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Law & Order Season 16 Episodes
Season 16 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 2005 - 2006
Episode 1
Red Ball
Wed, Sep 21, 200544 mins
When a little girl is abducted as part of a car-jacking, McCoy must bargain with the devil in the form of a system-savvy criminal.
Episode 2
Flaw
Wed, Sep 28, 200560 mins
The death of a con-man who tried to call Olivia Benson just before he was murdered brings Olivia and Fin to the assistance of Fontana and Green, and leads Olivia back to her old nemesis - slippery mother/daughter team Lorraine Dillon and April Troost.
Episode 3
Ghosts
Wed, Oct 5, 200560 mins
A deathbed confession reopens one of Fontana's old murder cases involving a young model, one in which he believed that the father was the killer. Branch and the father want the case to go away, but McCoy is bent on going to trial.
Episode 4
Age of Innocence
Wed, Oct 12, 200544 mins
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.
Episode 5
Life Line
Wed, Oct 19, 200544 mins
Fontana and Green investigate the murder of an aspiring journalist who was working undercover on a story about street gangs. The detectives find a connection between a real estate salesman with a son in Sing Sing and the street gang the journalist was investigating. McCoy charges the salesman with murder, but he refuses all deals, nor will he mount a reasonable defense.
Episode 6
Birthright
Wed, Nov 2, 200545 mins
A nurse is accused of performing illegal sterilizations on troubled teens without their knowledge, which resulted in the death of one of her patients.
Episode 7
House of Cards
Wed, Nov 9, 200544 mins
A woman is murdered and her baby kidnapped. The detectives use an eyewitness to track down a woman who looked pregnant running from the apartment with the child. After locating the woman, who has even fooled her husband, and starting her trial, the baby's paternity comes into question and the baby's real father faces his own trial.
Episode 8
New York Minute
Wed, Nov 16, 200545 mins
The murder of a trucker blows open a case involving illegal trafficking and the citizen border patrol
Episode 9
Criminal Law
Wed, Nov 23, 200544 mins
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.
Episode 10
Acid
Wed, Nov 30, 200545 mins
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 unsuccessful in getting a lot of help from her friend, who is terrified that the man who destroyed her elder daughter's life with also destroy her younger daughter as well. McCoy and Borgia's case hits a snag when Van Buren takes the stand and comes close to committing perjury to keep Jason Corley behind bars.
Episode 11
Bible Story
Wed, Dec 7, 200543 mins
A synagogue's Chumash is stolen and desecrated, and the crime must be solved before a religious war breaks out in downtown Manhattan.
Episode 12
Family Friend
Wed, Jan 11, 200644 mins
After an accountant for the mob is stabbed to death, a corrupt police officer who grew up with the victim takes justice into his own hands. However, pursuing the case could put the officer's other convictions in jeopardy.
Episode 13
Heart of Darkness
Wed, Jan 18, 200660 mins
McCoy pursues murder charges against a woman in an assisted suicide case, but he finds out during the trial that a third party may have also been involved.
Episode 14
Magnet
Wed, Feb 8, 200660 mins
A teenager from a rich family kills a schoolmate because he refused to sell him test answers. His defense argues that he was not responsible for his actions because of the medication he was prescribed.
Episode 15
Choice of Evils
Wed, Mar 1, 200660 mins
A suburban mom ends up admitting to the detectives that she shot and killed her own teenage son out of fear that the boy would become a menace to society.
Episode 16
Cost of Capital
Wed, Mar 8, 200644 mins
The murder of a banker leads to the discovery that he was having a relationship with his boss. McCoy's case rides on the testimony of the defendant's 14-year-old daughter. However, her testimony also reveals a shocking family secret.
Episode 17
America, Inc.
Wed, Mar 22, 200644 mins
While Jack is prosecuting a man who murdered a military contractor, the prosecution is interrupted by the recent capture of a terrorist.
Episode 18
Thinking Makes It So
Wed, Mar 29, 200660 mins
A man is killed while apparently trying to rob a bank. The manager who was giving him the money refuses to say anything. Later it is revealed that the manger's daughter was kidnapped and what he was giving the robber was the ransom. So Green and Fontana try to find the girl. They learn that the man who was killed is a con artist and he usually works with his father. Eventually Fontana finds him and makes him tell where the girl is. While being tried, his lawyer claims that Fontana strong armed him to reveal where the girl is. Fontana denies it but McCoy is worried.
Episode 19
Positive
Wed, Apr 5, 200660 mins
Detectives Joe Fontana and Ed Green investigate the shooting of the owner of a neighborhood restaurant, Oscar Morales. It turns out the shooter is 14 year-old Jeremy Miller whose sister Emily died a few days before from AIDS. His intended victim was really the administrator of the hospital where Emily died, Dr. Elaine Clemens, who was wounded in the restaurant attack. Jeremy blamed the hospital for killing his sister and just as the police try to get the contrite young man to give himself up he commits suicide. They learn that Emily's foster mother had visited her just before she died but the autopsy reveals she was being administered drugs outside of her treatment protocol, including an experimental AIDS drug that was supposed to be used only on animals. They arrest Andrew Copeland, Emily's doctor, and determine that other foster children have died in a similar way.
Episode 20
Kingmaker
Wed, May 3, 200660 mins
When an undercover cop is found dead, there's a lot concern that her cover may have been blown. When the one who killed her is caught and when they ask him if he knew she was cop and how, he tells them because there was an article about her in the newspaper. When asked the reporter refuses to say who gave her the story. Her father suspects that this all part of a retaliation against him for writing a book that reveals the shady practices of a congressman. He tells the police that they should focus their attention on the man chief of staff. When they get some circumstantial evidence against the man, they give it to McCoy who wants more solid evidence first. But when the man sees him and tells not to pursue it he has him arrested.
Episode 21
Hindsight
Wed, May 10, 200660 mins
Fontana and Green investigate Green's former replacement, Nick Falco, who becomes a suspect in an investigation after a woman he had spent the night with is found slashed to death in his bathroom.
Episode 22
Invaders
Wed, May 17, 200660 mins
The latest murder victims of two home invaders are the family members of a man who once sold fake DEA badges to the killers and then began secretly cooperating with police. The case takes a harrowing turn when one of the team is attacked and goes missing. In a legal gambit, McCoy must then risk his career -- and those of others, as well -- to bend the rules and use corrupt DEA Agent Almonte to lure out the sadistic psychopaths.
