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The Best Episodes of Law & Order Season 7

Every episode of Law & Order Season 7 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Law & Order Season 7!

The Best Episodes of Law & Order Season 7

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 Causa Mortis
    7.7/10(392 votes)

    #1 - Causa Mortis

    S7:E1

    McCoy's new second chair, ADA Jamie Ross, is determined to prosecute as harshly as possible a carjacker who took the life of a teacher as she pleaded for her life on an audio tape discovered at the crime scene.

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    Director:Edwin Sherin
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for I.D.
    8.1/10(422 votes)

    #2 - I.D.

    S7:E2

    The cops tackle identifying a corpse left in an elevator, and McCoy finds his prosecution of the suspect later hampered by a vindictive judge who resents Ross's in-court rebuke for sexual harassment.

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    7.5/10(374 votes)

    #3 - Good Girl

    S7:E3

    Briscoe and Curtis have to break the mutual alibi of two girlfriends as they try to find the killer of a young black man, whose angry parents pressure McCoy to indict a young woman who claims the victim had raped her.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    7.8/10(395 votes)

    #4 - Survivor

    S7:E4

    Briscoe and Curtis's investigation of the murder of a rare coin dealer nets them a millionaire as a suspect, but Ross has to play detective too as the DA's office tries to establish a provenance for the missing coin collection.

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    Writer:Unknown
  5. Background image for Corruption
    8.3/10(404 votes)

    #5 - Corruption

    S7:E5

    Curtis, angered by the attitude of an old colleague of Briscoe's, looks beyond the findings of an IAB investigation and turns up evidence of police corruption that puts the DA's office into competition with an ambitious judge and Briscoe under investigation for stealing evidence from a police lockup.

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    Director:Matthew Penn
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for Double Blind
    7.9/10(352 votes)

    #6 - Double Blind

    S7:E6

    The murder of a janitor in a university laboratory building leads back to a student employee whose participation in a drug study may have prompted the crime.

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  8. Background image for Deadbeat
    7.7/10(341 votes)

    #7 - Deadbeat

    S7:E7

    The murder of a deadbeat father whose son is dying of leukemia presents McCoy and Ross with a sympathetic suspect and a moral dilemma.

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  9. Background image for Family Business
    7.3/10(337 votes)

    #8 - Family Business

    S7:E8

    The murder of Richard Speigel, chief financial officer for an exclusive, family-owned department store goes from the sitting room to the bedroom and into the board room as suspicion shifts from co-workers to family members.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Entrapment
    7.0/10(314 votes)

    #9 - Entrapment

    S7:E9

    The case against Huey Tate, a young man accused of shooting the well-known leader of the African-American Congress comes undone when the New York authorities learn that their chief witness was once an informant for the FBI, and is still under their protection.

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    Director:Matthew Penn
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Legacy
    8.1/10(392 votes)

    #10 - Legacy

    S7:E10

    The sidewalk shooting of a young husband uncovers the fact that his wife's first husband died in a inadequately investigated accident, and that they may have been having an affair before it happened.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  12. Background image for Menace
    7.8/10(339 votes)

    #11 - Menace

    S7:E11

    The detectives face a difficult struggle getting witnesses to a girl's apparent suicide to come forward while Ross tries to prove that a known bully is the one really responsible for her actions.

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  13. Background image for Barter
    8.0/10(343 votes)

    #12 - Barter

    S7:E12

    An unpromising case of murder suddenly develops new leads when the cops explore the possibility that the victim was mistaken for someone else. McCoy walks a thin line in the matter of ethical conduct as he tries to make a case against a lendor who uses unscrupulous methods to collect the money owed to him.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Matrimony
    8.1/10(371 votes)

    #13 - Matrimony

    S7:E13

    The discovery of a would-be thief refocuses a murder investigation, leaving the prosecutors the task of making a conspiracy case against the deceased's attorney and the pretty young widow.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  15. Background image for Working Mom
    7.6/10(349 votes)

    #14 - Working Mom

    S7:E14

    The murder of an ex-cop with a penchant for blackmail and illicit sex brings feminist lawyer Lanie Stieglitz into court against McCoy to defend a suburban wife and mother.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    7.9/10(378 votes)

    #15 - D-Girl

    S7:E15

    A headless corpse fished out of the river sends Briscoe and Curtis out to Los Angeles to obtain a blood sample from their chief suspect while McCoy and Ross back in New York try to obtain a court order for the procedure.

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    8.1/10(373 votes)

    #16 - Turnaround

    S7:E16

    Back in New York with their suspect, Briscoe and Curtis try to pin down his schedule on the night of the murder, but find instead that another man was in the area at the right time and more importantly, might have a motive for the crime. But after the issuance of a new arrest warrant, McCoy and Ross have to fly to LA to defend their warrant against attacks by the man's defense counsel, Ross's former husband Neal Gorton.

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    Director:Edwin Sherin
    Writer:Unknown
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    8.3/10(388 votes)

    #17 - Showtime

    S7:E17

    The trial of Eddie Newman begins but the prosecution's chances of conviction are hampered by a "dream team" of defense attorneys, Gorton's personal pressures on Ross, the public questioning of the relationship between Curtis and Lisa Lundquist, and a surprise accusation.

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    8.2/10(407 votes)

    #18 - Mad Dog

    S7:E18

    McCoy becomes obsessed with nailing a serial rapist recently released on parole and pushes the cops perilously close to harassment as he attempts to connect the man with a new rape and murder matching his previous M.O.

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    8.3/10(366 votes)

    #19 - Double Down

    S7:E19

    The cops' best hope of finding a kidnapped hired car driver alive is one of the armed robbers who grabbed him after a job, but the immunity deal he demands in return would effectively preclude his prosecution for the shooting death of an off-duty cop, placing McCoy in a difficult position as he seeks to placate the cops, who want the guy prosecuted, and the kidnapped man's wife, who wants every avenue of saving her husband explored.

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  21. Background image for We Like Mike
    8.2/10(372 votes)

    #20 - We Like Mike

    S7:E20

    A young man who claims to have helped a murdered young man change a flat tire is first the cops' primary suspect, then the prosecutors' chief witness.

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    Director:David Platt
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for Passion
    7.3/10(308 votes)

    #21 - Passion

    S7:E21

    Briscoe and Curtis investigate the death of a pretty young book editor who was reputedly having an affair with one of her authors, and find themselves focusing on the author's long time companion, who steadfastly denies there was anything wrong with their relationship.

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  23. Background image for Past Imperfect
    7.7/10(327 votes)

    #22 - Past Imperfect

    S7:E22

    The cops have a definite clue when a bloodstain that's not the same as the victim reveals that the killer was a blood relative, and the prosecutors stumble when their chief suspect claims their chief witness is her lawyer, and his knowledge of the crime represents privileged communications.

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    8.3/10(376 votes)

    #23 - Terminal

    S7:E23

    The cops uncover a man with a secret second life as they try to learn who opened fire on a group of people disembarking from a party cruise, but his guilt or innocence becomes almost a second thought as Schiff goes toe to toe with the governor and the States Attorney General over the decision to seek the death penalty.

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Season 7 Ratings Summary

"Causa Mortis" is the best rated episode of "Law & Order" season 7. It scored 7.7/10 based on 392 votes. Directed by Edwin Sherin and written by Unknown, it aired on 9/18/1996. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "I.D.".