- A young, independent deaf woman is murdered, but was is it her scorned lover or her obsessed mentor? Detectives Briscoe and Logan scour phone transcripts, while forensics narrows the search. It's up to prosecutors Stone and Robinette to persuade the truth out of the victim's mentor, the founder of a local institute for the deaf.—Anonymous
- Detectives Briscoe and Logan investigate the murder of Kathleen McKenna, a deaf woman who is found in the alleyway next to her apartment building. Neighbors heard her scream and one had even saw her signing with a man just before that but the police have very little to go on. Kathleen worked for an advocacy group for the deaf and the group's leader Gordon Bryce says everyone liked her. She had a boyfriend but he has an alibi for the time she was killed. When the police find she had been threatened, likely by a hearing person, they go back to the boyfriend. They finally determine that Bryce is the most likely suspect but ADA Stone is going to have a difficult time making his case.—garykmcd
- Benevolence is the last Episode of the 1992-93 Season, and the last episode where Lieutenant Donny Cragan (Actor Dan Florek) commands the NYPD 27th Precincts Homicide Squad before he gets promoted to Captain and is replaced as Squad Commander by Actor S. Epatha Merkerson as Lieutenant Anita Van Buren in the remaining seasons, while Assistant District Attourney Paul Robinnet (Actor Richard Brooks) moves on in his career and is replaced by Assistant District Attorney Claire Kinkaid (Actor Jill Hennessy).
The Primary Investigators are the regulars, Detective Lenny Briscoe (Actor Jerry Orbach), and Detective Mike Logan (Actor Chris Noth). The Guest Actors who play the Defense Attorneys in this episode are Camryn Manheim (Martha Rollins), and George Grizzard (Arthur Gold), while the Guest Actors who play the two Judges are Sam Gray (Judge Francis Cabot), and Peter Kass (Judge Peters). The actor who plays the Victim, Kathleen McKenna, is seen only distantly, and is never identified.
Detectives Briscoe and Logan investigate the murder of Kathleen McKenna, a deaf woman who is found in the alleyway next to her apartment building. Neighbors heard her scream and one had even saw her signing with a man just before that but the police have very little to go on. Kathleen worked for an advocacy group for the deaf and the group's leader Gordon Bryce (Actor Leon Russom) says everyone liked her. She had a boyfriend but he has an alibi for the time she was killed. When the police find she had been threatened, likely by a hearing person, they go back to the boyfriend.
They finally determine that Bryce is the most likely suspect but Executive District Attorney Ben Stone (Actor Michael Moriarty) has a difficult time making his case because he must depend on Deaf Technology, and Bryces fame, to trip Bryce up.
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