Episode
Law & Order: Star Crossed
Overview
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 leads her to be equally manipulative.
Details
- Series
- Law & Order
- Season
- Season 13
- Episode
- Episode 14
- Air date
- 2003-02-19
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Star Crossed is Episode 14 in Season 13 of Law & Order. It aired on 2003-02-19. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 13: Absentia
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.
Episode 15: Bitch
The death of a stockbroker leads the detectives to his girlfriend whose mother is a cosmetics mogul who has a long standing friendship with 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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Episode 16: Suicide Box
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Episode 11: Chosen
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Episode 17: Genius
Investigating the murder of a cab driver, the detectives come to suspect a famous author and his protege, a former child prodigy.
Episode 10: Mother's Day
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Episode 18: Maritime
A missing football player becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a woman whose body is discovered floating in the East River.
Episode 9: The Wheel
The smoldering corpse of an Asian girl found outside the Chinese consul general's apartment leads the detectives to believe she had made 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 District Attorney Branch.
Episode 19: Seer
The prime suspect in the murder of a woman outside a sex club claims to have merely witnessed the crime via a psychic vision.
Episode 8: Asterisk
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Episode 20: Kid Pro Quo
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 set their sights on the headmaster when they discover that the victim was about to go public with the denied admissions.