Law & Order: Season 16
Season 16 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Law & Order Season 15.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 16 Progress Shield
Red Ball
Sep 21, 2005 · 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.
Flaw (II)
Sep 28, 2005 · 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
Ghosts
Oct 5, 2005 · 45 min
Fontana and McCoy pursue a man believed to have murdered a young girl ten years earlier despite numerous obstacles.
Age of Innocence
Oct 12, 2005 · 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.
Life Line
Oct 19, 2005 · 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.
Birthright
Nov 2, 2005 · 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 becau
House of Cards
Nov 9, 2005 · 45 min
The team investigates the killing of a single mother and the abduction of her child.
New York Minute
Nov 16, 2005 · 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.
Criminal Law
Nov 23, 2005 · 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.
Acid
Nov 30, 2005 · 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 ac
Bible Story
Dec 7, 2005 · 45 min
The case of a man who defiled a copy of the Torah turns into a religious battle for McCoy.
Family Friend
Jan 11, 2006 · 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 h
Heart of Darkness
Jan 18, 2006 · 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.
Magnet
Feb 8, 2006 · 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.
Choice of Evils
Mar 1, 2006 · 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 Ashbu
Cost of Capital
Mar 8, 2006 · 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.
America, Inc.
Mar 22, 2006 · 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 Po
Thinking Makes It So
Mar 29, 2006 · 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
Positive
Apr 5, 2006 · 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.
Kingmaker
May 3, 2006 · 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.
Hindsight
May 10, 2006 · 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.
Invaders
May 17, 2006 · 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.