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Information

ID lYI
Entry type TV Series
Genres crime, drama, mystery, thriller
Countries USA
Languages en
Duration 60 min
External links omdb , wikipedia , imdb
Season
Poster for episode Payback.
S01E01

Payback

Detectives Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson investigate the murder and dismemberment of a cab driver.

Poster for episode A Single Life.
S01E02

A Single Life

The case of a woman who fell to her death wearing only a slip leads the detectives to her psychiatrist, a television anchorman and the dead woman's estranged father.

Poster for episode ...Or Just Look Like One.
S01E03

...Or Just Look Like One

Stabler and Benson investigate the case of a beaten teen model who was dumped in front of a hospital.

Poster for episode Hysteria.
S01E04

Hysteria

Stabler and Benson investigate the murder of a young woman mistaken for a prostitute, and discover a serial killer in their midst.

Poster for episode Wanderlust.
S01E05

Wanderlust

After a travel writer is found murdered, the investigation involves his landlady, her teen daughter and the mother's beau.

Poster for episode Sophomore Jinx.
S01E06

Sophomore Jinx

Benson and Stabler suspect a pair of college basketball players of murdering a female student, but officials don't want to draw negative attention to the school.

Poster for episode Uncivilized.
S01E07

Uncivilized

The murder of an 8-year-old boy leads to a case involving the rights of a convicted child molester who has served his sentence and has returned to society.

Poster for episode Stalked.
S01E08

Stalked

A killing leads to a case in which the murderer is someone who stalks his victims ... and Stabler fears that a combative Benson is the next target.

Poster for episode Stocks & Bondage.
S01E09

Stocks & Bondage

The investigation of the killing of a Wall Street stock analyst involves illicit financial dealings and sado-masochism.

Poster for episode Closure: Part I.
S01E10

Closure: Part I

Stabler and Benson encounter problems when a traumatized sexual assault victim cannot help them identify the prime suspect, because the victim is having trouble dealing with the aftermath of the crime.

Poster for episode Bad Blood.
S01E11

Bad Blood

Stabler and Benson hunt for the killer of a gay man whose father heads a conservative watchdog group; Munch looks for Benson's biological father.

Poster for episode Russian Love Poem.
S01E12

Russian Love Poem

Abby sells Ciji's contract to Jeff Munson. Jeff wants Kenny to produce Ciji, but Abby will only sell if they cut Kenny out of the deal. She tells Kenny he's out, and he's very angry. Kenny and Gary get into a fight. Abby goes to Gary's lawyer, James Westmont, and wants him to protect her interests in case Gary doesn't marry her. Chip is offered a job with Thornwell and Associates if he can bring them Val's account. Chip steals 2 chapters of her current manuscript and gives it to them. Ciji tells Chip that she's pregnant, and Chip yells that this will ruin everything and manhandles her. Val has been putting off signing her divorce papers. Jeff takes her to New York for the weekend, and she sees a new, more down-to-earth side of him. Val finally signs the papers.

Poster for episode Disrobed.
S01E13

Disrobed

The investigation of a shooting death of a sleazy judge who abused the criminal justice system involves blackmail, sexual favors, and a convict's wife, who was a battered spouse.

Poster for episode Limitations.
S01E14

Limitations

Faced with the expiration of a statute of limitations, the staff tries to find a rapist involved in three assaults that occurred five years earlier.

Poster for episode Entitled.
S01E15

Entitled

The murder of a salesman, an alleged sexual predator, leads the detectives to a politically influential family, then to a suspect who eluded Briscoe and his former partner, Mike Logan, six years ago.

Poster for episode The Third Guy.
S01E16

The Third Guy

After two teens are caught in connection to an assault and robbery of an elderly woman, it's apparent that someone else committed the attack.

Poster for episode Misleader.
S01E17

Misleader

When the pregnant daughter-in-law of a prominent religious group's leader is found slain in a hotel room, it is discovered she may have been having an affair.

Poster for episode Chat Room.
S01E18

Chat Room

A teenage girl's claim that a man who befriended her on the Internet assaulted her leads to a sting operation involving pedophilia.

Poster for episode Contact.
S01E19

Contact

A forensic psychologist is called in to help apprehend a serial rapist who preys on women in the subway.

