Law & Order Season 10 Episode Guide
Plot summaries for the tenth season of Law & Order, which aired on NBC from September 1999 to May 2000, featuring Det. Lennie Briscoe, Det. Ed Green, Lt. Anita Van Buren, Executive ADA Jack McCoy, ADA Abbie Carmichael and DA Adam Schiff.
- 1
Gunshow
A gunman with a converted machine pistol kills 15 people in Central Park, most of them women, and McCoy pursues both the shooter and the company that built the gun.
- 2
Killerz
A seven-year-old boy is killed near a highway construction site, and the case leads to a 13-year-old and a 10-year-old girl, setting McCoy against Dr. Olivet over what to do with the younger child.
- 3
DNR
A judge is gravely wounded in what looks like a carjacking, and as the case turns to her husband, she defends him while seeking to end her own treatment.
- 4
Merger
A teenage heiress is found dead behind her neighbors’ townhouse as her sister’s wedding approaches, and the investigation exposes secrets in two wealthy families.
- 5
Justice
The murder of a lawyer working on a death-row appeal suggests the wrong man was convicted, and McCoy finds Jamie Ross on the other side of the case.
- 6
Marathon
A daylight robbery-murder in upper Manhattan turns into a long chase as evidence against the suspect is thrown out piece by piece, and the strain splits Briscoe and Green.
- 7
Patsy
A woman left in a coma after an apparent rape had long accused one man of killing her sister, and the DNA case against him begins to look like a setup.
- 8
Blood Money
An elderly man dies in a taxi from a stab wound and a hidden gunshot, and his death exposes an insurance company’s effort to bury policies sold to Jewish families during World War II.
- 9
Sundown
A woman in the hospital for a biopsy is found beaten to death, and suspicion moves from a smooth con man to her daughter and finally to her husband, who has Alzheimer’s.
- 10
Loco Parentis
A high school student is found with his throat cut after selling candy door to door, and McCoy takes the untested step of charging the killer’s father with murder.
- 11
Collision
The death of a homeless woman with schizophrenia leads to a mentally ill drifter, and McCoy fights to have him medicated against his will so he can be tried.
- 12
Mother's Milk
Blood in an abandoned apartment leads to an infant who starved to death, and Carmichael chooses to try his young mother while the father takes a deal.
- 13
Panic
The shooting of a best-selling mystery writer and her business manager exposes her secret affair with a married female FBI agent, and the agent’s husband tries a “gay panic” defense.
- 14
Entitled
In the second half of a crossover with Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a mob hit man reveals that a killing pinned on a serial gunman was staged to protect a powerful family’s daughter.
- 15
Fools for Love
The bodies of two teenage girls lead to a serial rapist and his girlfriend, the older sister of one victim, and a plea deal with her comes back to haunt McCoy.
- 16
Trade This
The shooting of a junior broker uncovers a rigged internet stock, a staged harassment settlement and a mob family’s missing millions, and McCoy builds a death-penalty case with gangsters as his victims.
- 17
Black, White and Blue
A prep-school student is killed in Harlem after two patrol officers leave him there to teach him a lesson, and the prosecution of the officers turns into a fight over race, politics and venue.
- 18
Mega
A helicopter bombing that kills six is traced to a passenger’s wife and to the charismatic couple whose self-improvement circle has collected a fortune from her and her husband.
- 19
Surrender Dorothy
A teacher’s body in a car trunk leads to her father-in-law, a self-help author and therapist, and McCoy must decide whether her death was murder or a suicide he drove her to.
- 20
Untitled
The killing of a wealthy patron of transgressive art leads to a failed painter who claims a violent canvas she backed pushed him over the edge, and McCoy refuses to let the defense put art on trial.
- 21
Narcosis
A strangled madam is found near the massage parlor she ran with smuggled Chinese women, and the search for her killer moves from crooked vice cops to an online customer’s desperate family.
- 22
High & Low
A business student who secretly danced at strip clubs is raped and strangled in her dorm, and the trail runs from skinhead drug dealers to a banker leaking stock tips to a former porn star.
- 23
Stiff
A wealthy woman falls into a coma after an insulin injection, and the case turns from her husband’s secret sex game to a scheme by her daughter and her neurologist to reach her fortune.
- 24
Vaya Con Dios
An old man who spent decades hunting the people behind his son’s 1973 murder in Chile dies in a Manhattan stairwell, and McCoy goes after a retired Chilean colonel receiving medical care in New York.