Episode
Law & Order: Double Blind
Overview
The murder of a janitor in a university laboratory building leads back to a student employee whose participation in a drug study may have prompted the crime.
Details
- Series
- Law & Order
- Season
- Season 7
- Episode
- Episode 6
- Air date
- 1996-11-06
- Runtime
- 47 min
Episode context
Double Blind is Episode 6 in Season 7 of Law & Order. It aired on 1996-11-06. The runtime is 47 min.
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Curtis, angered by the attitude of an old colleague of Briscoe's, looks beyond the findings of an IAB investigation and turns up evidence of police corruption that puts the DA's office into competition with an ambitious judge and Briscoe under investigation for stealing evidence from a police lockup.
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