Poster for episode Remorse.
S01E20

Remorse

Munch forms a close bond with a TV reporter who was sexually assaulted by two men, but it's Stabler and Benson who make the first arrest.

Poster for episode Nocturne.
S01E21

Nocturne

The trial of an accused child molester is jeopardized when a piano teacher is arrested for pedophilia and the prime witness has difficulty dealing with his past.

Poster for episode Slaves.
S01E22

Slaves

An attorney suspected of keeping a Romanian immigrant as a sex slave is linked to a woman's murder. A police psychologist interviews the SVU detectives and tells Cragen that one of his detectives should be removed from duty.

Poster for episode Wrong Is Right.
S02E01

Wrong Is Right

Stabler's daughter, Maureen, bears witness to a horrific crime scene: the murder of a man who was set on fire. The internal investigation into the psyches of the SVU detectives yields interesting results.

Poster for episode Honor.
S02E02

Honor

The vicious assault of an Afghan diplomat's daughter uncovers clues that may suggest Taliban traditions justify "honor killings" when a child goes against time-honored values.

Poster for episode Closure: Part II.
S02E03

Closure: Part II

Stabler and Benson investigate a sexual assault very similar to one they worked six months ago whose victim follows her alleged attacked and reports his activities to the police.

Poster for episode Legacy.
S02E04

Legacy

An abused 7-year-old girl lays comatose as the detectives investigate members of her dysfunctional family to determine the source of the abuse, in a case that hits close to home for Munch.

Poster for episode Baby Killer.
S02E05

Baby Killer

The investigation into the shooting death of one young child by another reveals that the gun was also used in a prior unsolved murder.

Poster for episode Noncompliance.
S02E06

Noncompliance

The question of patients' rights surfaces when a schizophrenic man refusing to take his medication is a suspect in the stabbing death of psychiatric doctoral student.

Poster for episode Asunder.
S02E07

Asunder

The truth behind the alleged rape of a woman by her police officer husband comes to light when a history of domestic abuse is uncovered.

Poster for episode Taken.
S02E08

Taken

The case of a 17-year-old rape victim during the opening festivities of a luxury hotel takes a strange turn when her immediate family tries to keep the scandal quiet by preparing a lawsuit.

Poster for episode Pixies.
S02E09

Pixies

The investigation of a gymnast's murder involves her strict trainer, a wealthy benefactor and a competitor.

Poster for episode Consent.
S02E10

Consent

A rape victim can't remember the circumstances of her attack.

Poster for episode Abuse.
S02E11

Abuse

Stabler and Benson suspect parental neglect may have led to the tragic death of the son of two famous singers, leading them to fear for their little girl.

Poster for episode Secrets.
S02E12

Secrets

A case involving the rape and murder of a teacher hits a snag after the woman's illicit sexual history is exposed.

Poster for episode Victims.
S02E13

Victims

A former police officer, now a community activist, is a suspect in the murders of known sex offenders.

Poster for episode Paranoia.
S02E14

Paranoia

The rape of a veteran police officer, who trained Benson, is first linked to her ex-husband's gambling debts, and then to her fellow officers.

Poster for episode Countdown.
S02E15

Countdown

The detectives work around the clock to find an abducted girl when clues point to a serial murderer and rapist who kills his victims on the third day.

Poster for episode Runaway.
S02E16

Runaway

The search for a police officer's runaway daughter, which leads the detectives through an underground rave culture that caters to wayward teens, is seen through the eyes of the squad room personnel and their interviews with the Internal Affairs division.

Poster for episode Folly.
S02E17

Folly

The beating of a young man uncovers a dangerous male escort service where the boss may have reasons for sending her staff on potentially deadly dates.

Poster for episode Manhunt.
S02E18

Manhunt

The details of a kidnapping are similar to a series of rapes and murders that may link the crime to a serial killer.

Poster for episode Parasites.
S02E19

Parasites

When the remains of a young woman are found buried in an apartment courtyard with a collar and leash, Stabler and Benson determine that the dead woman is Ava Parulis, a Romanian immigrant who was brought to the United States for an arranged marriage. They discover from Ava's estranged twin, Irina, that the dead woman had left her abusive husband, and made a habit of taking advantage of the riches of wealthy suitors.

