Goren and Eames investigate the deaths of a shock jock and a housekeeper who supplied the pain killers to which he was once addicted leads the detectives to a detox clinic staff member whose mental illness hits Goren close to home.

When a famous, avante garde photographer is found murdered and handcuffed to the steering wheel of a crashed car, Detectives Goren and Eames probe the victim's controversial works and his tortured past -- but they make a grisly discovery that a dead model had been used at the site of a former photo shoot. When other similarly pretty women are found missing, the investigators suspect that the secretive artist was exploiting them to gain an ugly new perspective for his lagging career until Goren studies the artwork and arrives upon a new theory.

A shy, lonely man becomes the focus of a police investigation when a stripper is found murdered -- with part of her calf missing -- and Detectives Goren and Eames zero in when another woman escapes his clutches, leading them to believe the suspect wants a mindless female to keep him company. However, as the noose is tightened, a sympathetic Goren clashes with his superiors over how to prosecute the pathetic killer.

Detectives Goren and Eames track a mysterious young diamond swallower who is being manipulated by Nicole Wallace -- Goren's murderous and chameleon-like nemesis. As Goren closes in on Wallace, he discovers a horrifying secret that may allow him to finally close the book on his lethal adversary. As a special feature, viewers can choose one of two alternate killer endings at the end of the episode by logging on to www.nbc.com.

When a prominent atheist leader is kidnapped, ransomed and murdered, Detectives Goren and Eames interview the victim's granddaughter who was also kidnapped but survived and the suspects include more family members, including the dead woman's son - now a reverend with a prison ministry. However, when two of the kidnappers turn up dead, the investigators look for a double-crossing mastermind who pulled the strings but left no trail to follow.

When the body of several murdered homeless men are found sold to medical labs, Detectives Goren and Eames descend into abandoned subway tunnels - where they encounter its tormented inhabitants - until they discover all of the victims were newly registered for credit cards that were maxed out after their deaths. As they probe further, the investigators find a link to a suspicious auto parts salesman and his addled middle-aged girlfriend.

Horrified Detectives Goren and Eames contemplate a car bomb blast that killed three young boys and injured their mother and surviving brother as they check out suspicious Arabic-speaking men -- and the family's controlling husband/father who works in a top-secret electronics firm. The police probe yields shocking connections when they discover the wife's earlier postpartum depression and questionable behavior of the dedicated dad.

The investigation of an appraiser's killing involves a young couple and a wealthy man's son.

Goren and Eames investigate the radiation poisoning of a physicist's research partner.

Eames goes undercover in the investigation of the murder of a condo-association president.

After a woman's body is found in a garbage bin, clues lead Goren and Eames to a disturbed individual, who was once a chess prodigy.

Goren and Eames' investigation of the killing of a vintage-toy collector involves a bookstore fire and a second murder.

Chris Noth returns as Det. Mike Logan, whom he played on a Law & Ordera from 1990 to '95. In the episode, he's investigating the murder of a guard at a prison where his girlfriend is a nurse.

When the little black book of an infamous hedonistic playboy is purchased at auction, the new owner is found murdered and the book stolen -- prompting Detectives Goren and Eames to consider a U.S. Senatorial candidate whose marital indiscretions are documented in the tome and could provide embarrassing fodder for his rivals. The detectives must tweak their theory when the extortionist responsible for the original crimes turns up with two bullet holes in his back.

The investigation of a food critic's killing uncovers a rivalry between chefs, a celebrity cook and his son-in-law, who disappears.

The investigation of a young mother's murder leads to a case involving several organ transplants.

A young woman is murdered and Goren suspects that a serial killer is responsible because of the crime's similarities to past murders.

A couple in a witness-protection program are murdered and Goren and Eames speak to their daughter, who turns out to be adopted.

Goren and Eames investigate the death of a dentist's wife by dioxin poisoning and the suspects include the jealous widower.

In the bloody wake of a multiple suicide pact gone wrong, Detectives Goren and Eames consider the deaths of four young adults who parked their car on railroad tracks and waited for the inevitable . And while the cops probe a suicide matchmaking website, they discover that one of the victims tried vainly to escape. Backtracking, the investigators seek to learn what brought the four together that night, and they wonder if office politics and an illicit romance were factors in the tragedy -- and subsequent coverup.

A young actress is killed and her fiancA© is wounded in a street shooting, and suspicion falls on the man's ex-girlfriend.

After her husband is killed, a municipal worker disappears and the investigation implicates a former police commissioner.

Goren and Eames investigate a judge's murder and zero in on two men who are suspected of a series of killings out West