Season 8
🎬 24 Episodes 📅 1997 ⏱ 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
24
Episodes
1997
Year
43
min / ep
17.2
Watch Hours
8/25
Season No.
⭐ 8.2
Best Episode
Ep. 22 · Damaged
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🎬 Episodes 24 episodes
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1
⭐ 7.4
Thrill
The cops break the seemingly random murder of a pizza delivery guy with a little ""undercover"" work in the park, but McCoy and Ross face a harder battle to get a conviction when the two defendants resolutely point the finger at each other, and the one item identifying the actual killer is the recor…
🎬 Martha Mitchell ✍️ René Balcer
2
⭐ 5.9
Denial
Bloody sheets and an apparently stolen credit card lead Briscoe and Curtis to a pair of college age lovers who present McCoy and Ross with a united front of denial that one of them killed their newborn son and disposed of the body.
🎬 Christopher Misiano ✍️ René Balcer
3
⭐ 6.5
Navy Blues
McCoy finds himself battling the Navy and the office of the Judge Advocate General as he tries to prosecute a female pilot accused of murdering her married lover after he tried to break off with her.
🎬 Jace Alexander ✍️ Dick Wolf
4
⭐ 7.9
Harvest
A discrepancy concerning the time of death of a drive-by shooting victim leads McCoy and Ross to initiate prosecutions against both the shooter and the doctor who harvested her organs as transplant donations.
🎬 Matthew Penn ✍️ René Balcer
5
⭐ 7.9
Nullification
After the cops trace an eagle tattoo on a man shot and killed while holding up an armored truck to a group of militia members, McCoy finds himself facing one of their number as the pro se counsel for his friends, arguing for the concept of "jury nullification", the right of a jury to protect a defen…
🎬 Constantine Makris ✍️ David Black
6
⭐ 7.8
Baby, It's You (I)
It's old home week for Briscoe when an apparent murder of a teenage model in New York develops ties to Baltimore and Detectives Munch and Falsone pay a visit to the Big Apple to observe the case. Meanwhile, McCoy finds himself battling the attorney of the victim's parents for access to his clients a…
🎬 Edwin Sherin ✍️ Jorge Zamacona
7
⭐ 7.9
Blood
The paternity of a black baby given up for adoption by a white mother might provide a clue to her murderer but it also unearths some long buried family secrets.
🎬 Jace Alexander ✍️ René Balcer
8
⭐ 7.6
Shadow
The murder of a bail bondsman looks fairly routine until the chance words of the chief suspect uncovers possible case-fixing between a shady lawyer and an unknown contact within the judicial system.
🎬 Matthew Penn ✍️ Richard Sweren
9
⭐ 7.3
Burned
A message overheard on an answering machine leads Briscoe and Curtis to a confessed murderer and the home of wealthy Carl Anderton, whose stubborn non-cooperation with the district attorney threatens to create a serious miscarriage of justice.
🎬 Constantine Makris ✍️ Siobhan Byrne O'Connor
10
⭐ 7.8
Ritual
The investigation into the death of a man who initially appears to be the victim of a mugging victim reveals him to be a Middle Eastern physician who performs genital mutilations on young girls.
🎬 Brian Mertes ✍️ Kathy McCormick
11
⭐ 7.9
Under the Influence
After Briscoe and Curtis finally determine who was driving the car that killed three people, the legal prosecution stands in danger of becoming a kangaroo court when McCoy's feelings over Kincaid mesh with the political agenda of an ambitious judge anxious to make an example of the defendant.
🎬 Adam Davidson ✍️ René Balcer
12
⭐ 7.2
Expert
The shooting of two people in a restaurant restroom takes some abrupt turns as they try to discover who exactly the intended victim was, and the prosecutors have to deal with a defendant claiming to have been in a dissociative state while committing the crime-- the same defense used years before by …
🎬 Lewis Gould ✍️ David Shore
13
⭐ 5.7
Castoff
The street murder of a woman who worked with underprivileged kids takes a turn towards the bizarre when the detectives uncover she had a predilection for kinky sex, and that one of her current partners appears to be a serial killer, who offers an overexposure to television violence as his defense du…
🎬 Gloria Muzio ✍️ David Black
14
⭐ 7.4
Grief
The cops, as they try to pin down the specifics of an assault on a man reluctant to talk about it, uncover the alleged rape of two women in custodial care. But as the prosecutors attempt to prepare their case, a reluctant witness changes their view of the cases.
🎬 Christopher Misiano ✍️ Suzanne Oshry
15
⭐ 7.4
Faccia a Faccia
Taking on an apparent mafia murder, Detectives Briscoe and Curtis are stymied by a dead witness and a seemingly incoherent mob boss.
🎬 Martha Mitchell ✍️ René Balcer
16
⭐ 7.6
Divorce
The stabbing death of a psychologist draws Detectives Briscoe and Curtis into a heated divorce case and pits McCoy and Ross against a manipulative attorney.
🎬 Constantine Makris ✍️ Barry M. Schkolnick
17
⭐ 7.4
Carrier
The death of a college student leads to a case involving an HIV-positive male who's seeking to infect as many young women as possible. McCoy, testing right-to-privacy ethics, wants to charge him with murder.
🎬 J. Ranelli ✍️ David Black
18
⭐ 7.9
Stalker
When a woman is found unconscious at the bottom of her apartment stairs, Briscoe and Curtis must figure out what happened -- before it's too late. In order to make his case, McCoy pits the two detectives against each other in the courtroom.
🎬 Richard Dobbs ✍️ Kathy McCormick
19
⭐ 7.4
Disappeared
A defendant refuses to allow his lawyer to raise the issue of insanity, this complicating matters for the brother who turned him in with hopes of securing medical treatment for him.
🎬 David Platt ✍️ Richard Sweren
20
⭐ 7.2
Burden
After a 12-year-old quadriplegic dies at home in his bed, paramedics claim that he was suffocated and the suspects include the boy's parents and sister.
🎬 Constantine Makris ✍️ David Shore
21
⭐ 7.7
Bad Girl
Schiff's re-election may hinge on the stabbing death of a police officer; Briscoe's daughter is arrested for dealing drugs.
🎬 Jace Alexander ✍️ René Balcer
22
⭐ 8.2
Damaged
The case of a teacher's shooting uncovers a vendetta involving the rape of a mentally challenged coed by three students, whose attorney claims they weren't aware of her condition.
🎬 Constantine Makris ✍️ Janis Diamond
23
⭐ 7.4
Tabloid
Tabloid journalism comes under scrutiny during the investigations into the deaths of a gossip columnist and a celebrity target he pursued.
🎬 Brian Mertes ✍️ David Black
24
⭐ 7.9
Monster
During the search for a pedophile who raped a 10-year-old, a snitch offers Briscoe a chance to avenge his daughter's death. Meanwhile, Van Buren learns that her job is in jeopardy; McCoy is ordered to appear before a disciplinary committee because of his conduct in a DUI case; and the increasingly p…
🎬 Edwin Sherin ✍️ René Balcer