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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

  • TV-14
  • 1999–
  • 28 seasons
  • Crime, Drama
  • 8.0

Hope in the darkness.

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

Episodes

24 episodes
  1. 1Locum

    42 minSep 22, 20107.5

    Benson and Stabler are called to investigate when a little girl goes missing. They soon find out that the mother had another daughter who disappeared some years earlier and she becomes the focus of the investigation.

  2. 2Bullseye

    42 minSep 22, 20108.9

    The brutal rape of a ten-year-old girl leaves her unable to recall her own name. Unfortunately, once Fin assists with the ID, the detectives find that she's not the only one with memory impairment, and Dr. Huang is brought in to assess her home situation.

  3. 3Behave

    43 minSep 29, 20108.4

    A woman who has been raped multiple times is afraid to leave her house. The issue of unopened rape kits will see Detective Olivia Benson travel from New York City to Los Angeles.

  4. 4Merchandise

    42 minOct 6, 20107.7

    A teenage girl's death exposes a human trafficking ring and leads detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler to team up with an old friend at the U.S. Attorney's office.

  5. 5Wet

    42 minOct 13, 2010

    Detectives Benson and Stabler arrive on the scene where a woman is found dead in Bethesda Fountain. When her squeaky clean image doesn't match up with her promiscuous actions on the night of her murder, ADA Mikka Von encourages the cops to dig deeper into her past.

  6. 6Branded

    43 minOct 20, 20106.9

    Two men have been branded and sodomised by someone. Is there a connection between these men, and what nut case is on the loose?

  7. 7Trophy

    43 minNov 3, 20108.8

    A rape and murder investigation puts the detectives lives at risk.

  8. 8Penetration

    42 minNov 10, 20106.9

    Undercover FBI agent Dana Lewis returns to help the detectives with a case.

  9. 9Gray

    43 minNov 17, 20108.4

    Stabler's participation in a Take Back the Night rally at Kathleen's campus results in an extra case for him and Benson when a student claims she was raped. Unfortunately, the case turns out to be a "he said-she said" type with little evidence. Enter Sonya Paxton, and it can only get more complicated.

  10. 10Rescue

    41 minDec 1, 20107.3

    With young Calvin in her care, Detective Benson continues the search for his drug-addict mother, Vivian, but Detective Stabler notices a strong bond forming between Benson and the boy. When Vivian's name comes up during a rape investigation, Captain Cragen assigns Detectives Fin and Munch to the case instead. However, it will take more than Cragen' s orders to keep Benson away.

  11. 11Pop

    42 minJan 5, 20117.6

    A young boy is found dead on a park carousel after being dropped off by his uncle Joe Gilbert. When Detectives Benson and Stabler learn that the boy was beaten to death they suspect that it could be the result of a bully at school. The investigation leads to an unsettling gambling ring. Detectives suspect that Gilbert's acquaintance, Joe Roberts is beating his wife Sandra and the case takes a horrifying turn.

  12. 12Possessed

    43 minJan 5, 20117.2

    A young man finds that his girlfriend Larissa Welsh has been attacked in her apartment with evidence that points to her buried past. Detectives Benson and Stabler go in search of her attacker and discover that an elderly man, Orville Underwood, may have been involved in traumatic events of Welsh's past. For the detectives, solving the case comes down to who was in possession of the evidence.

  13. 13Mask

    42 minJan 12, 20117.4

    Debbie Shields comes home to find her partner Ann Jackson being raped by a man wearing a haunting mask. Shields contacts Ann's father to notify him of her critical condition. As detectives Benson and Stabler interrogate Ann's father, Captain Jackson, his sordid past is revealed filled with sexual and alcohol addiction. Jackson's new role as a sex therapist is hindering the detectives from getting the information they need to solve the case and if Jackson won't comply, the detectives are going to have to get creative.

  14. 14Dirty

    41 minJan 19, 20117.6

    Detective Saliyah "Sunny" Qadri goes in search of Brooklyn District Attorney Page Ferguson, who she fears may be in danger. Qadri finds Ferguson just in time to witness her fall from the top of a parking garage. When Benson arrives, she discovers that the crime scene has been tampered with. Benson turns to an old friend, Assistant U.S. Attorney Christine Danielson for help. As the investigation progresses, Benson begins to question Ferguson's suspicious past and Qadri's involvement in the case.

