About this season
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
Episodes (22)
1. Sweeps
8.1Aired 15 September 1993 • 46 min
A guest is murdered on-air on a controversial talk show. Meanwhile Logan and Briscoe have a new boss, Lt. Anita Van Buren, and Stone gets a new collague; the police and district attorney attempt to prosecute the show's abrasive host.
2. Volunteers
7.6Aired 29 September 1993 • 47 min
A disruptive, unbalanced homeless man is found severely beaten in an alley of the middle class neighborhood he calls home, leading Stone to try and prosecute one of the residents for premeditated murder.
3. Discord
7.8Aired 6 October 1993 • 46 min
A college student charges an admittedly promiscuous rock star with rape, but he claims the act was consensual.
4. Profile
8.1Aired 13 October 1993 • 45 min
Stone finds himself up against an ambitious black lawyer defending a white, racist serial killer.
5. Black Tie
7.7Aired 20 October 1993 • 45 min
The police suspect a cover up when they receive an anonymous tip that a wealthy man was murdered by his wife, who refuses to allow an autopsy after a physician declares that the death occurred from natural causes.
6. Pride and Joy
7.8Aired 27 October 1993 • 47 min
A 17-year-old boy becomes the chief suspect in the murder of his father, raising questions of self-defense and abuse that the family does not want to face.
7. Apocrypha
6.3Aired 3 November 1993 • 47 min
Stone and Kincaid try to prove that the young woman believed to have planted a bomb in a parking garage had been brainwashed and was acting under the direct orders of a charismatic cult leader.
8. American Dream
8.6Aired 9 November 1993 • 47 min
A skeleton unearthed at a building site resurrects one of Stone's old cases, and brings him face to face with the tenacious, brilliant culprit, who is seeking a new trial.
9. Born Bad
7.4Aired 16 November 1993 • 46 min
A lawyer decides to defend her teenage client charged with murder as an adult with the claim that he's violent because of a genetic predisposition due to an extra Y chromosome.
10. The Pursuit of Happiness
7.2Aired 1 December 1993 • 47 min
A "green-card" bride from Russia is suspected of murdering her rich, but cold husband, who was threatening to divorce her just weeks before she would qualify to remain in this country.
11. Golden Years
7.6Aired 5 January 1994 • 47 min
An emaciated elderly woman is found dead of an apparent heart attack and her granddaughter is charged with neglect and grave indifference to human life.
12. Snatched
7.8Aired 12 January 1994 • 47 min
A millionaire friend of Schiff's won't cooperate with the police following his son's kidnapping.
13. Breeder
7.8Aired 19 January 1994 • 47 min
While investigating a woman's claim that she passed out in a taxi and awoke to find her newborn missing, Briscoe and Logan uncover a scam involving private adoptions.
14. Censure
7.9Aired 2 February 1994 • 47 min
A phone call threatening a woman's young daughter leads to a case that causes Kincaid to resign from Schiff's office because of an affair in her past.
15. Kids
7.5Aired 9 February 1994 • 47 min
A 14-year-old's shooting death involves the son of a former police detective, who's also an old friend of Briscoe's.
16. Big Bang
7.9Aired 2 March 1994 • 47 min
A scientist becomes the chief suspect when his estranged wife, who's been delaying divorce proceedings, is the victim of a letter bomb.
17. Mayhem
8.1Aired 9 March 1994 • 47 min
During a 24-hour period, Briscoe and Logan have a heavy caseload that includes 5 unrelated murders and a domestic quarrel, which results in the maiming of the husband.
18. Wager
7.3Aired 30 March 1994 • 46 min
Briscoe and Logan bet that the killing of a star athlete's father is linked to gambling debts and threats to the baseball player's family.
19. Sanctuary
7.8Aired 13 April 1994 • 47 min
A black minister fans the flames of racial intolerance after a hit-and-run in Harlem claims the life of a 12-year-old and the Jewish driver isn't indicted.
20. Nurture
7.5Aired 4 May 1994 • 46 min
Briscoe and Logan investigate the disappearance of a child from her abusive foster home and find her being held by a loving but disturbed woman who insists she has acted only for the child's own good.
21. Doubles
6.9Aired 18 May 1994 • 46 min
An assailant breaks the wrist of a tennis player prior to a tournament, and a competitor is among the suspects.
22. Old Friends
8.3Aired 25 May 1994 • 46 min
A truck hits a pedestrian and the investigation reveals the victim's link to a baby-food company in which a new partner has connections to the Russian mob.