Public Service Homicide

Public Service Homicide is an episode of the NBC crime drama series Law & Order. It aired on October 20, 2006. The episode was inspired by To Catch a Predator, a series of specials of the NBC newsmagazine Dateline, which depicts the capture of pedophiles red-handed on camera after they are lured to a certain location in an online sting operation.nA woman in an apartment argues with her mother over the phone as the two are simultaneously watching a newsmagazine called Hard Focus. In the show, pedophiles are lured to a house believing they will have sex with an underage minor, only to be confronted by a reporter and a camera crew. The woman is shocked when her next-door neighbor, Carl Mullaly, is confronted on the show. Later on, a delivery boy with Chinese food arrives at Mullaly's apartment to discover him on the floor, stabbed to death. When detectives Green and Cassidy arrive on the scene, the woman shows them the TiVoed Hard Focus clip featuring Mullaly. After watching the clip,...