Season 8 poster

Season 8

(1997)

Cast

Sam Waterston as Jack McCoy
Sam Waterston

as Jack McCoy

Jerry Orbach as Lennie Briscoe
Jerry Orbach

as Lennie Briscoe

Benjamin Bratt as Rey Curtis
Benjamin Bratt

as Rey Curtis

S. Epatha Merkerson as Anita Van Buren
S. Epatha Merkerson

as Anita Van Buren

Carey Lowell as Jamie Ross
Carey Lowell

as Jamie Ross

Steven Hill as Adam Schiff
Steven Hill

as Adam Schiff

Episodes

Thrill poster

Thrill 7.3

September 24, 1997

The cops break the seemingly random murder of a pizza delivery guy with a little ""undercover"" work in the park, but M…

Denial poster

Denial 6.1

October 8, 1997

Bloody sheets and an apparently stolen credit card lead Briscoe and Curtis to a pair of college age lovers who present …

Navy Blues poster

Navy Blues 6.6

October 15, 1997

McCoy finds himself battling the Navy and the office of the Judge Advocate General as he tries to prosecute a female pi…

Harvest poster

Harvest 7.6

October 29, 1997

A discrepancy concerning the time of death of a drive-by shooting victim leads McCoy and Ross to initiate prosecutions …

Nullification poster

Nullification 7.7

November 5, 1997

After the cops trace an eagle tattoo on a man shot and killed while holding up an armored truck to a group of militia m…

Baby, It's You (I) poster

Baby, It's You (I) 7.4

November 12, 1997

It's old home week for Briscoe when an apparent murder of a teenage model in New York develops ties to Baltimore and De…

Blood poster

Blood 7.7

November 19, 1997

The paternity of a black baby given up for adoption by a white mother might provide a clue to her murderer but it also …

Shadow poster

Shadow 7.6

November 26, 1997

The murder of a bail bondsman looks fairly routine until the chance words of the chief suspect uncovers possible case-f…

Burned poster

Burned 7.2

December 10, 1997

A message overheard on an answering machine leads Briscoe and Curtis to a confessed murderer and the home of wealthy Ca…

Ritual poster

Ritual 7.7

December 17, 1997

The investigation into the death of a man who initially appears to be the victim of a mugging victim reveals him to be …

Under the Influence poster

Under the Influence 7.9

January 7, 1998

After Briscoe and Curtis finally determine who was driving the car that killed three people, the legal prosecution stan…

Expert poster

Expert 7.1

January 21, 1998

The shooting of two people in a restaurant restroom takes some abrupt turns as they try to discover who exactly the int…

Castoff poster

Castoff 6.1

January 28, 1998

The street murder of a woman who worked with underprivileged kids takes a turn towards the bizarre when the detectives …

Grief poster

Grief 7.3

February 4, 1998

The cops, as they try to pin down the specifics of an assault on a man reluctant to talk about it, uncover the alleged …

Faccia a Faccia poster

Faccia a Faccia 7.3

February 25, 1998

Taking on an apparent mafia murder, Detectives Briscoe and Curtis are stymied by a dead witness and a seemingly incoher…

Divorce poster

Divorce 7.5

March 4, 1998

The stabbing death of a psychologist draws Detectives Briscoe and Curtis into a heated divorce case and pits McCoy and …

Carrier poster

Carrier 7.1

April 1, 1998

The death of a college student leads to a case involving an HIV-positive male who's seeking to infect as many young wom…

Stalker poster

Stalker 7.9

April 15, 1998

When a woman is found unconscious at the bottom of her apartment stairs, Briscoe and Curtis must figure out what happen…

Disappeared poster

Disappeared 7.3

April 22, 1998

A defendant refuses to allow his lawyer to raise the issue of insanity, this complicating matters for the brother who t…

Burden poster

Burden 7.1

April 24, 1998

After a 12-year-old quadriplegic dies at home in his bed, paramedics claim that he was suffocated and the suspects incl…

Bad Girl poster

Bad Girl 7.5

April 29, 1998

Schiff's re-election may hinge on the stabbing death of a police officer; Briscoe's daughter is arrested for dealing dr…

Damaged poster

Damaged 8.0

May 6, 1998

The case of a teacher's shooting uncovers a vendetta involving the rape of a mentally challenged coed by three students…

Tabloid poster

Tabloid 7.0

May 13, 1998

Tabloid journalism comes under scrutiny during the investigations into the deaths of a gossip columnist and a celebrity…

Monster poster

Monster 7.6

May 20, 1998

During the search for a pedophile who raped a 10-year-old, a snitch offers Briscoe a chance to avenge his daughter's de…