Season 5 (1994)
Release date: 1994-09-21
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Episodes (23):
1. Second Opinion
A woman's death exposes an unorthodox method of treating cancer that Executive Assistant DA McCoy intends to prove is negligent homicide.
Release date: 1994-09-21
2. Coma
A comedy-club owner comes under suspicion for having shot his wife, now comatose with a bullet in her head, after it's discovered he was abusive and she was about to divorce him.
Release date: 1994-09-28
3. Blue Bamboo
The killing of a Japanese nightclub owner who was visiting New York leads to the arrest of a singer who once worked for the deceased, and whose lawyer uses the ""battered-woman syndrome"" as a defense.
Release date: 1994-10-05
4. Family Values
After it's determined that a wealthy woman did not commit suicide but was murdered, the detectives question both her first and second husbands and her teenage daughter.
Release date: 1994-10-12
5. White Rabbit
A routine investigation uncovers evidence that leads Briscoe and Logan to a long-time fugitive, a radical Vietnam War opponent on the run since a 1971 burglary that left a policeman dead.
Release date: 1994-10-19
6. Competence
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.
Release date: 1994-11-02
7. Precious
When Briscoe and Logan suspect that a missing infant may have been murdered by her parents rather than kidnapped, they uncover a terrible family secret which hides a mentally ill serial killer.
Release date: 1994-11-09
8. Virtue
McCoy uses a charge of ""larceny by extortion"" against a councilman, whose former colleague claims he demanded sex in exchange for a law-firm partnership.
Release date: 1994-11-23
9. Scoundrels
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.
Release date: 1994-11-30
10. House Counsel
The killing of 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.
Release date: 1995-01-04
11. Guardian
After the body of a young female junkie is identified as the daughter of a wealthy family, Briscoe and Logan try to find out who left her to die in the yard of a day-care center.
Release date: 1995-01-11
12. Progeny
The investigation into the killing of an abortion clinic doctor leads to an activist group led by a former priest.
Release date: 1995-01-25
13. Rage
A Wall Street broker accused of murdering his mentor uses the defense of ""black rage"" in court.
Release date: 1995-02-01
14. Performance
Briscoe and Logan set out to identify the apparent victim in a snuff film, but find her alive and really the victim of a points-for-sex club at her prestigious high school.
Release date: 1995-02-08
15. Seed
A routine investigation into a woman's death leads Briscoe and Logan to a fertility doctor guilty of unethical practices, but who cannot apparently be touched because of confidentiality rules, and patient reluctance to talk.
Release date: 1995-02-15
16. Wannabe
The shooting of a board member of an exclusive private school leads to a blue-collar family and a classist system.
Release date: 1995-03-15
17. Act of God
A bomb at a construction site kills a 12-year-old boy, and the suspects include the bankrupt contractor and a jealous husband.
Release date: 1995-03-22
18. Privileged
The investigation into a double murder leads to a young alcoholic whose family once lived in the victims' house and who had admitted to his AA group that he's had nightmares about killings.
Release date: 1995-04-05
19. Cruel and Unusual
The death of an autistic youth in custody reveals a multitude of unusual and possibly illegal therapies being used, but also parents reluctant to pursue a prosecution.
Release date: 1995-04-19
20. Bad Faith
Logan relives unhappy childhood memories when a friend is found dead, a presumed suicide, until the investigation reveals recent contact with a former priest, with a history of pedophilia.
Release date: 1995-04-26
21. Purple Heart
The investigation into a taxi driver's murder involves a loan shark, a forged check, a missing plumber and the victim's wife.
Release date: 1995-05-03
22. Switch
Suspects in a psychiatrist's murder include the victim's ex-husband, a patient suffering from multiple-personality disorder and her obstructive father.
Release date: 1995-05-17
23. Pride
A gay city councilman is murdered and the trail leads to a bigoted rival politician and a male prostitute.
Release date: 1995-05-24
Cast
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Nick Santora - Producer, Edwin Sherin - Executive Producer, David Black - Producer, Ed Zuckerman - Producer, Michael S. Chernuchin - Producer, Morgan Gendel - Producer, Gardner Stern - Producer, Jeremy R. Littman - Producer, Mark B. Perry - Producer, Michael Duggan - Producer, Robert Nathan - Producer, Robert Palm - Producer, Daniel Sackheim - Producer, Joseph Stern - Executive Producer, Eric Overmyer - Producer, Roz Weinman - Producer, Walon Green - Producer, Nicholas Wootton - Producer, William N. Fordes - Producer, Arthur W. Forney - Producer, Lewis Gould - Producer, Jeffrey L. Hayes - Producer, Kati Johnston - Producer, Gary Karr - Producer, Kathy McCormick - Producer, Barry Schindel - Producer, Richard Sweren - Producer, René Balcer - Executive Producer, Billy Fox - Producer, Peter Jankowski - Executive Producer, Arthur Penn - Executive Producer, William M. Finkelstein - Executive Producer, David Shore - Producer, Dick Wolf - Executive Producer