Law & Order
Reality Bites
Season 20, Episode 4 · Aired 2009-10-16
Synopsis
When Larry Johnson drives home from picking up his adopted, physically disabled children from school, he discovers his wife's dead body on the floor of their home. Detectives Lupo and Bernard question Vaughn, who explains that he and his wife had adopted a child with special needs and felt it was their calling, so they adopted nine more children. While the detectives question the children for suspects and a motive, they uncover an affair and an offer for the Vaughn family to appear in a reality show, causing tension in the household and with another family, whose mother has strong ambitions to be on the reality show.
In the series
This episode is part of Law & Order (1990–2010) on NBC.
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Key cast
- Jerry Orbach as Lennie Briscoe
- Sam Waterston as Jack McCoy
- S. Epatha Merkerson as Anita Van Buren
- Chris Noth as Mike Logan
- Benjamin Bratt as Rey Curtis
- Jesse L. Martin as Ed Green