Kelly Cinnante

Detectives Greevey and Logan investigate the alleged rape of Astrea Crawford, a sixteen-year-old black girl, found shivering near a trash dumpster with obscenities scrawled on her face and body. Astrea refuses to talk, but scrawls on paper that two white cops raped her. A storm brews as the city explodes with racial tension. But when the rape test results come back negative, Greevey and Logan know the rape victim is hiding something, and they soon suspect that her accusations are being manipulated by those with secret political intentions.

When a demure female graduate student is found strangled and stuffed inside a car trunk, Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) first suspect local gang members until they discover that the married victim, who also worked as a teacher's assistant, was having an affair with one of her college students (guest star Dustin James). However, the detectives are even more curious about her husband (guest star Richard Joseph Paul) - a preppy psychologist - when they learn that the woman first met him as one of his patients. Sam Waterston, Angie Harmon, Steven Hill and S. Epatha Merkerson also star.