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Law & Order — Season 16

About the series

A long-running procedural that splits each case between police work and courtroom prosecution, set in New York.

Season premiere
September 21, 2005
Episodes in the season
22
Whole season
16 h 30 min
September 21, 2005 Season fully aired May 17, 2006

Episodes

22 episodes · 16 h 30 min

  1. 21 Sep 2005 Law & Order, season 16, episode 1 — a still from the episode E01

    Red Ball

    45 min

    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.

  2. 28 Sep 2005 Law & Order, season 16, episode 2 — a still from the episode E02

    Flaw (II)

    45 min

    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).

  3. 5 Oct 2005 Law & Order, season 16, episode 3 — a still from the episode E03

    Ghosts

    45 min

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

  4. 12 Oct 2005 Law & Order, season 16, episode 4 — a still from the episode E04

    Age of Innocence

    45 min

    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.

  5. 19 Oct 2005 Law & Order, season 16, episode 5 — a still from the episode E05

    Life Line

    45 min

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

  6. 2 Nov 2005 Law & Order, season 16, episode 6 — a still from the episode E06

    Birthright

    45 min

    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.

  7. 9 Nov 2005 Law & Order, season 16, episode 7 — a still from the episode E07

    House of Cards

    45 min

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

  8. 16 Nov 2005 Law & Order, season 16, episode 8 — a still from the episode E08

    New York Minute

    45 min

    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.

  9. 23 Nov 2005 Law & Order, season 16, episode 9 — a still from the episode E09

    Criminal Law

    45 min

    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.

  10. 30 Nov 2005 Law & Order, season 16, episode 10 — a still from the episode E10

    Acid

    45 min

    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

  11. 7 Dec 2005 Law & Order, season 16, episode 11 — a still from the episode E11

    Bible Story

    45 min

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

  12. 11 Jan 2006 Law & Order, season 16, episode 12 — a still from the episode E12

    Family Friend

    45 min

    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.

  13. 18 Jan 2006 Law & Order, season 16, episode 13 — a still from the episode E13

    Heart of Darkness

    45 min

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

  14. 8 Feb 2006 Law & Order, season 16, episode 14 — a still from the episode E14

    Magnet

    45 min

    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.

  15. 1 Mar 2006 Law & Order, season 16, episode 15 — a still from the episode E15

    Choice of Evils

    45 min

    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.

  16. 8 Mar 2006 Law & Order, season 16, episode 16 — a still from the episode E16

    Cost of Capital

    45 min

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

  17. 22 Mar 2006 Law & Order, season 16, episode 17 — a still from the episode E17

    America, Inc.

    45 min

    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.

  18. 29 Mar 2006 Law & Order, season 16, episode 18 — a still from the episode E18

    Thinking Makes It So

    45 min

    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.

  19. 5 Apr 2006 Law & Order, season 16, episode 19 — a still from the episode E19

    Positive

    45 min

    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.

  20. 3 May 2006 Law & Order, season 16, episode 20 — a still from the episode E20

    Kingmaker

    45 min

    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.

  21. 10 May 2006 Law & Order, season 16, episode 21 — a still from the episode E21

    Hindsight

    45 min

    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.

  22. 17 May 2006 Law & Order, season 16, episode 22 — a still from the episode E22

    Invaders

    45 min

    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.