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Law & Order

Law & Order — Season 16

IMDb 7.3 HD 1990 26 Seasons 548 Episodes

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into custody. The district attorney's office then builds a case to convict the perpetrator by proving the person guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Working together, these expert teams navigate all sides of the complex criminal justice system to make New York a safer place.

Episodes

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E1 Red Ball
Aired 21 Sep 2005

A young girl is abducted in broad daylight, and the only link to the girl is an ex-convict who wants a deal before he's willing to talk.

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E2 Flaw (II)
Aired 28 Sep 2005

Green and Fontana bring SVU Detective Olivia Benson onto their scene when a DOA has her number on his cell phone. This crossover starts on Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S07E02 Design (I).

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E3 Ghosts
Aired 05 Oct 2005

Fontana and McCoy pursue a man believed to have murdered a young girl ten years earlier despite numerous obstacles.

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E4 Age of Innocence
Aired 12 Oct 2005

The bombing death of a husband set to remove the feeding tube of his wife, who's in a persistent vegetative state, focuses the investigation on the protesters.

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E5 Life Line
Aired 19 Oct 2005

Police turn their attention to the murder of an undercover reporter, but realise that the killer isn't as guilty as he appears.

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E6 Birthright
Aired 02 Nov 2005

Teenage suspect Traci Sands dies in police custody after being arrested for the murder of the man who reported her to child protective services. Rodgers reveals that she died because someone outfitted her with a benecrine I.U.D. that reacted with Sands' sickle cell syndrome and ended up killing her. Fontana and Green follow the trail to a charitable clinic and nurse Gloria Rhodes, who believes she is saving the world by sterilizing women that she does not believe are worthy of having children. McCoy faces former assistant district attorney Paul Robinette in court as Robinette defends Rhodes.

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E7 House of Cards
Aired 09 Nov 2005

The team investigates the killing of a single mother and the abduction of her child.

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E8 New York Minute
Aired 16 Nov 2005

Detectives discover that the owner of a trucking company has been smuggling illegal aliens and suspect that a citizens border-patrol member has killed him.

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E9 Criminal Law
Aired 23 Nov 2005

The deaths of three women with the same name lead Fontana and Green to the nine-year-old conviction of Leland Barnes, who had shot and killed his wife in an office full of people. With two of the three witnesses against him dead and Jack McCoy on the hit list, the detectives struggle to determine how Barnes, who has been in prison the entire time, got someone on the outside to kill the only people who could keep him in jail. The investigation leads them to Leland's two sons, with surprising results.

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E10 Acid
Aired 30 Nov 2005

After the daughter of one of Van Buren's college friends is found dead in her room, a suicide, Van Buren joins Green and Fontana in hunting down the man who burned her face with acid months earlier, ultimately leading to her suicide. Van Buren is unsucces

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E11 Bible Story
Aired 07 Dec 2005

The case of a man who defiled a copy of the Torah turns into a religious battle for McCoy.

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E12 Family Friend
Aired 11 Jan 2006

After Philip and Valerie Messick are attacked in their home, Green and Fontana follow the trail to a small-time thug named Jay Fleckner. After Valerie's testimony unintentionally helps free Fleckner, he is found dead, and detectives soon realise that Bob Cerullo, a family friend of Valerie and her late husband, was the triggerman. Unfortunately, when McCoy attempts to prosecute Cerullo, a retired cop, he threatens to claim that he deliberately planted evidence in his past cases in an attempt to get McCoy to drop all the charges.

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E13 Heart of Darkness
Aired 18 Jan 2006

A journalist's suicide becomes suspect after Green and Fontana find evidence at the scene suggesting that it wasn't a suicide after all.

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E14 Magnet
Aired 08 Feb 2006

Fontana and Green arrest a fellow student after a young man is murdered, but McCoy faces a tough adversary when he tries to prosecute the crime.

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E15 Choice of Evils
Aired 01 Mar 2006

After the body of a teenage boy is found dead in a warehouse, detectives use DNA to connect the boy to a convicted rapist and serial killer, then to the boy's mother, Allison Ashburn, the convict's ex-wife. While trying to solve Danny's murder, Fontana and Green learn that he recently got his girlfriend Tina pregnant, and his mother had seen him recently when she had given him money despite having claimed she hadn't seen him for months. Allison finally admits that she murdered her son after the police arrest her new husband John, but claims she did it to save the world from her son, whom she was convinced would become a monster just like her father. Borgia and McCoy face an uphill battle trying to convict the perfect soccer mom.

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E16 Cost of Capital
Aired 08 Mar 2006

The case against a high powered executive accused of killing her lover rests on the executive's estranged husband and unstable teenage daughter.

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E17 America, Inc.
Aired 22 Mar 2006

After Jeffrey Pope, a private military contractor, is found dead, suspicion eventually leads Green and Fontana to Robbie Howell, the younger brother of a man who died because of Pope's incompetance, and Kevin Boatman, Nick Howell's former co-worker who had witnessed the tragic events in Iraq.

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E18 Thinking Makes It So
Aired 29 Mar 2006

Fontana and Green investigate when a bank manager is involved in the robbing of his own bank and learn that his daughter is being held hostage and that he had to go along with the robbery or risk losing his daughter.

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E19 Positive
Aired 05 Apr 2006

When a teenage boy commits suicide after firing on a doctor and hitting an innocent party, Fontana and Green investigate why he was after the doctor to begin with.

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E20 Kingmaker
Aired 03 May 2006

After undercover cop Dana Baker is murdered, Fontana and Green learn that the man who killed her had discovered her identity after seeing a photograph of her.

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E21 Hindsight
Aired 10 May 2006

Fontana and Green are called in to investigate when Green's former replacement, Nick Falco, is suspected of murdering a young woman he had spent the night with.

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E22 Invaders
Aired 17 May 2006

The family of a man who once turned his customers into the police is slain, and the ensuing fracas pits McCoy against a corrupt D.E.A. agent.

Top Cast

Maura Tierney
Maura Tierney
Jessica Brady
David Ajala
David Ajala
Theo Walker
Tony Goldwyn
Tony Goldwyn
Nicholas Baxter
Hugh Dancy
Hugh Dancy
Nolan Price
Odelya Halevi
Odelya Halevi
Samantha Maroun

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