History NightmareFuel / LawandOrder

* "Prince of Darkness" (ep. 3-8): The good guys behave in their usual competent, imaginative and dogged way... and are nevertheless completely out-thought, outflanked, misdirected, and defeated by the ruthlessness and efficiency of the Colombian drug cartel. Not only does the hour involve a brazen double murder, a gun-buy that ends with a shot cop, and a VigilanteExecution, but, at the end, Adam receives a phone call informing him that ''[[EverybodysDeadDave nearly every single witness involved with the case is dead]]''. One of the most crushing [[DownerEnding Downer Endings]] of the series, and frightening to see our heroes so thoroughly bested through no carelessness or error of their own.

** Also, the people against him aren't as clean. Green becomes a lot more brutal with people harboring the fugitive, slamming people against cars and walls, and even threatening to put a woman's son in foster care. The lawyer of [[spoiler: the man who shot him]] plays with the man's life (getting him charged with murder instead of manslaughter to make the state look bad) to propel her career, and [[spoiler: aiding in the murder]].

--> ''(Schiff's eyes widen in horror at the realization that she's dead too)''.

--> ''(Schiff's eyes widen)''.

* "Prince of Darkness" (ep. 3-8): The good guys behave in their usual competent, imaginative and dogged way... and are nevertheless completely out-thought, outflanked, misdirected, and defeated by the ruthlessness and efficiency of the Colombian drug cartel. Not only does the hour involve a brazen double murder, a gun-buy that ends with a shot cop, and a VigilanteExecution, but, at the end, Adam receives a phone call informing him that ''[[EverybodysDeadDave every single witness involved with the case is dead]]''. One of the most crushing [[DownerEnding Downer Endings]] of the series, and frightening to see our heroes so thoroughly bested through no carelessness or error of their own.

--> ''(Schiff's eyes widen in horror as he realizes that she's dead too)''.

* "Hubris" (ep. 9): A jewelry store robber executes four people in the store, including a young child. A store security camera video shows him dragging the victims off to the back room to their deaths.[[spoiler: He gets a hung jury and probably won't be retried.]] [[spoiler: Granted that's because he's dead, but still it's crazy to think he could have gotten away with it.]]

** Even worse, the investigation reveals that he murdered his fiancée several years ago. Throughout the entire episode, he never acts like anything but your typical sweet, cute, innocent and charming boy next door. It's chilling to think that a complete psychopath could be lurking under such a "nice guy" facade.

* "Agony" (ep. 5): A serial killer, who committed at least six torture-murders in New York, and probably more (including other states), confesses to Abbie.
--> '''Killer''': I cut her. And she screamed. I burned her and she screamed louder. I pushed my fist into her and she passed out. I made her say she admired me. I had total control. Total.

** The absolute worst part?
--> '''Robinette''': What about the little girl? (The daughter of the couple killed in the opening)
--> '''Schiff''': [[HopeSpot She was picked up from school by her uncle]].
--> '''Stone''': [[WhamLine She doesn't have an uncle]].
--> ''Schiff's eyes widen in horror as he realizes that she's dead too''.

[[folder: Season 9]]
* "Agony" (ep. 5): A serial killer, who committed at least six torture-murders in New York, and probably more (including other states), confesses to Abbie.
--> '''Killer''': I cut her. And she screamed. I burned her and she screamed louder. I pushed my fist into her and she passed out. I made her say she admired me. I had total control. Total.

[[folder: Season 10]]
* "Stiff" (ep. 23): The [[VictimOfTheWeek victim]] is in an irreversible [[AndIMustScream waking coma]] (put there by spiked insulin). The episode ends with the doctors' Hail Mary attempt at reviving her failing. The clear implication is that she'll be like that for the rest of her life.

[[folder: Season 11]]
* "Hubris" (ep. 9): A jewelry store robber executes four people in the store, including a young child. A store security camera video shows him dragging the victims off to the back room to their deaths.[[spoiler: He gets a hung jury and probably won't be retried.]] [[spoiler: Granted that's because he's dead, but still it's crazy to think he could have gotten away with it.]]

