Episode
Law & Order: American Dream
Overview
A skeleton unearthed at a building site resurrects one of Stone's old cases, and brings him face to face with the tenacious, brilliant culprit, who is seeking a new trial.
Details
- Series
- Law & Order
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 8
- Air date
- 1993-11-09
- Runtime
- 47 min
Episode context
American Dream is Episode 8 in Season 4 of Law & Order. It aired on 1993-11-09. The runtime is 47 min.
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A lawyer decides to defend her teenage client charged with murder as an adult with the claim that he's violent because of a genetic predisposition due to an extra Y chromosome.
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Episode 11: Golden Years
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Episode 12: Snatched
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Episode 13: Breeder
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Episode 2: Volunteers
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Episode 14: Censure
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