Law & Order season 19
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{{DISPLAYTITLE: Law & Order season 19}}
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| caption = Season 19 U.S. DVD cover
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| num_episodes = 22
| network = NBC
| first_aired = {{Start date|2008|11|5}}
| last_aired = {{End date|2009|6|3}}
| prev_season = Season 18
| next_season = Season 20
| episode_list = List of Law & Order episodes
}}
The nineteenth season of Law & Order premiered on NBC on November 5, 2008, and concluded on June 3, 2009. This was the show's third season in which there were no changes in the cast from the previous season, and it would be the last season to air on Wednesday nights at 10PM/9c, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit has claimed the slot off-and-on (SVU often placed at 9PM/8c to lead other programming that later gets moved or taken off schedule) from the fall of 2009 to present{{as of?|date=July 2023}}.
The series declined in the ratings due to competition from CBS's CSI: NY, although some episodes spiked when CSI: NY episodes were repeats (or replaced with other programming).
Cast
=Main cast=
{{Cast listing|
- Jeremy Sisto as Senior Detective Cyrus Lupo
- Anthony Anderson as Junior Detective Kevin Bernard
- S. Epatha Merkerson as Lieutenant Anita Van Buren
- Linus Roache as Executive Assistant District Attorney Michael Cutter
- Alana de la Garza as Assistant District Attorney Connie Rubirosa
- Sam Waterston as Interim District Attorney Jack McCoy
}}
=Recurring cast=
Episodes
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{{#invoke:Episode list|sublist|Law & Order season 19
|EpisodeNumber=412
|EpisodeNumber2=1
|Title=Rumble
|DirectedBy=Constantine Makris
|WrittenBy=Richard Sweren & Christopher Ambrose
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2008|11|5}}
|ProdCode=19003
|Viewers=7.94{{#invoke:cite|web|publisher=ABC Medianet|date=November 11, 2008|url=https://abcmedianet.com/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=111108_04|title=Weekly Program Rankings (Nov. 3-9)|work=ABC Medianet|access-date=October 17, 2023|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090530020836/http://www.abcmedianet.com/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=111108_04|archive-date=May 30, 2009}}
|ShortSummary=A stockbroker Todd Hauser is beaten to death and the investigation leads to an illegal street-fighting ring. Issues around misuse of terrorism statutes are explored.
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|EpisodeNumber=413
|EpisodeNumber2=2
|Title=Challenged
|DirectedBy=Fred Berner
|WrittenBy=René Balcer & Ed Zuckerman
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2008|11|12}}
|Viewers=7.93{{#invoke:cite|web|publisher=ABC Medianet|date=November 18, 2008|url=https://abcmedianet.com/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=111808_03|title=Weekly Program Rankings (Nov. 10-16)|work=ABC Medianet|access-date=October 17, 2023|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090529032200/http://www.abcmedianet.com/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=111808_03|archive-date=May 29, 2009}}
|ProdCode=19001
|ShortSummary=The detectives hope that a mentally challenged patient can help them solve the case of Rick Devon a man found murdered in a park, but the patient's family may be responsible for the crime.
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|EpisodeNumber=414
|EpisodeNumber2=3
|Title=Lost Boys
|DirectedBy=Christopher Zalla
|WrittenBy=Richard Sweren & Gina Gionfriddo
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2008|11|19}}
|ProdCode=19004
|Viewers=7.62{{#invoke:cite|web|publisher=ABC Medianet|date=November 25, 2008|url=https://abcmedianet.com/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=112508_05|title=Weekly Program Rankings (Nov. 17-23)|work=ABC Medianet|access-date=October 17, 2023|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090118060652/http://www.abcmedianet.com/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=112508_05|archive-date=January 18, 2009}}
|ShortSummary=A young man's murder is linked to a woman who has escaped from a polygamous religious cult.
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|EpisodeNumber=415
|EpisodeNumber2=4
|Title=Falling
|DirectedBy=Michael Watkins
|WrittenBy=Stephanie Sengupta & Keith Eisner
|ProdCode=19005
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2008|11|26}}
|ShortSummary=A crane falls and kills a man and the detectives find evidence of foul play.
