The BEST episodes of Law & Order season 4
Every episode of Law & Order season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Law & Order season 4!
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 - American Dream
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/1993
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.
#2 - Old Friends
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/25/1994
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.
#3 - Mayhem
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/9/1994
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.
#4 - Censure
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/2/1994
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.
#5 - Profile
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/13/1993
Stone finds himself up against an ambitious black lawyer defending a white, racist serial killer.
#6 - Apocrypha
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/3/1993
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.
#7 - Sanctuary
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/13/1994
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.
#8 - Pride and Joy
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/27/1993
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.
#9 - Big Bang
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/2/1994
A scientist becomes the chief suspect when his estranged wife, who's been delaying divorce proceedings, is the victim of a letter bomb.
#10 - Discord
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1993
A college student charges an admittedly promiscuous rock star with rape, but he claims the act was consensual.
#11 - Golden Years
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/5/1994
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.
#12 - The Pursuit of Happiness
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/1/1993
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.
#13 - Kids
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/9/1994
A 14-year-old's shooting death involves the son of a former police detective, who's also an old friend of Briscoe's.
#14 - Sweeps
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1993
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 colleague. The police and district attorney attempt to prosecute the show's abrasive host.
#15 - Breeder
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/19/1994
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.
#16 - Wager
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/30/1994
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.
#17 - Nurture
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/4/1994
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.
#18 - Born Bad
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/1993
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.
#19 - Volunteers
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1993
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.
#20 - Black Tie
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1993
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.
#21 - Snatched
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/12/1994
A millionaire friend of Schiff's won't cooperate with the police following his son's kidnapping.
#22 - Doubles
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/18/1994
An assailant breaks the wrist of a tennis player prior to a tournament, and a competitor is among the suspects.