Episode
Law & Order: Scoundrels
Overview
Among the suspects in a lawyer's murder are a swindler, who conned a woman out of her family fortune, and the woman's once-wealthy son.
Details
- Series
- Law & Order
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 9
- Air date
- 1994-11-30
- Runtime
- 47 min
Episode context
Scoundrels is Episode 9 in Season 5 of Law & Order. It aired on 1994-11-30. The runtime is 47 min.
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