Law & Order: Criminal Intent

- Season 8

(2009)

A dead junkie's girlfriend is the stepdaughter of a powerful politician from an influential New York family, and Goren and Eames discover that they were blackmailing him over a disturbing family secret.

Wheeler and her new partner, detective Zach Nichols investigate the death of an aspiring musician. During the investigation, one of the victim's loft-mates is thrown to his death from an elevator shaft.

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.

The CFO of a fraudulent Wall Street securities firm is killed before he can go to the Feds and make a deal. But before Nichols and Wheeler can get to the CEO, he enters a treatment facility, and is under the care of a controlling psychiatrist.

After a doctor is murdered in his home while his wife lies bound and helpless upstairs in their bedroom, it is revealed that the couple's reverend may know more about the crime than he is telling the detectives.

A man involved in an armored car bank heist is killed six months later in a deliberate explosion. During the investigation, Nichols and Wheeler discover that one of his partners also faked his own death.

Goren and Eames are called to investigate a child kidnapping case. But promising leads, lead to dead ends.

A former Olympian now working in the Belgian consulate is killed. Her death is soon linked to an aspiring Olympian, a blackmail DVD, and the owner of a private security firm.

Goren and Eames must track down a devout Christian family annihilator before he finishes his mission and kills his daughter.

A celebrity chef and his business partner, a dangerous hip-hop mogul, and a volatile and mysterious teenager are all suspects in the strangling death of a young socialite.

Detective Eames is being set up as the patsy in the murder of a man involved in a notorious murder case Eames investigated years ago. But who is doing it, and why?

The assistant/girlfriend to a struggling publisher of a poetry magazine is killed, and the investigation focuses on the magazine's wealthy donors. However, the stakes are raised when the publisher is also found stabbed to death.

A down-on-his-luck former poker champ, forced to now work as a bookie's collector, shoots and kills a man who owes money, but the gun was supposed to be filled with blanks. Who is responsible for the incident, and why?

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, but has a hard time convincing captain Ross to go along with him.

A popular model is killed, and Goren and Eames soon discover that he crossed paths with a violent and vindictive millionaire businessman.

Nichols and Eames are after a German radical responsible for the death of a vilified Wall Street CEO.