After a baby girl is found dead, Briscoe and Curtis investigate the family and learn that her adopted family and brother were trying to keep some painful secrets. Jack gets a new partner, Abbie Carmichael, who had a 95% conviction rate in her four years with Special Narcotics. Together McCoy and Carmichael try to prove that the little girl's brother committed the crime.

• First episode to feature Angie Harmon as Assistant District Attorney Abbie Carmichael.

After Detectives Briscoe and Curtis find a murdered postman and Kitty Lansing a woman who was left for dead in her apartment, the investigation leads to a serial killer and a surprise.

• Clips from this episode is shown during an episode of Friends.

Three years after being reassigned to Staten Island for punching a corrupt politician, Mike Logan gets a chance to redeem himself when he takes on a murder case that leads him back to the 27th Precinct.

• John Fiore's last appearance as Detective Tony Profaci, whom Fiore appeared as in a recurring role since the series debuted.

The killing of Stuart Whitman a professional escort leads Briscoe and Curtis to a case involving the relationships between a young man and two older women.

• Based on the Sante and Kenny Kimes case.

The murder of Charles Tyner, a corrections officer, leads detectives to a women's prison where a guard was linked to an inmate Carmichael put away on drug charges and a confrontation with defense attorney Danielle Melnick. Briscoe and Curtis arrest the inmate’s boyfriend on suspicion after the murder weapon is found in his car, but the inmate refuses to divulge what she knows. Carmichael manages to break the inmate’s resolve, and she admits her boyfriend killed Tyner.

Evidence points Briscoe and Curtis in the direction of a white supremacist youth gathering after the brutal beating and murder of Christina Osborne a high school girl.

• Episode was dedicated to Charles E. Rose, former Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York,^[12] with the epitaph "He made the world a safer place".

When Briscoe and Curtis discover that a high-level federal official found murdered in Battery Park was recently transferred from Baltimore, they team up with Baltimore homicide detectives. The joint investigation reveals that the victim was involved in an affair with another high-level government official, whose career will be destroyed if the relationship becomes public. The Independent Counsel summons McCoy and his Baltimore counterpart, Ed Danvers, to Washington and demands that McCoy reveal his source or be jailed for contempt. Briscoe and Curtis apprehend the suspect, but the FBI claims jurisdiction and the suspect evades trial, if not justice.

• This is part one of a two-part episode that concludes on Homicide: Life on the Street.
• This was the last time Law & Order and Homicide featured a crossover, as the latter series was cancelled at the end of the season.
• Guest stars: Richard Belzer as John Munch; Željko Ivanek as A.S.A. Ed Danvers; Michael Michele as Rene Sheppard.

The investigation into the non-fatal shooting of newspaper columnist Gerald Fox leads to a murder case from the 1970s, where a promiscuous actress fell from her balcony and her boyfriend was convicted. Fox apparently found proof that acquitted the boyfriend and implicated the victim’s son and daughter, who at the time had been juveniles. When evidence indicates the daughter killed the actress and the son shot Fox to try and protect her, both are arrested. McCoy discovers that the daughter killed the actress to have the boyfriend to herself. The daughter is indicted for both her mother’s murder and the assault on Fox.

• Pre-end credits text states the son was serving his sentence at Clinton Correctional Facility and the daughter was acquitted for the shooting of Fox. The last time these cards were used was the season 7 episode "Barter" and the season 1 episode "The Violence of Summer".

The death of womanizing corporate mogul Gilbert Sanderson, caused by an overdose of a sexual performance-enhancing drug leads to a case with a witness that puts Curtis in a compromising position as they try to build a case against a rival CEO. This leads to the prosecution calling Curtis’s character into question, but he stands firm and successfully rebuffs the allegations, and Sanderson’s rival is convicted of murder.

The murder of Donny Gibson an audio installation salesman leads the detectives to a case with connections to the Italian mafia. When the murder is linked to both the son of an Italian mob boss and the co-owners of a strip club, shady business and blackmail soon come to light. The son is charged with murder and McCoy promises the partners protection after they agree to testify, but after the son’s attorney exposes the bad business, he is forced to go back on his word and send them to prison, which could possibly endanger their lives.

McCoy must connect defendants who are part of the Russian mob with a money-laundering operation before vital evidence is destroyed - and any more witnesses are found dead. Meanwhile, Detective Rey Curtis leaves the 27th Precinct to take care of his wife who suffers from MS.

• Final regular appearance of Benjamin Bratt in the series.