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A woman's death exposes an unorthodox method of treating cancer that new Executive Assistant DA McCoy intends to prove is negligent homicide.

• Guest starring: Elizabeth Ashley, Tony Roberts, Jan Maxwell, Mitchell Greenberg, Linda Pierce, Polly Adams, Aleta Mitchell, George Bamford, Sasha Nanus, Jeff Brooks, Michael John McGann, Ann Crumb, Lars Hanson, Marcus Olson, Michael Crider, Peter Ratray, Lianne Kressin, Lauren Kyke, Blake Bashoff, Leslie Nipkow, Lioel Pina, Donna Jean Fogel, Mark Lolito and Mary Huner

• First appearance of Sam Waterston as Executive Assistant District Attorney Jack McCoy.

A comedy-club owner Michael Dobson comes under suspicion for having shot his wife, now comatose with a bullet in her head, after it is discovered he was abusive and she was about to divorce him.

• Guest starring: Debra Monk, John Cunningham, Heather Gottlieb, Frank Girardeau, Erik Jensen, Terry Layman, David Pittu, Jayden Lund, Ed Jupp Jr., Brittany Slattery, Bill Cohen, Sidney Armus, Phil Parolisi, Lee Summers, Raúl Dávila, Glenn Herman, Robb Pruitt, Joe Gonzalez, Michael C. Mahon, Joanna Heimbold, Beth Emelson and Brian Conners

• The events of this episode continue in the following season's episode "Encore".

The killing of Shinro Hayashi a Japanese nightclub owner who was visiting New York City leads to the arrest of singer Martha Bowen (Laura Linney), whose lawyer uses the "battered-woman syndrome" as a defense. While assisting on the case, Olivet remembers her own prior sexual assault.

• Guest starring: Laura Linney, Aida Turturro, Chuck Cooper, Ilene Kristen, Dan Desmond, Tibor Feldman, Michael Mastro, Tom Shillue, Katrina Lantz, Melissa Justin, Virginia Wing, Glenn Kubota, Mike Girard Sheehan, Vanessa Marshall, Hynden Walch, John Scurti, Jim Doerr, Rufus Collins, Daniel Hagen, Robert Phelps, Barbara Christie, Akira Takayama and Susan Willerman

A missing victim Laura Madsen, a suspicious ex-husband Victor Connor, and a family hiding something all contribute to the ADAs' decision to risk their licenses on a hunch. After ruling out suicide, McCoy and Kincaid turn their focus on the missing woman's daughter (Sarah Paulson) – and take a giant leap to prove their far-fetched theory.

• Guest starring: Stephen Shellen, Sarah Paulson, Thomas Kopache, Victor Raider-Wexler, Anna Holbrook, Robert Ari, Will Lyman, Cynthia Hayden, Bill Cwikowski, E. Katherine Kerr, Teresa Yenque, Mary Beth Peil, Tracy Lee Bell, Edward D. Murphy, Erol Landis, Mark Kenneth Smaltz, John Ventimiglia, Joey Dedio, Marc Coppola and Jerome Preston Bates

• This episode was the basis for the Law & Order: UK episode "Fatherly Love".

A burglary unlocks a decades-old case. A safety deposit box company unwittingly exposes a female political activist-fugitive who has been hiding for over 20 years. Detectives locate and arrest one of the four involved in the burglary, and ultimately catch the female fugitive who is accused of killing a policeman during a 1971 robbery.

• Guest starring: Peter Friedman, Mary-Joan Negro, Peggy Roeder, Dick Anthony Williams, Marilyn Chris, William Kunstler, Norman Snow, Philip LeStrange, Jonathan Teague Cook, Tom Cappadona, Don Billet, Brett Rickaby, Sonny Jim Gaines, José Ramón Rosario, Paul Hebron, La Donna Mabry, Alison Martin, Sonja Lanzener, Mateo Gómez, Nik Tyler, Anibal O. Lleras, Elizabeth Flax and Scott Nicholson

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.

• Guest starring: Samuel E. Wright, Jude Ciccolella, Omar Scroggins, Lisa Louise Langford, Marcella Lowery, Jacklin Brooke Sanford, Fredro Starr, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Jerry Grayson, Sharon Martin, Gia Galeano, J. C. MacKenzie, Sharif Rashed, Tse-Mach Washington, Fanni Green, Chris McGinn, Nicholas Garr and George Hosmer

When Briscoe and Logan suspect that a missing infant may have been murdered rather than kidnapped, they uncover a terrible family secret.

• Guest starring: Kevin O'Rourke, Julie Boyd, Nada Rowand, Joel Leffert, Brooks Rogers, Becky Borczon, Gibby Brand, Kim Staunton, Keely Eastley, Eileen Galindo, Aita Withers, Floyd Vivino, Jackye Roberts, Holley Stewart, Michael Bias, Craig Noble, John Louis Fischer and Constance Tizard-Lewis

McCoy uses a charge of "larceny by extortion" against Spencer Talbert a councilman, whose former colleague claims he demanded sex in exchange for a law-firm partnership.

• Guest starring: Anthony Heald, Regina Taylor, Christopher Cousins, Lily Knight, Anne Lange, Erik LaRey Harvey, Nancy Addison, Sharon Cornell, Cynthia Darlow, Seth Barrish, Catharine Boyd, Chris Walker, Paul Schulze, Deirdre Lovejoy, David Edward Jones, Robert Trumbull, Robert Shampain, Geraldine Bartlett, Merri Ann Milwe and Marvin Klompus

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.

• Guest starring: Michael Zaslow, Jonathan Hogan, Lisa Emery, Larry Pine, Jane Hoffman, David Little, Georgine Hall, Yusef Bulos, Ellen Whyte, Ross Bickel, Dan Grimaldi, James Saito, Karen Evans Kandel, Jeffrey Ware, Al DeChristo, Elizabeth Ann Townsend, Leila Danette, Alan Gordon, Mario Mendoza, David H. Kramer, Mitch Kolpan and Joel Blake

The killing of David Lampert 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.

• Guest starring: Ron Leibman, Vincent Pastore, Leslie Ayvazian, Anthony Fusco, Jessica Walter, Claiborne Cary, Fil Formicola, Lauren K. Woods, Michael Willis, Stanja Lowe, Terry Donahoe, Joanne Genelle, Barry Squitieri, P.J. Benjamin, John Norman Thomas, Izzy Flores, Laurie Taylor-Williams, Martin LaPlatney, Tom Bloom, David De Beck, Chris Cantwell, Nicholas B. Daddazio, Matt Myers and John Rainer

A Wall Street broker Benjamin Greer accused of murdering his mentor Wallace Holbrook uses the defense of "black rage" in court.

• Courtney B. Vance who appears in a major role in this episode, would later star as Assistant District Attorney Ron Carver in Law & Order: Criminal Intent.

Gay city councilman Richard Durban is murdered and the trail leads to Joe Gibb a male prostitute found with Durban's Belongings, and Kevin Crossley a bigoted rival politician who Durban had removed from city council.

• Last appearance of Chris Noth as Junior Detective Mike Logan.

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• "Prescription for Death"
• "Everybody's Favorite Bagman"
• "Manhood"
• "Sunday in the Park with Jorge"
• "Mother's Day"
• "The Drowned and the Saved"
• "Dignity"
• "Fed"
• "Blackmail"
• "Steel-Eyed Death"
• "Rubber Room"

• Exiled: A Law & Order Movie