Law & Order Season 9 Episode Guide
Plot summaries for the ninth season of Law & Order, which aired on NBC from September 1998 to May 1999, featuring Det. Lennie Briscoe, Det. Rey Curtis, Lt. Anita Van Buren, Executive ADA Jack McCoy, ADA Abbie Carmichael and DA Adam Schiff.
- 1
Cherished
A little girl dies days after her adoption, her troubled older brother is arrested, and new ADA Abbie Carmichael follows the case back to the couple and the Russian doctor who passed along a dying child.
- 2
DWB
The dragging death of a Black man is traced to white patrol officers, and McCoy fights both the U.S. Attorney and Schiff to prosecute the officer who bought immunity with his testimony.
- 3
Bait
A suburban teenager’s lies about a shooting hide his work as an unregistered informant, and McCoy goes after the narcotics detective who ignored a warning that his snitch was about to be killed.
- 4
Flight
A child’s death from an exotic bacterium first looks like bioterrorism, then points to his father, and McCoy charges the company that mailed the germ to get the proof he needs.
- 5
Agony
The torture of a recently separated woman leads to a traveling serial killer who trades six bodies for a plea deal, before new evidence shows he may not be the man who attacked her.
- 6
Scrambled
An embryologist dies when she walks in on a break-in at a fertility clinic, and the trail leads to a wealthy woman who wanted her late ex-husband’s frozen embryos gone before his young widow could carry them.
- 7
Venom
A paid society escort is shot outside a charity concert, and the detectives learn the bullet was meant for the wealthy widow beside him, whose secret young lover turns out to be her son.
- 8
Punk
A corrections officer is executed in a Manhattan playground, and the case leads to a women’s prison, where an inmate Carmichael once sent away says the guard had been raping her.
- 9
True North
A software executive and his young daughter are shot in their townhouse, and suspicion turns to his Canadian wife, whose escape across the border sets off a standoff with Canada over the death penalty.
- 10
Hate
A 16-year-old girl is beaten to death by the neo-Nazi friends she wanted to impress, and McCoy charges the white supremacist whose speeches inspired them with murder.
- 11
Ramparts
Police divers looking for a gun in the Hudson find a 1960s VW bus with a skeleton inside, and the 30-year-old murder of a campus radical turns out to involve an undercover police unit.
- 12
Haven
The beating death of a reformed gang member who runs a Harlem youth center leads to the first student from the neighborhood to reach an Ivy League school.
- 13
Hunters
A paroled car thief is found shot in the trunk of a towed car, and the hunt for his fugitive brother-in-law pits the detectives against a pair of bounty hunters who leave two more people dead.
- 14
Sideshow
A former White House staffer is found dead in Battery Park, and a joint investigation with Baltimore homicide draws McCoy into a fight with an Independent Counsel who wants his secret witness.
- 15
Disciple
A teenage girl dies of internal injuries after being left in a hospital waiting room, and the trail leads to a homemade exorcism run by a former nun who says she hears the voice of Saint Michael.
- 16
Harm
The beating of a retired divorce lawyer leads Carmichael to a busy gynecology practice where a patient died after an equipment saleswoman ran an unapproved fluid pump during routine surgery.
- 17
Shield
When a detective is gunned down during a stakeout, suspicion falls on the fellow officer he had been beating, and her trial exposes how the department ignored her complaints.
- 18
Juvenile
The shooting of a star newspaper columnist leads back to the 1978 death of a Broadway actress, a mobster wrongly imprisoned for it, and a killer who was a juvenile at the time.
- 19
Tabula Rasa
A philosophy professor goes under a subway train after recognizing a Cincinnati money manager as the man who disappeared with his two young daughters 15 years earlier.
- 20
Empire
A powerful bond analyst dies after a massive Viagra dose, and a charity fundraiser with her own angle helps the DA’s office go after the developer behind a new stadium.
- 21
Ambitious
An audio installer is beaten to death after leaving a strip club, and the trail leads to the son of a jailed mob boss who has been extorting the club’s owners.
- 22
Admissions
A math graduate student is found strangled behind her university library, and suspicion moves from a paroled rapist to her celebrated adviser before settling on two fellow students.
- 23
Refuge, Part 1
A traffic stop ends with a dead gunman and a mutilated body in the trunk, and the case leads through a traumatized 10-year-old witness to the Russian mob and a Moscow bank.
- 24
Refuge, Part 2
After a prosecutor and a child witness’s mother are murdered, McCoy follows the Russian mob’s money to a New York banker shipping planeloads of U.S. cash to Moscow.