[[folder: Season 14]]
* "Blaze" (ep. 5): The episode begins innocently at a rock concert inside of a club. One moment, two patrons are in the restroom griping about everyday life and worrying about missing what they think is the beginning of the performance, and, the next, the door swings open to reveal a wall of fire and people screaming and piling in the room trying to escape the flames. Even worse, as they try to get out through the only available window, they discover ''bars and a metal screen'' are attached to it. Twenty-three people die, and we see the bodies being laid on the sidewalk in various stages of burns and even some only ''partially'' being covered. Also, a witness [[spoiler: and the person who caused the fire to happen]] explains to the detectives that when trying to escape that she grabbed a girl's wrist to try to help pull her to safety [[{{Squick}} only for the poor girl's flesh to come off in her hand.]]

* "Prince of Darkness" (ep. 3-8): The good guys behave in their usual competent, imaginative and dogged way... and are nevertheless completely out-thought, outflanked, misdirected, and defeated by the ruthlessness and efficiency of the Colombian drug cartel. Not only does the hour involve a brazen double murder, a gun-buy that ends with a shot cop, and a VigilanteExecution, but, at the end, Adam receives a phone call informing him that ''[[EverybodysDeadDave every single witness involved with the case is dead]]''. One of the most crushing [[DownerEnding Downer Endings]] of the series, and frightening to see our heroes so thoroughly bested through no carelessness or error of their own. The absolute worst part is the brief HopeSpot when Adam mentions that the little girl (the daughter of the people killed in the opening) is safe, as she was picked up from school by her uncle. Only for Ben Stone to reveal that she "[[WhamLine doesn't have an uncle]]". Cue the MassOhCrap as they realize that she's dead too. Even from ''Schiff'', who usually is stoic/grumpy about things.

* "Blaze" (ep. 5): The episode begins innocently at a rock concert inside of a club. One moment, two patrons are in the restroom griping about everyday life and worrying about missing what they think is the beginning of the performance, and, the next, the door swings open to reveal a wall of fire and people screaming and piling in the room trying to escape the flames. Even worse, as they try to get out through the only available window, they discover ''bars and a metal screen'' are attached to it. Twenty-three people die, and we see the bodies being laid on the sidewalk in various stages of burns and even some only ''partially'' being covered.

** Also, the people against him aren't as clean. Greene becomes a lot more brutal with people harboring the fugitive, slamming people against cars and walls, and even threatening to put a woman's son in foster care. The lawyer of [[spoiler: the man who shot him]] plays with the man's life (getting him charged with murder instead of manslaughter to make the state look bad) to propel her career, and [[spoiler: aiding in the murder]].

** Also, the people against him aren't as clean. Greene becomes a lot more brutal with people harboring the fugitive, slamming people against cars and walls, and even threatening to put a woman's son in foster care. The lawyer of [[spoiler: the man who shot him]] plays with the man's life (getting him charged with murder instead of manslaughter to make the state look bad) to propel her career, and [[spoiler: aiding in the murder]].

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* "Indifference" (ep. 1-9): Easily the creepiest episode of the series. It is so obviously inspired by the Lisa Steinberg case that it concludes with a long disclaimer both displayed and spoken about how the real case differed from the story just shown. It is easily the creepiest moment of the entire series considering they used the same title sequence narrator, reading white text on a pure black background to tell the audience that the horrific case and the depraved criminals involved have some basis in real life. The fact that such sickos exist to make their children living in virtual hell for all their short, terrified and miserable lives in North America behind respectable doors will shake your soul to the ground.
* "Mushrooms" (ep 1-17): Responding to a shooting in the projects, Logan and Greevey are going about their usual banter, going back and forth on basketball. All chit chat comes to a halt when they see that this crime scene is particularly horrible - an infant swing is just behind the bullet riddled door, splattered with blood.

* "Heaven" (ep. 2-10): The usual "finding the body/ gunshots down the street" opening is a '''much''' more íntense scene this time, as fifty-three people die in a nightclub fire. Two passersby walk right by the building, hear faint voices screaming and pounding... and only when an upstairs window breaks can the full shrieks and cries of the victims be heard as smoke pours out of the building. The FDNY responds as ''we continue to listen to the patrons on the other side of the wall die''. By the time the beginning credits roll, the first twenty corpses are already lined up on the sidewalk, and [[HeroicBSOD Logan and Ceretta are both horrified]] at the sight.