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|EpisodeNumber=416
|EpisodeNumber2=5
|Title=Knock Off
|DirectedBy=Constantine Makris
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|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2008|12|3}}
|ProdCode=19006
|ShortSummary=A tourist Will Timmons is murdered and the detectives suspect that corrupt law enforcement officers from a small town are involved. Meanwhile, the governor threatens to nominate a new District Attorney for the upcoming election.
- Partially inspired by a New York Times report on untrained judges and abuses of justice in Upstate New York{{#invoke:cite|news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/nyregion/25courts.html|title=In Tiny Courts of N.Y., Abuses of Law and Power|author=William Glaberson|date=September 25, 2006|work=The New York Times|access-date=February 22, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222005814/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/nyregion/25courts.html|archive-date=February 22, 2017|url-status=live}}
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|EpisodeNumber=417
|EpisodeNumber2=6
|Title=Sweetie
|DirectedBy=Mario Van Peebles
|WrittenBy=Ed Zuckerman & Luke Schelhaas
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2008|12|10}}
|ProdCode=19007
|Viewers=7.51{{#invoke:cite|web|publisher=ABC Medianet|date=December 16, 2008|url=https://abcmedianet.com/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=121608_03|title=Weekly Program Rankings (Dec. 8-14)|work=ABC Medianet|access-date=October 17, 2023|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081218012807/http://www.abcmedianet.com/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=121608_03|archive-date=December 18, 2008}}
|ShortSummary=A well-known memoir writer who wrote a book about his early life as Dale Marx a male prostitute is found dead, but as the detectives investigate they discover that the book was based on the life of another person.
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|EpisodeNumber=418
|EpisodeNumber2=7
|Title=Zero
|DirectedBy=Marisol Torres
|WrittenBy=Ed Zuckerman & Luke Schelhaas
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2008|12|17}}
|ProdCode=19002
|ShortSummary=A woman's body is found in a city garden, leaving Bernard and Lupo to sort through her contradictory life and her ties to a cop's death in New Jersey. Then Cutter's case is jeopardized by a law clerk with a crush whose judge requires an unusual amount of assistance.
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|EpisodeNumber=419
|EpisodeNumber2=8
|Title=Chattel
|DirectedBy=Jim McKay
|WrittenBy=William N. Fordes & Matthew McGough
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|1|7}}
|ProdCode=19009
|Viewers=10.26{{#invoke:cite|web|publisher=ABC Medianet|date=January 13, 2009|url=https://abcmedianet.com/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=011309_04|title=Weekly Program Rankings (Jan. 5-11)|work=ABC Medianet|access-date=October 17, 2023|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329110315/http://www.abcmedianet.com/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=011309_04|archive-date=March 29, 2012}}
|ShortSummary=A pair of divorce lawyers Liz and Fred Bellamy are murdered in their home and the investigation leads to a possible cover-up involving the abuse of adopted Haitian children.
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|EpisodeNumber=420
|EpisodeNumber2=9
|Title=By Perjury
|DirectedBy=Darnell Martin
|WrittenBy=Richard Sweren & Christopher Ambrose
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|1|14}}
|ProdCode=19010
|Viewers=8.26{{#invoke:cite|web|publisher=ABC Medianet|date=January 21, 2009|url=http://www.abcmedianet.com/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=012109_07|title=Weekly Program Rankings (Jan. 12-18)|work=ABC Medianet|access-date=October 17, 2023|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090530015412/http://www.abcmedianet.com:80/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=012109_07|archive-date=May 30, 2009}}
|ShortSummary=A plaintiff in a class-action suit against an airline is murdered and the murder may have been committed by a lawyer linked to many other murders in the past.
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|EpisodeNumber=421
|EpisodeNumber2=10
|Title=Pledge
|DirectedBy=Alex Chapple
|WrittenBy=Richard Sweren & Gina Gionfriddo
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|1|21}}
|ProdCode=19008
|Viewers=8.27{{#invoke:cite|web|publisher=ABC Medianet|date=January 27, 2009|url=https://abcmedianet.com/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=012709_06|title=Weekly Program Rankings (Jan. 19-25)|work=ABC Medianet|access-date=October 17, 2023|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090131164202/http://www.abcmedianet.com/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=012709_06|archive-date=January 31, 2009}}
|ShortSummary= Harold Foley and his wife Joyce, both biologists at a local university, come home to find their son Eric (played by Timothée Chalamet in one of his first television roles) and their housekeeper Grazinya murdered. The case leads to a man obsessed with a certain sorority.
