Characters
| Name | Portrayed by | Occupation | Season 1 Episodes | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | |||
| Tracey Kibre | Bebe Neuwirth | Bureau Chief Assistant District Attorney | Main | ||||||||||||
| Kelly Gaffney | Amy Carlson | Assistant District Attorney | Main | ||||||||||||
| Hector Salazar | Kirk Acevedo | Investigator | Main | ||||||||||||
| Chris Ravell | Scott Cohen | Detective | Special Guest | Main | |||||||||||
| Arthur Branch | Fred Dalton Thompson | District Attorney | Main | ||||||||||||
| Lennie Briscoe | Jerry Orbach | Investigator | Main | ||||||||||||
- Tracey Kibre is tough, focused prosecutor, she is a contrast to the lead ADAs in the other three series with a black-and-white view of the law.
- Kelly Gaffney is the younger assistant to Kibre, she is often more by-the-book. She often challenges Kibre, who sees the law in more shades of gray than her partner.
- Hector Salazar is a former police detective who was apparently injured on duty; an injury would have likely put him in a desk job, which he did not find too thrilling.
- Lennie Briscoe was the first partner of Hector Salazar and is the longest serving detective on any Law & Order series. He only appears in the first two episodes due to the death of Orbach. His final onscreen appearance is in the episode "Forty-One Shots". Orbach was so ill at the time that he could barely speak above a whisper. Thus his final line of dialogue had to be rewritten.
- Arthur Branch is the New York district attorney, he also appeared in a starring role on the original Law & Order.
- Chris Ravell is the second partner of Hector Salazar, in episodes 3 to 13, unlike Salazar and Briscoe, he is a member of the NYPD. Cohen was credited as a Guest Appearance for Episodes 3 and 4 before being added to the main credits in Episode 5.
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