Law & Order (season 10)

The 10th season of Law & Order premiered on NBC, September 22, 1999 and ended May 24, 2000. Executive Producers René Balcer and Ed Sherin leave the show at the end of the season.

Law & Order
Season 10
Season 10 U.S. DVD cover
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	24
Release
Original network	NBC
Original release	September 22, 1999 (1999-09-22) – May 24, 2000 (2000-05-24)
Season chronology

Cast

Ed Green (played by Jesse L. Martin) replaced season 9's Rey Curtis (Benjamin Bratt) in the role of junior detective.

Main cast

• Jerry Orbach as Lennie Briscoe
• Jesse L. Martin as Ed Green
• S. Epatha Merkerson as Anita Van Buren
• Sam Waterston as E.A.D.A. Jack McCoy
• Angie Harmon as A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael
• Steven Hill as D.A. Adam Schiff

Guest cast

• Dann Florek as Capt. Don Cragen
• Carey Lowell as Jamie Ross
• Carolyn McCormick as Elizabeth Olivet
• J. K. Simmons as Dr. Emil Skoda

Episodes

See also: List of Law & Order episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Prod. code	US viewers (millions)
206	1	"Gunshow"	Ed Sherin	René Balcer	September 22, 1999 (1999-09-22)	E1106	TBA
Briscoe and Green investigate a shooting rampage in Central Park where all 15 of the victims were female college students. Using the serial number of the gun they've recovered they trace the owner, Dennis Trope, but when the judge dismisses most of their evidence, Jack McCoy has few options open to him. When he learns that the gun could be turned into an automatic weapon using an inexpensive kit you can buy at any gun show, he decides to go after the manufacturer. Despite evidence that the gun manufacturer knew that most of their sales were because of the ease of conversion, it's obvious McCoy is going to have a hard time getting a conviction. First appearance of Jesse L. Martin as Det. Ed Green.
207	2	"Killerz"	Constantine Makris	Richard Sweren	September 29, 1999 (1999-09-29)	E1103	TBA
Briscoe and Green investigate the murder of a young boy, Aaron Polanski, who was found on a construction site with his trousers pulled down around his ankles and a AAA battery in his mouth. The medical examiner determines the boy died from a blow to the head but was not sexually assaulted. The police find two eyewitnesses to the crime, Tara Padden and Jenny Brandt - 13 and 10 years-old - but they soon begin to suspect they are lying. In fact, they come to believe they likely lured Aaron and killed him. Jenny seems to be the one who actually did the killing and after reviewing the facts, including Dr. Skoda's report, ADA McCoy wants the girl committed to a state mental hospital. The girl's lawyer counters with her own expert, Dr. Elizabeth Olivet, arguing the girl the girl can be treated outside of an institution. Based on the young murderer Mary Bell.
208	3	"DNR"	David Platt	S : William N. Fordes; T : Kathy McCormick	October 6, 1999 (1999-10-06)	E1109	TBA
As Briscoe and Green investigate the attempted murder of a prominent and highly respected judge, Denise Grobman. She was shot in her car having come home early and the evidence quickly points to her husband Walter as the man behind the killing. He has an alibi but McCoy is convinced he hired someone to make the hit as he was the only person who knew she would be where she was at the time of the shooting. Judge Grobman proves to be the major stumbling block however refusing to believe that her architect husband could do such a thing. McCoy realizes that she is key to ever getting a conviction but has to face Judge Grobman's decision to refuse further medical treatment - both her kidneys have failed and she is in constant pain - meaning she would die before the case could be concluded.
209	4	"Merger"	Stephen Wertimer	Lynn Mamet	October 13, 1999 (1999-10-13)	E1101	16.84[1]
The murder of 15 year-old Christie Garrison who is found just outside her building with her head bashed in. The girl comes from a very wealthy family and the police first suspect Sammy Morris who worked for their friend and neighbor, Mark Vance, as his chauffeur. Morris is cleared and the police learn Christie had gone out to a club after her parents thought she'd gone to bed. She left the club with a boy - who turns out to be the neighbor's youngest son, Ethan Vance. His older brother Nick seems to have had sex with her prior to her death as did Ethan and they are both arrested for statutory rape. The solution to the murder lie elsewhere however.
210	5	"Justice"	Matthew Penn	S : William N. Fordes; S/T : Gerry Conway	November 10, 1999 (1999-11-10)	E1104	TBA