  15. 15Flight

    41 minFeb 2, 20117.5

    When it is discovered that a teenage girl is suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder due to sexual abuse, all leads point to billionaire Jordan Kress. As Detectives Benson and Stabler continue to investigate, Kress involves his lawyer, Dwight Stanitch, who throws the whole case awry.

  16. 16Spectacle

    41 minFeb 9, 20116.3

    After the sexual assault of a young woman is videotaped and featured on a campus-wide intranet feed, detectives Elliot Stabler and Odafin "Fin" Tutuola go in search of the victim and her attacker. As they delve into the investigation, it becomes clear that the perpetrator created a spectacle to draw attention to his own issues.

  17. 17Pursuit

    43 minFeb 16, 20117.4

    The TV host of a show that spotlights predators receives threats to her safety, and this reawakens her hunt for her sister's abductor. An ADA with connections to the TV host then assists detectives in their investigation.

  18. 18Bully

    42 minFeb 23, 20118.1

    An art patron finds a body, and when detectives question the murdered woman's good friend and associates, they uncover an antagonistic work environment filled with grown-up bullies.

  19. 19Bombshell

    42 minMar 23, 20115.4

    A grifter named Cassandra strikes swinging men who frequent sex clubs.

  20. 20Totem

    43 minMar 30, 20117.1

    When a young girl is found dead with a doll that is believed to have been left as a totem, detectives Benson and Stabler team up with Captain Jackson, a psychologist who assisted them with a recent case, to investigate her murder. Jackson joins the detectives as they retrace the girl's last steps and go to meet with her piano teacher June Frye. Jackson's skills prove to be invaluable in deciphering the meaning of the totem and ultimately finding her killer.

  21. 21Reparations

    42 minApr 6, 2011

    Two high-powered attorneys face each other across the aisle when Casey Novak returns to the team, and Joe Dekker takes a leave of absence from his Los Angeles duties after his cousin is charged with rape. Dekker's unwavering belief in his cousin's innocence, and a court disturbance make Novak and Benson take another look at the evidence, which leads them to someone playing a very long game in the name of hatred.

  22. 22Bang

    41 minMay 4, 20117.3

    When an abandoned baby is found on playground, Detectives Benson and Stabler go in search of the child's caregiver. Upon meeting the nanny and her boyfriend, Ken Turner, they soon realize that he is also engaged to the baby's adoptive mother, Dede Aston. As the detectives dig deeper into Turner's malevolent past, they realize that the law may be on his side.

  23. 23Delinquent

    42 minMay 11, 20118.1

    When a young woman finds a teenage boy asleep and naked in her bedroom, his mother, Bree Walsh, is quick to defend him. While Detective Benson and Detective Stabler try to figure out what truly happened, they also have to manage the sneaky teenager and his naive mother. As the detectives dig deeper, they discover how deceptive appearances can be.

  24. 24Smoked

    41 minMay 18, 20118.2

    When a woman is murdered during an afternoon shopping trip with her daughter, Detectives Benson and Stabler are called in because she was scheduled to testify in their high-profile rape case. As the detectives continue to investigate the correlation between the murder and their case, they discover unlikely friendships that will lead them to the truth.

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Series cast

Mariska HargitayOlivia Benson595 episodes
Ice-TOdafin 'Fin' Tutuola573 episodes
Dann FlorekDonald Cragen333 episodes
Richard BelzerJohn Munch325 episodes
Christopher MeloniElliot Stabler284 episodes
Kelli GiddishKara Bawson283 episodes
Peter ScanavinoDominick 'Sonny' Carisi Jr.253 episodes
BD WongGeorge Huang232 episodes
Tamara TunieMelinda Warner226 episodes
Raúl EsparzaRafael Barba130 episodes
Diane NealAmelia Chase113 episodes
Stephanie MarchAlexandra Cabot97 episodes
Danny PinoNick Amaro95 episodes
Frank AnelloNYPD Officer (uncredited)86 episodes
Octavio PisanoJoe Velasco84 episodes
Kevin KaneGreg Wilcox66 episodes
Mike DoyleRyan O'Halloran53 episodes
Aimé Donna KellyRenee Curry52 episodes

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