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A 12-year-old boy is killed in a tragic fire. His mother, Megan Parnell (Megan Follows), makes the 911 call after she escapes from the inferno.

A well-groomed woman is found dead in a subway station, from blunt force trauma to the head. Her purse is missing and it takes the Detectives awhile to identify her.

The New York Symphony's first violinist is found murdered in her dressing room after a concert. Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) question other members of the orchestra, stagehands and the conductor, Carl Reger (Ronald Guttman).

A melee at Rikers Island is started and when the smoke clears, an inmate named Diaz (Otto Sanchez) is wounded and another, Alejo is dead.

Caplan and Becker (Sam Schacht) are longtime partners in a thriving retail store, when one night three NYU students returning to campus in the middle of the night find Caplan dead in the basement of the establishment.

A top police detective, Jake Kearsey, is found dead in an apartment building. This high profile case has top city officials pressuring Van Buren (S. Epatha Merkerson) to solve it.

Lt. Van Buren (S. Epatha Merkerson) is under pressure from the Chief to increase the precinct's conviction average, so she urges the detectives to look up old cases.

Russell Crider is a well-liked hockey coach who is found beaten to death outside his car in an ice rink parking lot. Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) talk to the players and parents.

Three adults and a young child are found brutally murdered in the backroom of a jewelry store. The victims are the owners, Adam and Corinne Bennett, as well as jewelry designer Gail Churchill and her daughter Ellie.

A monkey infected with the AlDS virus bites and kills a lab worker after security guard George Peavey's (Kevin Isola) attempt to rescue the primates.

After a day of wilding in Central Park following the Puerto Rican Day parade, a wealthy woman is found dead in the lake, but finding the killer is more complicated than it first seems.

After a teen is arrested for the murder of a Chinese restaurant owner found outside an abandoned apartment, the DA must decide whether or not to seek the death penalty.

Bradford Mandel is found beaten to death in the courtyard of his apartment building and his partner's baby is missing. The Detectives question Donald Albers (David Pittu), Mandel's partner, who is devastated after his 18-month-old, adopted son Dylan was taken from the scene of the crime.

The body of a pregnant Dena Meredith is found in the trunk of a stolen Carnry, having been shot several times, her baby survives and detectives Green (Jesse L. Martin) and Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) investigate.

When a participant in a TV reality show is murdered, McCoy (Sam Waterston) goes after the producers and network executives for deliberately fomenting hostility among the participants to boost the ratings.

When a woman is found strangled to death with a large quantity of the drug Ecstasy in her handbag, Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) have difficulty gathering sufficient evidence for an indictment of their prime suspect...

When the dead body of Karen Hall, an investigator with the State Attorney General's Office Criminal Division, is found in the Hudson River, Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) find that her boss, Alec Conroy (Nestor Serrano), had written off her disappearance as a random kidnapping from an Albany train station.

A well-to-do couple is murdered in their upscale apartment. Cocaine residue is found in an overnight bag at the scene of the crime, indicating to the Detectives that the murder was drug related.

When a Hispanic male is found dead from a severe chest trauma, Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) discover that he and two other illegal immigrants had been in a staged automobile accident.

Scott Wilder, the son of a very powerful and wealthy real estate magnate, Peter Wilder (Henry Woronicz), and his wife Johanna (Deirdre O'Connell) is found dead near his old school, and extortion appears to be the motive behind his death.

Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) track suspect Cally Lonegan (Michael O'Keefe), in the death of his business partner, James Malloy.

Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) investigate a shooting at George Mason High School school where four students are left dead.

An attempt is made on the life of tough-as-nails Judge Linda Karlin (Roxanne Hart) and Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) must figure out who ordered the hit.

Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) investigate a crash involving Martha Krasner's Volvo who is found dead not from the collision, but from a bullet wound.