Law & Order (season 3)

After photographer Julian Decker is found murdered in his studio, Logan and Cerreta discover that Decker's real business was prostitution and acting as a pimp for models who aren't getting the work they needed. Their investigation leads to Angela Brandt, one of Decker's models who found more money working for Decker in other ways, but they also discover that Decker was romantically involved with Angela's teenage daughter. Stone realizes that something strange is going on when the case gets weaker against Angela, but all of a sudden she wants to cut a deal.

• Gina Torres guest-stars as Laura Elkin, who finds Decker's body.

After Marcus Tate, the respected leader of a controversial African-American rights movement, is assassinated at a rally, Logan and Cerreta attempt to get information on the crime but are stonewalled by many of Tate's followers, who aren't interested in talking to white police officers. Photographs lead them to Mitchell Kolbin, a white man who had followed Tate religiously but who seemed to lose some of his wonderment when Tate began an affair with his wife.

• Eric Bogosian, who guest-stars as defense attorney Gary Lowenthal, would later star in Law & Order: Criminal Intent as NYPD Major Case Squad Captain Danny Ross. Bogosian reprised his role as Lowenthal in "Night and Fog".

Logan has trouble dealing with Lennie Briscoe (Jerry Orbach), who has been brought in while Cerreta recovers from surgery during their investigation of the murder of Tommy Duff, a small-time hood. Their investigation leads them to a woman who claims Duff raped her, and when her attorney, an old friend of Stone's from law school, calls Olivet to the stand to testify in Mary Kostrinski's defense, Schiff forces Stone to use Olivet's recent rape (from the episode Helpless) to discredit her testimony. Logan is upset to learn that Cerreta has accepted another position within the department and will not be returning, in the end of the episode, Logan has no choice but to accept Briscoe as his new partner.

• The first appearance of Jerry Orbach as Senior Detective Lennie Briscoe and the last appearance of Paul Sorvino as Senior Detective Sergeant Phil Cerreta.

An engineer Phillip Marietta and a tribal chief Gimju Nwaka become the chief suspects in the death of Kelani Amoda a Nigerian woman who died while smuggling heroin internally.

• This episode was later remade as Law & Order: UK season 2 episode titled "Love and Loss".

The confession of an elderly man that he assisted his shoah survivor wife in committing suicide doesn't fully satisfy Stone when evidence surfaces that the man was once a Nazi collaborator.

• Nehemiah Persoff guests stars as David Steinmetz.

The investigation into the murder of Jennifer Gorham a young physician leads to the discovery of an unorthodox and illegal relationship between her fiancé and his psychiatrist.

• This episode was later remade as Law & Order: UK season 4 episode titled "ID".

Stone and the police battle the closed ranks of the Navy to investigate the death of Tracy Hagen a female Naval officer during a party in a Manhattan hotel.

• Based on the 1991 Tailhook scandal[17]

The statement of a drug dealer who survived a shoot-out that killed a cop leads Logan and Briscoe to suspect that the cop died because he was gay and his fellow officers were reluctant to back him up.

• This episode was later remade as the Law & Order: UK season 2 episode titled "Samaritan".

Logan and Briscoe begin their investigation into the death of Kathleen McKenna a hearing-impaired young woman by questioning her two most recent boyfriends.

• Last appearances of Dann Florek as Captain Don Cragen and Richard Brooks as Assistant District Attorney Paul Robinette as series regulars.