Special appearances are made by Richard Belzer, Kyle Secor, and Andre Braugher as Detectives John Munch, Tim Bayliss, and Frank Pembleton. It is included on the third disc of the Season Six DVD set. This episode begins a crossover with Homicide: Life on the Street that concludes in " For God and Country". McCoy finds that his career is on the line when his former assistant and ex-lover accuses him of concealing evidence that helped put an innocent man in prison.Ī subway station gas attack, similar to one that took place in a Baltimore church five years earlier, brings Baltimore homicide detectives Tim Bayliss and Frank Pembleton to New York to assist Briscoe and Curtis in apprehending the prime suspect in both incidents.
The death of a show horse leads to a trial involving insurance fraud, a sting operation, and a wealthy woman's disappearance. The victim in a 30-year-old rape and stabbing case is fearful when information received by Briscoe and Curtis creates the possibility of a new trial for the perpetrator. The investigation into a prostitute's murder leads to a married plastic surgeon as the obvious suspect, but Kincaid has a hunch that an elaborate frame-up is in play.Ī mother, claiming that her baby was kidnapped while she was at confession, retraces her steps and actions with Curtis, which raises legal questions later when her attorney introduces a unique defense.Ī hidden anti-Semitic message in a high school yearbook offers a clue to an art teacher's murder and leads to a case that matches McCoy against "Klan lawyer" Roy Payne. Based on the Dunster House murder suicide and the Gina Grant case, both at Harvard University.
When the detectives solve a series of murders committed by a holdup male and female team in ski masks, McCoy must determine whether Leslie Harlan, the female member is an unwilling hostage or an active participant in the crimes.īriscoe and Curtis try to solve a co-ed's murder after a graphic description appears online, while McCoy finds himself up against a lawyer who is reluctant to reveal elements of her client's past. Detectives find out that the victim's brother Peter tried to sabotage the victim's reputation and business to gain new clients for his own, competing business, but when forensics evidence is ruled inadmissible, McCoy and Kincaid must refocus their case, leading to a case of sibling rivalry, a protective matriarch, and a corrupt judge Edgar Hynes. McCoy and Kincaid clash over the death penalty as McCoy prosecutes Paul Sandig, a man who murdered Bobby Croft, an undercover cop during a drug bust.Ī dead editor Eddie Nicodos reveals a family dispute over the family business. Reynaldo Curtis, investigate the murder of Jody Gaines, a young girl who disappeared between school and her music lesson, with a blurry film from an ATM as their clue.īriscoe and Curtis have a hard time finding cooperative witnesses when investigating the murder of Thomas Bell, a college student at a rough biker bar.