Glynnis O'Connor

Three people are shot outside a video store, including the ski mask-wearing robber. The shooter, Joey Lee Field (Christopher Denham), is initially lauded as a hero. There are two other victims, a young man who was entering the store and Rebecca Kurtz, a six year old who was in the store with her sister Missy (Ari Graynor). Rebecca is on life support, but the case becomes much more complicated when they discover she has gonorrhea. Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) question her parents and her father Peter (Dan Lauria) is the initial suspect, but he is cleared. Next, the detectives discover Missy, who was adopted after years of abuse and foster care, also has the disease.

A woman signs for a package from RME Delivery, it's empty, and the deliveryman is shot on her doorstep. Detectives Briscoe and Green have a tough time figuring out who sent the empty package, because no ID was required. The victim is John Byrne, so they talk to his widow Adele, who is grief-stricken. She said he was working a lot of overtime, but when they go to John's workplace, he did not work any overtime at all. In fact, he called in sick quite often. The Detectives talk to John's best friend at work and he hints that John had some extracurricular activities on the side. The first lady they talk to says she broke it off because he was cheating on her with other women. They obtain motel footage of John and one of his "dates" in an argument outside of one of the motel rooms.

When a man hears gun shots in his neighbor's home and calls 911, Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Curtis (Benjamin Bratt) find themselves investigating the murder of a wealthy man and his very young daughter. The wife and mother of the deceased seems to know a lot more than she lets on. District Attorneys McCoy (Sam Waterston) and Carmichael (Angie Harmon) hit a snag in the case when important evidence cannot be obtained because of unusual circumstances. S. Epatha Merkerson and Steven Hill also star.

When a fiftysomething wife and mother is found beaten to death in a hospital, Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) search for an elusive silver-haired gigolo (guest star Mark Pinter) who romances a string of rich elderly women and receives expensive gifts -- including the victim's heirloom jewelry. But the investigation takes a startling turn when prosecutors McCoy (Sam Waterston) and Carmichael (Angie Harmon) begin interviewing potential witnesses, including the victim's contentious son (guest star Bradley White, "Mad About You"), daughter (guest star Missy Yager, "The Mike O'Malley Show") and Alzheimer's-afflicted husband (guest star George Martin). S. Epatha Merkerson and Steven Hill also star.

Virginia Boone looks like a bag lady but lives in a penthouse with a spectacular view on the Upper East Side. She is found stabbed to death inside her apartment building, but robbery is not the motive. Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) talk to a tenant in her building, Stefan Havel (Conrad John Schuck), but he doesn't provide much information. They also talk to Martha Taylor (Linda Thorson), who owns the pricey custom dress shop on the ground floor. Taylor, it turns out, not only lives in the building but owns it as well. Virginia worked as a school cafeteria worker and had very little money. Her rent, $362 a month, was unheard of, even though it was rent controlled because she had lived there since 1969. Rents for an apartment like hers in that area run between $6,000 and $8,000 a month. Now the Detectives suspect someone killed her to get her out of the apartment.