After the murder of Martin Felder, a lawyer who was found bludgeoned to death in a public garden. Felder worked primarily in corporate law but the police learn that he was representing a death row inmate, Steven Dupree, who was convicted of killing a woman, Dana Hagen. He also had a reputation for changing lawyers and even attacking one in court. Felder however had been seeking information on a Michael Gordon as it related to Dupree's case but there is no such person ever mentioned in his case file. The police also learn that Dana Hagen's husband, Eric Hagen, had threatened Felder warning him to stop looking into the case. Hagen is cleared however and the police are back to square one. They find Michael Gordon and come to believe the wrong man may be on death row. The ADA who prosecuted Dupree, Andrew Wolinsky, is now a judge and refuses to accept they may have made an error. Former ADA Jamie Ross is Gordon's lawyer but now faces a serious ethical dilemma.
211	6	"Marathon"	Jace Alexander	Richard Sweren & Matt Witten	November 17, 1999 (1999-11-17)	E1105	TBA
A frustrating investigation of a purse-snatching victim Eva Harrison who appears to have been shot on the street in an attempted purse snatching. Eyewitnesses say it was a Hispanic kid on a silver mountain bike but can't agree on much else about him. The investigation leads them to Bobby Sabo, who has a long history of purse snatching. The detectives are under a lot of pressure to solve this case and Lennie in particular want to get evidence against Sabo. When they arrest him, Sabo tells Lennie the woman got what she deserved but no one else heard the confession. After crucial evidence is thrown out, Lennie begins to overreact when his credibility is called into question.
212	7	"Patsy"	David Platt	René Balcer & Lynne E. Litt	November 24, 1999 (1999-11-24)	E1102	17.60[2]
A travel agency employee is found beaten into a coma at her apartment. Briscoe and Green quickly suspect a man who had been in a relationship with the victim's sister, who had been murdered a few years earlier. Strong physical and circumstantial evidence leads to what looks to be an open and shut case. However, the defendant's strong insistence of his innocence and other unusual circumstances lead the case to become more complicated than it seemed.
213	8	"Blood Money"	Matthew Penn	Barry Schindel	December 1, 1999 (1999-12-01)	E1111	15.24[3]
Detectives investigate the death of Peter Grimaldi, a retired insurance salesman who was found dead in the backseat of a taxicab. Grimaldi had been helped into the cab by a black man but the driver has little more information. The medical examiner confirms that the victim died as a result of a six inch stab wound and a gunshot wound. Grimaldi's son and daughter have no idea who might have wanted to harm him and they refer the police to Gail Bartlett, one of Grimaldi's friends. It leads them to learn that Grimaldi was having trouble with insurance claimants for policies he sold to Jews during the Second World War telling them their money would safe. He never paid out any claims however. They suspect Grimaldi's former employers may have been responsible for his death.
214	9	"Sundown"	Jace Alexander	S : William N. Fordes; S/T : Krista Vernoff	December 15, 1999 (1999-12-15)	E1107	TBA
A patient 53 year old Marjorie Hallenbeck was found in a hospital solarium. She had been beaten and then seemingly hit her head on the corner of a coffee table, dying from a ruptured spleen. She had checked herself into the hospital the previous day for tests and hospital security insist nothing out of the ordinary happened during the night. The family says some of her jewelry is missing and the police initially suspect an orderly, Vic Fazioli, with prior convictions for burglary but he has an alibi. Her husband suffered from Alzheimer's and a purchase in the hospital gift shop leads the police to believe she may have been seeing someone else, who turns out to be a con man who preys on wealthy widows. The solution to the murder lies elsewhere however and presents the DA's office with an ethical dilemma.
215	10	"Loco Parentis"	Constantine Makris	Richard Sweren & Matt Witten	January 5, 2000 (2000-01-05)	E1115	18.28[4]
After sanitation workers find body of Chris Skinner on 56th St. His throat was slit and the medical examiner estimates a 6 inch blade was used. He also had bruises that were a couple of weeks old. They learn that he was out selling chocolate bars as part of a school fund-raiser with fellow student but they split up after a half hour or so. From students at Chris' high school, he appears to have been the victim of bullying and evidence points to John Telford, a student. The prosecutors have trouble linking the boy to the killing and DA Adam Schiff orders that the boy's father, Robert Telford - who ignored his son's violent behavior - be charged with murder as a result of depraved indifference. Evidence comes from an unexpected source.
