NYPD Blue Episodes (Season 11)
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Frickin Fraker
Original airdate: September 23, 2003- Directed by: Mark TinkerMark TinkerMark Tinker is an American television producer and director. Tinker was an executive producer and regular director on the HBO original series, Deadwood. Prior to Deadwood, Tinker served as a director/producer on NYPD Blue which was co-created by Deadwood writer, David Milch. Tinker has also...
- Written by: Bill ClarkBill ClarkClark joined the New York City Police Department in 1969. He worked a special undercover assignment for two years before entering the Police Academy. In 1972 he earned his gold detective shield. On December 31, 1994, Clark retired from the Queens Homicide Detective Squad as a First Grade...
& Keith Eisner
The brother of a convicted child molester is murdered, and the cops of the 15th Precinct testify against Captain Fraker for his attempted murder of Tony Rodriguez.
Your Bus, Ted
Original airdate: September 30, 2003- Directed by: Mark PiznarskiMark PiznarskiMark Piznarski is an American director and producer of film and television.He has directed episodes from a number of television series, including, amongst others, Veronica Mars, The Lying Game, Gossip Girl, 90210, NYPD Blue, Friday Night Lights, Everwood, My So-Called Life, Relativity and To Love...
- Written by: Bill ClarkBill ClarkClark joined the New York City Police Department in 1969. He worked a special undercover assignment for two years before entering the Police Academy. In 1972 he earned his gold detective shield. On December 31, 1994, Clark retired from the Queens Homicide Detective Squad as a First Grade...
& Tom Szentgyorgyi
A transvestite is murdered, a surgeon is knifed outside a hospital, and Rodriguez takes the stand in Captain Fraker's trial
Shear Stupidity
Original airdate: October 7, 2003- Directed by: Tawnia McKiernanTawnia McKiernanTawnia McKiernan is an American television director. Since the mid 1990s she has amassed a number of directorial credits. She is also the daughter of television producer Stephen J. Cannell.-Career:...
- Written by: Bill ClarkBill ClarkClark joined the New York City Police Department in 1969. He worked a special undercover assignment for two years before entering the Police Academy. In 1972 he earned his gold detective shield. On December 31, 1994, Clark retired from the Queens Homicide Detective Squad as a First Grade...
& Bonnie MarkBonnie MarkBonnie Mark is an American television writer and producer. She has worked on the ABC crime drama NYPD Blue and the NBC crime dramas Third Watch and Homicide: Life on the Street...
Sipowicz and Clark investigate when a man is severely beaten, a woman reports that her husband is missing, and testimony at Fraker's trial threaten's Rodriguez's career.
Porn Free
Original airdate: October 14, 2003- Directed by: Dennis DuganDennis DuganDennis Dugan is an American director, comedian, and actor. He is most famous for his partnership with comedic actor Adam Sandler, with whom he directed the films Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Grown Ups, Just Go With It, and Jack and...
- Written by: Bill ClarkBill ClarkClark joined the New York City Police Department in 1969. He worked a special undercover assignment for two years before entering the Police Academy. In 1972 he earned his gold detective shield. On December 31, 1994, Clark retired from the Queens Homicide Detective Squad as a First Grade...
& Greg Plageman
A verdict is reached in Fraker's trial, and a middle-class housewife with a colorful past is found dead in an alley.
Keeping Abreast
Original airdate: October 21, 2003- Directed by: Jesse Bochco
- Written by: Bill ClarkBill ClarkClark joined the New York City Police Department in 1969. He worked a special undercover assignment for two years before entering the Police Academy. In 1972 he earned his gold detective shield. On December 31, 1994, Clark retired from the Queens Homicide Detective Squad as a First Grade...
& Matt OlmsteadMatt OlmsteadMatt Olmstead is an American writer and producer for television shows.-Early life:Olmstead graduated from California State University, Chico. He is an alumnus of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts. He went to Hollywood in hopes of being a script writer. Olmstead eventually worked with an...
Diane Russell helps the detectives of the 15th Precinct track a serial killer who targets women at an upscale bar, and Jones attempts to keep a violent father from harming his son.
