LOST, “Enter 77”
In this episode,” Sayid – a former Iraqi Republican Guard interrogator – has a decision to make. Should he torture a man that has been captured to find out information that could save lives? The episode is built around a series of flashbacks to a time when Sayid encountered a woman he had tortured in the past. It explores issues not often explored on TV – namely, what happens to the torturer and the tortured after the moment of violence? And it points out a fact about torture: in situations where leadership is poor or absent, even good people will use torture to try to obtain information.

The Shield,
“Back to One” and
“Chasing Ghosts”
In “Back to One,” Vic Mackey – a rogue cop – has a problem. He is torturing the wrong guy because he is absolutely convinced that this man has killed his former partner. The episodes examine what can go wrong when abusive tactics are used. And they follow Mackey as he comes to the painful realization that he has tortured the wrong man. Though the program is quite violent and graphic, it tackles a difficult subject in a raw and realistic way.

The Closer,
for the character Deputy Chief
Brenda Johnson
Brenda Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick) is a hard-nosed interrogator. She never uses abusive interrogation tactics but she always gets her subjects to talk. Almost every episode, Johnson cracks a case by showing how much can be accomplished when interrogators use their heads, rather than their fists.

Boston Legal “Guantanamo by
the Bay”
This episodefeatures attorney Alan Shore’s (James Spader) efforts to pursue justice on behalf of his client, a Harvard-educated doctor who was mistaken for a terrorist and sent to Guantanamo Bay. Many of the abuses the doctor faced at Guantanamo (stress positions, sleep disruption, sexual humiliation etc.) have been perpetrated on detainees in U.S. custody.