Law & Order: Criminal Intent: Season 7
Season 7 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: Criminal Intent Season 6.
- 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 7 Progress Shield
Seeds
Oct 11, 2007 · 43 min
Genetics drive the murder of a doctor and the subsequent investigation.
Smile
Oct 18, 2007 · 43 min
When a dentist is murdered by the mother of one of his patients, Goren and Eames follow the trail of evidence to a company that appears to have been the victim of a criminal conspi
Lonelyville
Oct 25, 2007 · 43 min
When a dead woman is found tied up in a motel room, Logan and Falacci follow the leads to a lonely writer.
Depths
Nov 1, 2007 · 43 min
Terrorism is initially suspected after the body of a young Arabic diver washes up on the shore, but Goren and Eames soon learn that the victim was part of a trio of con artists tha
Courtship
Nov 8, 2007 · 42 min
A private investigator is at the heart of the murder of a judge's wife.
Self-made
Nov 15, 2007 · 43 min
Goren and Eames investigate the death of a writer, and whether her torture has ties to the 'hood she came from.
Offense
Nov 29, 2007 · 43 min
A rape trial goes wrong when a witness is killed, but the likely suspects – the football team members accused of the rape – turn out not so likely, and attention turns towards an a
Untethered
Dec 6, 2007 · 43 min
Goren investigates when his nephew, a prisoner who's bipolar, claims that inmates are being abused to the point of murder.
Senseless
Dec 13, 2007 · 43 min
Logan and Falacci investigate the execution-style murder of three young college freshmen.
Purgatory
Jun 8, 2008 · 45 min
Still on leave from the force, approached in a bar after a confrontation, and pondering his future, Goren meets another officer on suspension (Winters) who makes him an interesting
Contract
Jun 15, 2008 · 45 min
A gossip columnist who used his insider knowledge to feed his habit is murdered, which leaves Wheeler and Logan to work through a list of suspects that grows longer the more they p
Betrayed
Jun 22, 2008 · 43 min
Captain Ross loses his objectivity, and jeopardizes the case, when an old flame becomes a suspect in the disappearance of her husband and his lover.
Assassin
Jun 29, 2008 · 43 min
A Sri Lankan Tamil activist survives an assassination attempt at JFK when she returns from her house arrest in Sri Lanka. When members of her close circle are also targeted, the in
Please Note We Are No Longer Accepting Letters of Recommendation from Henry Kissinger
Jul 6, 2008 · 43 min
Three murders lead to a preschool with an exclusive and long waiting list.
Reunion
Jul 13, 2008 · 43 min
The murder of a television show host may be linked to her former avocation as a groupie to a famous musician, putting him and his family right at the top of the suspect list, along
Vanishing Act
Jul 20, 2008 · 43 min
A well-known magician disappears during a live-burial stunt, only to appear miles away and dead in the middle of his mentor's gag. Goren and Eames' investigation takes them deep in
Ten Count
Jul 27, 2008 · 43 min
A boxer celebrating his victory is shot to death, and when it turns out the victim is the brother of a young man Logan mentored he commits himself and Wheeler to solving the crime.
Legacy
Aug 3, 2008 · 43 min
When a student dies at an exclusive private school, the investigation uncovers an online community that may have overtaken the school with its fixation on grades and secrets.
Neighborhood Watch
Aug 10, 2008 · 43 min
Wheeler and Logan investigate the murder of a man found decapitated, mutilated and stabbed in Maspeth Creek, a neighborhood that did not welcome him.
Last Rites
Aug 17, 2008 · 43 min
Logan jeopardizes his and Wheeler's careers when a priest convinces him to re-open a murder case that's over a decade old which involves a politically-aspiring ADA who will stop at
Frame
Aug 24, 2008 · 43 min
Bobby is visited by the past when he finds a picture at his mother's grave indicating an old nemesis has returned, and the case only gets more complex when his brother and a mentor