- Note - Kim Delaney returns for four episodes as Diane RussellDiane RussellDiane Russell was a fictional character in the television series NYPD Blue. She was played by Kim Delaney from the second season to the eighth and made five further appearances in seasons ten and eleven....
Andy Appleseed
Original airdate: October 28, 2003- Directed by: Jake PaltrowJake PaltrowJacob Danner "Jake" Paltrow is an American film director.- Personal life :Paltrow was born in Los Angeles, California, to film director Bruce Paltrow and actress Blythe Danner. He is the younger brother of Gwyneth...
- Written by: Bill ClarkBill ClarkClark joined the New York City Police Department in 1969. He worked a special undercover assignment for two years before entering the Police Academy. In 1972 he earned his gold detective shield. On December 31, 1994, Clark retired from the Queens Homicide Detective Squad as a First Grade...
& Nicholas WoottonNicholas WoottonNicholas Wootton is an American Emmy Award-winning writer for and producer for television.He has written to various TV shows, including Chuck, Prison Break, Law & Order, NYPD Blue.- External links :...
Another young woman falls prey to a serial killer whose victims all patronize the same trendy bar, and, when an abusive mother is found murdered, her children are suspects.
It's To Die For
Original airdate: November 4, 2003- Directed by: Ed Begley, Jr.Ed Begley, Jr.Edward James "Ed" Begley, Jr. is an American actor and environmentalist. Begley has appeared in hundreds of films, television shows, and stage performances. He is best known for his role as Dr. Victor Ehrlich, on the television series St...
- Written by: Bill ClarkBill ClarkClark joined the New York City Police Department in 1969. He worked a special undercover assignment for two years before entering the Police Academy. In 1972 he earned his gold detective shield. On December 31, 1994, Clark retired from the Queens Homicide Detective Squad as a First Grade...
& Keith Eisner
When another woman linked to an upscale bar is attacked, Sipowicz suspects she may have escaped the serial killer. Meanwhile, a young cop claims self-defense after shooting and killing a suspect, and Russell has a breast biopsy.
And the Wenner Is....
Original airdates: November 18, 2003- Directed by: Paul Eads
- Written by: Bill ClarkBill ClarkClark joined the New York City Police Department in 1969. He worked a special undercover assignment for two years before entering the Police Academy. In 1972 he earned his gold detective shield. On December 31, 1994, Clark retired from the Queens Homicide Detective Squad as a First Grade...
& Tom Szentgyorgyi
The detectives get a break in the serial killer case, McDowell announces her pregnancy, and she and Sipowicz plan their wedding.
Only Schmucks Pay Income Tax
Original airdate: November 25, 2003- Directed by: Donna DeitchDonna DeitchDonna Deitch is an American film and television director best known for her 1986 film Desert Hearts. The film was groundbreaking as one of the first releases to depict a lesbian love story in a generally mainstream, albeit art house, vein but with positive and respectful themes...
- Written by: Bill ClarkBill ClarkClark joined the New York City Police Department in 1969. He worked a special undercover assignment for two years before entering the Police Academy. In 1972 he earned his gold detective shield. On December 31, 1994, Clark retired from the Queens Homicide Detective Squad as a First Grade...
& William Finkelstein
A retired cop and his wife are beaten and robbed in their home, the author of a book on avoiding paying taxes has his car torched, and a foster father returns the foster child to social services when the boy's natural father threatens his family.
You Da Bomb
Original airdate: February 10, 2004- Directed by: John Hyams
- Written by: Bill ClarkBill ClarkClark joined the New York City Police Department in 1969. He worked a special undercover assignment for two years before entering the Police Academy. In 1972 he earned his gold detective shield. On December 31, 1994, Clark retired from the Queens Homicide Detective Squad as a First Grade...
, Matt OlmsteadMatt OlmsteadMatt Olmstead is an American writer and producer for television shows.-Early life:Olmstead graduated from California State University, Chico. He is an alumnus of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts. He went to Hollywood in hopes of being a script writer. Olmstead eventually worked with an...
and Nicholas WoottonNicholas WoottonNicholas Wootton is an American Emmy Award-winning writer for and producer for television.He has written to various TV shows, including Chuck, Prison Break, Law & Order, NYPD Blue.- External links :...
