Season 7 poster

Season 7

(1996)

Cast

Sam Waterston as Jack McCoy
Sam Waterston

as Jack McCoy

Jerry Orbach as Lennie Briscoe
Jerry Orbach

as Lennie Briscoe

Benjamin Bratt as Rey Curtis
Benjamin Bratt

as Rey Curtis

S. Epatha Merkerson as Anita Van Buren
S. Epatha Merkerson

as Anita Van Buren

Carey Lowell as Jamie Ross
Carey Lowell

as Jamie Ross

Steven Hill as Adam Schiff
Steven Hill

as Adam Schiff

Episodes

Causa Mortis poster

Causa Mortis 7.4

September 18, 1996

McCoy's new second chair, ADA Jamie Ross, is determined to prosecute as harshly as possible a carjacker who took the li…

I.D. poster

I.D. 7.6

September 25, 1996

The cops tackle identifying a corpse left in an elevator, and McCoy finds his prosecution of the suspect later hampered…

Good Girl poster

Good Girl 7.2

October 2, 1996

Briscoe and Curtis have to break the mutual alibi of two girlfriends as they try to find the killer of a young black ma…

Survivor poster

Survivor 8.0

October 23, 1996

Briscoe and Curtis's investigation of the murder of a rare coin dealer nets them a millionaire as a suspect, but Ross h…

Corruption poster

Corruption 7.6

October 30, 1996

Curtis, angered by the attitude of an old colleague of Briscoe's, looks beyond the findings of an IAB investigation and…

Double Blind poster

Double Blind 7.4

November 6, 1996

The murder of a janitor in a university laboratory building leads back to a student employee whose participation in a d…

Deadbeat poster

Deadbeat 7.2

November 13, 1996

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

Family Business poster

Family Business 6.2

November 20, 1996

The murder of Richard Speigel, chief financial officer for an exclusive, family-owned department store goes from the si…

Entrapment poster

Entrapment 7.2

January 8, 1997

The case against Huey Tate, a young man accused of shooting the well-known leader of the African-American Congress come…

Legacy poster

Legacy 8.0

January 15, 1997

The sidewalk shooting of a young husband uncovers the fact that his wife's first husband died in a inadequately investi…

Menace poster

Menace 7.6

February 5, 1997

The detectives face a difficult struggle getting witnesses to a girl's apparent suicide to come forward while Ross trie…

Barter poster

Barter 7.4

February 12, 1997

An unpromising case of murder suddenly develops new leads when the cops explore the possibility that the victim was mis…

Matrimony poster

Matrimony 6.5

February 19, 1997

The discovery of a would-be thief refocuses a murder investigation, leaving the prosecutors the task of making a conspi…

Working Mom poster

Working Mom 6.3

February 26, 1997

The murder of an ex-cop with a penchant for blackmail and illicit sex brings feminist lawyer Lanie Stieglitz into court…

D-Girl poster

D-Girl 6.3

March 13, 1997

A headless corpse fished out of the river sends Briscoe and Curtis out to Los Angeles to obtain a blood sample from the…

Turnaround poster

Turnaround 7.6

March 20, 1997

Back in New York with their suspect, Briscoe and Curtis try to pin down his schedule on the night of the murder, but fi…

Showtime poster

Showtime 7.8

March 27, 1997

The trial of Eddie Newman begins but the prosecution's chances of conviction are hampered by a "dream team" of defense …

Mad Dog poster

Mad Dog 7.8

April 2, 1997

McCoy becomes obsessed with nailing a serial rapist recently released on parole and pushes the cops perilously close to…

Double Down poster

Double Down 7.6

April 16, 1997

The cops' best hope of finding a kidnapped hired car driver alive is one of the armed robbers who grabbed him after a j…

We Like Mike poster

We Like Mike 7.4

April 30, 1997

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

Passion poster

Passion 7.2

May 7, 1997

Briscoe and Curtis investigate the death of a pretty young book editor who was reputedly having an affair with one of h…

Past Imperfect poster

Past Imperfect 7.5

May 14, 1997

The cops have a definite clue when a bloodstain that's not the same as the victim reveals that the killer was a blood r…

Terminal poster

Terminal 7.7

May 21, 1997

The cops uncover a man with a secret second life as they try to learn who opened fire on a group of people disembarking…