“Look the Other Way” – LAW & ORDER, Pictured: Dianne Garriga as MLI Detective, Mehcad Brooks as Detective Jalen Shaw. Photo by: Will Hart/NBC) ©2025 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Georgia Kent (Hazel Graye), a 19-year-old model, is savagely beaten in the episode’s chilling opening, setting detectives Vincent Riley (Reid Scott) and Jalen Shaw (Mechad Brooks) on the hunt for a killer. Enter suspect number one: Randall Pike (Matthew Lawler), a doughy, middle-aged stalker whose obsession with Georgia was so intense that, when confronted, he went for the guilty-person sprint and nearly jumped off a bridge. Riley tackled him before Pike peaked, you could say. Turns out Randall had been paying Georgia for companionship until he convinced himself they were in love. When reality hit; he wanted to end things himself, specifically.

Pike’s obsessive stalking provides detectives with their next lead: Carter Mills (Jordan Cox). Surveillance footage catches Mills chatting with Georgia on the night of her murder. First, he feigns ignorance— “Georgia who?” Then, detectives show him video of them chatting outside the art gallery. “Oh. That’s Georgia,” Mills exclaims, before pivoting to claim he never got her name. Funny how he recognized her before insisting he didn’t know her name.

“Look the Other Way ” – LAW & ORDER, Pictured: (l-r) Reid Scott as Detective Vincent Riley, Maura Tierney as Lieutenant Jessica Brady, Mehcad Brooks as Detective Jalen Shaw. Photo by: Will Hart/NBC ©2025 NBCUniversal Media, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

At the precinct, Lt. Jessica Brady (Maura Tierney) makes a controversial call by running the DNA found under Georgia’s fingernails through a commercial genealogy database. The hit? A familial match tying Georgia’s murder to a 12-year-old cold case. The team splinters over Brady’s decision. Riley supports Brady, arguing that justice for two murders outweighs privacy concerns. Shaw fires back, warning against the dangerous precedent of trampling over the individual’s right to privacy. Brady shuts down the debate and proceeds. The result? Carter Mills get arrested.

“Look the Other Way” – LAW & ORDER, Pictured: Anna Wood as Atty Nicole Potter. Photo by: Virginia Sherwood/NBC ©2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The case seems airtight—until the legal system derails it. Defense attorney Nicole Potter (Anna Wood) successfully suppresses the DNA match, citing privacy violations. That ruling sets off a chain reaction—no DNA, no blood evidence, no connection to the 12-year old murder of Maroun’s sister. Price, Maroun, and District Attorney Nicholas Baxter (Tony Goldwyn) scramble for alternatives.

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Determined, Maroun doubles down, searching for anything that ties Mills to Georgia’s murder and that of her own sister. She finds a witness, Peter Dagnello (Kyle S. More) but pushes too hard—so hard that his testimony becomes tainted. That misstep lands Price in an ethical dilemma. Maroun begs him to ignore it, but Price takes the matter to Baxter, who responds with a cryptic tale about the murder of a child—the moral of which is: “Sometimes looking the other way is the right way.”

Under intense pressure, Price faces his defining choice—move forward with a compromised witness, outing Maroun in the process, or refuse and let the case slip away. In the end, Price chooses principle over pragmatism. The result? A not-guilty verdict. Carter Mills walks free.

“Look the Other Way” – LAW & ORDER, Pictured: Kyle More as Peter Dagnello. Photo by: Virginia Sherwood/NBC ©2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

Before the ink is dry on the court’s decision, another murder rocks the team—Mills himself is found dead. The episode closes with Price rushing to Maroun’s home, haunted and desperate: “For God’s sake, please tell me you had nothing to do with this.” Her response? Silence and the door politely closed in his face.

 “Look the Other Way” refuses to provide easy answers. It’s textbook Law & Order—sharp storytelling, airtight performances, and enough moral dilemmas to leave viewers questioning where they’d land in the fight between justice and ethics. This is legal drama at its best — tense, thought-provoking, and thoroughly addictive.

“Look the Other Way” –LAW & ORDER, Pictured: (l-r) Odelya Halevi as A.D.A. Samantha Maroun, Hugh Dancy as A.D.A. Nolan Price. Photo by: Will Hart/NBC ©2025 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

What did you think? Did Price make the right call, or should he have “looked the other way”? Let me know in the comments.

Overall Rating:

9:10