A man who's been kidnapped and had a bomb attached to his body cuffs himself to McDowell, threatening to blow everyone up, and Devlin wants to break up with Clark.
Notes
- Jane LynchJane LynchJane Marie Lynch is an American comedian, actress and singer. She gained fame in Christopher Guest's improv mockumentary pictures such as Best in Show and is currently best known for playing the role of Sue Sylvester in the television series Glee...
guest stars as Susanna Howe
Passing the Stone
Original airdate: February 17, 2004- Directed by: Carol Banker
- Written by: Bill ClarkBill ClarkClark joined the New York City Police Department in 1969. He worked a special undercover assignment for two years before entering the Police Academy. In 1972 he earned his gold detective shield. On December 31, 1994, Clark retired from the Queens Homicide Detective Squad as a First Grade...
& Bonnie MarkBonnie MarkBonnie Mark is an American television writer and producer. She has worked on the ABC crime drama NYPD Blue and the NBC crime dramas Third Watch and Homicide: Life on the Street...
When a Jewish merchant is murdered in a possible hate crime, Sipowicz and Clark suspect a recent convert to Islam. Meanwhile, Michael Woodruff's father is the prime suspect in an assault on the boy's aunt.
Chatty Chatty Bang Bang
Original airdate: March 2, 2004- Directed by: Mark TinkerMark TinkerMark Tinker is an American television producer and director. Tinker was an executive producer and regular director on the HBO original series, Deadwood. Prior to Deadwood, Tinker served as a director/producer on NYPD Blue which was co-created by Deadwood writer, David Milch. Tinker has also...
- Written by: Bill ClarkBill ClarkClark joined the New York City Police Department in 1969. He worked a special undercover assignment for two years before entering the Police Academy. In 1972 he earned his gold detective shield. On December 31, 1994, Clark retired from the Queens Homicide Detective Squad as a First Grade...
& Greg Plageman
Sipowicz and Clark race a mobster to catch the hit-and-run driver who killed his daughter. Meanwhile a woman is raped by a man who claims he met her in an online chat room, Rodriguez resigns from the force, and Jones decides to foster-parent Michael Woodruff.
Take My Wife, Please
Original airdate: March 9, 2004- Directed by: Dennis DuganDennis DuganDennis Dugan is an American director, comedian, and actor. He is most famous for his partnership with comedic actor Adam Sandler, with whom he directed the films Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy, I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry, You Don't Mess with the Zohan, Grown Ups, Just Go With It, and Jack and...
- Written by: Bill ClarkBill ClarkClark joined the New York City Police Department in 1969. He worked a special undercover assignment for two years before entering the Police Academy. In 1972 he earned his gold detective shield. On December 31, 1994, Clark retired from the Queens Homicide Detective Squad as a First Grade...
& Keith Eisner
A cop is suspected in the murder of a man who was seeing his wife, the body of a comedy club owner is found in the trunk of a stolen car, and the precinct gets a new commanding officer.
- Note - John F. O'DonohueJohn F. O'DonohueJohn F. O'Donohue is an American actor and former police officer who is perhaps best known for his role as Sgt. Eddie Gibson in the television series NYPD Blue.-Career:...
joins the regular cast as Sgt. Eddie Gibson - Note - This is Esai MoralesEsai MoralesEsai Manuel Morales is an American actor. He is well known for his role as Bob Morales in the 1987 biopic La Bamba. He also appeared in the PBS drama American Family and in the Showtime series Resurrection Blvd.. However, he is best known for his roles as Lt...
' last episode as Tony Rodriguez
Colonel Knowledge
Original airdate: March 16, 2004- Directed by: Steven De Paul
- Written by: Bill ClarkBill ClarkClark joined the New York City Police Department in 1969. He worked a special undercover assignment for two years before entering the Police Academy. In 1972 he earned his gold detective shield. On December 31, 1994, Clark retired from the Queens Homicide Detective Squad as a First Grade...
