"The Family Hour" is the 393rd episode of NBC's legal drama Law & Order, and the season finale of 17th season.
The ex-wife of a former senator, a prominent New York socialite, is found dead in the rooftop garden of her apartment. A bloody fire poker is lying near her, and a wooden spoon is found inserted in her vagina. Detectives Green and Cassidy discover that both the son and daughter were abused by their parents, and that the daughter was freq...
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"The Family Hour" is the 393rd episode of NBC's legal drama Law & Order, and the season finale of 17th season.
The ex-wife of a former senator, a prominent New York socialite, is found dead in the rooftop garden of her apartment. A bloody fire poker is lying near her, and a wooden spoon is found inserted in her vagina. Detectives Green and Cassidy discover that both the son and daughter were abused by their parents, and that the daughter was frequently struck with a wooden spoon. When the detectives go to question the daughter, they find the senator leaning over his dead, bloody daughter, grasping a knife. Detective Cassidy then witnessed him poking himself in the stomach to make himself bleed. The senator claims that he killed her in self-defense when she stabbed him, and that she killed her mother. Physical evidence appears to confirm that the daughter did kill her mother.
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