Law & Order · Season 13 · Episode 9

“The Wheel”

Aired Wednesday 11 December 2002

The smoldering corpse of an Asian girl found outside the Chinese consul general's apartment leads the detectives to believe she had immolated herself to make a political statement. When forensics shows that she had been murdered beforehand, they find themselves in the middle of a religious conflict, with the consul general their prime suspect and his attorney an old friend of DA Branch.

S13 E9 discussion