The only way to save an abducted young girl may be an ex-convict and McCoy and Borgia have to decide whether he is trustworthy.
A mother-daughter con team comes under scrutiny from Fontana and Green who, in turn, bring in Olivia Benson who has worked against the duo before.
A dying criminal confesses to a decades old murder causing Fontana to reopen the case. Fontana had originally accused the father of his daughter's rape and murder and reopening the case also reopens old family wounds.
The detectives look into the death of a man precipitated by a car bomb after he decides to remove his wife's feeding tube. The suspects in the case are plenty as a crowd was in attendance protesting his actions and also include the wife's family and religious figures.
The case of a murdered prostitute takes a turn when the detectives discover that she was actually an undercover reporter.
A jail cell death causes a nurse practitioner to face criminal charges after an autopsy reveals a sterilizing agent in the woman's system. Former colleague Paul Robinette represents the accused.
When a young mother is murdered and her child kidnapped, the trail leads to a depressed wife who pretended to be pregnant herself. Ultimately, the case reveals that she may have had help in the crime.
An illegal alien smuggling ring ends with a murder of the trucking company owner at the hands of a citizens border patrolman.
Detectives try to string together clues in a series of murders that seem, at least on the surface, to be unrelated.
A scarred woman is found strangled to death and the case holds a personal tie as the victim is the daughter of Van Buren's friend.
The culprit behind the desecration of a religious text is murdered.
A retired police officer takes justice into his own hands after the murder of a friend.
Detectives must determine whether a journalist who drowned in his bathtub committed suicide or was murdered.
A bright student is found dead at a magnet school and police discover he was selling test answers. The police suspect a student of the murder, but the defense uses the excuse of pill intoxication.
A teenage boy is found shot dead in a building and the police trace the DNA back to a jailed serial rapist. Eventually, the boy's mother comes forward to admit her guilt, afraid that he would take after his father.
A well-established executive must rely on the testimony of her ex-husband and daughter to help prove her innocence in the murder of her lover.
Jack is forced to deal with a snag in his case against a man responsible for killing a military supplier when a terrorism aspect comes into play.
Fontana tries to obtain the whereabouts of a child through severe tactics, but the subsequent charge of unnecessary police force has McCoy trying to backpeddle.
A deadly shooting in a diner leads Detectives Fontana and Green to a desperate triggerman who sought revenge for his baby sister who died of AIDS at a children's hospital.
Following the death of a mob accountant, Detectives Fontanta and Green question a street thug who later turns out not guilty due to lack of evidence. When the real killer is murdered by an ex-cop and close friend of the victims, D.
Suspected of murder, a dead journalist’s girlfriend produces video footage that proves he cooperated in going forward with his own assisted death. Suspicious hand marks near the journalists shoulder area cause Detective Fontana and Green to believe there are missing pieces to the puzzle. After careful review A.D.A Borgia notices something on the tape that might shed some light on what actually happened to the depressed journalist
When an undercover police officer is murdered, fingers point to an Albanian drug dealer, whom she had been investigating for some time. As it turns out the officer’s name was published in a newspaper article that stated she was both the daughter of an author and NYPD. After more information surfaces, Detectives Fontana and Green go after Eric Lund, the chief of staff to a liberal politician.
Fontana and Green are called in to investigate when Green's former replacement, Nick Falco, is suspected of murdering a young woman he had spent the night with.
The family of a man who once turned his customers into the police is slain, and the ensuing fracas pits McCoy against a corrupt D.E.A. agent.