Season 8
🎬 16 Episodes 📅 2009 ⏱ 42 min
A seemingly ordinary crime conceals a labyrinth of psychological manipulation and hidden motives that pull the Major Case Squad deeper into the criminal's twisted logic. Law & Order: Criminal Intent peels back the layers of human behavior, revealing how ambition, jealousy, and desperation can transform ordinary people into killers. As detectives dissect every confession and false lead, they discover that solving the crime is only half the battle—understanding why demands entering the darkest corners of the human psyche. The case becomes less about evidence and more about reading the criminal mind before it claims another victim.
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📊 Season Stats
16
Episodes
2009
Year
42
min / ep
11.2
Watch Hours
8/10
Season No.
⭐ 7.3
Best Episode
Ep. 10 · Salome in Manhattan
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🎬 Episodes 16 episodes
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1
⭐ 4.8
Playing Dead
Goren and Eames investigate a case involving a councilman's step-daughter and her boyfriend being shot. The pair of drug-addicted kids were caught up in blackmail schemes which had targeted the politically powerful family of the woman.
🎬 Michael Smith ✍️ Dick Wolf
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2
Rock Star
Det. Zach Nichols' first case involves the murder of an artist, but it's unclear whether the neighborhood he lived in was a factor in his death, or something more personal.
🎬 Bill D'Elia ✍️ Dick Wolf
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3
Identity Crisis
A man's murder puts Goren and Eames on the trail of an upper echelon businessman whose secrets have taken over his life and put him on the run.
🎬 Michael Smith ✍️ Dick Wolf
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4
In Treatment
News of a company's falling stock that plunged more over a fraud investigation may have led to the murder of one of its executives.
🎬 Jean de Segonzac ✍️ Dick Wolf
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5
Faithfully
After a doctor is murdered in his home while his wife lies bound and helpless upstairs in their bedroom, it is revealed that the couple's reverend may know more about the crime than he is telling the detectives.
🎬 Jean de Segonzac ✍️ Dick Wolf
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6
Astoria Helen
Nicholas and Wheeler investigate when the partner of a con man who used his charm to scheme a lonely single mother, is found dead.
🎬 Norberto Barba ✍️ Dick Wolf
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7
⭐ 3.8
Folie a Deux
Goren and Eames search for a young boy who vanished during a robbery at a hotel.
🎬 David Manson ✍️ Michael S. Chernuchin
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8
The Glory That Was...
A former Olympian now working in the Belgian consulate is killed. Her death is soon linked to an aspiring Olympian, a blackmail DVD, and the owner of a private security firm.
🎬 Norberto Barba ✍️ Robert Nathan
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9
⭐ 7.0
Family Values
When a flyer from a local Catholic high school drama show connects three murders, Goren and Eames must understand the psychology of a religious fanatic before he claims another victim.
🎬 Jean de Segonzac ✍️ Dick Wolf
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10
⭐ 7.3
Salome in Manhattan
A celebrity chef's star is on the rise as he plans the opening of a trendy restaurant with powerful partners. Yet his world is upended when his tabloid-friendly, gorgeous girlfriend and business partner is killed under mysterious circumstances. Detectives Nichols and Wheeler enter the seductive worl…
🎬 Steve Shill ✍️ Andrew Lipsitz
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11
⭐ 4.8
Lady's Man
Goren and Eames investigate the killing of a man who became famous for dodging a murder conviction because of a mishandled trial. The man spun his notoriety into a TV show but turned up dead on his birthday.
🎬 Ken Girotti ✍️ Michael S. Chernuchin
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12
Passion
Egocentric poet Jacob Garrety would do anything to keep his poetry journal, The Village Quarterly, afloat. When foundation president Don McCallum shows up and announces he is cutting funding to the journal, Jacob appeals to assistant and lover Lauren to use her sexuality to change Don's mind. Though…
🎬 Jonathan Herron ✍️ Michael S. Chernuchin
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13
All In
When poker genius Josh Snow loses $80,000 in a card game, backer and bookie Lou Cardinale forces him into collections to work off the losses. Lou gives him a .38 and a box of blanks to extract gambling debts, and sends along his mistress, Angela, to keep an eye on the money. Detectives Goren and Eam…
🎬 David Manson ✍️ Dick Wolf
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14
Major Case
Detective Eames assists with Nichols' case involving the death of an addict who was just days from going straight when Wheeler is otherwise engaged in the labor and delivery of her baby.
🎬 Christopher Zalla ✍️ Andrew Lipsitz
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15
Alpha Dog
A popular male model spends the night with a mysterious woman and after a night of love and drugs, is found dead. Goren and Eames uncover the sexual paranoia behind the murder.
🎬 Norberto Barba ✍️ Walon Green
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16
Revolution
A heist goes tragically wrong when a revolutionary makes plans on kidnapping a powerful bank executive, and winds up dead. During Nichols and Eames probe of the murder, they must also prevent a terrorist campaign.
🎬 John David Coles ✍️ Michael S. Chernuchin