Law & Order: Season 18

2008 · 18 episodes · ★ 7.2

What Season 18 of Law & Order

Season opens with Inspector Cyrus Lupo leaving behind the conflict zones to face problems within his own family. As in the rest of the series, each episode is split between homicide detectives, who follow leads through the streets of New York, and Manhattan prosecutors, who build the case and bring it to court. Inspector Ed Green, played by Jesse L. Martin, finds his badge in jeopardy and is forced to reveal a turbulent past. Michael Cutter and Connie Rubirosa take opposing sides in the courtroom. Cases follow one after another, with little room for the personal lives of its leads.

18episodes

Jan 2, 2008premiered

May 21, 2008latest episode

13.5 hrtotal runtime

Season 18 Episodes

18x01 Called Home
Jan 2, 2008 · 45 min · ★ 7.5
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".
Directed by: Allen Coulter · Written by: René Balcer · Starring: Jesse L. Martin, Brad Dourif, Elizabeth Marvel, Michael McKean
18x02 Darkness
Jan 2, 2008 · 45 min · ★ 7.3
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.
Directed by: Michael Dinner · Written by: David Slack, William N. Fordes · Starring: Jesse L. Martin, Jordan Lage, Peter McRobbie, Caralyn Kozlowski
18x03 Misbegotten
Jan 9, 2008 · 45 min · ★ 5.4
The explosion of a package including scientific research injures a pregnant security guard, leading to the investigation of the scientist's experiments.
Directing: Michael W. Watkins · Writing: David Wilcox, Stephanie Sengupta · Starring: Jesse L. Martin, Guenia Lemos, Joe Forbrich, Kevin Rankin
18x04 Bottomless
Jan 16, 2008 · 45 min · ★ 7.6
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.
Directing: Alex Chapple · Writing: Ed Zuckerman · Starring: Jesse L. Martin, John Cunningham, Ezra Knight, Guenia Lemos
18x05 Driven
Jan 23, 2008 · 45 min · ★ 7.3
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.
Directing: Alan Taylor · Writing: Gina Gionfriddo, Richard Sweren · Starring: Jesse L. Martin, Peter Francis James, Ned Eisenberg, Leslie Hendrix
18x06 Political Animal
Jan 30, 2008 · 45 min · ★ 7.0
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.
Directing: Jean de Segonzac · Writing: David Slack, Ed Zuckerman · Starring: Jesse L. Martin, John Ortiz, Dee Hoty, Jayne Atkinson
18x07 Quit Claim
Feb 6, 2008 · 45 min · ★ 7.7
A hit-and-run investigation leads back to a title company, and Green and Lupo must go undercover to crack the case.
Directing: Jim McKay · Writing: David Wilcox, William N. Fordes · Starring: Jesse L. Martin, Wayne Duvall, Michael Basile, Joe Forbrich
18x08 Illegal
Feb 13, 2008 · 45 min · ★ 8.0
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.
Directed by: Constantine Makris · Written by: David Slack, William N. Fordes · Starring: Jesse L. Martin, Johanna Day, Joe Forbrich, Sonnie Brown
18x09 Executioner
Feb 20, 2008 · 45 min · ★ 7.1
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.
Directing: Constantine Makris · Writing: Gina Gionfriddo, Richard Sweren · Starring: Jesse L. Martin, Gordon MacDonald, Joe Forbrich, Michael Rooker
18x10 Tango
Feb 27, 2008 · 45 min · ★ 7.0
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.
Directing: Dean White · Writing: Stephanie Sengupta · Starring: Jesse L. Martin, Jeffrey DeMunn, Marlyne Barrett, Leslie Hendrix
18x11 Betrayal
Mar 5, 2008 · 45 min · ★ 7.0
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.
Directing: Marc Levin · Writing: Gina Gionfriddo, Richard Sweren · Starring: Jesse L. Martin, Carolyn McCormick, Joe Forbrich, Madeleine Martin
18x12 Submission
Mar 12, 2008 · 45 min · ★ 6.3
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.
Directing: Constantine Makris · Writing: Ed Zuckerman · Starring: Jesse L. Martin, Leslie Hendrix, Joe Forbrich, David Harbour
18x13 Angelgrove
Mar 19, 2008 · 45 min · ★ 7.1
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.
Directing: Darnell Martin · Writing: David Wilcox, Stephanie Sengupta · Starring: Jesse L. Martin, Carolyn McCormick, Leslie Hendrix, Patricia R. Floyd
18x14 Burn Card
Apr 23, 2008 · 45 min · ★ 7.7
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.
Directing: Mario Van Peebles · Writing: David Wilcox, René Balcer, Dick Wolf · Starring: Anthony Anderson, Jesse L. Martin, Dee Hoty, Ruben Santiago-Hudson
18x15 Bogeyman
Apr 30, 2008 · 45 min · ★ 7.3
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.
Directing: Tim Hunter · Writing: Richard Sweren · Starring: Anthony Anderson, Nicki Aycox, Caroline Strong, Debargo Sanyal
18x16 Strike
May 7, 2008 · 45 min · ★ 8.1
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.
Directing: Marisol Adler · Writing: David Slack, William N. Fordes · Starring: Anthony Anderson, Wayne Duvall, Leslie Hendrix, Joe Forbrich
18x17 Personae Non Gratae
May 14, 2008 · 45 min · ★ 7.3
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.
Directing: John David Coles · Writing: Stephanie Sengupta, Matthew McGough · Starring: Anthony Anderson, Alison Elliott, Tom Everett Scott, Melissa Leo
18x18 Excalibur Season Finale
May 21, 2008 · 45 min · ★ 6.3
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.
Directing: Jim McKay · Writing: René Balcer, Ed Zuckerman · Starring: Anthony Anderson, Patricia R. Floyd, Sam Guncler, Alison Elliott