Poster for episode Pique.
S02E20

Pique

Observed by an FBI psychiatrist, the detectives uncover a horrifying motive for the slaying of a software company employee by a fired colleague when they learn of the suspect's true relationship with his overbearing mother.

Poster for episode Scourge.
S02E21

Scourge

The team searches for a serial killer who justifies his crimes with paranoid religious motivation set on by a rapidly deteriorating medical condition.

Poster for episode Repression.
S03E01

Repression

After therapy uncovers repressed memories of abuse and fearing her 7 year old sister is currently being molested, an 18 year old girl brings charges of rape against her father who winds up murdered when those charges are dismissed.

Poster for episode Wrath.
S03E02

Wrath

The detectives investigate three murders with no connection to each other but all with ties to Benson's previous cases and worry that Benson is the intended target.

Poster for episode Stolen.
S03E03

Stolen

The kidnapping of an infant at a grocery store leads to a scheme of snatching and selling babies for adoption which brings back a case from 12 years ago that involved Captain Cragen and his partner, the late Max Greevy.

Poster for episode Rooftop.
S03E04

Rooftop

Down in Harlem a guy and a girl are getting friendly on a rooftop. No crime there? Not according to the good folk at SVU. Not when the guy is HIV-positive and has a record of assaulting under-age girls. The cops are determined to put him back inside, but maybe they're just a little too focussed - and when more girls are raped and murdered, they find they've been looking in the wrong place and it turns into a battle of wits with a ruthless control-freak who may be an unsuspected serial killer.

Poster for episode Tangled.
S03E05

Tangled

When arriving party guests find a prominent doctor murdered and his wife raped, the investigation starts with his estranged son and a former patient, then moves to his mistress and her neighbor and the realization that the wife was the intended victim.

Poster for episode Redemption.
S03E06

Redemption

Stabler is teamed up with John "Hawk" Hawkins to capture a serial rapist/murderer whom Hawk originally convicted years earlier. The more investigation done, the more unlikely it becomes that the convicted culprit was innnocent. Hawk, is then at a crossroads about his life and his prestige as an officer.

Poster for episode Sacrifice.
S03E07

Sacrifice

A shooting outside of a gay bar leads the detectives to the victim's family, which includes a bitter feud with his parents, and his wife's involvement in pornographic movies.

Poster for episode Inheritance.
S03E08

Inheritance

The search for a serial rapist leads to a suspect who was himself a "rape child", whose father was convicted of that crime and whose attorney blames his genetics as the reason for his actions.

Poster for episode Care.
S03E09

Care

When the battered body of a murdered 5-year-old girl in foster care is discovered, Benson and Stabler must explore a complex array family connections in their search for a motive and murderer. The child's biological mother had been frantically trying to regain custody of all her daughters from the foster mother and grandmother responsible for the child at the time of her death. As the focus of the investigation turns to the girl's socially withdrawn foster brother, Cragen attempts to reach the 14-year-old with the help of some video game camaraderie. (NBC)

Poster for episode Ridicule.
S03E10

Ridicule

What appears as an accidental death leads to a case involving a male stripper who claims that the deceased was one of three women who raped him at a bachelorette party.

Poster for episode Monogamy.
S03E11

Monogamy

The wife of a psychiatrist, seven months pregnant, is found unconscious and bleeding in a parking garage with her fetus missing. The attending paramedic reports to Benson that the victim "sustained massive abdominal trauma" that looks "like an emergency C-section". The investigation leads to infedility and uncertainty as to the paternity, adding fuel to the fire of an already aggitated Stabler.

Poster for episode Protection.
S03E12

Protection

A 6-year-old boy wounded in a shooting is brought to the hospital ER but abandonded by the brother who reported it and their mother. The case leads the detetives to a woman who is on the run for her abusive lover, a drug dealer whom she saw kill a rival.

Poster for episode Prodigy.
S03E13

Prodigy

When an animal rights activist is found decapitated in the park, Benson and Stabler must determine which of their two main suspects -- a sociopathic teenager and a recently paroled rapist -- is responsible for the murder.

Poster for episode Counterfeit.
S03E14

Counterfeit

A woman is found raped and killed by her car. Benson and Fin try to figure out why there were drugs in the victim's trunk but then find that a similar rape was committed. This victim says that a police officer raped her after pulling her over for a supposed driving violation. The DA now has to zero in on the corrupt cop.

