Season 7
🎬 23 Episodes 📅 1996 ⏱ 43 min
A prominent banker is found dead in his Park Avenue penthouse, and the investigation spirals into Manhattan's elite circles where secrets run deeper than money. Law & Order follows detectives as they uncover a web of affairs, embezzlement, and revenge, each suspect harboring a motive. When the DA's office takes over, they discover the real crime may not be murder at all. In the end, justice becomes a question of what you can prove, not what you know to be true.
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📊 Season Stats
23
Episodes
1996
Year
43
min / ep
16.5
Watch Hours
7/25
Season No.
⭐ 8.2
Best Episode
Ep. 4 · Survivor
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🎬 Episodes 23 episodes
1
⭐ 7.9
Causa Mortis
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.
🎬 Edwin Sherin ✍️ René Balcer
2
⭐ 7.7
I.D.
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.
🎬 Constantine Makris ✍️ Ed Zuckerman
3
⭐ 7.3
Good Girl
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.
🎬 Jace Alexander ✍️ Jeremy R. Littman
4
⭐ 8.2
Survivor
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.
🎬 Vincent Misiano ✍️ Barry M. Schkolnick
5
⭐ 7.9
Corruption
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…
🎬 Matthew Penn ✍️ René Balcer
6
⭐ 7.7
Double Blind
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.
🎬 Christopher Misiano ✍️ Jeremy R. Littman
7
⭐ 7.3
Deadbeat
The murder of a deadbeat father whose son is dying of leukemia presents McCoy and Ross with a sympathetic suspect and a moral dilemma.
🎬 Constantine Makris ✍️ Ed Zuckerman
8
⭐ 5.6
Family Business
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.
🎬 Lewis Gould ✍️ Gardner Stern
9
⭐ 7.2
Entrapment
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.
🎬 Matthew Penn ✍️ René Balcer
10
⭐ 8.0
Legacy
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.
🎬 Brian Mertes ✍️ Jeremy R. Littman
11
⭐ 7.7
Menace
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.
🎬 Constantine Makris ✍️ I.C. Rapoport
12
⭐ 7.5
Barter
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 …
🎬 Dan Karlok ✍️ René Balcer
13
⭐ 6.0
Matrimony
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.
🎬 Lewis Gould ✍️ Richard Sweren
14
⭐ 5.9
Working Mom
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.
🎬 Jace Alexander ✍️ Jeremy R. Littman
15
⭐ 5.9
D-Girl
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.
🎬 Constantine Makris ✍️ René Balcer
16
⭐ 7.7
Turnaround
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…
🎬 Edwin Sherin ✍️ René Balcer
17
⭐ 8.0
Showtime
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.
🎬 Edwin Sherin ✍️ René Balcer
18
⭐ 7.8
Mad Dog
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.
🎬 Christopher Misiano ✍️ René Balcer
19
⭐ 7.8
Double Down
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 seek…
🎬 Arthur W. Forney ✍️ Shimon Wincelberg
20
⭐ 7.5
We Like Mike
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.
🎬 David Platt ✍️ Gardner Stern
21
⭐ 7.6
Passion
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.
🎬 Constantine Makris ✍️ Barry M. Schkolnick
22
⭐ 7.6
Past Imperfect
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.
🎬 Christopher Misiano ✍️ Janis Diamond
23
⭐ 7.7
Terminal
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 see…
🎬 Constantine Makris ✍️ René Balcer