* "Prince of Darkness" (ep. 3-8): The good guys behave in their usual competent, imaginative and dogged way... and are nevertheless completely out-thought, outflanked, misdirected, and defeated by the ruthlessness and efficiency of the Colombian drug cartel. Not only does the hour involve a brazen double murder, a gun-buy that ends with a shot cop, and a VigilanteExecution, but, at the end, Adam receives a phone call informing him that ''[[EverybodysDeadDave every single witness involved with the case is dead]]''. One of the most crushing [[DownerEnding Downer Endings]] of the series, and frightening to see our heroes so thoroughly bested through no carelessness or error of their own.
** The absolute worst part is the brief HopeSpot when Adam mentions that the little girl (the daughter of the people killed in the opening) is safe, as she was picked up from school by her uncle.
--> '''Ben Stone''': ''[[WhamLine She doesn't have an uncle]].''
** Cue the MassOhCrap as they realize that she's dead too. Even from ''Schiff'', who usually is stoic/grumpy about things.

* "Agony" (ep. 9-5): A serial killer, who committed at least six torture-murders in New York, and probably more (including other states), confesses to Abbie.

* "Stiff" (ep 10-23): The [[VictimOfTheWeek victim]] is in an irreversible [[AndIMustScream waking coma]] (put there by spiked insulin). The episode ends with the doctors' Hail Mary attempt at reviving her failing. The clear implication is that she'll be like that for the rest of her life.

* "Hubris" (ep. 11-9): A jewelry store robber executes four people in the store, including a young child. A store security camera video shows him dragging the victims off to the back room to their deaths.[[spoiler: He gets a hung jury and probably won't be retried.]] [[spoiler: Granted that's because he's dead, but still it's crazy to think he could have gotten away with it.]]

* "Blaze" (ep. 14-5): The episode begins innocently at a rock concert inside of a club. One moment, two patrons are in the restroom griping about everyday life and worrying about missing what they think is the beginning of the performance, and, the next, the door swings open to reveal a wall of fire and people screaming and piling in the room trying to escape the flames. Even worse, as they try to get out through the only available window, they discover ''bars and a metal screen'' are attached to it. Twenty-three people die, and we see the bodies being laid on the sidewalk in various stages of burns and even some only ''partially'' being covered.

* "Hubris" (ep. 11-9): A jewelry store robber executes four people in the store, including a young child. A store security camera video shows him dragging the victims off to the back room to their deaths.[[spoiler: He gets a hung jury and probably won't be retried.]] [[spoiler: Granted that's because he's dead, but still it's crazy to think he could have gotten away with it.]]

* "Blaze" (ep. 14-5): The episode begins innocently at a rock concert inside of a club. One moment, two patrons are in the restroom griping about everyday life and worrying about missing what they think is the beginning of the performance, and, the next, the door swings open to reveal a wall of fire and people screaming and piling in the room trying to escape the flames. Even worse, as they try to get out through the only available window, they discover ''bars and a metal screen'' are attached to it. Twenty-three people die, and we see the bodies being laid on the sidewalk in various stages of burns and even some only ''partially'' being covered.

* "Hubris" (ep. 11-9): A jewelry store robber executes four people in the store, including a young child. A store security camera video shows him dragging the victims off to the back room to their deaths.[[spoiler: He gets a hung jury and probably won't be retried.]]

* "Indifference" (ep. 1-9): Easily the creepiest episode of the series.

* "Indifference." (ep. 1-9) Easily the creepiest episode of the series.
* "Mushrooms" (ep 1-17) Responding to a shooting in the projects, Logan and Greevey are going about their usual banter, going back and forth on basketball. All chit chat comes to a halt when they see that this crime scene is particularly horrible- a infant swing is just behind the bullet riddled door, splattered with blood.
* "Heaven" (ep. 2-10) The usual "finding the body/ gunshots down the street" opening is a '''much''' more íntense scene this time, as 53 people die in a nightclub fire. Two passersby walk right by the building, hear faint voices screaming and pounding ... and only when an upstairs window breaks can the full shrieks and cries of the victims be heard as smoke pours out of the building. The FDNY responds as '' we continue to listen to the patrons on the other side of the wall die''. By the time beginning credits roll, the first twenty corpses are already lined up on the sidewalk, and [[HeroicBSOD Logan and Ceretta are both horrified]] at the sight.
** A similar episode, "Blaze" (ep. 14-5), began innocently at a rock concert inside of a club. One moment, two patrons are in the restroom griping about everyday life and worrying about missing what they think is the beginning of the performance and the next, the door swings open to reveal a wall of fire and people screaming and piling in the room trying to escape the flames. Even worse, as they try to get out through the only available window, they discover ''bars and a metal screen'' are attached to it. In the end, 23 people had died and we see the bodies being laid on the sidewalk in various stages of burns and even some only ''partially'' being covered up. As Briscoe and Green assess the carnage, another officer makes a comment of it just being "another Saturday night", which causes Briscoe to quip back in disgust "Yeah, in Tel-Aviv".
* "Prince of Darkness" (ep. 3-8) The good guys behave in their usual competent, imaginative and dogged way ... and are nevertheless completely out-thought, outflanked, misdirected and defeated by the ruthlessness and efficiency of the Colombian drug cartel. Not only does the hour involve a brazen double murder, a gun buy that ends with a shot cop, and a VigilanteExecution, but at the end Adam receives a phone call informing him that '' [[EverybodysDeadDave every single witness involved with the case is dead .]] '' One of the most crushing [[DownerEnding Downer Endings]] of the series, and frightening to see our heroes so thoroughly bested through no carelessness or error of their own.

