had suspected.
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| 284 | 7 | "Open Season" | Matthew Penn | Richard Sweren | 20 November 2002 |
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A defense attorney who had just acquitted a cop-killer is gunned down outside a Manhattan restaurant. The detectives start with police officers in the precinct of the injured officer, then to his brother, before they are led to a white supremacist who is part of a national network. McCoy is faced with the unlikely prospect that the defendant's attorney, his friend of 20 years and a friend of the slain lawyer, played a part in the murder of a Florida district attorney following the defendant's arrest. McCoy is able to make a deal that preserves the integrity of his adversary, but not without a cost.
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| 285 | 8 | "Asterisk" | Steve Shill | Terri Kopp | 27 November 2002 |
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A star baseball player becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his limousine driver when it is discovered that the driver regularly supplied steroids to the sports icon. The subsequent investigation reveals blackmail as the underlying motive for the murder.
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| 286 | 9 | "The Wheel" | Richard Dobbs | Jill Goldsmith | 11 December 2002 |
| The smoldering corpse of an Asian girl found outside the Chinese consul general's apartment leads the detectives to believe she had immolated herself to make a political statement. When forensics shows that she had been murdered beforehand, they find themselves in the middle of a religious conflict, with the consul general their prime suspect and his attorney an old friend of DA Branch. | |||||
| 287 | 10 | "Mother's Day" | Jace Alexander | Janis Diamond | 8 January 2003 |
| The hit-and-run death of a popular high-school student leaves the detectives suspecting the girl's father was the real target. When evidence reveals that the death was possibly a random killing, they are able to track down their suspect to his apartment. However, things get complicated when their killer is murdered, and the person who committed the crime happens to be the victim's mother. | |||||
| 288 | 11 | "Chosen" | Ed Sherin | Michael S. Chernuchin | 15 January 2003 |
| The murder of a bookie with a high-class clientele leads the detectives to arrest his partner. Charged with first-degree murder, his attorney puts forth an unusual defense strategy that turns the trial into a political statement. | |||||
| 289 | 12 | "Under God" | Gloria Muzio | Marc Guggenheim, Noah Baylin |
5 February 2003 |
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A drug dealer is killed and suspicion falls on a dead teenager's father. Briscoe, still mourning his daughter, is unusually sympathetic. But before the police can prove it, his priest confesses — claiming that God told him to do it.
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| 290 | 13 | "Absentia" | Martha Mitchell, Darnell Martin |
Eric Overmyer | 12 February 2003 |
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When the witness in a jewelry store robbery-homicide fails to appear in court, McCoy suspects foul play until he discovers that the man is a fugitive in a 20-year-old murder case.
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| 291 | 14 | "Star Crossed" | David Platt | Richard Sweren | 19 February 2003 |
| The bludgeoning of a luxury sports car dealer leads the detectives to a mentally challenged man and his girlfriend, who is extremely attractive and whose expensive tastes lead her to be equally manipulative. | |||||
| 292 | 15 | "Bitch" | Constantine Makris | Michael S. Chernuchin, Roz Weinman |
26 February 2003 |
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The death of a stockbroker leads the detectives to his girlfriend, whose mother is a cosmetics mogul who has a longstanding friendship with DA Arthur Branch and will stop at nothing to protect her corporate image by using hormone replacement therapy withdrawal as the basis for her defense.
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| 293 | 16 | "Suicide Box" | Matthew Penn | Aaron Zelman | 26 March 2003 |
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A media-savvy attorney defends a black teenager accused of shooting an off-duty police officer.
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| 294 | 17 | "Genius" | Jace Alexander | William N. Fordes | 2 April 2003 |
| Investigating the murder of a cab driver, the detectives come to suspect a famous author and his protege, a former child prodigy. | |||||
| 295 | 18 | "Maritime" | Gloria Muzio | Wendy Battles | 17 April 2003 |
| A missing football player becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a woman whose body is discovered floating in the East River. | |||||
| 296 | 19 | "Seer" | James Quinn | Jill Goldsmith | 23 April 2003 |
| The prime suspect in the murder of a woman outside a sex club claims to have merely witnessed the crime via a psychic vision. | |||||
| 297 | 20 | "Kid Pro Quo" | David Platt | Eric Overmyer, Roz Weinman |
30 April 2003 |
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The murder of an admissions director of a private school leads the detectives to investigate a pair of angry parents whose children were denied admission, but then they set their sights on the headmaster when they discover that the victim was about to go public with the denied admissions.
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| 298 | 21 | "House Calls" | Jace Alexander | Janis Diamond | 7 May 2003 |
| The suspicious death of a Russian model leads the detectives to suspect medical malpractice. | |||||
| 299 | 22 | "Sheltered" | Richard Dobbs | Terri Kopp | 14 May 2003 |
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It's a race against time as the detectives go on the hunt for a sniper whose victims are shot in broad daylight.
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| 300 | 23 | "Couples" | David Platt | Lorenzo Carcaterra | 21 May 2003 |
| One of the few episodes that deviates from the usual formula. Briscoe and Green catch four murders and a kidnapping on the same day, and get handed confessions in each case. The DA's office only features minimally. | |||||
| 301 | 24 | "Smoke" | Constantine Makris | Michael S. Chernuchin, Dick Wolf |
21 May 2003 |
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Briscoe and Green are assigned to a case involving an eccentric comedian who may have killed his young son by dangling him off a ledge.
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| Preceded by Season Twelve (2001-2002) |
List of Law & Order seasons (1990-2010) |
Succeeded by Season Fourteen (2003-2004) |