The BEST episodes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent season 8
Every episode of Law & Order: Criminal Intent season 8, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Law & Order: Criminal Intent season 8!
Law & Order: Criminal Intent takes viewers into the minds of its criminals while following the psychological approaches the Major Case Squad uses to solve the crimes.
#1 - Identity Crisis
Season 8 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/3/2009
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.
#2 - Passion
Season 8 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/12/2009
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 reluctant, she agrees. While Jacob enjoys the advances of arts patron Sandra Dunbar at a poetry reading, Lauren carries out Jacob’s wish, and winds up dead on the street. Detectives Nichols and Wheeler discover the deadly passion that exists behind the arts.
#3 - Lady's Man
Season 8 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/28/2009
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.
#4 - Playing Dead
Season 8 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/19/2009
Season 8 opens with Goren and Eames investigating 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.
#5 - Family Values
Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/21/2009
When a flier from a local Catholic high school drama production connects three murders, Goren (Vincent D’Onofrio) and Eames (Kathryn Erbe) must understand the psychology of a religious fanatic before he claims another victim.
#6 - Salome in Manhattan
Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 6/28/2009
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 (Jeff Goldblum) and Wheeler (Julianne Nicholson) enter the seductive world of power and privilege and discover desperation and murder.
#7 - Major Case
Season 8 - Episode 14 - Aired 7/26/2009
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.
#8 - Folie a Deux
Season 8 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/7/2009
Goren and Eames search for a young girl who vanished during a robbery at a hotel.
#9 - Revolution
Season 8 - Episode 16 - Aired 8/9/2009
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.
#10 - Astoria Helen
Season 8 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/31/2009
Nicholas and Wheeler investigate when the partner of a con man who used his charm to scheme a lonely single mother, is found dead.
#11 - In Treatment
Season 8 - Episode 4 - Aired 5/10/2009
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.
#12 - Faithfully
Season 8 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/17/2009
When a celebrity doctor is found murdered, Goren and Eames find themselves investigating the man's church and his ties to performance-enhancing drugs.
#13 - Rock Star
Season 8 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/26/2009
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.
#14 - The Glory That Was...
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 6/14/2009
What should have been a simple meeting turns to murder, leaving Wheeler and Nichols to question an embassy, a security company, the victim's relatives, and how it all connects to the Olympic Site Selection Committee.
#15 - All In
Season 8 - Episode 13 - Aired 7/19/2009
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 Eames enter an elaborate game where they must join in the play, or be played.
#16 - Alpha Dog
Season 8 - Episode 15 - Aired 8/2/2009
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.