
Lives hang in the balance as detectives and prosecutors pursue justice in New York City. In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place -- and keep the worst offenders off the streets.

An injured woman's sudden disappearance from the hospital leads to a murder investigation; as an eyewitness to the crime, Brady partners with Benson's SVU to unravel a complex motive; an explosive discovery puts both squads in danger.

When a deliveryman is gunned down on his route, Briscoe and Green discover that he was active on a website for arranged liaisons and that his wife had just bought a gun.

When a controversial conservative talk-show host is shot to death, detectives sift through many possible suspects, eventually focusing on the man's widow and a woman who may have been stalking her.

A man strangled in his rent-controlled apartment leads detectives to the building's owner, who wants to convert the building to a co-op, but a basketball player's fingerprints are found at the scene.