Law & Order (season 3) - Episodes

After photographer Julian Decker is found murdered in his studio, Logan and Cerreta discover that Decker's real business was prostitution and acting as a pimp for models who aren't getting the work they needed. Their investigation leads to Angela Brandt, one of Decker's models who found more money working for Decker in other ways, but they also discover that Decker was romantically involved with Angela's teenage daughter. Stone realizes that something strange is going on when the case gets weaker against Angela, but all of a sudden she wants to cut a deal.

• Guest Stars: Lauren Ambrose and Claire Danes.

After Marcus Tate, the respected leader of a controversial African-American rights movement, is assassinated at a rally, Logan and Cerreta attempt to get information on the crime but are stonewalled by many of Tate's followers, who aren't interested in talking to white police officers. Photographs lead them to Mitchell Kolbin, a white man who had followed Tate religiously but who seemed to lose some of his wonderment when Tate began an affair with his wife.

• Guest Stars: Joe Morton and Eric Bogosian.

A teenager's fatal heart attack is traced to fraud and greed on the part of the manufacturer of his pacemaker and their supplier.

• Guest Star: Dennis Boutsikaris

The discovery of a young woman's body in the river leads to an investigation of illegal sweatshops and the enslavement of young immigrants.

• Guest Stars: José Zúñiga, John Pankow, Vincent Pastore, Patti D'Arbanville.

Dr. Olivet accuses her gynecologist of rape, but Stone finds his case in trouble when he discovers that Olivet tape-recorded the crime.

• This episode was later remade as Law & Order: UK season 1 episode titled "Alesha".
• Guest Star: Felicity Huffman, Tovah Feldshuh.

Cerreta and Stone find themselves on opposite sides of the fence when a storeowner kills two robbers and then claims self-defense as a justification.

• Guest Stars: Adam Arkin and Ron Rifkin.

Logan has trouble dealing with Briscoe, who has been brought in while Cerreta recovers from surgery during their investigation of the murder of Tommy Duff, a small-time hood. Their investigation leads them to a woman who claims Duff raped her, and when her attorney, an old friend of Stone's from law school, calls Olivet to the stand to testify in Mary Kostrinski's defense, Schiff forces Stone to use Olivet's recent rape to discredit her testimony. Logan is upset to learn that Cerreta has accepted another position within the department and won't be coming back.

• The first appearance of Jerry Orbach as Det. Lennie Briscoe and the last appearance of Paul Sorvino as Sgt. Phil Cerreta.
• Guest Star: Elaine Stritch.

An engineer and a tribal chief become the chief suspects in the death of a Nigerian woman who died while smuggling heroin internally.

• This episode was later remade as Law & Order: UK season 2 episode titled "Love and Loss".

The confession of an elderly man that he assisted his wife in committing suicide doesn't fully satisfy Stone when rumors surface that the man was once a Nazi collaborator.

• Guest star: Eric Bogosian.

The investigation into the murder of a young physician leads to the discovery of an unorthodox and illegal relationship between her fiancé and his psychiatrist.

• This episode was later remade as Law & Order: UK season 4 episode titled "ID".

The absence of a murder weapon complicates the investigation into the murder of a drug addict who stole from her family to support her habit.

• Guest Star: Edie Falco.

Stone battles the Brooklyn D.A.'s office over prosecutorial jurisdiction in the case of a mentally handicapped man who confesses to the stabbing deaths of two women.

• Guest stars: Michael Badalucco and Paul McCrane.

Stone and the police battle the closed ranks of the Navy to investigate the death of a female Naval officer during a party in a Manhattan hotel.

• Guest Star: Julianna Margulies.

The initial investigation into the death of a research scientist leads to an animal-rights group until evidence surfaces that her husband's affair with a coworker may point to a possible motive for the murder. When the husband is acquitted, the investigation turns to the individual who provided evidence of the affair.

• Guest Star: Frances Fisher.

The statement of a drug dealer who survived a shoot-out that killed a cop leads Logan and Briscoe to suspect that the cop died because he was gay and his fellow officers were reluctant to back him up.

• This episode was later remade as the Law & Order: UK season 2 episode titled "Samaritan".
• Guest starring Sam Rockwell, Philip Bosco

Logan and Briscoe begin their investigation into the death of a hearing-impaired young woman by questioning her two most recent boyfriends.

• Last appearances of Dann Florek as Capt. Don Cragen and Richard Brooks as ADA Paul Robinette as series regulars.
• Guest Star: Camryn Manheim.