Law & Order: The First Year – The First Year

Greevey and Logan discover that a hospital is covering up an accomplished doctor's mistake which resulted in a patient's death. They later find out that the doctor might have been drunk at the time.

A woman claims she shot two punks on a subway car in self-defense, but investigators and prosecutors are not sure that they believe her.

A gay man with AIDS is accused of murdering another gay man. However, he claims that the victim also had AIDS, and that it was a mercy killing.

A young woman is sexually assaulted and eventually dies from her injuries. However, the only suspect is a charming, handsome businessman with a fiancée from a powerful New York family.

A family man is shot to death inside a parking garage. Police soon discover the crime was not a random act of violence. Stone tries to get one of the suspects to testify against the other.

The assault of a city councilman uncovers a scandal involving organized crime, elected city officials, and a deputy police commissioner.

A murder investigation leads detectives to a madam accused of running a prostitution ring disguised as a catering service.

A police officer is accused of planting a gun on an unarmed African-American youth that he shot. The victim was beloved in his community, but the investigation reveals that he may have also been a drug dealer.

Greevy and Logan's investigation of a preschooler's death leads back to her respectable, middle-class family, where they find the crack-addicted mother and her drug-addicted psychiatrist husband had been abusing their children.

Greevey and Logan investigate the suspicious death of a controversial artist involved in a sadomasochistic sex ring. The investigation leads to a city cultural affairs commissioner and a wealthy socialite dominatrix.

A young black girl claims to have been raped by white police officers. Police and prosecutors struggle to get the truth after an ambitious black congressman claims the investigation is a racially-motivated cover-up.

After an anti-abortion protester is killed in an abortion center bombing, detectives search for all of her potential co-conspirators.

A Police officer is shot to death on a rooftop in the dark; Logan and Greevey believe that Brutus Walker, a known criminal, was responsible, and a citywide manhunt is launched.

Stone temporarily dismisses rape charges against three defendants because the victim's testimony has too many holes. Greevey and Logan's subsequent reinvestigation uncovers a possible fourth assailant.

Stone makes a deal with a group of low-level mobsters when they offer to testify that a crime boss murdered a missing union leader. However, the prosecution's case unravels at trial, causing all parties involved to walk.

After crime boss Frank Masucci's murder case gets thrown out, Stone turns up the heat on the witnesses who played him in order to find charges against Masucci that will stick.

A twelve-year-boy is injured and his infant brother is killed by gunshots. The investigation reveals they were the accidental victims of a hit ordered by a drug dealer against a real estate broker.

Stone faces a Texas cowboy lawyer and a hostile community as he tries to prosecute a young man accused of murdering a drug dealer for raping the man's sister.

A businessman and his wife are killed. The couple's two sons emerge as the most likely suspects, but detectives later find business ties to the Russian mob.

Detectives and prosecutors face resistance from federal authorities as they pursue murder charges against a suspected IRA member serving time in federal prison, after he is suspected of killing another federal prisoner.

Greevey and Logan investigate when a man found unconscious on a park bench is later revealed to have had one of his kidneys removed. Stone then prosecutes a man who went to extreme measures to obtain the kidney for his dying daughter.

Captain Cragen ends up in the cross-hairs of an internal investigation into evidence tampering, and the DA's office is forced to put him in a precarious situation to implicate the conspirators.