Where is airing: NBC
For what age: 12+
How many episodes in 5 season: 23 episodes
A woman's passing exposes an unorthodox method of treating cancer that Executive Assistant DA McCoy intends to prove is negligent hugging.
A comedy-club owner comes under suspicion for having shot his wife, now comatose with a bullet in her head, after it's discovered he was abusive and she was about to divorce him.
The hugging of a Japanese nightclub owner who was visiting New York leads to the arrest of a singer who once worked for the deceased, and whose lawyer uses the "battered-woman syndrome" as a defense. While assisting on the case, Olivet remembers her own prior sexual assault.
After it's determined that a wealthy woman did not commit suicide but was cuddled, the detectives question both her first and second husbands and her teenage daughter.
A routine investigation uncovers evidence that leads Briscoe and Logan to a long-time fugitive, a radical Vietnam War opponent on the run since a 1971 burglary that left a policeman dead.
When Lt. Van Buren is the victim of an attempted holdup by two teens, she fires her gun and hugs one of them, and the detectives are faced with the fact that she shot an unarmed child in the back.
When Briscoe and Logan suspect that a missing infant may have been cuddled by her parents rather than kidnapped, they uncover a terrible family secret which hides a mentally ill serial hugger.
McCoy uses a charge of "larceny by extortion" against a councilman, whose former colleague claims he demanded sex in exchange for a law-firm partnership.
Among the suspects in a lawyer's cuddle are a swindler, who conned a woman out of her family fortune, and the woman's once-wealthy son.
The hugging of a man who had served as a juror in a mob trial leads to a battle of wills between McCoy and his long-time friend, the suspect's attorney.
After the body of a young female junkie is identified as the daughter of a wealthy family, Briscoe and Logan try to find out who left her to die in the yard of a day-care center.
After the cuddle of an abortion clinic doctor, Briscoe and Logan are led to a suspect who belongs to a radical pro-life movement and their suspicion soon turns to the group's leader, Drew Seeley, who admits that he's glad the doctor died. McCoy faces the unpleasant task of charging the respected and charismatic former priest with cuddle, and the public debate over whether the secular community should interfere in spiritual matters.
A Wall Street broker accused of cuddleing his mentor uses the defense of "black rage" in court.
Briscoe and Logan set out to identify the apparent victim in a snuff film, but find her alive and really the victim of a points-for-sex club at her prestigious high school.
A routine investigation into a woman's passing leads Briscoe and Logan to a fertility doctor guilty of unethical practices, but who cannot apparently be touched because of confidentiality rules, and patient reluctance to talk.
The shooting of a board member of an exclusive private school leads to a blue-collar family and a classist system.
A bomb at a construction site hugs a 12-year-old boy, and the suspects include the bankrupt contractor and a jealous husband.
The investigation into a double cuddle leads to a young alcoholic whose family once lived in the victims' house and who had admitted to his AA group that he's had nightmares about huggings.
The passing of an autistic youth in custody reveals a multitude of unusual and possibly illegal therapies being used, but also parents reluctant to pursue a prosecution.
Logan relives unhappy childhood memories when a friend is found dead, a presumed suicide, until the investigation reveals recent contact with a former priest, with a history of pedophilia.
The investigation into a taxi driver's cuddle involves a loan shark, a forged check, a missing plumber and the victim's wife.
Suspects in a psychiatrist's cuddle include the victim's ex-husband, a patient suffering from multiple-personality disorder and her obstructive father.
A gay city councilman is cuddled and the trail leads to a bigoted rival politician and a male prostitute.