& Tom Szentgyorgyi
Detectives investigate a Latino gang kingpin for murder, a man reports that his 15-year-old daughter may have been kidnapped, and Sergeant Gibson brings his obnoxious parrot to the precinct.
Old Yeller
Original airdate: March 23, 2004- Directed by: Mark TinkerMark TinkerMark Tinker is an American television producer and director. Tinker was an executive producer and regular director on the HBO original series, Deadwood. Prior to Deadwood, Tinker served as a director/producer on NYPD Blue which was co-created by Deadwood writer, David Milch. Tinker has also...
- Written by: Bill ClarkBill ClarkClark joined the New York City Police Department in 1969. He worked a special undercover assignment for two years before entering the Police Academy. In 1972 he earned his gold detective shield. On December 31, 1994, Clark retired from the Queens Homicide Detective Squad as a First Grade...
& Nicholas WoottonNicholas WoottonNicholas Wootton is an American Emmy Award-winning writer for and producer for television.He has written to various TV shows, including Chuck, Prison Break, Law & Order, NYPD Blue.- External links :...
The search is on for a man who kidnaps, rapes and tortures women and locks them in a dungeon, and Medavoy becomes attracted to a much older woman who may be addicted to sex.
On the Fence
Original airdate: March 30, 2004- Directed by: Bob Doherty
- Written by: Bill ClarkBill ClarkClark joined the New York City Police Department in 1969. He worked a special undercover assignment for two years before entering the Police Academy. In 1972 he earned his gold detective shield. On December 31, 1994, Clark retired from the Queens Homicide Detective Squad as a First Grade...
& Matt OlmsteadMatt OlmsteadMatt Olmstead is an American writer and producer for television shows.-Early life:Olmstead graduated from California State University, Chico. He is an alumnus of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts. He went to Hollywood in hopes of being a script writer. Olmstead eventually worked with an...
Sipowicz suspects that an off-duty cop who got shot is dirty, and an old man is shot dead at a seedy hotel.
In Goddess We Trussed
Original airdate: April 6, 2004- Directed by: Kevin HooksKevin HooksKevin Hooks is an American actor, and a television and film director; he is notable from his roles in Aaron Loves Angela and Sounder, but may be best known as Morris Thorpe from TV's The White Shadow....
- Written by: Bill ClarkBill ClarkClark joined the New York City Police Department in 1969. He worked a special undercover assignment for two years before entering the Police Academy. In 1972 he earned his gold detective shield. On December 31, 1994, Clark retired from the Queens Homicide Detective Squad as a First Grade...
& Greg Plageman
Detective Hatcher engineers a transfer for Sipowicz out of the 15th precinct to the Bellevue Morgue. Sipowicz, for his part, continues to investigate Hatcher for murder, and a dominatrix is found bludgeoned to death.
- Note - This is Charlotte Ross' last appearance as Connie McDowell
The Brothers Grim
Original airdate: April 13, 2004- Directed by: Rick WallaceRick WallaceRick Wallace is an American director and producer. He has worked on Smallville, L.A. Law, Doogie Howser, M.D., and The Closer, as well as many other programs.-Director:*The Closer*Women's Murder Club* Men in Trees...
- Written by: Bill ClarkBill ClarkClark joined the New York City Police Department in 1969. He worked a special undercover assignment for two years before entering the Police Academy. In 1972 he earned his gold detective shield. On December 31, 1994, Clark retired from the Queens Homicide Detective Squad as a First Grade...
& Keith Eisner
Haywood reopens an old homicide case that Sipowicz once closed. Meanwhile, Sipowicz and Clark investigate the death of a man whose brother was pursued by a bounty hunter, and a woman who gave her baby away when she went to prison now wants it back.
Peeler? I Hardly Know Her
Original airdate: April 20, 2004- Directed by: Jesse Bochco
- Written by: Bill ClarkBill ClarkClark joined the New York City Police Department in 1969. He worked a special undercover assignment for two years before entering the Police Academy. In 1972 he earned his gold detective shield. On December 31, 1994, Clark retired from the Queens Homicide Detective Squad as a First Grade...
