Season 7, Episode 5

Corruption

8/ 10October 30, 199647 min

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.

Directed by
Matthew Penn
Written by
René Balcer, Gardner Stern

Guest stars

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  1. S7 E1

    Causa Mortis

    Sep 18, 19967.947 min

    McCoy's new second chair, ADA Jamie Ross, is determined to prosecute as harshly as possible a carjacker who took the life of a teacher as she pleaded for her life on an audio tape discovered at the crime scene.

  2. S7 E2

    I.D.

    Sep 25, 19967.947 min

    The cops tackle identifying a corpse left in an elevator, and McCoy finds his prosecution of the suspect later hampered by a vindictive judge who resents Ross's in-court rebuke for sexual harassment.

  3. S7 E3

    Good Girl

    Oct 2, 19967.447 min

    Briscoe and Curtis have to break the mutual alibi of two girlfriends as they try to find the killer of a young black man, whose angry parents pressure McCoy to indict a young woman who claims the victim had raped her.

  4. S7 E4

    Survivor

    Oct 23, 19968.247 min

    Briscoe and Curtis's investigation of the murder of a rare coin dealer nets them a millionaire as a suspect, but Ross has to play detective too as the DA's office tries to establish a provenance for the missing coin collection.

  5. S7 E6

    Double Blind

    Nov 6, 19967.847 min

    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.

  6. S7 E7

    Deadbeat

    Nov 13, 19967.447 min

    The murder of a deadbeat father whose son is dying of leukemia presents McCoy and Ross with a sympathetic suspect and a moral dilemma.