Detectives Briscoe and Logan investigate the murder of a convicted child molestor who was shot on a controversial talk show. Also Lt. Van Buren and ADA Claire Kincaid make their first appearances.

Briscoe and Logan investigate the brutal attack on a homeless man in a middle-class neighborhood which leads EADA Stone to prosecute one of the residents.

Detectives Briscoe and Logan investigate the calling of a rape from a college student to rock star C Square, which leads the detectives to find out that he isn't as nice as he puts on and what America believes.

A racially integrated neighborhood is targeted by a serial killer, leaving Detectives Briscoe and Logan a short amount of time to stop the killings before another victim is claimed. They zero in on a racial supremacist, who in turn hires a celebrated civil rights defense attorney (Oscar nominee and Emmy winner, James Earl Jones).

After wealthy Jonathan Keyes is found dead in his home, the police receive an anonymous tip that he was murdered. Logan and Briscoe encounter difficulties at the scene when the widow and her attorney refuse to allow an autopsy, and by the time Rodgers is able to examine the body, it has already been embalmed. The medical examiner claims the death was natural causes, and even though the state finally gets the necessary proof that the death was murder, the methods used to obtain the needed evidence come under question when Stone tries the case in court.

The issue of parent abuse is examined in this unusual story about a gifted student who felt embarrassed and confined by his lower-class family -- which led to his father's death.Plus, threats among the rest of the family keep everyone from testifying. Lauren Ambrose (Six Feet Under) guest stars.

An explosion inside the garage of a Wall Street banking complex leaves one person dead and leads Detectives Briscoe and Logan to the Egyptian embassy. The sole victim of the explosion was the one planting the bomb, but was she acting on behalf of a religious cult? Sam Robards (American Beauty) guest stars.

At a Manhattan construction site a decomposed body is unearthed wearing a tattered blue blazer with gold buttons. Detectives use the jacket to reveal the dead man's identity and occupation -- as a real estate agent -- but can ADAs Stone (Michael Moriarity) and Kincaid (Jill Hennessy) help them nail down a suspect?

When a fourteen-year-old boy is accused of murdering his friend, his defence attorney claims that an extra Y chromosome in his genetic structure means he is predeposed to commit violent crimes.

After the owner of a successful meat company is found butchered in his office, detectives suspect his Russian mail order bride. In court, defense attorneys try to discredit witnesses on the grounds of cross-racial misidentification.

A well-intentioned granddaughter is blamed for starving her grandmother to death, but she claims it was doctor’s orders. Detectives soon discover that the granddaughter not only inherited her grandmother’s apartment but also a large sum of money for her law school tuition.

The son of a wealthy businessman is charged with master-minding his own kidnapping in order to collect the five million dollar ransom from his father. When the kidnap victim's accomplices turn on him, he admits to the scam, then flees the city.

Debra Elkins claims to have passed out in a cab after giving birth only to wake up and discover her baby is missing, but it isn’t long before Briscoe and Logan follow the trail of evidence to her boyfriend, Steven Shaw, who is keeping the baby in a hotel at Debra’s request. As the investigation continues, Stone and Kincaid find three separate couples who had been led to believe that they would be the family who would adopt the baby, but it seems as though Debra has no intention of giving her baby to any of the couples.

When the investigation into threats on a 5-year-old girl leads to a judge that Kincaid had been romantically involved with when she clerked under him, she asks Ben to take her off the case. When Thayer is brought to trial, he insinuates that Kincaid deliberately pointed the witness in his direction, claiming that she had approached him in an inappropriate manner while she worked with him.

When 14-year-old Angel Ramirez is shot dead while out with two friends, the investigation leads to a local gun dealer, Juan Domingo. While investigating Domingo, Briscoe and Logan learn that he was a recent suspect in a shooting that paralyzed a teenage boy, and Briscoe finds himself in an awkward position when Kevin Parker, the son of an old friend of Briscoe’s, ends up being the prime suspect in young Angel’s murder.

A mail bomb that killed the wife of a nuclear physicist leads detectives to question the stability of the marriage. Forensics experts help Briscoe and Logan name a suspect, but Stone and Kincaid (Jill Hennessy) uncover a motive that no one suspected. Vincent Pastore (The Sopranos) guest stars.

Briscoe and Logan have a hectic day ahead; this episode focuses on the detectives and the astonishing number of cases they catch in a 24-hour period.

After the father of a prominent baseball player is found dead, Briscoe and Logan suspect his death is linked to gambling debts. However, all bets are off when the victim’s son’s alibi doesn’t hold up.

Racial tensions reach dangerously high levels after the fatal hit and run of a twelve-year-old. Van Buren (S. Epatha Merkerson) is soon in the hot seat as locals question the amount of attention (or lack thereof) that the case is receiving.

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.

An assailant breaks the wrist of a tennis player prior to a tournament, and a competitor is among the suspects.

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.