Law and Order SVU season 20, episode 8 synopsis and promo: Hell’s Kitchen

What’s happening in this week’s episode of Law and Order SVU? Find out about the next episode with the SVU season 20, episode 8 synopsis and teaser.

Celebrity meets criminality in the next episode of Law & Order: SVU, according to NBC‘s official description of Thursday’s episode and the promo spot that they’ve released for it.

Thursday’s installment is called “Hell’s Kitchen” and it has absolutely no relation to the cooking show of the same name. Instead, it dives into the culinary community, as a celebrity chef becomes the prime suspect when a waitress is assaulted at a VIP party at one of the neighborhood’s top restaurants. As Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and the team investigate, they find more than a few skeletons in the past, but does that necessarily reflect the present?

The Dick Wolf series has a bevy of guest stars this week. Luke Kirby (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) returns to the show, while Genevieve Angelson (Good Girls Revolt) portrays the victim and Jacob Pitts (Justified) is stepping into the courtroom. Regardless of how the story unfolds, this one will be worth watching for the cast alone.

This is also the episode directed by Monica Raymund, who formerly portrayed paramedic Gabriela Dawson on Chicago Fire.

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Here’s how NBC officially describes the episode:

"A waitress from a trendy New York restaurant is sexually assaulted at an after-hours VIP party."

And here’s the promotional teaser that’s been airing ahead of the episode:

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