
NYPD detectives of the Major Case Squad use unconventional methods to solve crimes. Like its predecessor, the original "Law & Order," its storylines are often based on real-life headlines, and it features a cadre of quirky cops whose mission it is to find the criminals and make them pay.
When a student is killed with a screwdriver, detectives discern a strong similarity between his bold design for a downtown building and that of a celebrated architect.
After a plastic surgeon and two contact-lens salesmen are murdered, the detectives search for a suspect who may be a racist.
Detectives link a young man's murder to practitioners of Santeria who duped the victim's mother into believing she has psychic powers.
The detectives discover a ledger's worth of bodies while searching for a missing bookkeeper.