The WORST episodes of Law & Order: UK
Every episode of Law & Order: UK ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Law & Order: UK!
The longest running crime series in U.S. television history is making its way across the pond for a UK reworking. Series creator Dick Wolf is set to give Law & Order a makeover-for fans in the UK. Law & Order: UK promises to retain the grittiness of the original series, but be uniquely British.
#1 - Vice
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/9/2009
An ex-vice officer is found beaten to death in a Paddington underpass. Investigating, DSs Ronnie Brooks and Matt Devlin uncover some uncomfortable truths about the victim's private life. In court, Crown Prosecutors James Steel and Alesha Phillips face an old sparring partner of their boss, whose client claims to have acted in self-defence.
#2 - Care
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/23/2009
When a London hospital is evacuated it leads to the discovery of a tragic death. DS Ronnie Brooks and DS Matt Devlin are assigned to the case and it leads them to the Kings Cross area of London.
#3 - Alesha
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/6/2009
DSs Brooks and Devlin investigate allegations of sexual assault made against a Harley Street gynaecologist by one of his patients. They find no conclusive evidence, but Alesha Phillips of the CPS is determined to secure a case against the doctor.
#4 - Unloved
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/2/2009
A 13-year-old boy is found kicked to death at Euston rail station. DS Ronnie Brooks and DS Matt Devlin discover that the boy's mother is a reformed drug-addict whose boyfriend is suspected of physically abusing her son, and are concerned about events at the boy's foster home. When the case comes to trial, the accused is represented by James Steel's ex-girlfriend, who advances the novel line of defence that the accused was genetically predisposed towards murder.
#5 - Unsafe
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/16/2009
The discovery of a body in a shallow grave by the Thames prompts DSs Ronnie Brooks and Matt Devlin to reopen an eight-year-old murder case. The man convicted of that murder is given leave to appeal and chooses to represent himself in court. James Steel, who prosecuted at the original trial, once again represents the Crown. With questions over the handling of the prosecution case, James's career is on the line. And the murders are not yet over.
#6 - Buried
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/23/2009
The remains of an eight-year-old boy are uncovered, twenty-five years after he was reported missing. DSs Brooks and Devlin re-interview the man arrested during the original enquiry. The boy's childhood friend reluctantly agrees to undergo EMDR therapy and appears to recall the events of the night that Tommy disappeared, but George Castle is sceptical about the value of her recovered memories.
#7 - Paradise
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/30/2009
DSs Brooks and Devlin investigate an arson attack on a Turkish social club, which left seventeen dead. A complex investigation leads to the arsonist, but there is doubt as to whether he was working alone.
#8 - Samaritan
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/11/2010
A police officer is killed in a shoot out with a drug dealer. Based on the testimony of another dealer, Brooks and Devlin must determine whether back up was slow to arrive and left the officer to die because he was gay.
#9 - Hidden
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/18/2010
Devlin and Brooks investigate the case of a 10 year-old girl, Jodie Gaines, who was kidnapped, and then found two weeks later dead, in a rubbish bin. A suspect is found but all is not as it seems.
#10 - Community Service
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/25/2010
A homeless man is found beaten and unconscious in a park. Because he is bipolar his testimony is disjointed and make him unable to identify his attacked. A neighbourhood resident is charged with the premeditated attack.
#11 - Love & Loss
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/8/2010
When a teenage girl dies of a heroin overdose. Devlin and Brooks must find out how and why she came to be a drug mule.
#12 - Honour Bound
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/15/2010
A drug sting apparently goes bad resulting in the death of an informant. Devlin feeling something was not right about the situation digs into the past of the involved detective. Unfortunately this brings up a question of Brooks involvement in a drug theft from six years earlier.
#13 - Hounded
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/2010
When the body of a 16 year old girl is found dead in her home in the middle of the afternoon, the investigating police cannot be sure a crime was even committed. With no forensic evidence and nothing to suggest the victim didn't die of natural causes, Matt and Ronnie question why they have been called out in the first place. However, the mother's victim believes she was raped because she never slept naked. On further investigation, an unlikely murder weapon is uncovered and a likely suspect - someone with whom Crown Prosecutor James Steel has a history. Determined the accused is guilty, James pursues him with every power available. Like a man possessed, he pushes the boundaries of the law to the legal limit. Is our hero persecuting an innocent man or justified in his convictions?
