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Law & Order

Season 8

September 24, 199724 episodes7.5

Episode information and air dates for this season are listed below.

Season 8

Episodes

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Law & Order: Thrill

Thrill

September 24, 1997 47 min

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 recording of a confession-made to a priest.

Law & Order: Denial

Law & Order Season 8 Episode Guide | DailyMovieFlix

Denial

October 8, 1997 47 min

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.

Law & Order: Navy Blues

Navy Blues

October 15, 1997 46 min

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.

Law & Order: Harvest

Harvest

October 29, 1997 47 min

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.

Law & Order: Nullification

Nullification

November 5, 1997 47 min

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 defendant from an unjust law by finding him not guilty despite the evidence.

Law & Order: Baby, It's You (I)

Baby, It's You (I)

November 12, 1997 46 min

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 and the Baltimore DA for jurisdiction. This crossover continues on Homicide: Life on the Street S06E05 Baby, It's You (II).

Law & Order: Blood

Blood

November 19, 1997 47 min

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.

Law & Order: Shadow

Shadow

November 26, 1997 47 min

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.

Law & Order: Burned

Burned

December 10, 1997 45 min

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.

Law & Order: Ritual

Ritual

December 17, 1997 45 min

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.

Law & Order: Under the Influence

Under the Influence

January 7, 1998 47 min

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.

Law & Order: Expert

Expert

January 21, 1998 47 min

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 the defendant's father.

Law & Order: Castoff

Castoff

January 28, 1998 46 min

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 during his trial.

Law & Order: Grief

Grief

February 4, 1998 46 min

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.

Law & Order: Faccia a Faccia

Faccia a Faccia

February 25, 1998 47 min

Taking on an apparent mafia murder, Detectives Briscoe and Curtis are stymied by a dead witness and a seemingly incoherent mob boss.

Law & Order: Divorce

Divorce

March 4, 1998 47 min

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.

Law & Order: Carrier

Carrier

April 1, 1998 46 min

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.

Law & Order: Stalker

Stalker

April 15, 1998 46 min

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.

Law & Order: Disappeared

Disappeared

April 22, 1998 46 min

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.

Law & Order: Burden

Burden

April 24, 1998 47 min

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.

Law & Order: Bad Girl

Bad Girl

April 29, 1998 47 min

Schiff's re-election may hinge on the stabbing death of a police officer; Briscoe's daughter is arrested for dealing drugs.

Law & Order: Damaged

Damaged

May 6, 1998 47 min

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.

Law & Order: Tabloid

Tabloid

May 13, 1998 45 min

Tabloid journalism comes under scrutiny during the investigations into the deaths of a gossip columnist and a celebrity target he pursued.

Law & Order: Monster

Monster

May 20, 1998 47 min

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 political Schiff worries that the rape case may adversely impact his reelection bid.

Season Credits

Featured Cast

Jerry Orbach

Jerry Orbach

Lennie Briscoe

Benjamin Bratt

Benjamin Bratt

Rey Curtis

S. Epatha Merkerson

S. Epatha Merkerson

Anita Van Buren

Steven Hill

Steven Hill

Adam Schiff

Sam Waterston

Sam Waterston

Jack McCoy

Carey Lowell

Carey Lowell

Jamie Ross

John Fiore

John Fiore

Tony Profaci

J.K. Simmons

J.K. Simmons

Emil Skoda

Leslie Hendrix

Leslie Hendrix

Elizabeth Rodgers

Christine Farrell

Christine Farrell

Arlene Shrier

Robert Vaughn

Robert Vaughn

Carl Anderton

Cliff Gorman

Cliff Gorman

Gary Feldman

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