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Season 16

Season 16

Law & Order

2005
Episodes: 22

Episodes

Red Ball

1. Red Ball

September 21, 2005

8.0
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.

Guest Stars: Wendy Hoopes, Lindsay Crouse, James Le Gros

Flaw (II)

2. Flaw (II)

September 28, 2005

7.5
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).

Guest Stars: Estella Warren, Lynda Carter, Milena Govich

Ghosts

3. Ghosts

October 5, 2005

7.3
45 min

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

Guest Stars: Kristina Klebe, David Vadim, Raymond J. Barry

Age of Innocence

4. Age of Innocence

October 12, 2005

6.2
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.

Guest Stars: Selenis Leyva, David Lipman, Thomas Ryan

Life Line

5. Life Line

October 19, 2005

7.2
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.

Guest Stars: Karen Shallo, Jordan Charney, Leslie Hendrix

Birthright

6. Birthright

November 2, 2005

7.4
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.

Guest Stars: Richard Brooks, Heather Simms, Adepero Oduye

House of Cards

7. House of Cards

November 9, 2005

6.5
45 min

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

Guest Stars: Carolyn McCormick, David Little, Selenis Leyva

New York Minute

8. New York Minute

November 16, 2005

6.8
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.

Guest Stars: Selenis Leyva, Anita Flanagan, Daniel Roebuck

Criminal Law

9. Criminal Law

November 23, 2005

8.2
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.

Guest Stars: Peter McRobbie, Maddie Corman, Thomas Sadoski

Acid

10. Acid

November 30, 2005

7.6
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

Guest Stars: Doug Stender, Leslie Hendrix, Mark Zimmerman

Bible Story

11. Bible Story

December 7, 2005

6.7
45 min

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

Guest Stars: Kevin O'Rourke, Paul Borghese, Selenis Leyva

Family Friend

12. Family Friend

January 11, 2006

7.0
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.

Guest Stars: Mike Hodge, Amy Ryan, Vincent Guastaferro

Heart of Darkness

13. Heart of Darkness

January 18, 2006

7.0
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.

Guest Stars: Leslie Hendrix, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Susan Floyd

Magnet

14. Magnet

February 8, 2006

7.0
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.

Guest Stars: Carolyn McCormick, Michael Mazzeo, Helmar Augustus Cooper

Choice of Evils

15. Choice of Evils

March 1, 2006

7.6
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.

Guest Stars: Carolyn McCormick, Jordan Charney, Nicholas J. Giangiulio

Cost of Capital

16. Cost of Capital

March 8, 2006

7.4
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.

Guest Stars: André De Shields, Kenneth Tigar, Roma Maffia

America, Inc.

17. America, Inc.

March 22, 2006

6.7
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.

Guest Stars: Tovah Feldshuh, Jeannine Comeau, Fran Lebowitz

Thinking Makes It So

18. Thinking Makes It So

March 29, 2006

8.1
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.

Guest Stars: Peter McRobbie, Leslie Hendrix, Peter Jacobson

Positive

19. Positive

April 5, 2006

6.2
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.

Guest Stars: Vondie Curtis-Hall, Jason Antoon, Alex Webb

Kingmaker

20. Kingmaker

May 3, 2006

7.2
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.

Guest Stars: Tim Miller, Robert Hogan, Selenis Leyva

Hindsight

21. Hindsight

May 10, 2006

7.4
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.

Guest Stars: Michael Imperioli, Marylou Mellace, Richard Hirschfeld

Invaders

22. Invaders

May 17, 2006

8.0
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.

Guest Stars: Lynn Cohen, Bruce MacVittie, Karen Young

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