Poster for episode Execution.
S03E15

Execution

As an inmate gets closer and closer to his death penalty sentence, Stabler struggles to find out whether that man was the perpetrator of a different crime with an unidentified murderer. Dr. Huang assists Stabler but the investigation goes haywire to mixed results.

Poster for episode Popular.
S03E16

Popular

Stabler's wife tells him that her friend (a nurse) treated a young girl for rape by a teacher. Despite being advised not to find out further details, Stabler, with help from Benson, crack open the case to disturbing details. The girl had been part of a club in which sexual favors were given for drugs in a group of teenagers.

Poster for episode Surveillance.
S03E17

Surveillance

The sexual assault of a cellist leads the detectives to a stalking case where the suspect uses surveillance equipment.

Poster for episode Guilt.
S03E18

Guilt

When ADA Cabot is faced with a reluctant witness in a child molestation case, she goes above and beyond the normal scope of duty in her search for evidence to convict the serial abuser. But her passion supercedes her compliance with the law as she misrepresents herself to Detectives Benson and Stabler to bring them into an illegal search of the traumatized boy's home -- jeopardizing not only her case, but the careers of all involved. SVU Bureau Chief Elizabeth Donnelly is faced with the frustrating task of bringing Cabot in line to preserve the integrity of the Special Victims Unit.

Poster for episode Justice.
S03E19

Justice

In investigating the sexual assault of a 16-year-old, it's discovered that the victim is the rebellious stepdaughter of a judge.

Poster for episode Greed.
S03E20

Greed

Investigating the assault of the wife of a restaurateur during a robbery, leads the detectives to a similar assault, and to a locksmith.

Poster for episode Denial.
S03E21

Denial

When a heroin junkie (Martha Plimpton) is found raped, Det. Tutuola takes an interest in Claire, but he's not the only one. When they find a finger in her purse, it opens a can of worms that spans back thirteen years, to when a teenaged Claire witnessed her mother beating her baby sister Lisa to death, and even further back, when Claire's grandmother, Rose, turns Grace in for the murder of her first-born son, Anthony, years before Claire was born.

Poster for episode Competence.
S03E22

Competence

The investigation into the rape and impregnation of a young girl with Down's Syndrome uncovers a serial rapist who preys on handicapped young girls under the guise of being their benefactor.

Poster for episode Silence.
S03E23

Silence

A murder in a church leads Detectives Benson and Stabler to an alleged cover-up involving sexual abuse by a priest.

Poster for episode Chameleon.
S04E01

Chameleon

The detectives go on the trail of a recently paroled rapist responsible for the murder of a prostitute during a raid at a men's club and are called to the scene where he was shot in self defense by his own gun. However, the murder weapon was also used in another crime while he was still in prison, leading the detectives to investigate the victim through a trail of previously unsolved cases, a spending spree and another victim.

Poster for episode Deception.
S04E02

Deception

A family portrait painted by a kindergartner leads the detectives to investigate her mother for child sexual abuse of her teenage stepson. When the boy's father is found murdered, the focus of the investigation shifts to the boy -- and his stepmother goes to great lengths to protect him and prevent the detectives from learning the truth.

Poster for episode Vulnerable.
S04E03

Vulnerable

When an elderly woman breaks into an apartment, the detectives discover she had been mistreated but have to investigate with no credible information from the victim because of Alzheimer's. They discover that she had been released from a nursing home to the custody of her financially scheming son who becomes the prime suspect. However, they go back to the nursing home to find a pair of suspects, including the director who details the dangers faced by both patients and staff with her own heroics precariously standing out.

Poster for episode Lust.
S04E04

Lust

The wife of a retired attorney, a public-health doctor, is found murdered and raped in Central Park. Her work involved contacting sexual partners of HIV patients which gives the detectives a long list of suspects. The discovery of a second body in Central Park with the same signature shifts the focus to a serial killer; however, the trail leads to a man who has no knowledge of the crimes but has a distant connection to the doctor and her husband.

Poster for episode Disappearing Acts.
S04E05

Disappearing Acts

The detectives respond to a brutal rape only to have the victim taken into custody by federal agents on racketeering charges. The investigation leads them to a father-son duo who are in the federal witness protection program and an agent who appears bound and determined to protect them, regardless of consequence, so they can testify against the Russian mob.

