Episode
Law & Order: Veteran's Day
Overview
A decorated Gulf War veteran grief-stricken over the Afghanistan combat death of his son murders an anti-war protester, claiming at trial that he acted under extreme emotional distress.
Details
- Series
- Law & Order
- Season
- Season 14
- Episode
- Episode 15
- Air date
- 2004-02-18
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Veteran's Day is Episode 15 in Season 14 of Law & Order. It aired on 2004-02-18. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 14: City Hall
A city employee's clerical error sets in motion a chain of events which culminates in a fatal shooting at City Hall and a secret Federal court proceeding with sinister implications.
Episode 16: Can I Get a Witness?
McCoy faces an uphill battle in proving that witnesses to the murder of a drug mule were bribed, intimidated, and eventually murdered on the orders of the drug dealer accused of the crime.
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Episode 17: Hands Free
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Episode 12: Payback
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Episode 18: Evil Breeds
When a Holocaust survivor is murdered on the eve of her testimony in the deportation trial of a former concentration camp guard, McCoy prosecutes the man and the Neo-Nazi sympathizer who's running a fundraising web site for him, and must debunk a Holocaust denial defense which claims that the millions of deaths resulted from disease, pestilence and wartime conditions.
Episode 11: Darwinian
The apparent hit-and-run of a homeless man send the detectives on a search for the driver, a high profile female publicist, which fuels the fire for the prosecutors to obtain a murder conviction. Forensic evidence given during the trial reveal that the victim was severely beaten before being hit by the car which leads to a suspect within the homeless community.
Episode 19: Nowhere Man
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Episode 10: Ill-Conceived
The owner of a clothing company with alien immigrant workers is found murdered which sends the detectives on a search for an unidentified evening caller whose girlfriend, also a worker in the factory, recently gave birth. Upon discovery that the victim was also the baby's father, the boyfriend is arrested with the motive being an office affair until the victim's widow discloses that it was a surrogate arrangement.
Episode 20: Everybody Loves Raimondo's
Greed, treachery and disrespect shape the motives for murder when two men are gunned down at an exclusive restaurant.
Episode 9: Compassion
When a con man passing himself off as a grief counselor is poisoned by a respected doctor he victimized, McCoy must determine whether revenge or insanity prompted the crime.
Episode 21: Vendetta
The investigation into a bar room brawl fatality reveals a detective's decades-old vendetta against a petty criminal turned murderer who was falsely accused of one murder after evading conviction on another.