Law & Order Season 6 Episode Guide
Plot summaries for the sixth season of Law & Order, which aired on NBC from September 1995 to May 1996, featuring Det. Lennie Briscoe, Det. Rey Curtis, Lt. Anita Van Buren, Executive ADA Jack McCoy, ADA Claire Kincaid and DA Adam Schiff.
- 1
Bitter Fruit
A 12-year-old girl is abducted on the way to her piano lesson, and after her accused killer is shot dead at his arraignment, suspicion turns to the shooter: the girl’s own mother.
- 2
Rebels
An NYU student is stabbed to death in a biker bar, and the one witness the police can find says his online writing makes him a reporter who can keep his sources secret.
- 3
Savages
An undercover detective is shot dead, the killer turns out to be a respectable accountant, and the DA’s office must decide whether to seek New York’s newly restored death penalty.
- 4
Jeopardy
A triple shooting at a computer magazine points to the editor’s wealthy brother, but a judge dismisses the case midtrial, and the reason turns out to be a bribe.
- 5
Hot Pursuit
Police end a deadly robbery spree and free the gunman’s female partner, a Connecticut kidnapping victim, but McCoy believes she became a willing accomplice.
- 6
Paranoia
A Mount Amsterdam College student is stabbed to death in her dorm room, and suspicion shifts from an online stalker to her violinist roommate, whose sealed juvenile record becomes McCoy’s only way into court.
- 7
Humiliation
A street prostitute is shot dead in a Hell’s Kitchen alley with $2,000 in her purse, and the evidence points to a married plastic surgeon who admits paying her for sex.
- 8
Angel
Leah Coleman reports that her eight-month-old daughter was taken from her carriage while she was at confession, but a walk back through her morning with Curtis ends in a confession of a different kind.
- 9
Blood Libel
An art teacher at an elite public high school is strangled in her classroom after uncovering a teacher who sells grades, and an anti-Semitic message hidden in the yearbook points to a former class president.
- 10
Remand
An arsonist looking for a deal claims a notorious 30-year-old rape and stabbing was the work of a mob collector, setting off a retrial of the man Schiff convicted in 1965.
- 11
Corpus Delicti
A dead show horse leads detectives to a horse dealer who preys on wealthy widows, and McCoy tries to convict him of killing a woman whose body has never been found.
- 12
Trophy
Two new murders of Black boys lead to a confession that exposes a wrongful conviction McCoy won five years earlier, and Kincaid ends up prosecuting the colleague who hid the evidence.
- 13
Charm City
A chemical bomb on a downtown subway train kills 20 Black passengers, bringing Baltimore homicide detectives to New York and sending McCoy to try the case before a Westchester jury.
- 14
Custody
The killing of a corrupt social worker leads to a birth mother who took her son from his white adoptive family, and former ADA Paul Robinette defends her by putting the system on trial.
- 15
Encore
A jogger killed in Central Park proves to be Michael Dobson’s second wife, and years earlier the case over his first wife’s murder fell apart.
- 16
Savior
After a woman and her young son are shot dead in their beds and her teenage daughter is wounded, suspicion falls on the father, a heavy drinker who cannot account for the night.
- 17
Deceit
A closeted corporate lawyer is shot dead hours after threatening to sue the law firm that fired him for being gay, and suspicion settles on the senior partner who had been pursuing him.
- 18
Atonement
A young model disappears after an all-night party, and the limousine driver who killed her claims a crime of passion that covers for a drug dealer.
- 19
Slave
A woman is killed in her bed by a stray bullet fired from a nearby rooftop, and the shooter turns out to be a 13-year-old boy working for a crack dealer.
- 20
Girlfriends
A senior is found dead in her college library, and the search for a campus rapist turns into a case about a student escort ring and a father’s shoe business.
- 21
Pro Se
Three people are stabbed to death in a clothing store, and the schizophrenic suspect, a law school graduate, insists on defending himself.
- 22
Homesick
A five-month-old dies of nicotine poisoning after a jar of strained plums, and suspicion falls on his unhappy English au pair.
- 23
Aftershock
After watching the execution of a killer they caught and convicted, Briscoe, Curtis, McCoy and Kincaid each spend a hard day off that ends in tragedy.