Law & Order
Season 4
Episodes
E01
Sweeps
September 15, 1993
A guest is murdered on-air on a controversial talk show. Meanwhile Logan and Briscoe have a new boss, Lt. Anita Van Buren, and Stone gets a new collague; the police and district attorney attempt to prosecute the show's abrasive host.
E02
Volunteers
September 29, 1993
A disruptive, unbalanced homeless man is found severely beaten in an alley of the middle class neighborhood he calls home, leading Stone to try and prosecute one of the residents for premeditated murder.
E03
Discord
October 6, 1993
A college student charges an admittedly promiscuous rock star with rape, but he claims the act was consensual.
E04
Profile
October 13, 1993
Stone finds himself up against an ambitious black lawyer defending a white, racist serial killer.
E05
Black Tie
October 20, 1993
The police suspect a cover up when they receive an anonymous tip that a wealthy man was murdered by his wife, who refuses to allow an autopsy after a physician declares that the death occurred from natural causes.
E06
Pride and Joy
October 27, 1993
A 17-year-old boy becomes the chief suspect in the murder of his father, raising questions of self-defense and abuse that the family does not want to face.
E07
Apocrypha
November 3, 1993
Stone and Kincaid try to prove that the young woman believed to have planted a bomb in a parking garage had been brainwashed and was acting under the direct orders of a charismatic cult leader.
E08
American Dream
November 9, 1993
A skeleton unearthed at a building site resurrects one of Stone's old cases, and brings him face to face with the tenacious, brilliant culprit, who is seeking a new trial.
E09
Born Bad
November 16, 1993
A lawyer decides to defend her teenage client charged with murder as an adult with the claim that he's violent because of a genetic predisposition due to an extra Y chromosome.
E10
The Pursuit of Happiness
December 1, 1993
A "green-card" bride from Russia is suspected of murdering her rich, but cold husband, who was threatening to divorce her just weeks before she would qualify to remain in this country.
E11
Golden Years
January 5, 1994
An emaciated elderly woman is found dead of an apparent heart attack and her granddaughter is charged with neglect and grave indifference to human life.
E12
Snatched
January 12, 1994
A millionaire friend of Schiff's won't cooperate with the police following his son's kidnapping.
E13
Breeder
January 19, 1994
While investigating a woman's claim that she passed out in a taxi and awoke to find her newborn missing, Briscoe and Logan uncover a scam involving private adoptions.
E14
Censure
February 2, 1994
A phone call threatening a woman's young daughter leads to a case that causes Kincaid to resign from Schiff's office because of an affair in her past.
E15
Kids
February 9, 1994
A 14-year-old's shooting death involves the son of a former police detective, who's also an old friend of Briscoe's.
E16
Big Bang
March 2, 1994
A scientist becomes the chief suspect when his estranged wife, who's been delaying divorce proceedings, is the victim of a letter bomb.
E17
Mayhem
March 9, 1994
During a 24-hour period, Briscoe and Logan have a heavy caseload that includes 5 unrelated murders and a domestic quarrel, which results in the maiming of the husband.
E18
Wager
March 30, 1994
Briscoe and Logan bet that the killing of a star athlete's father is linked to gambling debts and threats to the baseball player's family.
E19
Sanctuary
April 13, 1994
A black minister fans the flames of racial intolerance after a hit-and-run in Harlem claims the life of a 12-year-old and the Jewish driver isn't indicted.
E20
Nurture
May 4, 1994
Briscoe and Logan investigate the disappearance of a child from her abusive foster home and find her being held by a loving but disturbed woman who insists she has acted only for the child's own good.
E21
Doubles
May 18, 1994
An assailant breaks the wrist of a tennis player prior to a tournament, and a competitor is among the suspects.
E22
Old Friends
May 25, 1994
A truck hits a pedestrian and the investigation reveals the victim's link to a baby-food company in which a new partner has connections to the Russian mob.