Episode
Law & Order: Embedded
Overview
After a reporter accused of causing the deaths of soldiers with whom he was embedded in Iraq by reporting on their troop movements is shot and wounded on the eve of his return to the front, the ballistics report indicates that the gun belonged to one of the dead soldiers, leading the detectives to uncover who brought the gun back from the front and committed the crime.
Details
- Series
- Law & Order
- Season
- Season 14
- Episode
- Episode 8
- Air date
- 2003-11-19
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Embedded is Episode 8 in Season 14 of Law & Order. It aired on 2003-11-19. The runtime is 45 min.
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