Someone hates "hanging judge" Lynn Carlin (Roxanne Hart) enough to try to murder her. Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) manage to connect the attempted assassination with a pair of prison inmates. In the final analysis, however, the suspect is difficult to track, and the D.A.'s office is faced with a near-insurmountable legal dilemma. This episode of Law & Order was telecast in tandem with the series' 11th-season finale on May 23, 2001. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi