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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 8 Episodes
Season 8 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 2006 - 2007
Episode 1
Informed
Tue, Sep 19, 200642 mins
While investigating on an unreported rape case, Det. Olivia Benson crosses paths once again with FBI agent Dana Lewis, whom she'd encountered the previous year during an active hate crime on children at a public school, and discovers that the rape victim is an FBI informant. Agent Lewis and Det. Benson join forces to track down a suspected rapist/terrorist. Lewis later makes Benson an offer she can't refuse!
Episode 2
Clock
Tue, Sep 26, 200643 mins
Elliot and Fin investigate the disappearance of a seventeen-year-old girl, who because she has Turner's Syndrome, a genetic disorder that makes her look twelve, has serious family issues, particularly with her father and grandfather. At the end, Stabler meets his new partner, Detective Dani Beck, transferred into SVU from chasing arrest warrants.
Episode 3
Recall
Tue, Oct 3, 200643 mins
Stabler and his new partner go after a possible serial rapist with the help of an unlikely victim from 30 years earlier.
Episode 4
Uncle
Tue, Oct 10, 200642 mins
When mother and daughter are brutally raped and murdered, it seemed too much for Warrants Officer Detective Dani Beck to handle as she begins to crack under the pressure. However, when their number one suspect, Andrew, turns out to be detective Munch's Uncle, the case twists into something that none of the Special Victims Squad had imagined.
Episode 5
Confrontation
Tue, Oct 17, 200642 mins
When an assailant rapes his victim twice, Detectives Stabler and Beck link the case to victims of multiple rapes. Based on the timeline of those subsequent attacks, Dr. George Huang suspects the rapist has one disturbing motive for these crimes. Tensions flare between the detectives as they make a difficult decision to help bring in the dangerous perp.
Episode 6
Infiltrated
Tue, Oct 31, 200643 mins
Benson's testimony is needed as Novak tries to convict a brutal rapist. The trouble is that Benson, who is still in Oregon posing undercover as ecoterrorist Persephone James, has her own legal woes to deal with after a cocky deputy assaults her.
Episode 7
Underbelly
Tue, Nov 14, 200642 mins
Three teenage homicide victims with matching tattoos lead Detectives Stabler and Beck to an underage prostitution ring.
Episode 8
Cage
Tue, Nov 21, 200642 mins
SVU investigates a shady private adoption agency after two undocumented children are found deserted near an automobile accident.
Episode 9
Choreographed
Tue, Nov 28, 200642 mins
A model is poisoned to death, and it could be connected to a love triangle between her manipulative choreographer husband, his mistress, and the mistress' jealous husband.
Episode 10
Scheherazade
Tue, Jan 2, 200743 mins
A priest whom Elliot knows asks him to talk to a man he's been counseling who's about to die. Elliot sees him and goes to see the man's daughter whom the man wants to see but she hates him. She gives them money he sent her over the years and discover that they were stolen by a couple of bank robbers who were known as the Fedora Bandits. Elliot thinks he's one of them and thinks that's it. But the priest tells him there's more. He brings Olivia along and that's when they learn that he killed his partner because he was the actual father of his daughter because he was going to kill her. They also learn that the partner killed her mother and that someone else was convicted of the crime so they try to get him released but they need the man to say he didn't do it but he's already in the final stages.
Episode 11
Burned
Tue, Jan 9, 200742 mins
Benson and Stabler are called in to investigate an alleged rape of a woman by her soon-to-be ex-husband, against whom she has previously received a restraining order. But when their teenage daughter is caught in the crossfire, the woman recants, leaving Benson and Stabler struggling to separate their feelings about the case from their personal lives. As the case wears on, the conflict escalates, but will the detectives be able to make it through together?
Episode 12
Outsider
Tue, Jan 16, 200742 mins
Fin's son tells him that a girl he knows was raped. But her family is so traditional, she doesn't want to talk about it. Later another girl is raped in a similar manner, Fin thinks they have a serial rapist. But a detective from Brooklyn thinks the rapist is responsible for three homicides in his jurisdiction. Fin says that murderers don't turn to rapists so he thinks he's wrong. But things are too similar so they work together and find a possible link between the victims.
Episode 13
Loophole
Tue, Feb 6, 200743 mins
An investigation into a potential child pornography case actually uncovers a chemical company testing possibly toxic products on a group of building tenants.
Episode 14
Dependent
Tue, Feb 13, 200742 mins
A woman is murdered and her husband attacked, with their 6 year old son a witness to the attack. The man awakens in the hospital and remembers seeing his teenage daughter at the scene.
Episode 15
Haystack
Tue, Feb 20, 200742 mins
A young boy is kidnapped, and the suspects include the boy's mother and her ex-boyfriend. When the mother finds out she is a suspect in the kidnapping, she takes matters into her own hands, compounding the tragedy and further complicating the mystery.
Episode 16
Philadelphia
Tue, Feb 27, 200755 mins
Olivia finds her biological brother in New Jersey, but discovers that he is under investigation by local police for sexual crimes. But her obsession with finding him puts another investigation in jeopardy as well as her partnership with Elliot.
Episode 17
Sin
Tue, Mar 27, 200743 mins
A gay male sex worker is murdered, and the investigation reveals that a pastor who preaches extreme intolerance toward homosexuals may have had a relationship with him.
Episode 18
Responsible
Tue, Apr 3, 200743 mins
When a couple finds a young girl dead in their apartment. They call the police and say they don't know her. Warner says she died from alcohol poisoning. They learn that she hanged with some teens who drink a lot. And one of them has a key to the apartment. When they are arrested and brought before Donnelly, she lets them go on the condition that they don't drink but they do. They eventually learn that the mother of the girl who had the key, is also a drinker and may have been the one who provided them with the alcohol that led to the girl's death. Novak tries to have her charged but has no evidence.
Episode 19
Florida
Tue, May 1, 200742 mins
Olivia's half-brother, Simon turns up and the FBI questions her if she knows where he is. He goes to see her to proclaim his innocence of the charges Captain Millfield is accusing him of. When he disappears, Olivia decides to go talk to his mother but she has Alzheimer's so what she says can't be taken serious. She then decides to learn about her father; why he became a rapist. She eventually looks at the evidence against Simon and thinks he could be Innocent. With help from Elliot they figure out where Simon is. But Millfield is also there.
Episode 20
Annihilated
Tue, May 8, 200743 mins
The investigation of a bride-to-be's murder uncovers a man's double life; a turn in the case rattles Stabler, who turns to his wife and children for comfort.
Episode 21
Pretend
Tue, May 15, 200741 mins
The investigation into an extreme fighting death leads to the discovery of a 28-year-old woman posing as a 16-year-old high school student.
Episode 22
Screwed
Tue, May 22, 200743 mins
The trial of Darius Parker begins and his defense focuses on the conduct of the SVU. He exposes several secrets, like Stabler's intervening for his daughter when she was arrested, and Fin during his days as a narcotics cop. Olivia is in trouble for helping her brother.