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|EpisodeNumber=422
|EpisodeNumber2=11
|Title=Lucky Stiff
|DirectedBy=Marc Levin
|WrittenBy=Ed Zuckerman & Matthew McGough
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|1|28}}
|ProdCode=19012
|Viewers=8.96{{#invoke:cite|web|publisher=ABC Medianet|date=February 3, 2009|url=https://abcmedianet.com/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=020309_06|title=Weekly Program Rankings (Jan. 26-Feb. 1)|work=ABC Medianet|access-date=October 17, 2023|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220093341/http://www.abcmedianet.com/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=020309_06|archive-date=February 20, 2009}}
|ShortSummary= A murdered truck driver has ties to the Russian mob.
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|EpisodeNumber=423
|EpisodeNumber2=12
|Title=Illegitimate
|DirectedBy=Josh Marston
|WrittenBy=Stephanie Sengupta & Keith Eisner
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|2|4}}
|ProdCode=19011
|Viewers=8.64{{#invoke:cite|web|publisher=ABC Medianet|date=February 10, 2009|url=http://abcmedianet.com/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=021009_05|title=Weekly Program Rankings (Feb. 2-8)|work=ABC Medianet|access-date=October 17, 2023|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220093346/http://abcmedianet.com:80/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=021009_05|archive-date=February 20, 2009}}
|ShortSummary=A police officer Scott Waylon who has been having financial problems takes hostages at gunpoint and is then killed by fellow officers. He has the keys to an apartment that is not his primary residence; detectives Lupo and Bernard search the apartment and find a dead body and valuable stolen documents that have been stolen by a man who needs them to prove that he is the illegitimate son of John F. Kennedy.
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|EpisodeNumber=424
|EpisodeNumber2=13
|Title=Crimebusters
|DirectedBy=Alex Chapple
|WrittenBy=Richard Sweren & Gina Gionfriddo
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|2|11}}
|ProdCode=19013
|Viewers=7.44{{#invoke:cite|web|publisher=ABC Medianet|date=February 18, 2009|url=http://abcmedianet.com/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=021809_04|title=Weekly Program Rankings (Feb. 9-15)|work=ABC Medianet|access-date=October 17, 2023|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140514230341/http://abcmedianet.com/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=021809_04|archive-date=May 14, 2014}}
|ShortSummary=After an Army recruitment center is bombed an unconscious woman and her dead baby who were sleeping at the place are found in the wreckage. The case gets even more complicated after a group of voluntary vigilantes interfere in the investigation and both of the prime suspects, including the baby's own mother, have equal motives for the crime.
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|EpisodeNumber=425
|EpisodeNumber2=14
|Title=Rapture
|DirectedBy=Fred Berner
|WrittenBy=Ed Zuckerman & Luke Schelhaas
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|2|18}}
|ProdCode=19014
|Viewers=7.23{{#invoke:cite|web|publisher=ABC Medianet|date=February 24, 2009|url=https://abcmedianet.com/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=022409_06|title=Weekly Program Rankings (Feb. 16-22)|work=ABC Medianet|access-date=October 17, 2023|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150311231348/http://www.abcmedianet.com/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=022409_06|archive-date=March 11, 2015}}
|ShortSummary=The creator of a religious website is murdered and the trail leads to a corrupt charitable organization who was stealing from his clients. When the detectives are ready to arrest him the suspect seeks asylum in the Embassy of Iran claiming to be victim of a Zionist conspiracy.
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|EpisodeNumber=426
|EpisodeNumber2=15
|Title=Bailout
|DirectedBy=Jean de Segonzac
|WrittenBy=Richard Sweren & Christopher Ambrose
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|3|11}}
|ProdCode=19015
|Viewers=7.64{{#invoke:cite|web|publisher=ABC Medianet|date=March 17, 2009|url=https://abcmedianet.com/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=031709_07|title=Weekly Program Rankings (Mar. 9-15)|work=ABC Medianet|access-date=October 17, 2023|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405084727/http://www.abcmedianet.com/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=031709_07|archive-date=April 5, 2012}}
|ShortSummary= The mistress of the CEO of a failed bank is killed in a hit-and-run and the investigation leads to a kidnapping and extortion plot.
