Season 8 opens with Goren and Eames investigating a case involving a councilman’s step-daughter and her boyfriend being shot. The pair of drug-addicted kids were caught up in blackmail schemes…

Stabler and Benson suspect a charismatic preacher in a case of murder until his wife provides them with another viable suspect.

Colt gets possessive when Heather starts dating a teacher. Abby gives Beau relationship advice. Maggie has a business proposition for Rooster

During a snowstorm, Colt and Abby head out of town, Beau and Joanne get cozy at the ranch, and Maggie meets a charming stranger.

Heather makes a decision about the pregnancy. Mary reads Rooster the riot act for keeping it a secret, and Colt struggles with how to tell Abby.

Who would murder a death-row inmate forty-five minutes before his execution–and why? That’s the question Captain Stottlemeyer asks Monk–but Monk’s response is to ask why it matters. As Monk is…

Alex is offended when Izzie talks about how great a man Alex is to Meredith. Derek is stabbed with the scalpel in the palm of his hand by Rose, while…

As Meredith and Derek begin to find that their “happily ever after” is anything but easy, Cristina develops a crush on a military doctor who brings in a trauma patient….