Episode
Law & Order: Oxymoron
Overview
The investigation of a woman's strangulation leads to a case involving the selling of drugs and a gangster's son.
Details
- Series
- Law & Order
- Season
- Season 12
- Episode
- Episode 23
- Air date
- 2002-05-15
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Oxymoron is Episode 23 in Season 12 of Law & Order. It aired on 2002-05-15. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 22: Attorney Client
The wife of an attorney with many disgruntled clients is killed but the detectives believe that he was the intended target as he was willing to reveal information despite confidentially agreements. As the investigation continues, his tumultuous love life is exposed and the prosecutors are suspicious of his desire to return to the courtroom.
Episode 24: Patriot
A tenement building explodes and the lone victim is Joseph Haden. The building was rent controlled and there had been a tenant strike, so the police initially suspect arson. But the landlord doesn't have insurance, ruling out their arson theory, and the medical examiner discovers that Haden's neck was broken and he was tied up before the explosion happened. Trying to figure out Haden is even more difficult. He didn't appear to have a family or a girlfriend and never got any substantial mail. He worked at the Jiffy Job service station making minimum wage, yet had $90,000 in the bank. Briscoe and Green do some more digging and find out that Haden was using an alias, and his real name was Yusuf Haddad.
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Episode 19: Slaughter
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Episode 18: Equal Rights
A stock analyst's murder leads the detectives to a corporation whose stock had fallen ... and plenty of suspects in the investors.
Episode 17: Girl Most Likely
When a high school student is found dead in an apartment building, Briscoe and Green suspect that the murder was a result of her running a website. As McCoy and Southerlyn investigate the case further, they realize that her best friend, who was reluctant to come forward as a witness, may be the answer to the murder.
Episode 16: Born Again
The investigation into the death of an 11-year-old girl uncovers the possible culpability of the child's mother and a rebirthing therapist.
Episode 15: Access Nation
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Episode 14: Missing
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