216	11	"Collision"	David Platt	S : William N. Fordes; S/T : Gerry Conway	January 26, 2000 (2000-01-26)	E1116	18.12[5]
The investigation of an attack on a schizophrenic woman, Karen Brewster, in Riverside Park. They eventually find her dead, locked in the storage container she lived in. The medical examiner determines she was manually strangled and there is evidence of sexual activity, most likely rape. The investigation leads them to Harvey Bauer who has been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and is possibly psychotic. His lawyer Danielle Melnick wants to plead an insanity defense but Dr. Skoda is convinced Bauer is faking the psychotic part and ADA McCoy gets a court-ordered prohibition to using the defense. McCoy also needs a court order to force Bauer to take his medication. As they continue to investigate however, they discover a unique relationship between Bauer and the victim.
217	12	"Mother's Milk"	Richard Dobbs	Lynn Mamet & Barry Schindel	February 9, 2000 (2000-02-09)	E1110	18.38[6]
Briscoe and Green investigate a possible crime when a landlord discovers broken glass and blood in an apartment that had been abandoned by the tenants. Amy and James Beltran had lived there for only for months and she had recently given birth to a boy, Kyle. They quickly track down James, whose is living with his parents, but he refuses to tell them anything other that the baby is with his wife. A local priest says James has been attending mass up to three times a week recently but not with his wife and child. When they finally find her, she insists that the baby is with her husband. When they find the baby's remains buried in his parents backyard, the medical examiner determines that the baby starved to death over a period of several weeks. It turns out Amy was having difficulty breastfeeding her baby and after getting advice from an overzealous lactation counselor, she thought it was wrong to give the baby formula. Guilt or innocence is left up to the judge in a bench trial.
218	13	"Panic"	Constantine Makris	S : Kathy McCormick & Matt Witten; T : William N. Fordes & Lynn Mamet	February 16, 2000 (2000-02-16)	E1117	TBA
Briscoe and Green investigate a shooting where a well-known writer of mystery novels, P.K. Todd, is wounded and her business manager is killed. From the outset, Todd insists that she was the target and the police initially focus on any fans who may have written to her. They soon learn that a woman who identified herself as an FBI agent had been at Todd's hotel looking for her the night she was shot. The agent in question turns out to be Carolyn Tyler and the police immediately suspect that her husband Dean. also an FBI agent, was having an affair with the writer. He vehemently denies an affair and DAs McCoy and Carmichael realize they have it wrong: it's Carolyn who was having the affair. Dean is charged with murder and his defense is "psychosexual panic" resulting from the fact that his wife was having a lesbian affair.
219	14	"Entitled"	Ed Sherin	S : Dick Wolf, René Balcer & Robert Palm; T : Richard Sweren	February 18, 2000 (2000-02-18)	E1112	TBA
Detectives Lennie Briscoe and Ed Green continue working with their SVU colleagues detectives Benson and Munch. They learn that Stanley Brecker, owner of Andorra Sportswear, may have had trouble with the mob. Their main witness, Helen Cadish, has now disappeared but they soon find find her in car just off the pier. The car leads them to the killer and eventually to Stephanie Mulroney who, he claims, hired him to clean up her apartment after she killed Dean Woodroffe there. DAs McCoy and Carmichael don't have much evidence - until the Mulroneys cover-up to keep Stephanie out of jail begins to fall apart.. This is part two of a two-part episode that begins on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Guest stars Richard Belzer as John Munch; Dann Florek as Donald Cragen; Mariska Hargitay as Olivia Benson; Christopher Meloni as Elliot Stabler.
220	15	"Fools for Love"	Christopher Misiano	Kathy McCormick & Lynne E. Litt	February 23, 2000 (2000-02-23)	E1113	TBA
