Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 8 Episode Guide
Plot summaries for the eighth season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which aired on NBC from September 2006 to May 2007, featuring Det. Elliot Stabler, Det. Olivia Benson, Det. John Munch, Det. Fin Tutuola, Capt. Donald Cragen, ADA Casey Novak, Dr. George Huang and Dr. Melinda Warner, with Det. Dani Beck partnering Stabler while Benson is away.
- 1
Informed
A rape victim who refuses all help turns out to be an FBI informant inside an eco-terror cell, and the case ends with Benson pulled into the bureau’s undercover work.
- 2
Clock
A 17-year-old who looks like a child disappears from a school trip, and Stabler finds she has run off with a 30-year-old man the law cannot touch.
- 3
Recall
A prominent lawyer charged with rape is cleared in one case by DNA, and Stabler’s new partner finds the woman he attacked as a teenager.
- 4
Uncle
A silent homeless man found with clippings about sex crimes becomes the first suspect in a double murder, until Munch recognizes him as his own uncle.
- 5
Confrontation
A rapist who keeps returning to his victims is timing the attacks to their ovulation, and the only proof grows inside a victim who will not admit it.
- 6
Infiltrated
While undercover with environmental activists in Oregon, Benson investigates the murder of a pharmaceutical worker and uncovers his secret, as Novak’s rape case in New York stalls without her testimony.
- 7
Underbelly
A paw-print tattoo on three murdered teenage girls leads Stabler and his new partner, Beck, into an underage prostitution ring and to the pimp who claims to love his girls.
- 8
Cage
Two children found handcuffed in a crashed van lead the squad to a careless adoption broker and to foster parents whose coercive “rebirthing” therapy killed a nine-year-old girl.
- 9
Choreographed
A model’s mysterious death in Central Park points first to her philandering choreographer husband, then to the jealous husband of his lover, who has been tracking his wife with an implanted chip.
- 10
Scheherazade
A priest sends Stabler to a dying man who has waited decades to confess, and his slowly told stories uncover old bank robberies, a buried partner and the truth about his daughter’s birth.
- 11
Burned
A mother accuses her estranged husband of rape during a bitter custody fight, and the case divides Benson and Stabler until it ends in fire.
- 12
Outsider
A string of rapes by a man who craves praise draws Fin into an uneasy partnership with a Brooklyn detective who links them to three murders.
- 13
Loophole
Photos of a boy sent anonymously to SVU lead Benson to a building where a chemical company has been testing a pesticide on poor tenants.
- 14
Dependent
A mob lawyer’s wife is murdered at home, the evidence points to their drug-using daughter, and a death during an arrest puts Stabler’s career on the line.
- 15
Haystack
A baby taken from his crib, a mother driven to suicide by a TV reporter, and a family DNA search that leads detectives to the boy’s real father.
- 16
Philadelphia
Benson finds her half brother just as a New Jersey captain targets him as a rapist, while her distraction costs the squad a chance to catch two men raping men in Central Park.
- 17
Sin
The murder of a male escort leads to a famous anti-gay preacher, his devout wife and a family secret that someone in the church was willing to kill to bury.
- 18
Responsible
A girl’s death at a teen drinking party leads detectives to a mother who supplies alcohol to her daughter’s friends and sleeps with one of them.
- 19
Florida
Benson risks her career for her fugitive half brother, learns the truth about the man who fathered them both, and uncovers who really framed Simon.
- 20
Annihilated
A murdered bride-to-be’s fiancé turns out to be a married father posing as a spy, and the case ends in a family massacre.
- 21
Pretend
A boy’s death in a staged fight leads to a manipulative best friend and a grieving girlfriend who has been posing as a teenager for years.
- 22
Screwed
A killer’s murder trial turns into a trial of the squad itself as Fin’s former stepson exposes the detectives’ past lapses.