The BEST episodes of Law & Order season 18
Every episode of Law & Order season 18, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Law & Order season 18!
A blended police procedural and courtroom drama which employs a two-part approach: The first half of each episode focuses on NYPD homicide detectives investigating a crime—often derived from a real-life headline—and apprehending a suspect. The second half takes place in the courtroom, with the district attorney prosecuting the defendant.
#1 - Darkness
Season 18 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/2/2008
Lupo and Green's first offical case together is a kidnapping that happened during a citywide blackout; a housekeeper is slain and a mother and daughter are kidnapped. The evidence that links all the kidnappers is the father and husband of the kidnap victims. When they search the kidnappers' hideout, they find preparations which implies that the kidnappers knew that the blackout was coming. Cutter must convince the man to testify after he has lied about a search warrant to save the man's daughter, or else the kidnappers will all go free. Issues of a warrantless search arise. Courtroom scenes revolve around questions of Enron-like manipulation of energy.
#2 - Personae Non Grata
Season 18 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/14/2008
An online romance may be at the heart of a mechanic's murder, but Detectives Lupo and Bernard must unravel some truly bizarre developments before the full story is known.
#3 - Political Animal
Season 18 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/30/2008
A triple homicide has ties to a politician, but he may be just the first step toward the truth and a killer who will take desperate measures to keep his freedom.
#4 - Excalibur
Season 18 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/21/2008
A jeweler's murder may have ties to a prostitution ring, and once the case goes to trial, D.A. McCoy's job is on the line as favors are called in.
#5 - Strike
Season 18 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/7/2008
A legal aid strike ends in the death of a lawyer, and the investigation leads to a golf greenskeeper who proclaims his innocence, again. Then the case takes an even stranger twist when Rubirosa is pitted against Cutter because of the strike that started it all.
#6 - Betrayal
Season 18 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/5/2008
The murder of a psychiatrist focuses the suspect list to his clients and wife, and the defense of the murderer will challenge the D.A.'s office to somehow show the jury that a bad childhood is not a justification for crime.
#7 - Quit Claim
Season 18 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/6/2008
A hit-and-run investigation leads back to a title company, and Green and Lupo must go undercover to crack the case.
#8 - Submission
Season 18 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/12/2008
When the police shut down a dog-fighting ring, the investigation becomes a murder case after a woman's finger is found inside one of the dogs; things get more complicated as the case deepens, and the interest of a pushy reporter is sparked.
#9 - Misbegotten
Season 18 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/9/2008
The explosion of a package including scientific research injures a pregnant security guard, leading to the investigation of the scientist's experiments.
#10 - Tango
Season 18 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/27/2008
A high school party turns tragic when a teenager is found dead, and the detectives end up playing games with the two leading suspects to find out the real story. Unfortunately, unwanted attention from a juror for A.D.A. Rubirosa may disrupt the trial.
#11 - Burn Card
Season 18 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/23/2008
Internal affairs takes a special interest in Detective Green after a gambler is found dead by his bullet, and the investigation turns up a part of his past he's taken pains to conceal.
#12 - Bottomless
Season 18 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/16/2008
The investigation into a pair of missing pants leads to the murder of a young lawyer. Lupo and Green soon turn their suspicions to a businessman who works for a shady multinational corporation called SavingsMart.
#13 - Illegal
Season 18 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/13/2008
A riot at an immigration rally ends in murder, and the political climate causes McCoy to assign a special prosecutor increasing tensions at the office.
#14 - Bogeyman
Season 18 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/30/2008
A novelist's apparent suicide soon changes to a murder investigation with suspects that include a cult and her husband, but Cutter's case may not be closed when jury tampering puts lives at risk.
#15 - Driven
Season 18 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/23/2008
Lupo and Green investigate the shooting death of young white teenager and a 9 year old black girl. The investigation hits a brick wall when both white and black communities refuse to talk - an unfortunate result of formerly black neighbourhoods being bought out by rich whites. The detectives discover that the teenage victim and two of his friends had a basketball taken from them by a black teenager which eventually led to an altercation with deadly consequences and subsequently to surprising culprits.
#16 - Called Home
Season 18 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/2/2008
Cyrus Lupo returns to New York after four years abroad to deal with his own terror. Lupo and Green investigate two suicides committed the same way. The detectives are suspicious of a parolee known as "Dr. Death".
#17 - Executioner
Season 18 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/20/2008
A case of mistaken identity leads Green and Lupo to suspect that a murdered doctor may have been in the wrong place at the wrong time.
#18 - Angelgrove
Season 18 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/19/2008
A terrorist organization seems to be tied in with the violent death of an art dealer, until the victim's troubled son with ties to a fanatic religious group is investigated.