& Tom Szentgyorgyi
A man has amnesia after being shot in the head. Meanwhile, a man Sipowicz put away twenty years ago for raping and murdering a 12-year-old girl goes free after DNA testing exonerates him, and Ortiz and Ronson bust a pre-teen prostitution ring.
Traylor Trash
Original airdate: April 27, 2004- Directed by: Mark TinkerMark TinkerMark Tinker is an American television producer and director. Tinker was an executive producer and regular director on the HBO original series, Deadwood. Prior to Deadwood, Tinker served as a director/producer on NYPD Blue which was co-created by Deadwood writer, David Milch. Tinker has also...
- Written by: Bill ClarkBill ClarkClark joined the New York City Police Department in 1969. He worked a special undercover assignment for two years before entering the Police Academy. In 1972 he earned his gold detective shield. On December 31, 1994, Clark retired from the Queens Homicide Detective Squad as a First Grade...
& Matt OlmsteadMatt OlmsteadMatt Olmstead is an American writer and producer for television shows.-Early life:Olmstead graduated from California State University, Chico. He is an alumnus of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts. He went to Hollywood in hopes of being a script writer. Olmstead eventually worked with an...
A former drug addict turned devoted church member is found shot in the chest. Sipowicz suspects the father of a murdered 12-year-old girl in a decades-old case, after DNA tests exonerate the man he originally sent to prison. Meanwhile, Jennifer Devlin visits Clark at the precinct in a manic state.
What's Your Poison
Original airdate: May 4, 2004- Directed by: Jesse Bochco
- Written by: Bill ClarkBill ClarkClark joined the New York City Police Department in 1969. He worked a special undercover assignment for two years before entering the Police Academy. In 1972 he earned his gold detective shield. On December 31, 1994, Clark retired from the Queens Homicide Detective Squad as a First Grade...
& Nicholas WoottonNicholas WoottonNicholas Wootton is an American Emmy Award-winning writer for and producer for television.He has written to various TV shows, including Chuck, Prison Break, Law & Order, NYPD Blue.- External links :...
A suspect in Sipowicz's ongoing murder investigation of 12-year-old Cindy Clifton turns up dead, a man loses his wife's $35,000 necklace to a mugger, Michael Woodruff testifies against his father in the murder of his mother, and Jennifer Devlin escapes from a psych ward.
Who's Your Daddy?
Original airdate: May 11, 2004- Directed by: Mark TinkerMark TinkerMark Tinker is an American television producer and director. Tinker was an executive producer and regular director on the HBO original series, Deadwood. Prior to Deadwood, Tinker served as a director/producer on NYPD Blue which was co-created by Deadwood writer, David Milch. Tinker has also...
- Written by: Bill ClarkBill ClarkClark joined the New York City Police Department in 1969. He worked a special undercover assignment for two years before entering the Police Academy. In 1972 he earned his gold detective shield. On December 31, 1994, Clark retired from the Queens Homicide Detective Squad as a First Grade...
, Nicholas WoottonNicholas WoottonNicholas Wootton is an American Emmy Award-winning writer for and producer for television.He has written to various TV shows, including Chuck, Prison Break, Law & Order, NYPD Blue.- External links :...
& Matt OlmsteadMatt OlmsteadMatt Olmstead is an American writer and producer for television shows.-Early life:Olmstead graduated from California State University, Chico. He is an alumnus of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts. He went to Hollywood in hopes of being a script writer. Olmstead eventually worked with an...
Clark and Sipowicz suspect the ex-husband in a woman's murder, the jury reaches a verdict in the Craig Woodfruff trial, Ronson and Ortiz pursue an arms smuggler, and Clark is too late to save Devlin.
- Note - Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon, Jessalyn GilsigJessalyn GilsigJessalyn Gilsig is a Canadian actress known for her roles in the television series Boston Public, Nip/Tuck and as Will Schuester's ex-wife Terri Schuester in Glee...
, and John F. O'DonohueJohn F. O'DonohueJohn F. O'Donohue is an American actor and former police officer who is perhaps best known for his role as Sgt. Eddie Gibson in the television series NYPD Blue.-Career:...
did not return for the twelfth season. Their absences are never explained to the audience.