Episode
Law & Order: Burden
Overview
After a 12-year-old quadriplegic dies at home in his bed, paramedics claim that he was suffocated and the suspects include the boy's parents and sister.
Details
- Series
- Law & Order
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 20
- Air date
- 1998-04-24
- Runtime
- 47 min
Episode context
Burden is Episode 20 in Season 8 of Law & Order. It aired on 1998-04-24. The runtime is 47 min.
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Episode 19: Disappeared
A defendant refuses to allow his lawyer to raise the issue of insanity, this complicating matters for the brother who turned him in with hopes of securing medical treatment for him.
Episode 21: Bad Girl
Schiff's re-election may hinge on the stabbing death of a police officer; Briscoe's daughter is arrested for dealing drugs.
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Episode 18: Stalker
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Episode 22: Damaged
The case of a teacher's shooting uncovers a vendetta involving the rape of a mentally challenged coed by three students, whose attorney claims they weren't aware of her condition.
Episode 17: Carrier
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Episode 23: Tabloid
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Episode 16: Divorce
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Episode 24: Monster
During the search for a pedophile who raped a 10-year-old, a snitch offers Briscoe a chance to avenge his daughter's death. Meanwhile, Van Buren learns that her job is in jeopardy; McCoy is ordered to appear before a disciplinary committee because of his conduct in a DUI case; and the increasingly political Schiff worries that the rape case may adversely impact his reelection bid.
Episode 15: Faccia a Faccia
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Episode 14: Grief
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Episode 13: Castoff
The street murder of a woman who worked with underprivileged kids takes a turn towards the bizarre when the detectives uncover she had a predilection for kinky sex, and that one of her current partners appears to be a serial killer, who offers an overexposure to television violence as his defense during his trial.
Episode 12: Expert
The shooting of two people in a restaurant restroom takes some abrupt turns as they try to discover who exactly the intended victim was, and the prosecutors have to deal with a defendant claiming to have been in a dissociative state while committing the crime-- the same defense used years before by the defendant's father.