Law & Order Season 17 Episode Guide
Plot summaries for the seventeenth season of Law & Order, which aired on NBC from September 2006 to May 2007, featuring Det. Ed Green, Det. Nina Cassady, Lt. Anita Van Buren, Executive ADA Jack McCoy, ADA Connie Rubirosa and DA Arthur Branch.
- 1
Fame
A police detective is killed when he walks in on a burglary at a nightlife photographer’s apartment, and the search for the gunman leads to the hard-partying husband of a movie star whose embarrassing photos were the target.
- 2
Avatar
Photos of a murdered mother posted on a teen social networking site lead to a mentally ill man who abducts her daughter, then insists the girl recruited him online to kill her mother.
- 3
Home Sweet
An eight-year-old girl is killed when an Upper East Side brownstone explodes, and suspicion falls on the owner’s ex-wife, who stands to profit from a battle over his land.
- 4
Fear America
A Muslim American lawyer’s videotaped killing is dressed up as an anti-Muslim hate crime, but he turns out to have been a would-be informant against a terror cell that included his wife’s cousin.
- 5
Public Service Homicide
A man caught in a tabloid TV sting meeting a supposed 12-year-old is stabbed to death the night his segment airs, and the case exposes a reality-show producer who sent his killer to his door.
- 6
Profiteer
The murder of a body armor executive at his daughter’s sweet 16 party leads to an Iraq veteran avenging a fallen friend, and then to the company official who shipped vests he knew might fail.
- 7
In Vino Veritas
A fading sitcom actor arrested for drunk driving in bloodstained clothes rants against Jews, and the trail leads to a murdered Jewish producer and the actor’s 14-year-old son.
- 8
Release
The bludgeoning of a wealthy heir on a racy party-video bus leads to a college student who says she was fending off a second assault, and McCoy charges the man who first raped her with felony murder.
- 9
Deadlock
A mass murderer spared from execution escapes and kills again before his capture, and after McCoy fails to revive the death penalty, the father of a child victim shoots him.
- 10
Corner Office
The murder of a company’s general counsel, days before he is due to testify to Congress about corporate eavesdropping, leads to a former call girl and the CEO who supports her.
- 11
Remains of the Day
A former street addict collapses and dies in his mother’s hospital room, and the autopsy traces his death to cancer carried in leg-bone grafts taken from corpses without consent.
- 12
Charity Case
A producer is shot dead outside an ice cream parlor as he holds the baby he and his actress wife adopted from Africa, and the case uncovers what became of the real child.
- 13
Talking Points
A sophomore is killed when protesters rush a conservative commentator’s campus lecture, and prosecutors must prove the gunman was really aiming at the speaker.
- 14
Church
A young actor’s staged suicide leads to the preacher of an anti-gay megachurch he had threatened to expose, until the case turns to the preacher’s wife.
- 15
Melting Pot
An actress-director found hanged in her office was knocked unconscious first, and the case pits a Muslim sound mixer who hated her film against an undocumented laborer who admits a struggle with her.
- 16
Murder Book
The publisher of an acquitted ex-ballplayer’s book on how he would have killed his wife is beaten and strangled, reopening McCoy’s old loss to the same man.
- 17
Good Faith
A biology teacher turns up dead in a torched church, and the born-again parent accused of killing him claims he acted to protect his daughter from divine punishment.
- 18
Bling
When a rapper is found shot in her home, her secret affair with a married jeweler to hip-hop stars points to him, and then he points to her tough record producer.
- 19
Fallout
A Russian émigré dies of military-grade ricin, and the case uncovers a ring trafficking young Russian women and a Moscow policeman searching for his missing daughter.
- 20
Captive
The kidnapping and murder of a young boy lead to a man who abducted another boy five years earlier, and the prosecutors come to doubt which of the two did the killing.
- 21
Over Here
Two homeless men are beaten to death, one of them an Iraq War veteran, and the trail leads to a door-to-door magazine crew and a brain-injured soldier failed by a VA hospital.
- 22
The Family Hour
The beating death of a former senator’s ex-wife exposes years of abuse in his family, and then the senator kills his daughter and claims self-defense.