NYPD detectives of the Major Case Squad use unconventional methods to solve crimes. Like its predecessor, the original `Law & Order', its storylines are often based on real-life headlines, and it features a cadre of quirky cops whose mission it is to find the criminals and make them pay.
A junkie's death leads Goren and Eames to his girlfriend, the stepdaughter of a powerful politician they were blackmailing over a dark family secret. (S8, ep 1)
During the investigation into the death of an aspiring musician, one of the victim's mates is thrown to his death from an elevator shaft. (S8, ep 2)
Goren and Eames investigate the murder of a successful businessman's long-lost brother, who holds a secret about the manner of their biological mother's death. (S8, ep 3)
The CFO of a fraudulent Wall Street securities firm is killed before he can go to the Feds and make a deal. (S8, ep 4)
A doctor is murdered in his home while his wife lies bound in their bedroom. The couple's reverend may know more about the crime than he is telling the detectives. (S8, ep 5)
A man involved in a bank heist is killed months later in a deliberate explosion. Nichols and Wheeler discover his partners also faked his own death. (S8, ep 6)
Goren and Eames are called to investigate a child kidnapping case but promising leads, lead to dead ends. (S8, ep 7)
Goren and Eames must track down a devout Christian family annihilator before he finishes his mission and kills his daughter. (S8, ep 8)
A celebrity chef and his business partner, a dangerous mogul and a volatile and mysterious teenager are all suspects in the death of a young socialite. (S8, ep 9)
Detective Eames is being set up as the patsy in the murder of a man involved in a notorious murder case but who is doing it and why? (S8, ep 10)
A publisher of a magazine is killed and the investigation focuses on the magazine's wealthy donors. Stakes are raised when the publisher is also found stabbed to death. (S8, ep 11)
A down-on-his-luck former poker champ, shoots and kills a man who owes money, but the gun was supposed to be filled with blanks. Who is responsible and why? (S8, ep 12)
Detective Nichols correctly surmises that the esteemed head of the crime lab killed a teenage drug dealer and is planting evidence to frame another man. (S8, ep 13)
A popular model is killed and Goren and Eames soon discover that he crossed paths with a violent and vindictive millionaire businessman. (S8, ep 14)
Nichols and Eames are after a German radical responsible for the death of a vilified Wall Street CEO. (S8, ep 15)