- Greevey and Logan discover that a hospital is covering up an accomplished doctor's mistake which resulted in a patient's death. They later find out that the doctor might have been drunk at the time.
- Detectives Max Greevey and Mike Logan investigate the death of teenager Suzanne Morton in a hospital emergency room after her father files a complaint saying she was murdered there. She had only gone to the hospital to have her prescription for antibiotics refilled, but was dead a few hours later. All of the doctors in the case are tight-lipped about what happened. When the detectives find that part of the girl's chart was hidden with white-out, they suspect that someone is covering up mistakes. The detectives learn that the hospital's Chief of Medicine--Dr. Edward Auster, an eminent cardiologist--had been drinking heavily at a reception just before going into the ER and that past cases have occurred in which his inebriation endangered patients. The challenge for Executive ADA Stone: mounting a case against Auster's sterling reputation to prove that he has a problem with alcohol.—garykmcd
- In New York, when the teenager Suzanne Morton dies in the ER of a hospital, her father Howard Morton goes to the police and tells that she was murdered there. He explains that they have gone to the hospital to get a prescription of antibiotic only and her daughter died. NYPD Detectives Max Greevey and Mike Logan are assigned to investigate the case and soon they suspect that the hospital staff and doctors are hiding something. Their further investigation discloses that the eminent Dr. Edward Auster had drank a lot in a party before coming to the hospital for his round. E.A.D.A. Ben Stone and A.D.A. Paul Robinette has to prove that Dr. Auster was under influence when he treated Suzanne and other patients and is alcoholic. But his reputation and background is above any suspect.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- This is the first regular episode* of the first season, which introduces the viewer to the Homicide Squad of New Yorks 27th Police Precinct; the District Attorney, the Executive Assistant District Attorney, and some of the Assistant District Attornies of New Yorks New York County; and the cases that they investigate and prosecute.
In this episode, the characters introduced include District Attorney Adam Schiff, Executive Assistant District Attorney Benjamin Stone, Assistant District Attorney Paul Robinette, Detective Lieutenant Donald Cragen, Detective Sergeant Max Greevey, and Detective Mike Logan.
Greevey and Logan discover that a hospital is covering up an emergency room physician's (Dr. Edward Auster, played by Guest Actor Paul Sparer.) mistake which results in a patient's death, who's Father is played by the Guest Actor John Spencer. They later find out that Doctor Auster had been been drunk at the time, and appeared at his Court hearing drunk to the point where he failed a simple police Driving While Impaired test.
The Defense Attorney, Phillip Nevins, is played by the Guest Actor Ron Rifkin. Trial Judge Benjamin Harcourt is played by Guest Actor Leslie Goldman.
*Episode 6 of this season is the actual Pilot Episode.
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