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|EpisodeNumber=427
|EpisodeNumber2=16
|Title=Take-Out
|DirectedBy=Jim McKay
|WrittenBy=William N. Fordes & Keith Eisner
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|3|18}}
|ProdCode=19016
|Viewers=7.14{{#invoke:cite|web|publisher=ABC Medianet|date=March 24, 2009|url=https://abcmedianet.com/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=032409_04|title=Weekly Program Rankings (Mar. 16-22)|work=ABC Medianet|access-date=October 17, 2023|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120405084741/http://www.abcmedianet.com/web/dnr/dispDNR.aspx?id=032409_04|archive-date=April 5, 2012}}
|ShortSummary= A writer is murdered after investigating an espionage case involving the Chinese government that led to the imprisonment of a man many years ago.
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|EpisodeNumber=428
|EpisodeNumber2=17
|Title=Anchors Away
|DirectedBy=Alex Chapple
|WrittenBy=Ed Zuckerman & Matthew McGough
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|3|25}}
|ProdCode=19017
|ShortSummary= Detectives Lupo and Bernard investigate the murder of a television reporter who was involved in a love triangle with one of her co-workers.
- Partially inspired by the murder of Anne Pressly, the Madoff investment scandal, and the Larry Mendte scandal. Dawn, the name of the murder victim, is also the name of Mendte's wife.{{#invoke:cite|web|last=Glembocki |first=Vicki |url=http://www.phillymag.com/articles/dawns_dark_days/ |title=Dawn's Dark Days - Philadelphia Magazine |publisher=Phillymag.com |date=2008-12-22 |accessdate=2016-09-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120415174801/http://www.phillymag.com/articles/dawns_dark_days/ |archive-date=2012-04-15 |url-status=dead }}
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|EpisodeNumber=429
|EpisodeNumber2=18
|Title=Promote This!
|DirectedBy=Michael Watkins
|WrittenBy=Richard Sweren & Christopher Ambrose
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|4|29}}
|ProdCode=19019
|ShortSummary= The detectives investigate the vicious beating of an Hispanic illegal immigrant who may be linked to a series of other hate crimes.
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|EpisodeNumber=430
|EpisodeNumber2=19
|Title=All New
|DirectedBy=Roger Young
|WrittenBy=William N. Fordes & Keith Eisner
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|5|6}}
|ProdCode=19020
|ShortSummary= Firefighter Thomas Cooper and his wife Linda are tortured and murdered in their new townhouse. The murders are thought to be linked to an old unsolved drug case, but then the detectives learn about a firefighter named Nick Spence, who had just joined Cooper's company and was being severely hazed. The investigation suffers a setback when Spence dies in a fire under suspicious circumstances.
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|EpisodeNumber=431
|EpisodeNumber2=20
|Title=Exchange
|DirectedBy=Ernest Dickerson
|WrittenBy=Stephanie Sengupta
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|5|13}}
|ProdCode=19018
|ShortSummary= Two engaged scientists Colin and Geraldine die in a fire and their mentally challenged neighbor is injured while trying to help them. The detectives discover that the couple was stabbed before the fire and this leads them to a disturbed and extremely jealous woman.
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|EpisodeNumber=432
|EpisodeNumber2=21
|Title=Skate or Die
|DirectedBy=Norberto Barba
|WrittenBy=Ed Zuckerman & Luke Schelhaas
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|5|20}}
|ProdCode=19021
|ShortSummary= Detectives Lupo and Bernard investigate a serial killer who targets homeless men and discover that a copycat may be at work, but to arrest the murderers they need the testimony of a bipolar skater who is having a psychotic attack.
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|EpisodeNumber=433
|EpisodeNumber2=22
|Title=The Drowned and the Saved
|DirectedBy=Fred Berner
|WrittenBy=Richard Sweren & Gina Gionfriddo
|OriginalAirDate={{Start date|2009|6|3}}
|ProdCode=19022
|ShortSummary= A prominent charity executive is murdered and claims of stalking and blackmail surface during the investigation. The case then leads to Rita Shalvoy, the wife of governor Donald Shalvoy, and once again Jack McCoy must know if he is willing to prosecute his old friend.
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References
External links
- {{IMDb episodes|0098844||Season 19}}
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