Law & Order

Episode 1 | Endurance

A frustrated, over-stressed mother is charged with murder after starting a fire that killed her disabled son, but the case weighs heavy on Jack McCoy's conscience. Nora Lewin is introduced as DA Adam Schiff's replacement.

Episode 2 | Turnstile Justice

After a homeless man is accused of killing a woman at a subway station, McCoy learns that a health care provider may not have provided him with appropriate medical attention in order to save money.

Episode 3 | Dissonance

Detectives discover that a murdered concert violinist was having an affair with her orchestra conductor.

Episode 4 | Standoff

A corrections officer may have deliberately set up a confrontation in prison that resulted in the death of an inmate who raped his colleague and girlfriend.

Episode 5 | Return

When a suspected murderer tries to seek shelter in Israel, the DA's office faces the difficult task of extraditing and trying him in New York while also satisfying the Jewish community.

Episode 6 | Burn Baby Burn

A community activist who was formerly a Black Panther is accused of killing a police officer. He claims self-defense because of the history of police violence against African-Americans.

Episode 7 | Amends

A 1981 murder case is reopened. An ambassador's son is charged, but key evidence has disappeared. Further investigation reveals that the evidence may not have disappeared by accident.

Episode 8 | Thin Ice

A father confesses to killing his son's hockey coach over playing time. His defense is that he should not be considered responsible for his actions because he suffers from a mental defect known as "sports rage."

Episode 9 | Hubris

A charming conman acts as his own defense attorney during his murder trial. During the trial, he deliberately tries to taint the jury by flirting with the forewoman.

Episode 10 | Whose Monkey Is It Anyway?

An AIDS researcher is killed by a monkey released in a lab by animal rights activists. The subsequent trial turns into a test case on the ethics of using animals as test subjects.

Episode 11 | Sunday in the Park with Jorge

A dead woman is found in Central Park after a Puerto Rican Day parade. Was the death the result of the actions of a violent Hispanic mob that was harassing women at the parade?

Episode 12 | Teenage Wasteland

The murder of a man delivering Chinese food is linked to five bored teens who ordered the food without intending to pay for it.

Episode 13 | Phobia

Did a baby's biological father kill one of the baby's adoptive parents in order to get him back, or because of his outrage that the child was adopted by a homosexual couple?

Episode 14 | A Losing Season

A convicted drug dealer is accused of killing a pregnant loan officer, but it turns out to be part of a larger plot involving a professional basketball player who may be the baby's father.

Episode 15 | Swept Away - A Very Special Episode

A reality show cast member kills one of his castmates during a heated argument. But was the confrontation staged, and who is ultimately responsible?

Episode 16 | Bronx Cheer

The Manhattan DA's office tries a drug dealer for a murder that took place in the Bronx two years previously. Another man had been convicted of the crime by the Bronx DA's office and has been serving time.

Episode 17 | Ego

Detectives discover that an Assistant Attorney General was having an affair with a murdered investigator in his office, and that he had made threatening statements about her to his psychiatrist.

Episode 18 | White Lie

A drug dealer's murder leads detectives to a military officer's wife who was smuggling cocaine from Colombia.

Episode 19 | Whiplash

Two personal injury attorneys go on trial, accused of masterminding an insurance fraud scam involving staged rear-end automobile accidents.

Episode 20 | All My Children

A young man's murder appears to be connected to a paternity test and extortion attempt involving the victim's wealthy father.

Episode 21 | Brother's Keeper

Briscoe and Green are suspicious of two FBI agents who provide an alibi for an Irish mobster suspected of murder. The case is further complicated by the murder of a witness and the emergence of the mobster's lookalike brother.

Episode 22 | School Daze

Jack goes head-to-head with his former assistant, Jamie Ross, as he prosecutes the gunman in a high-school mass shooting.

Episode 23 | Judge Dread

An accountant goes on trial after being charged with ordering a hit on the hard-as-nails judge who imposed an unusually harsh prison sentence on the accountant just to send a message.

Episode 24 | Deep Vote

Jack tries to prove that a state senator and a mobster conspired to kill a journalist investigating voting irregularities. But connecting the dots is difficult without cooperation from the journalist's confidential source.