Law & Order · Season 5 · Episode 6

“Competence”

Aired Wednesday 2 November 1994 on NBC

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When Lt. Van Buren is the victim of an attempted holdup by two teens, she fires her gun and kills one of them, and the detectives are faced with the fact that she shot an unarmed child in the back.

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