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.
Several people are murdered, and Goren and Eames must find what connects them. (S2, ep 1)
Goren and Eames go up against a determined father and his gifted child while investigating the death of a social worker and the deputy mayor. (S2, ep 2)
A university president is killed and the suspects include a professor who wants a chairman position, a grad student, and a lecturer from Oxford. (S2, ep 3)
Best Defense: When an assistant district attorney acts in self-defence and kills a hit man in his home, the detectives attempt to find who ordered the hit on the ADA's life. (S2, ep 4)
The death of a young mother in front of her children while they're in Chinatown points the detectives towards past events at Tiananmen Square. (S2, ep 5)
The murder of two deliverymen leads to a scheme to make money from drugs and a man's standing in his church community. (S2, ep 6)
The detectives investigate a triple murder, including the son and daughter of a wealthy businessman.
Goren and Eames find themselves on the trail of radical Muslims who will do anything to accomplish the next lesson for America. (S2, ep 8)
The investigation into the murder of a Jewish woman turns towards her family once Goren and Eames find out about her husband's affair. (S2, ep 9)
When a mob-related father-son murder-suicide doesn't hold true, detectives Goren and Eames find a connection to a nobody younger brother. (S2, ep 10)
The death by vicious beating of an airline supervisor seems to point toward the men she's complained to management for harassment. (S2, ep 11)
After the owner of a hotel is found submerged in her bathtub, evidence seems to indicate that the woman's death was the work of her daughter. (S2, ep 12)
A psychiatrist is stabbed to death one night in a park adjoining Gracie Mansion and the killer seems to be a hostile schizophrenic from a nearby homeless shelter. (S2, ep 13)
Detectives Goren and Eames are investigating the murders of several homeless people. (S2, ep 14)
Soon after a notorious "Yuppie Killer" leaves prison, his mother is found dead. (S2, ep 15)
A millionaire ex-con's wife is murdered the night of his release and as the detectives piece together a complex case. (S2, ep 16)
Esteemed former Senator Randolph Kittridge succumbs to cancer while his son and daughter wrangle over his will. (S2, ep 17)
After a father and son are found dead, Goren and Eames find everyone in the victims' neighbourhood strangely reluctant to cooperate. (S2, ep 18)
Goren and Eames try to unravel a deadly mystery after an elderly woman dies in a fire and bequeaths some of her estate to a young woman who is subsequently murdered. (S2, ep 19)
The murder of a young collegian leads to the world of gambling and a man without fear. (S2, ep 20)
An investigation into the murder of a probation officer leads Goren and Eames into the world of Irish Travellers. (S2, ep 21)
The murder of a crooked cop puts detectives on the trail of a clean doctor whose ex-girlfriends all seem to be afflicted with a zoonotic disease. (S2, ep 22)
The team's investigation of a possible anthrax conspiracy forces Goren to confront his nemesis.