Michael Moriarty, who played Assistant District Attorney Ben Stone, left the show at the end of Season 4 and was replaced by Sam Waterston as Assistant Executive Attorney Jack McCoy from 1994 until the end of the series in 2010, before it was revived. In the first episode of the season, a guest is murdered on a talk show. Meanwhile, the detectives have a new boss and Stone a new colleague. This was the first time women played one of the six main characters in Law & Order: both roles continued to be held by women, with Merkerson remaining in the role of Van Buren for the rest of the series. It was also the first time in Law & Order`s history that two major distribution changes were made simultaneously; The next such double change is expected to take place at the start of the 17th season. In the season finale, a murder investigation leads to a baby food company where a new partner has ties to the Russian mafia. The fourth season of Law & Order aired on NBC between September 15, 1993 and May 25, 1994. This is the final season with Michael Moriarty as Ben Stone. This is also the first season, which includes a shorter opening sequence and a shorter theme (46 seconds) that will be used for the rest of the series. The fourth season was released on DVD on December 6, 2005.
After a bomb explodes, the challenge is to prove that the suicide bomber carried out the orders of a cult leader. The iconic procedural drama „Law & Order“ returns for this fourth season, with additional stories about NYPD detectives investigating crimes and the staff of the district attorney prosecuting them. Recurring characters in this season include Detective Logan (Chris Noth), A.D.A. Ben Stone (Michael Moriarty), DA Adam Schiff (Steven Hill), lead detective Lennie Briscoe (Jerry Orbach); The newcomers are Detective Supervisor Anita Van Buren (S. Epatha Merkerson) and ADA Claire Kincaid (Jill Hennessy) (replacing Paul Robinette). This season`s cases include a child molester murdered on a talk show, an octogenarian who appears to have starved to death, a nuclear physicist suspected of bombing his wife with mail, the disappearance of a child from a sadistic nursing home, a violent attack on a tennis player just before a match, and many others. During this season, J. K. Simmons, who later had a recurring role as Dr. Emil Skoda, appeared in the episode „Sanctuary“ as television cameraman Jerry Luppin.
A black minister stokes flames of racial intolerance after a Jewish man, Joshua Berger, was not charged with an accident that resulted in the death of a 12-year-old child. When Benson arrived, his team helped the other county investigate and learned the truth that the police captain was in cahoots with the traffickers and had sex with underage and undocumented girls before they were sold. The pressure on him led them to the head of the sex trafficking circles to arrest him and save the women. Kincaid resigned from Schiff`s office because of an affair in his past. Stan`s Donut Shop 498 Bowery Street Monday, January 16 A search for a missing 10-year-old child leads to an unusual case of abduction. Meanwhile, Benson and Carisi questioned Dustin again for information and he claimed he had been involved in drug trafficking the night Kayla was raped. They interviewed Demmy again, thinking she was lying for her brother. Dustin was caught and confronted for raping his sister, and he tried to pretend it was consensual. Meanwhile, McGrath held a press conference on the trucker rapist. She also praised her CSR colleagues.
The suspect in a murder case is the victim`s wife, a Russian immigrant who — a job against her husband`s wishes and possibly even taken a lover. Carisi and Rollins talked to Kayla and played the caller`s voice, and Kayla remembered a man filling the jukebox with country western music. Security footage at the bar revealed their possible suspect. CSR came up with the idea of looking for unsuccessful rapes near truck stops. Over a 24-hour period, Briscoe and Logan face three independent murders: an aspiring actor shot in the head, a woman mutilating her unfaithful husband, and a shopkeeper killed in a robbery. McGrath was excited because the case appeared to be a slam dunk, with CSR quickly catching a suspect. Back at SVU headquarters, however, Captain Benson received a grim phone call from a man who told them they had arrested the wrong man — and offered details about the rape that were never made public. He claimed to have attacked again (showing another audience an attacked woman), then hung up! When teenager Chris Pollit (Wil Horneff) beats Johnny Lasky to death, his lawyer Helen Brolin asks for an acquittal for a genetic defect, claiming that Pollit is genetically sensitive to violence because he has an extra Y chromosome.
Who was the young child formed at the end of s2 ep19 Briscoe and Logan try to find out if the death of an older woman was precipitated by her granddaughter. At first, Demmy didn`t want to tell the police who had attacked her, but they suspected that she was the one who had planted Kayla`s wallet in Dustin`s room. She saw Dustin leave with Kayla, then she found Kayla`s wallet and saw Kayla attacked and left for dead and assumed it was her brother. She wanted her brother to disappear from her life, as he had also used and abused her for the past 10 years. Phillipe`s Bistro 4205 Madison Avenue Monday, April 10 Briscoe and Logan investigate after a convicted child molester, Dr. Joseph Vinton, was murdered on a controversial talk show by Rick Mason (Robert Klein). The shooter is easy to identify – it is Sid Fisher (Steve Ryan), the father of the victim of the dead three years earlier. During the investigation, however, detectives find evidence that leads them to believe that Mason may have staged Vinton`s murder to ensure high ratings during the sweep phase.
Stone`s case is complicated because Sid Fisher doesn`t mean anything that could put his son Scotty (David Krumholtz) on the witness stand. After the father of a prominent baseball player is found dead, Briscoe and Logan suspect that his death is related to gambling debts. Talking to Carisi, the case seemed to lead to either an imitator or the caller of the real rapist. However, the call was made near Kentucky. State police discovered that another young woman had been similarly raped and left dead. Captain Benson wanted to send Sergeant Fin and Detective Rollins to Kentucky to help with the investigation. Demmy visited SVU to recount the events, and she told them about her muddy clothes that she had found and cleaned that night. A search of Dustin`s room revealed Kayla`s wallet. A lawyer pleads not guilty to a teenager on the grounds that he has a chromosome that makes him „forcibly predisposed.“ The fatal shooting of a 14-year-old boy is the son of a former police detective. A millionaire friend of Schiff`s will not cooperate with police after his son is kidnapped. It turns out that Dustin was just raping his sister, while West was raping Kayle, Shay, and dozens of other women.
He boasted in his confession to CSR. McGrath was delighted with the good press for the NYPD and urged Carisi to bring the matter home. Suddenly, Rollins was called to attack Demmy! The murder of the father of a star athlete is associated with gambling debts and threats against the player`s family. Kennedy`s Pub 3500 Lexington Ave. Friday, February 10 Over a 24-hour period, Briscoe and Logan committed unrelated murders and a family dispute. Briscoe and Logan bet that the murder of Ben Williams, the father of a star athlete, is linked to gambling debts and threats against the baseball player`s family, but it turns out that his son Pat`s alibi does not hold and that he himself is suspected. When SVU detectives arrived in Kentucky, they questioned Shay and she gave them details that would help the case.