Law & Order Season 2 Episode Guide
Plot summaries for the second season of Law & Order, which aired on NBC from September 1991 to May 1992, featuring Sgt. Phil Cerreta, Det. Mike Logan, Capt. Donald Cragen, Executive ADA Ben Stone, ADA Paul Robinette and DA Adam Schiff.
- 1
Confession
When Sgt. Max Greevey is murdered the night before he testifies to a grand jury, his grieving partner will do anything to catch the killer.
- 2
The Wages of Love
A double murder in a Manhattan bedroom leaves detectives choosing between a hot-tempered ex-boyfriend and a wife who says she still loved her husband.
- 3
Aria
A young acting student who never touched drugs dies of an overdose, repeating that she didn’t want to do it.
- 4
Asylum
A street stabbing leads police to two homeless men, and to a constitutional question about whether a cardboard shelter in Central Park counts as a home.
- 5
God Bless the Child
A little girl dies of a treatable infection because her parents’ church forbids doctors, and prosecutors must decide whether faith is a defense.
- 6
Misconception
A mugging that costs a young woman her pregnancy looks like a cover for something more deliberate.
- 7
In Memory Of
Workers renovating a brownstone find a child’s skeleton, and a 30-year-old missing-person case comes back to life.
- 8
Out of Control
A sophomore’s rape accusation against two fraternity brothers runs into a wall of silence and questions about her own past.
- 9
Renunciation
A hit-and-run that a witness says was deliberate points to a teacher’s affair with a 16-year-old student.
- 10
Heaven
A fire at a club for Central American immigrants kills 53 people, and the obvious suspect may not be the real one.
- 11
His Hour Upon the Stage
A body in a tuxedo, frozen for five years, revives the disappearance of a Broadway producer on the eve of his big hit.
- 12
Star Struck
A woman found beaten and strangled in Central Park turns out to be a daytime soap star.
- 13
Severance
A professional hit in a parking garage turns out to have been aimed at someone the police didn’t know was there.
- 14
Blood Is Thicker...
A society wife’s killing seems to fit a string of muggings, until her husband’s alibi and his mother’s influence start to look suspicious.
- 15
Trust
A boy’s death in a deserted warehouse is called a gun accident, but a sealed juvenile record suggests otherwise.
- 16
Vengeance
A young woman’s strangled body turns up on top of an elevator car, and the method matches two earlier unsolved killings.
- 17
Sisters of Mercy
A 16-year-old runaway arrested after a shooting accuses a nun at her rehab shelter of molesting her.
- 18
Cradle to Grave
A baby left in a box on an emergency-room floor turns out to have frozen to death at home.
- 19
The Fertile Fields
A diamond dealer’s burned body is found in an Upper West Side alley after witnesses see a group of Black teenagers running from the area.
- 20
Intolerance
A 17-year-old honors student from Chinatown is shot three times in a dead-end courtyard on his way home from school.
- 21
Silence
A well-liked city councilman falls from a bridge onto 10th Avenue, and the evidence suggests he was murdered first.
- 22
The Working Stiff
A Wall Street takeover legend is shot in the head at his trading desk before dawn.