Season 4
22 episodes · first aired 1993-09-15
| Still | # | Title | Overview | Air date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Sweeps 1993-09-15 | A guest is murdered on-air on a controversial talk show. Meanwhile Logan and Briscoe have a new boss, Lt. Anita Van Buren, and Stone gets a new collague; the police and district attorney attempt to prosecute the show's abrasive host. | 1993-09-15 | 8.1 | |
| 02 | Volunteers 1993-09-29 | A disruptive, unbalanced homeless man is found severely beaten in an alley of the middle class neighborhood he calls home, leading Stone to try and prosecute one of the residents for premeditated murder. | 1993-09-29 | 7.6 | |
| 03 | Discord 1993-10-06 | A college student charges an admittedly promiscuous rock star with rape, but he claims the act was consensual. | 1993-10-06 | 7.8 | |
| 04 | Profile 1993-10-13 | Stone finds himself up against an ambitious black lawyer defending a white, racist serial killer. | 1993-10-13 | 8.1 | |
| 05 | Black Tie 1993-10-20 | The police suspect a cover up when they receive an anonymous tip that a wealthy man was murdered by his wife, who refuses to allow an autopsy after a physician declares that the death occurred from natural causes. | 1993-10-20 | 7.7 | |
| 06 | Pride and Joy 1993-10-27 | A 17-year-old boy becomes the chief suspect in the murder of his father, raising questions of self-defense and abuse that the family does not want to face. | 1993-10-27 | 7.8 | |
| 07 | Apocrypha 1993-11-03 | Stone and Kincaid try to prove that the young woman believed to have planted a bomb in a parking garage had been brainwashed and was acting under the direct orders of a charismatic cult leader. | 1993-11-03 | 6.2 | |
| 08 | American Dream 1993-11-09 | A skeleton unearthed at a building site resurrects one of Stone's old cases, and brings him face to face with the tenacious, brilliant culprit, who is seeking a new trial. | 1993-11-09 | 8.6 | |
| 09 | Born Bad 1993-11-16 | A lawyer decides to defend her teenage client charged with murder as an adult with the claim that he's violent because of a genetic predisposition due to an extra Y chromosome. | 1993-11-16 | 7.4 | |
| 10 | The Pursuit of Happiness 1993-12-01 | A "green-card" bride from Russia is suspected of murdering her rich, but cold husband, who was threatening to divorce her just weeks before she would qualify to remain in this country. | 1993-12-01 | 7.2 | |
| 11 | Golden Years 1994-01-05 | An emaciated elderly woman is found dead of an apparent heart attack and her granddaughter is charged with neglect and grave indifference to human life. | 1994-01-05 | 7.6 | |
| 12 | Snatched 1994-01-12 | A millionaire friend of Schiff's won't cooperate with the police following his son's kidnapping. | 1994-01-12 | 7.8 | |
| 13 | Breeder 1994-01-19 | While investigating a woman's claim that she passed out in a taxi and awoke to find her newborn missing, Briscoe and Logan uncover a scam involving private adoptions. | 1994-01-19 | 7.8 | |
| 14 | Censure 1994-02-02 | A phone call threatening a woman's young daughter leads to a case that causes Kincaid to resign from Schiff's office because of an affair in her past. | 1994-02-02 | 7.9 | |
| 15 | Kids 1994-02-09 | A 14-year-old's shooting death involves the son of a former police detective, who's also an old friend of Briscoe's. | 1994-02-09 | 7.5 | |
| 16 | Big Bang 1994-03-02 | A scientist becomes the chief suspect when his estranged wife, who's been delaying divorce proceedings, is the victim of a letter bomb. | 1994-03-02 | 7.9 | |
| 17 | Mayhem 1994-03-09 | During a 24-hour period, Briscoe and Logan have a heavy caseload that includes 5 unrelated murders and a domestic quarrel, which results in the maiming of the husband. | 1994-03-09 | 8.1 | |
| 18 | Wager 1994-03-30 | Briscoe and Logan bet that the killing of a star athlete's father is linked to gambling debts and threats to the baseball player's family. | 1994-03-30 | 7.3 | |
| 19 | Sanctuary 1994-04-13 | A black minister fans the flames of racial intolerance after a hit-and-run in Harlem claims the life of a 12-year-old and the Jewish driver isn't indicted. | 1994-04-13 | 7.8 | |
| 20 | Nurture 1994-05-04 | Briscoe and Logan investigate the disappearance of a child from her abusive foster home and find her being held by a loving but disturbed woman who insists she has acted only for the child's own good. | 1994-05-04 | 7.5 | |
| 21 | Doubles 1994-05-18 | An assailant breaks the wrist of a tennis player prior to a tournament, and a competitor is among the suspects. | 1994-05-18 | 6.9 | |
| 22 | Old Friends 1994-05-25 | A truck hits a pedestrian and the investigation reveals the victim's link to a baby-food company in which a new partner has connections to the Russian mob. | 1994-05-25 | 8.3 |
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