Law & Order Season 3

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Season 3

Air date: 1992-09-22

Episodes: 22

Episodes

E1: Skin Deep

When a sleazy photographer is murdered, his models appear to be the most likely suspects.

Air date: 1992-09-23 • ★ 6.8

E2: Conspiracy

The assassination of an African-American leader leads to the arrest of a man whose ex-wife was suspected of having an affair with the victim.

Air date: 1992-09-30 • ★ 7.3

E3: Forgiveness

A priest-turned-lawyer uses race and class as the basis for his defense of a young Mexican man who murdered his wealthy girlfriend after she broke up with him.

Air date: 1992-10-07 • ★ 7.3

E4: The Corporate Veil

A teenager's fatal heart attack is traced to fraud and greed on the part of the manufacturer of his pacemaker and their supplier.

Air date: 1992-10-14 • ★ 8.1

E5: Wedded Bliss

The discovery of a young woman's body in the river leads to an investigation of illegal sweatshops and the enslavement of young immigrants.

Air date: 1992-10-21 • ★ 7.1

E6: Helpless

Dr. Olivet accuses her gynecologist of rape, but Stone finds his case in trouble when he discovers that Olivet tape-recorded the crime.

Air date: 1992-11-04 • ★ 8.6

E7: Self Defense

Cerreta and Stone find themselves on opposite sides of the fence when a storeowner kills two robbers and then claims self-defense as a justification.

Air date: 1992-11-11 • ★ 7.6

E8: Prince of Darkness

Cerreta poses as a weapons dealer to help Stone build a case against a Columbian hit man, but the deal takes an unexpected turn, resulting in bloodshed.

Air date: 1992-11-18 • ★ 7.8

E9: Point of View

Logan gets a new partner and Stone faces an old friend from law school as they investigate a woman's claim of self-defense in the shooting death of a small time hood.

Air date: 1992-11-25 • ★ 7.8

E10: Consultation

An engineer and a tribal chief become the chief suspects in the death of a Nigerian woman who died while smuggling heroin internally.

Air date: 1992-12-09 • ★ 7.6

E11: Extended Family

The apparent abduction of a little girl by her natural mother becomes complicated by charges of sexual molestation.

Air date: 1993-01-06 • ★ 7.7

E12: Right To Counsel

After Stone accepts a plea bargain from the much younger and poorer lover of a wealthy older woman found murdered in her apartment, he begins to have doubts that he has sent the right man to prison, especially as he learns more about the attorney who handled the woman's estate.

Air date: 1993-01-13 • ★ 7.4

E13: Night And Fog

The confession of an elderly man that he assisted his wife in committing suicide doesn't fully satisfy Stone when rumors surface that the man was once a Nazi collaborator.

Air date: 1993-02-03 • ★ 7.5

E14: Promises To Keep

The investigation into the murder of a young physician leads to the discovery of an unorthodox and illegal relationship between her fiance and his psychiatrist.

Air date: 1993-02-10 • ★ 7.5

E15: Mother Love

The absence of a murder weapon complicates the investigation into the murder of a drug addict who stole from her family to support her habit.

Air date: 1993-02-24 • ★ 7.8

E16: Jurisdiction

Stone battles the Brooklyn DA's office over prosecutorial jurisdiction in the case of a mentally handicapped man who confesses to the stabbing deaths of two women.

Air date: 1993-03-03 • ★ 7.6

E17: Conduct Unbecoming

Stone and the police battle the closed ranks of the Navy to investigate the death of a female Naval officer during a party in a Manhattan hotel.

Air date: 1993-03-10 • ★ 6.545

E18: Animal Instinct

The initial investigation into the death of a research scientist leads to an animal-rights group until evidence surfaces that her husband's affair with a coworker may point to a possible motive for the murder.

Air date: 1993-03-17 • ★ 7.9

E19: Virus

While investigating several deaths at a diabetes clinic, Briscoe and Logan discover that teenage computer hackers may have tampered with the clinic's medical database.

Air date: 1993-04-21 • ★ 7.6

E20: Securitate

When a Romanian immigrant kills, his lawyer announces he will plead his client "not guilty due to cultural insanity" claiming the man had been conditioned to violence in his homeland.

Air date: 1993-05-05 • ★ 7.2

E21: Manhood

The statement of a drug dealer who survived a shoot-out that killed a cop leads Logan and Briscoe to suspect that the cop died because he was gay and his fellow officers were reluctant to back him up.

Air date: 1993-05-12 • ★ 7.8

E22: Benevolence

Logan and Briscoe begin their investigation into the death of a hearing-impaired young woman by questioning her two most recent boyfriends.

Air date: 1993-05-19 • ★ 7.4