Law & Order
Law & Order: Season 3

Air Date

September 23, 1992

Episodes

22 episodes

Law & Order

Season 3

Episodes

Skin Deep

1. Skin Deep

6.8
September 23, 1992
47 min

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

Conspiracy

2. Conspiracy

7.2
September 30, 1992
47 min

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.

Forgiveness

3. Forgiveness

7.0
October 7, 1992
47 min

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.

The Corporate Veil

4. The Corporate Veil

8.0
October 14, 1992
47 min

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

Wedded Bliss

5. Wedded Bliss

7.0
October 21, 1992
47 min

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

Helpless

6. Helpless

8.5
November 4, 1992
47 min

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

Self Defense

7. Self Defense

7.4
November 11, 1992
47 min

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.

Prince of Darkness

8. Prince of Darkness

7.6
November 18, 1992
47 min

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.

Point of View

9. Point of View

7.6
November 25, 1992
47 min

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.

Consultation

10. Consultation

7.5
December 9, 1992
47 min

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

Extended Family

11. Extended Family

7.6
January 6, 1993
47 min

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

Right To Counsel

12. Right To Counsel

7.2
January 13, 1993
47 min

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.

Night And Fog

13. Night And Fog

7.3
February 3, 1993
47 min

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.

Promises To Keep

14. Promises To Keep

7.4
February 10, 1993
47 min

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.

Mother Love

15. Mother Love

7.6
February 24, 1993
47 min

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.

Jurisdiction

16. Jurisdiction

7.6
March 3, 1993
47 min

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.

Conduct Unbecoming

17. Conduct Unbecoming

7.0
March 10, 1993
46 min

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.

Animal Instinct

18. Animal Instinct

7.9
March 17, 1993
47 min

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.

Virus

19. Virus

7.4
April 21, 1993
47 min

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.

Securitate

20. Securitate

7.1
May 5, 1993
47 min

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.

Manhood

21. Manhood

7.7
May 12, 1993
47 min

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.

Benevolence

22. Benevolence

7.1
May 19, 1993
47 min

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