<P> Shortly after Ed Green is assigned as Briscoe's partner, the two nearly come to blows during a particularly difficult investigation of a robbery - homicide in the 1999 episode "Marathon". Their primary suspect confesses as he is being arrested, but because Briscoe is the only officer within earshot, Green, Van Buren, and McCoy are placed in a difficult position with regard to the confession . Again, Briscoe is eventually vindicated, and Green and he work to rebuild their professional rapport . </P> <P> Briscoe retires in the 2004 episode "C.O.D." after 12 years at the 27th Precinct and more than 30 years in the NYPD . His replacement at the 27th Precinct is Det . Joe Fontana (Dennis Farina). </P> <P> Briscoe died at some point between 2004 and 2005 (Orbach himself died on December 28, 2004). Although not addressed directly on the main series until 2008 (and mentioned again in 2009), his death was implied in 2005 and confirmed in 2007 on an episode of the Law & Order: Criminal Intent series . The three official mentions of his death were made by each of his three junior partners on the series, Mike Logan, Rey Curtis, and Ed Green . </P> <P> On the first season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Briscoe makes three guest appearances assisting his old boss, Captain Cragen (one of these reunions involves re-opening a serial murder case that Briscoe and Logan had failed to solve several years earlier in the 1994 episode "Mayhem"). Briscoe also makes a guest appearance in the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Poison", in which he assists the Major Case Squad on a similar case . He also appeared in three episodes of Homicide: Life on the Street . </P>

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