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The Best Episodes of Law & Order Season 16

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Every episode of Law & Order Season 16 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Law & Order Season 16!

The Best Episodes of Law & Order Season 16

In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until someone is taken into...
  1. Background image for Red Ball
    8.3/10(362 votes)

    #1 - Red Ball

    S16:E1

    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.

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  2. Background image for Flaw (II)
    8.1/10(403 votes)

    #2 - Flaw (II)

    S16:E2

    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).

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  3. Background image for Ghosts
    7.9/10(320 votes)

    #3 - Ghosts

    S16:E3

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

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  4. Background image for Age of Innocence
    7.2/10(289 votes)

    #4 - Age of Innocence

    S16:E4

    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.

    Director:David Platt
    Writer:Unknown
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  5. Background image for Life Line
    7.8/10(301 votes)

    #5 - Life Line

    S16:E5

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

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  6. Background image for Birthright
    7.8/10(316 votes)

    #6 - Birthright

    S16:E6

    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.

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  8. Background image for House of Cards
    7.3/10(281 votes)

    #7 - House of Cards

    S16:E7

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

    Writer:Unknown
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  9. Background image for New York Minute
    7.7/10(267 votes)

    #8 - New York Minute

    S16:E8

    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.

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  10. Background image for Criminal Law
    8.4/10(353 votes)

    #9 - Criminal Law

    S16:E9

    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.

    Director:Edwin Sherin
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  11. Background image for Acid
    8.3/10(341 votes)

    #10 - Acid

    S16:E10

    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

    Writer:Unknown
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  12. Background image for Bible Story
    7.3/10(295 votes)

    #11 - Bible Story

    S16:E11

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

    Director:Rick Wallace
    Writer:Unknown
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  13. Background image for Family Friend
    7.4/10(285 votes)

    #12 - Family Friend

    S16:E12

    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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  14. Background image for Heart of Darkness
    7.5/10(300 votes)

    #13 - Heart of Darkness

    S16:E13

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

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Background image for Magnet
    7.5/10(292 votes)

    #14 - Magnet

    S16:E14

    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.

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  16. Background image for Choice of Evils
    7.5/10(286 votes)

    #15 - Choice of Evils

    S16:E15

    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.

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  17. Background image for Cost of Capital
    8.1/10(307 votes)

    #16 - Cost of Capital

    S16:E16

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

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  18. Background image for America, Inc.
    7.5/10(291 votes)

    #17 - America, Inc.

    S16:E17

    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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  19. Background image for Thinking Makes It So
    8.0/10(313 votes)

    #18 - Thinking Makes It So

    S16:E18

    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.

    Director:Tony Goldwyn
    Writer:Unknown
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  20. Background image for Positive
    7.2/10(285 votes)

    #19 - Positive

    S16:E19

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  21. Background image for Kingmaker
    7.6/10(295 votes)

    #20 - Kingmaker

    S16:E20

    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.

    Director:Don Scardino
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  22. Background image for Hindsight
    7.9/10(332 votes)

    #21 - Hindsight

    S16:E21

    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.

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  23. Background image for Invaders
    8.8/10(505 votes)

    #22 - Invaders

    S16:E22

    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.

    Director:Matthew Penn
    Writer:Unknown
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Season 16 Ratings Summary

"Red Ball" is the best rated episode of "Law & Order" season 16. It scored 8.3/10 based on 362 votes. Directed by Matthew Penn and written by Dick Wolf, David Wilcox, it aired on 9/21/2005. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Flaw (II)".