An investigation reveals a strange plot when a professional tennis player's wrist is broken after she finishes a practice session with a former rival.
A 10-year-old disappears after being taken from her alcoholic mother and placed with an abusive couple.
Racial tensions explode into violence after a middle-aged Jewish man leaves the scene of an accident involving a 12-year-old African-American boy.
Kidnappers abduct the son of Schiff's friend and entomb him in the basement of an abandoned building.
An emaciated elderly woman is found dead of an apparent heart attack her granddaughter is charged with neglect and grave indifference to human life.
Briscoe and Logan's (Jerry Orbach, Chris Noth) investigation into a man's death leads them to a Russian mail-order bride (guest star Natalya Negoda). With Michael Moriarty.
Defense attorneys for a foster child who killed argue that he was genetically predisposed to violence.
Stone and Kincaid (Michael Moriarty, Jill Hennessy) investigate further when a businessman (guest star Zeljko Ivanek) is acquitted of murder.
Briscoe and Logan bring a religious cult's leader to court after a woman is killed while planting a car bomb.
Briscoe and Logan investigate when a man is killed after being emotionally and physically abused for years by his gifted son.
Logan and Briscoe investigate the children and widow of a tycoon after evidence is uncovered that he may have been murdered.
The detectives struggle to determine the motive of a club owner who hired two men to kill a stripper.
The detectives' investigation into the strangulation of an Asian-American stripper leads them to corrupt officers.
Briscoe and Green learn that a murdered woman was not only a patron of the arts, but that an artist she supported created a painting similar to the crime scene.
Briscoe and Green first suspect gang members when a woman is found stuffed inside a car trunk, until they find out that she was married and having an affair.
When a bomb kills six on a helicopter flight, evidence points to a victim's wife who is influenced by two financial advisers (Annette O'Toole, Michael McKean).
McCoy and Carmichael find two patrolmen partially responsible for the killing of a white teenager in Harlem.
The murder of a stockbroker points to organized crime when the prime suspect is killed by a hired hit man.
McCoy has trouble holding a case against a teenager's boyfriend suspected of killing two girls when she refuses to talk about his abuse.
Briscoe and Green think a life insurance salesman's valuable information about his policies was a motive for his murder.