Leslie Denniston

When Frank's close friend, a high-profile reporter, is almost assaulted while in town investigating a story, Danny and Jackie attempt to track down her would-be attacker. Meanwhile, Jamie's undercover case comes to a head.

Alicia and Will deal with their growing sexual tension and Diane and Kurt McVeigh continue their flirtation. At the same time, Alicia defends a college student accused of killing her sorority sister while under the influence of a sleep aid.

Goren and Eames investigate the deaths of four young adults who, after making a suicide pact, parked their car on railroad tracks and waited for the inevitable.

The murder of an accountant who was a trustee at an exclusive boys school puts Briscoe and Logan (Jerry Orbach, Chris Noth) on the trail of a gifted young man (guest star Graham Sack).

Ronald Buck is found shot to death in a parking lot. He is a career criminal with an extensive rap sheet. Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) question his sister, Angela (Maggie Moore), and brother-in-law Tom (Joseph LaRocca), and find out he had a gambling problem and couldn't hold down a job. Checking into his most recent place of employment, they discover he had an argument with a "big guy" who said "he's not welcome at Donahue's anymore." They go to Donahue's, a hangout for bookies, and initially think Buck's murder could be mob related. But a former mobster in prison offers to help, checks out the murder scene and tells the Detectives that a hit of that kind would not have been done in an open parking lot. They are back to square one.