Law & Order: Season 18
Season 18 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Law & Order Season 17.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 18 Progress Shield
Called Home
Jan 2, 2008 · 45 min
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
Darkness
Jan 2, 2008 · 45 min
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
Misbegotten
Jan 9, 2008 · 45 min
The explosion of a package including scientific research injures a pregnant security guard, leading to the investigation of the scientist's experiments.
Bottomless
Jan 16, 2008 · 45 min
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
Driven
Jan 23, 2008 · 45 min
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
Political Animal
Jan 30, 2008 · 45 min
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.
Quit Claim
Feb 6, 2008 · 45 min
A hit-and-run investigation leads back to a title company, and Green and Lupo must go undercover to crack the case.
Illegal
Feb 13, 2008 · 45 min
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.
Executioner
Feb 20, 2008 · 45 min
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.
Tango
Feb 27, 2008 · 45 min
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, unw
Betrayal
Mar 5, 2008 · 45 min
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
Submission
Mar 12, 2008 · 45 min
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 ca
Angelgrove
Mar 19, 2008 · 45 min
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.
Burn Card
Apr 23, 2008 · 45 min
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 conc
Bogeyman
Apr 30, 2008 · 45 min
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
Strike
May 7, 2008 · 45 min
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
Personae Non Gratae
May 14, 2008 · 45 min
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.
Excalibur
May 21, 2008 · 45 min
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.