NYPD detectives of the Major Case Squad use unconventional methods to solve crimes. Like its predecessor, the original `Law & Order', its storylines are often based on real-life headlines, and it features a cadre of quirky cops whose mission it is to find the criminals and make them pay.
Following the murder of a mortician and a grisly find of corpses at a crematorium, the team investigate a family man they suspect to be a contract killer.
When a social worker and a deputy mayor are murdered, the prime suspects are a couple whose child was taken from them by the authorities.
The murders of a university president and his assistant lead the team to an African-American professor who is a candidate for chair of the department.
When an assistant DA confronts and kills a gunman hired to kill him, the detectives try and find out who wanted the ADA dead.
A Chinese woman is shot dead in Chinatown after she threatened to expose a criminal from her homeland.
The hijacking of a pharmaceutical truck and the murder of its driver and passenger lead to a pharmacist who is tampering with cancer medication.
The detectives investigate a triple murder, including the son and daughter of a wealthy businessman.
While searching for a missing woman, Goren and Eames uncover a cell of terrorist suicide bombers.
A businesswoman becomes a suspect in the murder of her daughter-in-law, who was strangled in her garage.
Goren and Eames try to connect a psychic to a double murder.
An airport baggage supervisor is killed when her car stalls; the finger of suspicion points towards her colleagues.
The owner of one of the city's most elegant hotels is killed and her daughter is the prime suspect.
Detectives Goren and Eames come to believe a doctor performed experiments on the residents of a halfway house.
An investigation into the death of a homeless man uncovers a massive insurance company scam.
A man released from prison becomes the prime suspect in a murder investigation when his mother is killed.
A rich, white, ex-con, just released from prison, watches those close to him get killed - but is it an accident?
A powerful senator dies and his daughter is killed shortly afterwards.
Several young boys are threatened and ultimately disappear, leading the detectives to a man who is running a bicycle theft ring.
After an elderly woman dies in a house fire, Goren and Eames investigate the subsequent death of a young neighbour who had befriended her.
A young maths prodigy is murdered uncovering an intricate gambling scam.
The black sheep from a family of grifters is murdered.
The detectives investigate a doctor who takes revenge on his dates by infecting them with rare viruses.
The team's investigation of a possible anthrax conspiracy forces Goren to confront his nemesis.