Briscoe and Green investigate the murder of two teenage girls, one of whom is found wrapped in plastic sheeting in a house under renovation. She was raped and strangled and also had a high level of the drug GHB in her system. When they learn that one of the victim's sister, Laura Kendrick, is also in New York they begin a frantic search eventually finding her in the hospital, beaten and drugged. She points the finger at her boyfriend, Peter Williams, who may in fact be responsible for a number of brutal rapes and murders. It appears that Kendrick may have been also been involved in the assaults but she claims Williams forced her to participate. In order to get a conviction, Jack McCoy agrees to a plea bargain with a minimum in return for her testimony but then learns that he may have made a deal with the devil. Special appearance by Mariska Hargitay as Olivia Benson and Christopher Meloni as Elliot Stabler. Based on the couple of serial-killers Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka.
221	16	"Trade This"	Jace Alexander	S : René Balcer; S/T : Barry Schindel	March 1, 2000 (2000-03-01)	E1118	TBA
The murder of a stockbroker points to a coworker and supervisor (Michael Gross) involved with organized crime when a hired hit man kills the prime suspect.
222	17	"Black, White and Blue"	Constantine Makris	S : Richard Sweren; T : Matt Witten; S/T : Lynne E. Litt	March 22, 2000 (2000-03-22)	E1120	18.67[7]
The murder of a young white man in Harlem sparks outrage when it is discovered that two police officers Patrick Flannery and Earl Smith intentionally dropped him off in a known crime prone neighborhood.
223	18	"Mega"	David Platt	Lynn Mamet	April 5, 2000 (2000-04-05)	E1121	17.99[8]
The investigation into a helicopter bombing points to a victim's wife and her unconventional financial adviser (Michael McKean).
224	19	"Surrender Dorothy"	Martha Mitchell	Barry Schindel & Matt Witten	April 26, 2000 (2000-04-26)	E1125	TBA
The body of a teacher, suspected of having an affair, is found in a car trunk and the investigation involves her husband and father-in-law, both of whom are psychiatrists.
225	20	"Untitled"	Jace Alexander	S : Richard Sweren; S/T : Barry M. Schkolnick	May 3, 2000 (2000-05-03)	E1124	16.42[9]
A wealthy woman, 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.
226	21	"Narcosis"	Constantine Makris	Kathy McCormick & Lynne E. Litt	May 10, 2000 (2000-05-10)	E1123	18.64[10]
The discovery of a strangled prostitute's body leads to a case involving illegal immigrants and a family grappling with internet addiction.
227	22	"High & Low"	Richard Dobbs	S : William N. Fordes; S/T : Gerry Conway	May 17, 2000 (2000-05-17)	E1122	TBA
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 McCoy to connect a former porn star with a businessman.
228	23	"Stiff"	Jace Alexander	S : René Balcer; S/T : Hall Powell	May 24, 2000 (2000-05-24)	E1119	15.12[11]
The detectives' investigation into why a wealthy woman is comatose involves her husband Richard Shipman, daughter Debbie Mason, and doctor Bertram Stokes(John Slattery).
229	24	"Vaya Con Dios"	Christopher Misiano	René Balcer & Richard Sweren	May 24, 2000 (2000-05-24)	E1108	19.48[11]
The death of an elderly man trying to find who was responsible for the torture-killing of his son in Chile in 1973 leads to a former high-ranking Chilean Army officer who is in New York receiving cancer treatments at a Manhattan hospital. Last appearance of Steven Hill as D.A. Adam Schiff.

Notes

• Jesse L. Martin joins the cast as Det. Ed Green in this season.
• This is the final season to feature Steven Hill as Adam Schiff. Steven Hill was the last original cast member to leave the series.
• The Law & Order spinoff, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, debuted at the time of this season.
• This season features all five of the series' longest serving characters: Anita Van Buren (17 seasons), Jack McCoy (16 seasons), Lennie Briscoe (12 seasons), Adam Schiff (10 seasons) and Ed Green (9 seasons). Additionally, one member of the original cast of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Mariska Hargitay), who remains on the show to date, appears in the episode 'Entitled.' Christopher Meloni departed SVU in 2011, Richard Belzer in 2013, and Dann Florek in 2014.
• "Entitled," episode 219, is a continuation of an SVU episode of the same name.
• Adrienne Shelly guest starred in the episode of 'Law & Order' titled "High & Low" (Season 10) in which she portrayed the character Wendy Alston. Shelly herself would later be murdered, which inspired the episode 'Melting Pot' (Season 17).

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External links

• Episode guide from NBC.com

Preceded by Season Nine (1998-1999)

List of Law & Order seasons (1990-2010)

Succeeded by Season Eleven (2000-2001)