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Law & Order Season 18 Episodes
Season 18 Episode Guide
18 Episodes 2008 - 2008
Episode 1
Called Home
Wed, Jan 2, 200860 mins
Former New York detective Cyrus Lupo returns after his brother's suicide. The investigation reveals a relationship between two assisted suicides, a notorious assisted suicide doctor, his daughter, and an investigative journalist.
Episode 2
Darkness
Wed, Jan 2, 200860 mins
A mother and daughter are kidnapped during a blackout, and the blackout impedes Green and Lupo's investigation. Once the kidnappers are located, A.D.A. Cutter discovers that they had prior knowledge that the blackout was going to happen.
Episode 3
Misbegotten
Wed, Jan 9, 200860 mins
A pipe bomb injures a pregnant security guard, and when Lupo crosses a line gathering evidence it may harm the DA's case.
Episode 4
Bottomless
Wed, Jan 16, 200860 mins
A murder over a missing pair of dry-cleaned pants leads the DA's office to a public health scandal involving a giant discount department store chain.
Episode 5
Driven
Wed, Jan 23, 200860 mins
The DA's office faces the difficult task of ensuring equal justice for a black father and a white mother for their roles in the shooting deaths of a white teenager and a black girl during a racially motivated confrontation.
Episode 6
Political Animal
Wed, Jan 30, 200860 mins
A fugitive con artist working as a political fund-raiser is charged in a triple homicide. In order to cast reasonable doubt during the trial, he points the finger at several prominent politicians he supported.
Episode 7
Quit Claim
Wed, Feb 6, 200860 mins
A.D.A. Cutter matches wits with a slippery, manipulative con artist who is the lone surviving suspect connected to a real estate scam involving organized crime.
Episode 8
Illegal
Wed, Feb 13, 200860 mins
An auxiliary police officer is accused of shooting and killing a protester at an immigration rally. McCoy is accused of having a liberal ax to grind when he vigorously pursues charges against the officer.
Episode 9
Executioner
Wed, Feb 20, 200860 mins
An innocent doctor is murdered in a case of mistaken identity. The intended target performed a botched lethal injection in South Carolina.
Episode 10
Tango
Wed, Feb 27, 200860 mins
Cutter prosecutes a junkie and her pimp boyfriend for the brutal rape and murder of a young woman. But is he exploiting ADA Rubirosa's attractiveness to gain favor with a juror and improve their chances at a conviction?
Episode 11
Betrayal
Wed, Mar 5, 200860 mins
A wife is accused of shooting her therapist husband over an inappropriate relationship with a teenage client. She acts as her own counsel and claims she was also one of his teenage victims
Episode 12
Submission
Wed, Mar 12, 200860 mins
When the police break up a dog-fighting ring in the home of Jay Carlin, the medical examiner finds a human finger in the stomach of one of the dead animals. Detectives Lupo and Green trace the animals to a kennel where the owner claims that Carlin is his partner. The wife of Carlin's friend Marty Vance, Lauren Vance, is missing but the police can't find any physical evidence linking him to his wife's disappearance or that the finger is hers. Her divorce lawyer tells them that she was concerned her husband was hiding assets. They find Lauren's body buried near the kennel but also learn that Jay Carlin may have been defrauding buyers of supposedly rare wines.
Episode 13
Angelgrove
Wed, Mar 19, 200860 mins
A fanatical Christian teenager is implicated in the stoning death of his mother because of her adultery. Did the boy's pastor incite him to take action, and is he criminally responsible?
Episode 14
Burn Card
Wed, Apr 23, 200860 mins
When Detective Green shoots a murder suspect, an internal investigation reveals that he had a gambling problem and once owed money to the suspect. The DA's office reluctantly pursues murder charges against him.
Episode 15
Bogeyman
Wed, Apr 30, 200860 mins
Lupo and his new partner, Kevin Bernard, discover that a woman's suicide may actually be a murder. The case appears to be tied to a secretive religious group that some people consider a cult, but is the group to blame?
Episode 16
Strike
Wed, May 7, 200860 mins
Detectives Lupo and Bernard investigate the murder of paralegal Frank Dresner, who was run over by a car while picketing during the strike of public defenders. CCTV footage leads them to Ted Sanderson who was wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife and recently exonerated after 9 years in prison thanks to DNA evidence. There is little doubt that Sanderson was at the courthouse where Dresner was run over but when no one is available to represent him at his arraignment, the presiding judge orders ADA Connie Rubirosa to step across to the other side and represent him. When Sanderson insists that she continue as his attorney, she finds herself going up against ADA Michael Cutter and doing a very good job of it. When she discovers that the victim was a Sanderson's former friend who may have also had an affair with Sanderson's dead wife, she begins to wonder if she can advise her client with the impartiality that is needed.
Episode 17
Personae Non Grata
Wed, May 14, 200860 mins
A murder investigation leads Lupo and Bernard to Plattsburgh, where a con artist is posing as her runaway daughter on a social networking website to lure men out of their money.
Episode 18
Excalibur
Wed, May 21, 200860 mins
While preparing a murder case, the DA's office stumbles on a potential scandal involving a prostitution business and the governor of New York, and it could have serious implications on Jack McCoy's future as District Attorney.