#14 - Confession
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/2010
This week's case hits close to home for DS Matt Devlin when investigating the death of a police officer, and his best friend, PS Pete Garvey. Devlin and Garvey had known each other since childhood and when Matt discovers Pete had recently been in contact with their childhood parish priest Jonathan Nugent (Matthew Marsh), his suspicions are alerted as Pete claimed to have been sexually abused by him as a child. With nothing but suspicions and unfounded rumours to go on, a murder charge cannot be brought against Nugent. Now a married man with a family of his own, can Matt really be sure they've got the right man? James and Alesha take an unusual approach in order to bring a charge - any charge - against the accused in a desperate attempt to get the case home.
#15 - Shaken
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/4/2011
When Alex Raines, a 6-month-old child, dies, it first seems that it was an instance of cot death. However, the investigation reveals that her death was due to shaken-baby syndrome.
#16 - Immune
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/13/2012
A bungled robbery leads to an innocent hero being shot dead and a hostage with a potentially life threatening medical condition being seized by two armed gunmen. It's up to Ronnie and Sam to beat the clock and find the hostage in just ten hours.
#17 - Sacrifice
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/1/2010
A man found in a park, with his kidney stolen. It seems a respected doctor is involved. George Castle defends a friend in the case.
#18 - The Wrong Man
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/10/2011
Brought into A&E with flu-like symptoms and leaving in a body bag, Suzanne Morton’s death is treated as suspicious by DS Ronnie Brooks and DS Matt Devlin as they investigate a hospital department which has had three such untimely deaths within six months. With an extremely busy A&E ward the night Suzanne died, can our heroes find the killer before the killer finds their next victim? Senior Crown Prosecutor, Jake Thorne is pulled in opposite directions when the chief suspect in the case claims to have been framed for the murder by others within his department. With a conspiracy of silence permeating the hospital staff, it’s clear that there’s more to this case than meets the eye and only by penetrating the web of professional loyalties can the truth emerge
#19 - Denial
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/14/2011
A judge is badly injured when she is shot during what appears to be a car robbery. The investigation reveals that a hitman had been hired to kill her.
#20 - Trial
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/27/2012
The murder of an elderly janitor in his home is carried out with such precision and planning that the only evidence the killer leaves is designed to lead the detectives around in circles.
#21 - Haunted
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/2012
When a petty criminal makes a deathbed confession to the murder of a teenage girl, Ronnie is left shaken to the core as he is forced to reopen a case he thought he had put to bed fourteen years ago.
#22 - ID
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/21/2011
The case starts with the murder of a doctor in the car park of the hospital where she works. What initially seems like a crime of passion soon unravels into a conspiracy involving senior government officials. Risking their careers, James and Alesha must get to the bottom of this case before another life is destroyed.
#23 - Help
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/7/2011
The police investigate the murder of a former professional footballer, Robert Nichols, who is found lying beside his car bludgeoned to death. He was on his way to meet his sister and was apparently replacing a flat tire when the attack occurred. The only thing taken was his very expensive watch. They manage to trace a passerby, Mike Jones, who initially denies having seen anything but eventually admits he was helping Nichols fix his flat. The police are naturally suspicious and believe Jones may have been the perpetrator. In checking into Nichols's background however, they learn he was a big-time gambler and owed well-known mobster Don Marsh a quarter of a million pounds. Jones obviously has good reason to lie since he saw who killed Nichols but the mobster has made it clear that his life is in danger if he testifies.
#24 - Pride
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/2/2014
The hunt for the killer of a seemingly innocent family man brings Ronnie into contact with his old boss, former DI Natalie Chandler, whose father is accused of the crime. She wastes no time in persuading the detective to go above and beyond the call of duty to exonerate her dad and find the real culprit - even if that means getting him into trouble with an increasingly frustrated Wes.
#25 - Safe From Harm
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/19/2014
While investigating the fatal stabbing of a psychiatrist with a caseload of violent adolescent patients, Ronnie and Joe's first instinct is to question those he was treating. However, the case takes a disturbing turn when the detectives discover a hidden sleeping compartment in the victim's office which has clearly been used recently by one of his underage visitors - and evidence comes to light suggesting he may have been having an affair with one of them.