Episode
Law & Order: Choice of Evils
Overview
After the body of a teenage boy is found dead in a warehouse, detectives use DNA to connect the boy to a convicted rapist and serial killer, then to the boy's mother, Allison Ashburn, the convict's ex-wife. While trying to solve Danny's murder, Fontana and Green learn that he recently got his girlfriend Tina pregnant, and his mother had seen him recently when she had given him money despite having claimed she hadn't seen him for months. Allison finally admits that she murdered her son after the police arrest her new husband John, but claims she did it to save the world from her son, whom she was convinced would become a monster just like her father. Borgia and McCoy face an uphill battle trying to convict the perfect soccer mom.
Details
- Series
- Law & Order
- Season
- Season 16
- Episode
- Episode 15
- Air date
- 2006-03-01
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Choice of Evils is Episode 15 in Season 16 of Law & Order. It aired on 2006-03-01. The runtime is 45 min.
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The case against a high powered executive accused of killing her lover rests on the executive's estranged husband and unstable teenage daughter.
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