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.
Air date: 2011-09-21
Runtime: 44 min
Overview: An African immigrant working as a maid accuses an Italian diplomat of rape, but is she really in it just for the money? Meanwhile, Stabler's return remains in doubt after his latest shooting.
Air date: 2011-09-28
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: SVU investigates an accusation that a revered high school basketball coach sexually abused his players, but they ultimately may need the cooperation of a reluctant pro superstar to make the case.
Air date: 2011-10-05
Runtime: 44 min
Overview: A pregnant thirteen-year-old girl from Washington Heights claims that the son of an ambassador raped her, but the accused goes missing before SVU can question him.
Air date: 2011-10-12
Runtime: 44 min
Overview: Detective Rollins believes that SVU has caught a serial rapist from one of her earlier cases in Georgia, but a passioned request after a suicide attempt leads Amaro to suspect that they may have the wrong person.
Air date: 2011-10-19
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: Detectives search for a missing baby on Halloween after a young mother from Buffalo tells them her car was stolen while her baby was still in it.
Air date: 2011-11-02
Runtime: 44 min
Overview: The SVU team works together to investigate the case of a promising music student who was brutally raped at gunpoint.
Air date: 2011-11-09
Runtime: 44 min
Overview: In order to bring down a Russian mobster running an international prostitution/kidnapping ring disguised as a Russian bride website, Cragen steps from behind the desk to go undercover.
Air date: 2011-11-16
Runtime: 44 min
Overview: A patient in a mental hospital claims to have witnessed a sexual assault. However, the supposed victim is a fellow patient who has a history of making rape allegations, but she denies being assaulted this time.
Air date: 2011-11-30
Runtime: 44 min
Overview: When a Romani boy vanishes on his way home from school, the Special Victims Unit must penetrate his insular community to find the unlikely abductors.
Air date: 2011-12-07
Runtime: 44 min
Overview: A retired pro quarterback is busted for having sex with a fourteen-year-old prostitute, but he may be suffering from diminished capacity because of all the concussions he had on the field.
Air date: 2012-01-11
Runtime: 42 min
Overview: SVU tries to figure out who was responsible for the real-life rape of an actress during an interactive theater performance that everybody just assumed was part of the show.
Air date: 2012-01-18
Runtime: 44 min
Overview: Benson and Amaro must work around a resistant victim when the CEO of a military contractor is assaulted.
Air date: 2012-02-08
Runtime: 44 min
Overview: A nineteen-year-old creates a hostage situation after his father is accused of sexual assault, and Olivia uses her personal experience to help defuse the situation.
Air date: 2012-02-15
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: After a couple is murdered in their home and their daughter is critically injured, SVU uncovers a number of twisted family secrets, as well as Detective Rollins' gambling addiction.
Air date: 2012-02-22
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: Detectives Benson and Amaro lead the search for a serial killer who is targeting young prostitutes.
Air date: 2012-02-29
Runtime: 44 min
Overview: Detective Benson calls on Bayard Ellis for legal help when her estranged brother gets caught in a child custody battle. Also, Detectives Tutuola and Rollins investigate why a newborn baby is abandoned near a hospital.
Air date: 2012-04-21
Runtime: 44 min
Overview: A closed rape case of Benson's is reopened because of it's similarities to a new case, and the possibility of wrongful imprisonment surfaces. As Benson's work is questioned, tension develops between her, ADA Haden, and Bayard Ellis.
Air date: 2012-04-18
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: A man witnesses his wife's rape and kidnapping while video chatting with her on his way home from a business trip. The abductors seek a ransom, and the case grows more complex as detectives probe deeper.
Air date: 2012-04-25
Runtime: 43 min
Overview: The task of find a serial rapist becomes more difficult when a team of neighborhood vigilante "superheroes" starts trying to avenge the crimes.
Air date: 2012-05-02
Runtime: 44 min
Overview: Detectives search for a missing teenage girl who vanished while looking for her biological father, an anonymous sperm donor. A puzzling prime suspect who's targeted several young women soon emerges.
Air date: 2012-05-09
Runtime: 44 min
Overview: As Fin tries to get justice after his gay son's fiancé is brutally beaten in a hate crime, SVU uncovers a scandal involving a teacher sexually abusing a student at a prep school.
Air date: 2012-05-16
Runtime: 44 min
Overview: The investigation of the homicide of a young woman who recently had her leg amputated sends SVU into the strange culture of body modification.
Air date: 2012-05-23
Runtime: 44 min
Overview: The murder of a prostitute at a bachelor party sends SVU on a dangerous investigation that could lead all the way into the highest reaches of New York power and influence.