--> '''Ben Stone''': ''She doesn't have an uncle.''

* A serial killer, who committed at least six torture-murders in New York, and probably more (including in other states) confesses to Abbie in "Agony" (ep. 9-5).

* "Hubris" (ep. 11-9) involved a jewelry store robber executing four people in the store, including a young child. A store security camera video showed him dragging the victims off to the back room to their deaths. The fact that [[spoiler: he got a hung jury and probably wasn't going to be retried]] added an extra element of nightmare fuel to an already horrific story. [[spoiler: Of course, L&O is fond of {{Karmic Death}}s, so...]]
* "Stiff" (ep 10-23): The Victim of the Week is in an irreversible [[AndIMustScream waking coma]] (put there by spiked insulin). The episode ends with the doctors' Hail Mary attempt at reviving her failing. The clear implication is that she'll be like that for the rest of her life.
* "Bodies" (ep. 14-1), specifically the murderer. A very clearly damaged individual. The actor's portrayal is chilling.

* "Prince of Darkness" (ep.3-8) The good guys behave in their usual competent, imaginative and dogged way ... and are nevertheless completely out-thought, outflanked, misdirected and defeated by the ruthlessness and efficiency of the Colombian drug cartel. Not only does the hour involve a brazen double murder, a gun buy that ends with a shot cop, and a VigilanteExecution, but at the end Adam receives a phone call informing him that '' [[EverybodysDeadDave every single witness involved with the case is dead .]] '' One of the most crushing [[DownerEnding Downer Endings]] of the series, and frightening to see our heroes so thoroughly bested through no carelessness or error of their own.

** Cue the MassOhCrap as they realize that she's dead too.

* "Hubris" (ep. 11-9) involved a jewelry store robber executing over a half dozen people in the store, including children. A store security camera video showed him dragging the victims off to the back room to their deaths. The fact that [[spoiler: he got a hung jury and probably wasn't going to be retried]] added an extra element of nightmare fuel to an already horrific story. [[spoiler: Of course, L&O is fond of {{Karmic Death}}s, so...]]

* "Prince of Darkness" (ep.3-8) The good guys behave in their usual competant, imaginative and dogged way ... and are nevertheless completely out-thought, outflanked, misdirected and defeated by the ruthlessness and efficiency of the Colombian drug cartel. Not only does the hour involve a brazen double murder, a gun buy that ends with a shot cop, and a VigilanteExecution, but at the end Adam receives a phone call informing him that '' [[EverybodysDeadDave every single witness involved with the case is dead .]] '' One of the most crushing [[DownerEnding Downer Endings]] of the series, and frightening to see our heroes so thoroughly bested through no carelessness or error of their own.

* "Stiff" (ep 10-23): The Victim of the Week is in an irreversible [[AndIMustScream waking coma]] (put there by spiked insulin). The episode ends with the doctors' Hail Mary attempt at reviving her failing. The clear implication is that she'll be like that for the rest of her life.

* "Prince of Darkness" (ep.3-8) The good guys behave in their usual competant, imaginative and dogged way ... and are nevertheless completely out-thought, outflanked, misdirected and defeated by the ruthlessness and eficiency of the Colombian drug cartel. Not only does the hour involve a brazen double murder, a gun buy that ends with a shot cop, and a VigilanteExecution, but at the end Adam receives a phone call informing him that '' [[EverybodysDeadDave every single witness involved with the case is dead .]] '' One of the most crushing [[DownerEnding Downer Endings]] of the series, and frightening to see our heroes so thoroughly bested through no carelessness or error of their own.