Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
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.
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Episode 1 - Scorched Earth
Release Date: 2011-09-21An 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.
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Episode 2 - Personal Fouls
Release Date: 2011-09-28SVU 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.
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Episode 3 - Blood Brothers
Release Date: 2011-10-05A 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.
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Episode 4 - Double Strands
Release Date: 2011-10-12Detective 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.
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Episode 5 - Missing Pieces
Release Date: 2011-10-19Detectives 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.
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Episode 6 - True Believers
Release Date: 2011-11-02The SVU team works together to investigate the case of a promising music student who was brutally raped at gunpoint.
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Episode 7 - Russian Brides
Release Date: 2011-11-09In 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.
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Episode 8 - Educated Guess
Release Date: 2011-11-16A 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.
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Episode 9 - Lost Traveller
Release Date: 2011-11-30When a Romani boy vanishes on his way home from school, the Special Victims Unit must penetrate his insular community to find the unlikely abductors.
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Episode 10 - Spiraling Down
Release Date: 2011-12-07A 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.
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Episode 11 - Theatre Tricks
Release Date: 2012-01-11SVU 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.
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Episode 12 - Official Story
Release Date: 2012-01-18Benson and Amaro must work around a resistant victim when the CEO of a military contractor is assaulted.
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Episode 13 - Father's Shadow
Release Date: 2012-02-08A 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.
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Episode 14 - Home Invasions
Release Date: 2012-02-15After 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.
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Episode 15 - Hunting Ground
Release Date: 2012-02-22Detectives Benson and Amaro lead the search for a serial killer who is targeting young prostitutes.
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Episode 16 - Child's Welfare
Release Date: 2012-02-29Detective 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.
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Episode 17 - Justice Denied
Release Date: 2012-04-21A 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.
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Episode 18 - Valentine's Day
Release Date: 2012-04-18A 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.
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Episode 19 - Street Revenge
Release Date: 2012-04-25The task of find a serial rapist becomes more difficult when a team of neighborhood vigilante "superheroes" starts trying to avenge the crimes.
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Episode 20 - Father Dearest
Release Date: 2012-05-02Detectives 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.
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Episode 21 - Learning Curve
Release Date: 2012-05-09As 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.
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Episode 22 - Strange Beauty
Release Date: 2012-05-16The investigation of the homicide of a young woman who recently had her leg amputated sends SVU into the strange culture of body modification.
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Episode 23 - Rhodium Nights
Release Date: 2012-05-23The 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.