The BEST episodes of Law & Order season 10
Every episode of Law & Order season 10, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Law & Order season 10!
A blended police procedural and courtroom drama which employs a two-part approach: The first half of each episode focuses on NYPD homicide detectives investigating a crime—often derived from a real-life headline—and apprehending a suspect. The second half takes place in the courtroom, with the district attorney prosecuting the defendant.
#1 - Fools for Love
Season 10 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/23/2000
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.
#2 - Marathon
Season 10 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/17/1999
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.
#3 - Mother's Milk
Season 10 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/9/2000
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.
#4 - Vaya Con Dios
Season 10 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/24/2000
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.
#5 - Patsy
Season 10 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/24/1999
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.
#6 - Blood Money
Season 10 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/1/1999
A taxi driver finds that his passenger is dead, leading the detectives to a case involving an insurance scam and Holocaust victims.
#7 - Loco Parentis
Season 10 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/5/2000
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.
#8 - Mega
Season 10 - Episode 18 - Aired 4/5/2000
The investigation into a helicopter bombing points to a victim's wife and her unconventional financial advisers.
#9 - Gunshow
Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/22/1999
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.
#10 - Surrender Dorothy
Season 10 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/26/2000
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.
#11 - Killerz
Season 10 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1999
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.
#12 - Untitled
Season 10 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/3/2000
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.
#13 - Stiff
Season 10 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/24/2000
The detectives' investigation into why a wealthy woman is comatose involves her husband, daughter and doctor.
#14 - Justice
Season 10 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/10/1999
Jamie Ross returns as a defense attorney to represent a previous client who has key evidence concerning a prisoner on death row.
#15 - Trade This
Season 10 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/1/2000
The murder of a stockbroker points to organized crime when a hired hit man kills the prime suspect.
#16 - Narcosis
Season 10 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/10/2000
The discovery of a strangled prostitute's body leads to a case involving illegal immigrants and the events have an impact on a family.
#17 - Merger
Season 10 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/1999
The murder of a drug-laden teen presents the detectives with a host of suspects from her wealthy family.
#18 - Collision
Season 10 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/26/2000
The investigation of a schizophrenic woman's death leads to a case involving a homeless man and his right to refuse medication.
#19 - Black, White, and Blue
Season 10 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/22/2000
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.
#20 - High & Low
Season 10 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/17/2000
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.
#21 - Entitled (2)
Season 10 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/18/2000
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. (Entitled (1) aired on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, season 1, episode 15.)
#22 - DNR
Season 10 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1999
As Briscoe and Green investigate the shooting of a 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.
#23 - Sundown
Season 10 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/15/1999
A patient is found beaten to death in a hospital lounge -- and the resulting case involves infidelity, Alzheimer's disease and a ladies' man.
#24 - Panic
Season 10 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/16/2000
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.