Episode
Law & Order: Family Friend
Overview
After Philip and Valerie Messick are attacked in their home, Green and Fontana follow the trail to a small-time thug named Jay Fleckner. After Valerie's testimony unintentionally helps free Fleckner, he is found dead, and detectives soon realise that Bob Cerullo, a family friend of Valerie and her late husband, was the triggerman. Unfortunately, when McCoy attempts to prosecute Cerullo, a retired cop, he threatens to claim that he deliberately planted evidence in his past cases in an attempt to get McCoy to drop all the charges.
Details
- Series
- Law & Order
- Season
- Season 16
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 2006-01-11
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Family Friend is Episode 12 in Season 16 of Law & Order. It aired on 2006-01-11. The runtime is 45 min.
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