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Truth matters.
In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Checked Jul 22, 2026
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In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.
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Episode 1
A young girl is abducted in broad daylight, and the only link to the girl is an ex-convict who wants a deal before he's willing to talk.
Directed by Matthew PennWritten by Dick Wolf, David WilcoxGuest stars Wendy Hoopes, Lindsay Crouse, James Le Gros, Selenis Leyva, Adam Saunders, Brooke Smith, Angel Desai, Joseph Vincent Gay
Episode 2
Green and Fontana bring SVU Detective Olivia Benson onto their scene when a DOA has her number on his cell phone. This crossover starts on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S07E02 Design (I).
Directed by Jean de SegonzacWritten by Chris LevinsonGuest stars Estella Warren, Lynda Carter, Milena Govich, Mariska Hargitay, Paul Hecht, Leslie Hendrix, Ben Shenkman, Ami Brabson
Episode 3
Fontana and McCoy pursue a man believed to have murdered a young girl ten years earlier despite numerous obstacles.
Directed by Constantine MakrisWritten by Rick EidGuest stars Kristina Klebe, David Vadim, Raymond J. Barry, Jim Bracchitta, Leslie Hendrix, Connie Winston, Quentin Mare, John Dossett
Episode 4
The bombing death of a husband set to remove the feeding tube of his wife, who's in a persistent vegetative state, focuses the investigation on the protesters.
Directed by David PlattWritten by Davey HolmesGuest stars Selenis Leyva, David Lipman, Thomas Ryan, Derek Cecil, Beth Dixon, Peter Bradbury, John Aylward, Mary Bacon
Episode 5
Police turn their attention to the murder of an undercover reporter, but realise that the killer isn't as guilty as he appears.
Directed by Rosemary RodriguezWritten by Greg PlagemanGuest stars Karen Shallo, Jordan Charney, Leslie Hendrix, John Cariani, Gregory Weinberg, Tom Lacy, John Pieza, Reed Diamond
Episode 6
Teenage suspect Traci Sands dies in police custody after being arrested for the murder of the man who reported her to child protective services. Rodgers reveals that she died because someone outfitted her with a benecrine I.U.D. that reacted with Sands' sickle cell syndrome and ended up killing her. Fontana and Green follow the trail to a charitable clinic and nurse Gloria Rhodes, who believes she is saving the world by sterilizing women that she does not believe are worthy of having children. McCoy faces former assistant district attorney Paul Robinette in court as Robinette defends Rhodes.
Directed by Constantine MakrisWritten by David SlackGuest stars Richard Brooks, Heather Simms, Adepero Oduye, Myra Lucretia Taylor, Stephanie Roth Haberle, Karen Olivo, Miriam A. Hyman, Catrina Ganey
Episode 7
The team investigates the killing of a single mother and the abduction of her child.
Directed by Michael PressmanWritten by Wendy BattlesGuest stars Carolyn McCormick, David Little, Selenis Leyva, Pippa Pearthree, Jeannine Comeau, David Sajadi, William Peden, Becky Ann Baker
Episode 8
Detectives discover that the owner of a trucking company has been smuggling illegal aliens and suspect that a citizens border-patrol member has killed him.
Directed by Don ScardinoWritten by Nicholas WoottonGuest stars Selenis Leyva, Anita Flanagan, Daniel Roebuck, Aixa M. Rosario Medina, Michael Potts, Stephen Lang, Sheffield Chastain, John Henry Cox
Episode 9
The deaths of three women with the same name lead Fontana and Green to the nine-year-old conviction of Leland Barnes, who had shot and killed his wife in an office full of people. With two of the three witnesses against him dead and Jack McCoy on the hit list, the detectives struggle to determine how Barnes, who has been in prison the entire time, got someone on the outside to kill the only people who could keep him in jail. The investigation leads them to Leland's two sons, with surprising results.
Directed by Edwin SherinWritten by David WilcoxGuest stars Peter McRobbie, Maddie Corman, Thomas Sadoski, Johnathan Tchaikovsky, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Bruce Kirkpatrick, Spiro Malas, Valentina de Angelis
Episode 10
After the daughter of one of Van Buren's college friends is found dead in her room, a suicide, Van Buren joins Green and Fontana in hunting down the man who burned her face with acid months earlier, ultimately leading to her suicide. Van Buren is unsucces
Directed by Michael PressmanWritten by Richard SwerenGuest stars Doug Stender, Leslie Hendrix, Mark Zimmerman, Annie Corley, Elizabeth Lundberg, Stella Maeve, John Mese, George T. Odom
Episode 11
The case of a man who defiled a copy of the Torah turns into a religious battle for McCoy.
Directed by Rick WallaceWritten by Richard SwerenGuest stars Kevin O'Rourke, Paul Borghese, Selenis Leyva, Gerry Bamman, Leslie Hendrix, John Cariani, Sean McCourt, Libby George
Episode 12
After Philip and Valerie Messick are attacked in their home, Green and Fontana follow the trail to a small-time thug named Jay Fleckner. After Valerie's testimony unintentionally helps free Fleckner, he is found dead, and detectives soon realise that Bob Cerullo, a family friend of Valerie and her late husband, was the triggerman. Unfortunately, when McCoy attempts to prosecute Cerullo, a retired cop, he threatens to claim that he deliberately planted evidence in his past cases in an attempt to get McCoy to drop all the charges.
