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 (23)
1. Second Opinion
7.9Aired 21 September 1994 • 47 min
A woman's death exposes an unorthodox method of treating cancer that Executive Assistant DA McCoy intends to prove is negligent homicide.
2. Coma
7.9Aired 28 September 1994 • 47 min
A comedy-club owner comes under suspicion for having shot his wife, now comatose with a bullet in her head, after it's discovered he was abusive and she was about to divorce him.
3. Blue Bamboo
7.8Aired 5 October 1994 • 47 min
The killing of a Japanese nightclub owner who was visiting New York leads to the arrest of a singer who once worked for the deceased, and whose lawyer uses the ""battered-woman syndrome"" as a defense.
4. Family Values
7.6Aired 12 October 1994 • 47 min
After it's determined that a wealthy woman did not commit suicide but was murdered, the detectives question both her first and second husbands and her teenage daughter.
5. White Rabbit
7.0Aired 19 October 1994 • 47 min
A routine investigation uncovers evidence that leads Briscoe and Logan to a long-time fugitive, a radical Vietnam War opponent on the run since a 1971 burglary that left a policeman dead.
6. Competence
7.7Aired 2 November 1994 • 47 min
When Lt. Van Buren is the victim of an attempted holdup by two teens, she fires her gun and kills one of them, and the detectives are faced with the fact that she shot an unarmed child in the back.
7. Precious
7.9Aired 9 November 1994 • 47 min
When Briscoe and Logan suspect that a missing infant may have been murdered by her parents rather than kidnapped, they uncover a terrible family secret which hides a mentally ill serial killer.
8. Virtue
8.0Aired 23 November 1994 • 47 min
McCoy uses a charge of ""larceny by extortion"" against a councilman, whose former colleague claims he demanded sex in exchange for a law-firm partnership.
9. Scoundrels
7.4Aired 30 November 1994 • 47 min
Among the suspects in a lawyer's murder are a swindler, who conned a woman out of her family fortune, and the woman's once-wealthy son.
10. House Counsel
8.0Aired 4 January 1995 • 47 min
The killing of a man who had served as a juror in a mob trial leads to a battle of wills between McCoy and his long-time friend, the suspect's attorney.
11. Guardian
7.4Aired 11 January 1995 • 47 min
After the body of a young female junkie is identified as the daughter of a wealthy family, Briscoe and Logan try to find out who left her to die in the yard of a day-care center.
12. Progeny
7.9Aired 25 January 1995 • 47 min
The investigation into the killing of an abortion clinic doctor leads to an activist group led by a former priest.
13. Rage
8.2Aired 1 February 1995 • 48 min
A Wall Street broker accused of murdering his mentor uses the defense of ""black rage"" in court.
14. Performance
8.1Aired 8 February 1995 • 47 min
Briscoe and Logan set out to identify the apparent victim in a snuff film, but find her alive and really the victim of a points-for-sex club at her prestigious high school.
15. Seed
6.6Aired 15 February 1995 • 47 min
A routine investigation into a woman's death leads Briscoe and Logan to a fertility doctor guilty of unethical practices, but who cannot apparently be touched because of confidentiality rules, and patient reluctance to talk.
16. Wannabe
7.8Aired 15 March 1995 • 47 min
The shooting of a board member of an exclusive private school leads to a blue-collar family and a classist system.
17. Act of God
6.5Aired 22 March 1995 • 47 min
A bomb at a construction site kills a 12-year-old boy, and the suspects include the bankrupt contractor and a jealous husband.
18. Privileged
7.9Aired 5 April 1995 • 47 min
The investigation into a double murder leads to a young alcoholic whose family once lived in the victims' house and who had admitted to his AA group that he's had nightmares about killings.
19. Cruel and Unusual
8.3Aired 19 April 1995 • 48 min
The death of an autistic youth in custody reveals a multitude of unusual and possibly illegal therapies being used, but also parents reluctant to pursue a prosecution.
20. Bad Faith
8.4Aired 26 April 1995 • 47 min
Logan relives unhappy childhood memories when a friend is found dead, a presumed suicide, until the investigation reveals recent contact with a former priest, with a history of pedophilia.
21. Purple Heart
7.8Aired 3 May 1995 • 48 min
The investigation into a taxi driver's murder involves a loan shark, a forged check, a missing plumber and the victim's wife.
22. Switch
7.6Aired 17 May 1995 • 48 min
Suspects in a psychiatrist's murder include the victim's ex-husband, a patient suffering from multiple-personality disorder and her obstructive father.
23. Pride
6.2Aired 24 May 1995 • 47 min
A gay city councilman is murdered and the trail leads to a bigoted rival politician and a male prostitute.