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.
Loyalty - Part 1: Captain Ross is shot while working undercover with the Feds to bring down an arms dealer. Detective Nichols then joins Goren and Eames to find the shooter. (S9, ep 1)
Nichols and Eames continue their efforts to bring Captain Ross's killer to justice without the help of Goren, whose reckless actions threaten to get him fired. (S9, ep 2)
Detective Nichols matches wits with an Irish crime boss from his past when a police officer is killed on the island community of Broad Channel. (S9, ep 3)
The death of a dance student leads the Major Case Squad to a mentally unstable classmate who is in an obsessive relationship with one of the victim's rivals. (S9, ep 4)
An Iraq War veteran working as a bank manager is accused of killing an escort's boyfriend bent on extortion, but is he taking the fall to protect his buddy? (S9, ep 5)
A tormented social scientist haunted by his family's Holocaust past performs twisted social experiments on couples to test the limits of goodness in human nature. (S9, ep 6)
The Major Case Squad discovers that a nurse's aide and her firefighter boyfriend may be attacking and killing unassuming young women. (S9, ep 7)
A former baseball star is beaten to death with a baseball bat. Was he killed to cover up a secret about a death of a classmate at a prep school 22 years earlier? (S9, ep 8)
Nichols and Stevens discover an editor's murder is related to the Russian mob, but later learn of a relationship between the victim and the daughter of his replacement. (S9, ep 9)
A killer claims he is innocent of the murder he is about to be executed for and more doubt is soon cast on the situation when a copycat killer begins to strike. (S9, ep 10)
When the dead body of a student is found in her dorm room drained of blood, Nichols and Stevens are forced to turn to the dark side for answers. (S9, ep 11)
While investigating the murder of a catering business owner, Nichols and Stevens uncover evidence of an affair and a possible larger scandal. (S9, ep 12)
A Health and Human Resources employee trying to shake down the owners of a hospital dies under suspicious circumstances. (S9, ep 13)
Nichols investigates the death of an old family friend, which may be related to a fabled manuscript that dates back to the time of Christ. (S9, ep 14)
A promising young boxer who was just released from prison after participating in a dog-fighting ring is put back under the microscope. (S9, ep 15)
Detective Nichols reluctantly turns to his father for help as they race against time to find the potential next victim of a killer with three personalities. (S9, ep 16)