Directed by Jean de SegonzacWritten by Philippe BrowningGuest stars Mike Hodge, Amy Ryan, Vincent Guastaferro, Daniel Ahearn, Kelly AuCoin, Brad Calcaterra, Margaret Daly, Dov Davidoff
Episode 13
A journalist's suicide becomes suspect after Green and Fontana find evidence at the scene suggesting that it wasn't a suicide after all.
Directed by Richard DobbsWritten by Carter HarrisGuest stars Leslie Hendrix, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Susan Floyd, Ed Bogdanowicz, Lizzy Davis, John Rubinstein, Corey Stoll, Jessalyn Gilsig
Episode 14
Fontana and Green arrest a fellow student after a young man is murdered, but McCoy faces a tough adversary when he tries to prosecute the crime.
Directed by Adam BernsteinWritten by David BlackGuest stars Carolyn McCormick, Michael Mazzeo, Helmar Augustus Cooper, Harlin C. Kearsley, Charlotte Colavin, Robert Gerard Larkin, Harry Bouvy, Kathleen Turner
Episode 15
After the body of a teenage boy is found dead in a warehouse, detectives use DNA to connect the boy to a convicted rapist and serial killer, then to the boy's mother, Allison Ashburn, the convict's ex-wife. While trying to solve Danny's murder, Fontana and Green learn that he recently got his girlfriend Tina pregnant, and his mother had seen him recently when she had given him money despite having claimed she hadn't seen him for months. Allison finally admits that she murdered her son after the police arrest her new husband John, but claims she did it to save the world from her son, whom she was convinced would become a monster just like her father. Borgia and McCoy face an uphill battle trying to convict the perfect soccer mom.
Directed by Michael PressmanWritten by David WilcoxGuest stars Carolyn McCormick, Jordan Charney, Nicholas J. Giangiulio, Leslie Hendrix, Molly Price, Adam Grupper, Lauren Hodges, Penny Johnson Jerald
Episode 16
The case against a high powered executive accused of killing her lover rests on the executive's estranged husband and unstable teenage daughter.
Directed by Michael W. WatkinsWritten by Tom Smuts, Rick EidGuest stars André De Shields, Kenneth Tigar, Roma Maffia, Leslie Hendrix, Liz Larsen, Mark Kenneth Smaltz, Michael Shen, Lisa Zane
Episode 17
After Jeffrey Pope, a private military contractor, is found dead, suspicion eventually leads Green and Fontana to Robbie Howell, the younger brother of a man who died because of Pope's incompetance, and Kevin Boatman, Nick Howell's former co-worker who had witnessed the tragic events in Iraq.
Directed by Jean de SegonzacWritten by Richard SwerenGuest stars Tovah Feldshuh, Jeannine Comeau, Fran Lebowitz, Adam Scott, Pablo Schreiber, Luke Reilly, Barbara Dana, Andrew Dolan
Episode 18
Fontana and Green investigate when a bank manager is involved in the robbing of his own bank and learn that his daughter is being held hostage and that he had to go along with the robbery or risk losing his daughter.
Directed by Tony GoldwynWritten by Michael S. ChernuchinGuest stars Peter McRobbie, Leslie Hendrix, Peter Jacobson, Michael Countryman, Stephen Schnetzer, Teri Lamm, Amy J. Carle, Kevin T. Collins
Episode 19
When a teenage boy commits suicide after firing on a doctor and hitting an innocent party, Fontana and Green investigate why he was after the doctor to begin with.
Directed by Richard DobbsWritten by Sonny PostiglioneGuest stars Vondie Curtis-Hall, Jason Antoon, Alex Webb, Michael Mulheren, Leslie Hendrix, Jennifer Van Dyck, Portia, James DiSalvatore
Episode 20
After undercover cop Dana Baker is murdered, Fontana and Green learn that the man who killed her had discovered her identity after seeing a photograph of her.
Directed by Don ScardinoWritten by David SlackGuest stars Tim Miller, Robert Hogan, Selenis Leyva, Dylan Baker, Richard Hirschfeld, John Cariani, Garret Dillahunt, Sam Freed
Episode 21
Fontana and Green are called in to investigate when Green's former replacement, Nick Falco, is suspected of murdering a young woman he had spent the night with.
Directed by Jean de SegonzacWritten by Chris LevinsonGuest stars Michael Imperioli, Marylou Mellace, Richard Hirschfeld, John Cariani, Howard W. Overshown, Tonya Pinkins, Bambadjan Bamba, Kenya Brome
Episode 22
The family of a man who once turned his customers into the police is slain, and the ensuing fracas pits McCoy against a corrupt D.E.A. agent.
Directed by Matthew PennWritten by David Wilcox, Richard SwerenGuest stars Lynn Cohen, Bruce MacVittie, Karen Young, Daniel Benzali, David Rossmer, Edmund Wilkinson, Luke Robertson, Natalie Toro
Episode information updated Jul 23, 2026
Reid ScottVincent Riley
Anthony AndersonKevin Bernard
Tony GoldwynNicholas Baxter
Hugh DancyNolan Price
Odelya HaleviSamantha Maroun
Mehcad BrooksJalen Shaw
Benjamin BrattRey Curtis
Jesse L. MartinEd Green
NBCUnited States
Wolf EntertainmentUnited States
Universal TelevisionUnited States
Universal Media StudiosUnited States
