The only villain in this Law And Order story is drugs. Recreational pharmaceuticals that can entrap and enslave a person including multiple generations in the same family.
Detectives Fontana and Green first get a case of a man murdered because he spoke up when he saw a crackhead teen mom abusing her infant. They arrest Adapero Oduye who is just mad at the world and gives an electrifying performance of just that. Though she's in the story for only the first quarter you remember her throughout because it's her character that is the key to this whole drama.
She dies in police custody and it's Leslie Hendrix at the medical examiner who determines the cause of death. Oduye had an Intra Uterine Device implanted in her which had a chemical in it that would render the person sterile. But she also had sickle cell syndrome and said chemical with that tendency would eventually kill them.
Who put it there without her knowledge was Stephanie Roth Haberle, a respected nurse practitioner who runs a neighborhood clinic. But that's far from the whole story as we learn as the trial proceeds.
The third performance in this tragic drama to watch is that of the grandmother of the teen killer, Myra Lucretia-Taylor. Can't say more but this woman's life could be classified with two words, burdens and tragedy.
One of the saddest stories ever on Law And Order.