Law & Order: Season 10

1999 · 24 episodes · ★ 7.4

What Season 10 of Law & Order

The season opens with a wave of gunfire in Central Park. Detective Briscoe is assigned a new partner, Eddie Green, and together they trace the origin of the murder weapon. Meanwhile, McCoy, an assistant district attorney, must bring the killer and the gun manufacturer to justice. Cases follow one after another: a judge shot, a teenager linked to drugs and a wealthy family, a lawyer who returns to defense work. The tension between Briscoe and Green grows over their age difference, and McCoy faces influential families who complicate her prosecutions.

24episodes

Sep 22, 1999premiered

May 24, 2000latest episode

18.1 hrtotal runtime

Season 10 Episodes

10x01 Gunshow
Sep 22, 1999 · 46 min · ★ 7.3
A murderer's shooting spree in Central Park prompts Briscoe and his new partner, Detective Eddie Green, to trace the murder weapon's origination; McCoy makes it his mission to punish the killer and the gun manufacturer.
Directed by: Edwin Sherin · Written by: René Balcer · Starring: Christine Farrell, Peter Gerety, Neal Huff, Murphy Guyer
10x02 Killerz
Sep 29, 1999 · 45 min · ★ 7.9
Briscoe and Green believe a 10-year-old is responsible for a child's death, and McCoy wants her isolated to stop any future fatalities.
Directed by: Constantine Makris · Written by: Richard Sweren · Starring: Carolyn McCormick, Hallee Hirsh, Luba Mason, Madeline Blue
10x03 DNR
Oct 6, 1999 · 45 min · ★ 7.6
As Briscoe and Green investigate the shooting of judge, suspicion quickly points to her husband as the person who ordered the hit, but McCoy's case is hindered when she refuses to implicate her husband during the trial.
Directing: David Platt · Writing: Kathy McCormick · Starring: DeAnn Mears, Debbon Ayer, Peter Hans Benson, Dominic Chianese Jr.
10x04 Merger
Oct 13, 1999 · 45 min · ★ 7.4
The murder of a drug-laden teen presents the detectives with a host of suspects from her wealthy family.
Directing: Stephen Wertimer · Writing: Lynn Mamet · Starring: J.K. Simmons, Anne Twomey, Walter Bobbie, Paul Hecht
10x05
10x05 Justice
Nov 10, 1999 · 46 min · ★ 8.0
Jamie Ross returns as a defense attorney to represent a previous client who has key evidence concerning a prisoner on death row.
Directing: Matthew Penn · Writing: Gerry Conway · Starring: Carey Lowell, Gordon Joseph Weiss, Maria Tucci, Matthew Sussman
10x06
10x06 Marathon
Nov 17, 1999 · 44 min · ★ 7.2
A frustrating investigation of a purse-snatching victim who was fatally shot leads to tension between Briscoe and Green over age and racial innuendoes. Briscoe notices his partner has developed a dangerous habit.
Directing: Jace Alexander · Writing: Matt Witten, Richard Sweren · Starring: Guillermo Díaz, Luna Lauren Vélez, Michael Cullen, E. Katherine Kerr
10x07 Patsy
Nov 24, 1999 · 45 min · ★ 7.9
The investigation that follows the discovery of a comatose woman in her apartment leads to an unusual case involving murder and a possible frame-up, despite the prosecution having key DNA evidence to the contrary.
Directing: David Platt · Writing: René Balcer, Lynne E. Litt · Starring: Lynne Thigpen, Kevin O'Rourke, Sebastian Roché, Donald Corren
10x08
10x08 Blood Money
Dec 1, 1999 · 46 min · ★ 8.0
A taxi driver finds that his passenger is dead, leading the detectives to a case involving an insurance scam and Holocaust victims.
Directing: Matthew Penn · Writing: Barry Schindel · Starring: Philip Goodwin, Henderson Forsythe, Matt Servitto, Edward James Hyland
10x09 Sundown
Dec 15, 1999 · 45 min · ★ 7.0
A patient is found beaten to death in a hospital lounge -- and the resulting case involves infidelity, Alzheimer's disease and a ladies' man.
Directing: Jace Alexander · Writing: Krista Vernoff · Starring: Mark Pinter, Bradley White, Missy Yager, J.K. Simmons
10x10
10x10 Loco Parentis
Jan 5, 2000 · 46 min · ★ 7.4
After sanitation workers find a teenage boy's body, the investigation leads to a school bully who displays an avid interest in martial-arts weapons, and whose father bought the murder weapon.
Directing: Constantine Makris · Writing: Matt Witten, Richard Sweren · Starring: Julie Boyd, Jacob Pitts, Robert Clohessy, Max Ligosh
10x11 Collision
Jan 26, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 7.2
The investigation of a schizophrenic woman's death leads to a case involving a homeless man and his right to refuse medication.
Directing: David Platt · Writing: Gerry Conway · Starring: Roberta Maxwell, Tovah Feldshuh, Bill Marcus, Seth Barrish
10x12 Mother's Milk
Feb 9, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 7.3
Bloodstains in an apartment that belonged to a young couple with a baby leads to the separated parents, each of whom claims that the other has the infant.
Directed by: Richard Dobbs · Written by: Lynn Mamet, Barry Schindel · Starring: Tessa Ghylin, Austin Lysy, Michael C. Williams, Susan Blommaert
10x13 Panic
Feb 16, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 7.3
Briscoe and Green investigate the shooting of a best-selling mystery writer and the death of her accountant, with a love triangle as a possible motive for the crime.
Directing: Constantine Makris · Writing: William N. Fordes, Lynn Mamet · Starring: Tom Berenger, Gerry Bamman, Ruthie Henshall, Gary Galone
10x14 Entitled (II)
Feb 18, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 7.4
The focus of the case returns to a politically influential family and, during the course of the trial, McCoy finds the powerful matriarch to be a formidable opponent.The crossover starts on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S01E15 Entitled (I).
Directed by: Dick Wolf, Edwin Sherin · Written by: Richard Sweren · Starring: Dann Florek, Katy Selverstone, Ed Lauter, Noelle Beck
10x15 Fools for Love
Feb 23, 2000 · 46 min · ★ 7.8
After the bodies of two teens are found, the detectives trace their identities and learn that one of them had a sister who was traveling with the girls.
Dirección: Christopher Misiano · Guion: Kathy McCormick, Lynne E. Litt · Con: Sam Ball, Ellen Pompeo, Christopher Meloni, Tom Mardirosian
10x16 Trade This
Mar 1, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 7.2
The murder of a stockbroker points to organized crime when a hired hit man kills the prime suspect.
Directed by: Jace Alexander · Written by: Barry Schindel · Starring: Mary Kay Adams, Michael Gross, Samuel E. Wright, Vincent Curatola
10x17 Black, White and Blue
Mar 22, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 7.3
The murder of a white teen-ager in Harlem seems like an open-and-shut case until two patrol officers are implicated in the crime.
Directed by: Constantine Makris · Written by: Matt Witten, Lynne E. Litt · Starring: Earl Hindman, Kevin Smith, Derek Richardson, Peewee Love
10x18
10x18 Mega
Apr 5, 2000 · 44 min · ★ 7.7
The investigation into a helicopter bombing points to a victim's wife and her unconventional financial advisers.
Directing: David Platt · Writing: William N. Fordes, Lynn Mamet · Starring: Peter Hermann, Jay Patterson, Dana Wheeler-Nicholson, Annette O'Toole
10x19 Surrender Dorothy
Apr 26, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 7.1
The body of a teacher, suspected of having an affair, is found in a car trunk and the investigation involves husband and father-in-law, both of whom are psychiatrists.
Directing: Martha Mitchell · Writing: Matt Witten, Barry Schindel · Starring: Roger Bart, Richard Joseph Paul, Lisa Emery, Jon Cypher
10x20
10x20 Untitled
May 3, 2000 · 46 min · ★ 6.8
A wealthy woman, who is a patron of the arts, is found dead in her apartment and the ensuing investigation leads to a suspect whose violence was spurred by a painting similar to the crime scene.
Directing: Jace Alexander · Writing: Barry M. Schkolnick · Starring: David Thornton, Steven Ogg, Bruce MacVittie, Francesca Faridany
10x21
10x21 Narcosis
May 10, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 7.5
The discovery of a strangled prostitute's body leads to a case involving illegal immigrants and the events have an impact on a family.
Directed by: Constantine Makris · Written by: Kathy McCormick, Lynne E. Litt · Starring: Ken Leung, Becky London, Michael Winters, V. Craig Heidenreich
10x22 High & Low
May 17, 2000 · 45 min · ★ 6.5
Detectives Briscoe and Green probe the strangulation of a college coed who moonlighted as a stripper, and while they believe a pair of drug-dealing skinheads committed the murder, they struggle to determine the motive of the strip club owner who paid them for the hit. However, as they work their way up the ladder of complicity, the cops learn that the slaying is keyed to an insider trading scam that forces Assistant D.A. McCoy to connect a former porn star with a businessman.
Directed by: Richard Dobbs · Written by: Gerry Conway · Starring: Adrienne Shelly, Lee Bryant, Stephen Spinella, Peter Van Wagner
10x23 Stiff
May 24, 2000 · 44 min · ★ 7.5
The detectives' investigation into why a wealthy woman is comatose involves her husband, daughter and doctor.
Directing: Jace Alexander · Writing: Hall Powell · Starring: David Dukes, Marin Hinkle, Susan Kellermann, Thom Christopher
10x24
10x24 Vaya Con Dios Season Finale
May 24, 2000 · 46 min · ★ 7.4
The death of an elderly man trying to find who was responsible for the torture killing of his son in 1973 Chile leads to a high-level foreign colonel who is now in a Manhattan hospital.
Directing: Christopher Misiano · Writing: René Balcer, Richard Sweren · Starring: Tomas Milian, Joe Morton, Rebecca Schull, Armand Schultz