Please identify this 'Law and Order' episode

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Hi Dopers - please may you use your incredible skills to find this episode.

  1. It involves a brother and step-sister who are romantically involved.
  2. Their parents are murdered (I think for money via inheritance) and the brother did it.
  3. He uses his infatuated step-sister as an alibi.
  4. There is not enough evidence to convict the brother.
  5. However there is a legal proceeding about the inheritance, which hinges on which parent died first.
  6. The prosecutor makes up a fake pathology report (the pathologist is the reliable Ms. Rodgers.)
  7. The fake report works and the step-sister accuses the brother.
  8. The fake report uses ‘Rogers’ (not ‘Rodgers’) as the author.
    Hope that’s enough clues!

Rodgers the pathologist (a fine actress) appears in a huge number of episodes over several of the franchises, which has defeated my Googling skills.
Over to you…

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Lucky Stiff?

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Lucky Stiff

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I concur. Lucky Stiff. I Googled “law & order episode” “rodgers” “rogers”. The parentheses force it to use those exact terms.

That found me a synopsis of the episode at:

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I googled brother stepsister “law & order” “died first” — which is, admittedly, less elegant.

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That episode is too recent for me to have watched and it’s from 2009. Law & Order has been around a long time…

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The RUSSIANS!

(I recognized it right away. I love Rogers without a D giving Cutter shit!)

It’s a deceptive episode - it starts out with “green” delivery trucks that don’t work right, leads to overselling (like the Producers) green credits, and only then gets to the parents’ murders.

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Many thanks, Dopers!

(What took you so long? :wink: )