Episode
Law & Order: Coming Down Hard
Overview
McCoy goes after the C.E.O. of a pharmaceutical company who knowingly commissioned further clinical trials on a drug to extend its patent protection yielding millions of dollars of profit without disclosing that previous clinical studies had demonstrated that the drug created a high risk of suicide in its users.
Details
- Series
- Law & Order
- Season
- Season 15
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 2004-10-06
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Coming Down Hard is Episode 4 in Season 15 of Law & Order. It aired on 2004-10-06. The runtime is 45 min.
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Episode 3: The Brotherhood
When a prison gang puts out a contract on a Sing Sing corrections officer and his family, assigning the job to a newly released ex-con, the terrified officer pleads preemptive self-defense after he's brought to trial for the parolee's murder. As the trial proceeds, the gang attempts to affect the outcome of the case by sending a death threat to the presiding judge, who refuses to be intimidated. Shortly after the conclusion of the trial, McCoy discovers that the defendant's fears about the power and the reach of the gang were well-placed.
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