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Season 5 Episode 21: Purple Heart

23 Seasons May 03, 1995 TV-14 1h 7.7

When the man who killed and robbed a cabbie turns up dead, detectives uncover a connection between the victim's wife, the killer, and the murder weapon.

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Season 5 Episodes:

Episode 1 Second Opinion

1. Second Opinion

Aired: Sep 21, 1994

Kincaid's new partner in the DA's office, Jack McCoy, pursues murder charges ...

Episode 2 Coma

2. Coma

Aired: Sep 28, 1994

Detectives and prosecutors believe that a smug comedy club owner shot his wif...

Episode 3 Blue Bamboo

3. Blue Bamboo

Aired: Oct 5, 1994

A singer claims Battered Woman Syndrome as an excuse for killing her former e...

Episode 4 Family Values

4. Family Values

Aired: Oct 12, 1994

During the investigation into a wealthy publisher's death, the victim's daugh...

Episode 5 White Rabbit

5. White Rabbit

Aired: Oct 19, 1994

A conservative suburban wife and mother turns out to be a fugitive student ra...

Episode 6 Competence

6. Competence

Aired: Nov 2, 1994

Van Buren kills an intellectually disabled, unarmed teenager at an ATM. She c...

Episode 7 Precious

7. Precious

Aired: Nov 9, 1994

A false kidnapping claim leads to the prosecution of a married couple after d...

Episode 8 Virtue

8. Virtue

Aired: Nov 23, 1994

McCoy charges a city councilman with "larceny by extortion," after a female c...

Episode 9 Scoundrels

9. Scoundrels

Aired: Nov 30, 1994

An attorney may have been killed for trying to further bilk people who have l...

Episode 10 House Counsel

10. House Counsel

Aired: Jan 4, 1995

Briscoe and Logan learn that the murder of an unassuming Parks Department acc...

Episode 11 Guardian

11. Guardian

Aired: Jan 11, 1995

A financial advisor is implicated in the drug overdose death of one of his cl...

Episode 12 Progeny

12. Progeny

Aired: Jan 25, 1995

The murder of an abortion doctor leads to the prosecution of a radical pro-li...

Episode 13 Rage

13. Rage

Aired: Feb 1, 1995

A smug African American stock broker who resents other people of his own race...

Episode 14 Performance

14. Performance

Aired: Feb 8, 1995

The discovery of a fake pornographic "snuff tape" leads detectives to a high ...

Episode 15 Seed

15. Seed

Aired: Feb 15, 1995

While investigating a fertility doctor for a separate case of fraud, McCoy an...

Episode 16 Wannabe

16. Wannabe

Aired: Mar 15, 1995

The murder of an admissions board member for a prestigious prep school is con...

Episode 17 Act of God

17. Act of God

Aired: Mar 22, 1995

Did a struggling contractor intentionally blow up the building he was working...

Episode 18 Privileged

18. Privileged

Aired: Apr 5, 1995

An alcoholic young man is accused of murdering a married couple in their bed ...

Episode 19 Cruel and Unusual

19. Cruel and Unusual

Aired: Apr 19, 1995

Evidence indicates that the death, in police custody, of an autistic teenager...

Episode 20 Bad Faith

20. Bad Faith

Aired: Apr 26, 1995

The investigation into a police officer's death uncovers 30-year-old accusati...

Episode 21 Purple Heart

21. Purple Heart

Aired: May 3, 1995

When the man who killed and robbed a cabbie turns up dead, detectives uncover...

Episode 22 Switch

22. Switch

Aired: May 17, 1995

A businessman is accused of killing the psychiatrist who diagnosed his daught...

Episode 23 Pride

23. Pride

Aired: May 24, 1995

A gay city councilman is murdered. The prime suspect is a conservative rival ...

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