Al Brown

Stabler investigates the husband and friends of a woman found dead in Central Park with no apparent cause of death.

Vice President Mackenzie Allen unites the nation in the wake of the president's death, quelling her critics, who wanted her to resign to allow the Speaker of the House to succeed to the office.

Mackenzie faces her first national crisis when nine DEA agents are killed in Latin America; Nathan Templeton is offered potentially damaging information on Mackenzie's nominee for vice president.

Detectives' inquiries spark a minor riot, causing a boy to lose an eye and giving police a black eye publicity-wise.

Det Jimmy McNulty finds the body of a woman floating in the Baltimore harbour.

A wave of urban reform brings down the notorious Franklin Terrace public housing towers, forcing the Barksdale drug crew to find a new home on the streets of west Baltimore.