Poster for episode Angels.
S04E06

Angels

The body of a battered young boy found in a luggage compartment of an airport shuttle bus sends the detectives to his guardian who was discovered to be a pedophile only to find his corpse in bed with his genitals removed. The subsequent investigation leads them to a travel agency specializing in exotic trips for sexual predators.

Poster for episode Dolls.
S04E07

Dolls

When the decomposing body of sexually molested five-year-old girl is discovered, Detectives Benson and Stabler's investigation leads them to the painful reality that they are searching for a serial pedophile as they race to save the life of his latest victim. As the mother of the missing girl frantically awaits news of her daughter's whereabouts, she must reconcile the fact that her own recent bout with addiction may have played a part in her daughter's fate.

Poster for episode Waste.
S04E08

Waste

The investigation into the rape of a comatose woman leads to a doctor whose stem cell research is funded by a billionaire with Parkinson's disease who is desperate for a cure.

Poster for episode Juvenile.
S04E09

Juvenile

A cancer patient who was growing marijuana in her apartment is found raped and murdered, sending the detectives on a hunt for two junior-high students, each blaming the other. The prosecution team is faced with the dilemma of trying the older boy as an adult, despite evidence that he was not mentally capable of being able to carry out the crimes.

Poster for episode Resilience.
S04E10

Resilience

The attempted suicide of a fourteen year old girl leads to her family, promiscuity and her regression to a child.

Poster for episode Damaged.
S04E11

Damaged

A six-year-old girl critically injured in an apparent robbery gone bad (and subsequently dies) tests positive for a sexually transmitted disease, putting the detectives on the trail of the family, then the store clerk, the sone of a prominent attorney, who had appeared to foil the crime. When evidence turns up that the little girl's older sister was dating the alleged sexual predator, Cabot has to work some legal magic to erradicate the deal made with the older sister for testimony.

Poster for episode Risk.
S04E12

Risk

An infant overdoses on cocaine mixed in the baby food and the detectives arrest a suspect. Upon receiving resistence from Internal Affairs, the entire squad goes undercover to flush out a drug ring run by dirty cops.

Poster for episode Rotten.
S04E13

Rotten

In their investigation of a prisoner's death, Benson and Fin learn that he was assaulted before being incarcerated.

Poster for episode Mercy.
S04E14

Mercy

When the body of a baby girl is found inside a cooler, the detectives need to investigate just who she is, and how she got there. They soon learn that the little girl had a genetic disorder known as Tay-Sachs disease, and that her name is Sarah Brown, and she is the only daughter of Andrea and Daniel Brown. When Andrea admits to having killed her daughter, Alex has to put aside her own feelings of sympathy to prosecute Andrea Brown for the murder of her daughter.

Poster for episode Pandora.
S04E15

Pandora

The brutal rape, and subsequent death, of a female motorist turns out to be an informant for the FBI acting as a cyber vigilante for catching on-line pedophiles to capture the predators. Stabler, along with the homicide detective who found the victim's husband murdered, follow the trail of evidence for the latest victim she had been tracking, leading them to the US Attorney's Office and a trip to Prague for Stabler to assist the Czech authorities when they find the kidnapped girl.

Poster for episode Tortured.
S04E16

Tortured

A Tibetan woman who was tortured in her home country is found murdered, with her foot missing, and after an exhaustive search of potential suspects, the killer is a victim of torture himself.

Poster for episode Privilege.
S04E17

Privilege

Detectives Benson and Stabler are called to a crime scene – a young woman dressed in a maid's uniform has apparently committed suicide. But there's lots of sexual related bruising so they question whether she was pushed and if she was raped.

Poster for episode Desperate.
S04E18

Desperate

After a young boy witnesses the brutal sexual assault and murder of his stepmother, his father blocks the efforts of the detectives to question him.

Poster for episode Appearances.
S04E19

Appearances

The body of an eight year old beauty pageant contestant is found on a bus, leading the detectives to a paroled sex offender convicted in Florida who played out the crime on a virtual-pronography website, which results in Cabot putting the owner of the web hosting company on trial for facilitation of murder.

Poster for episode Dominance.
S04E20

Dominance

A quadruple homicide with sexual overtones is just the start of an intense rampage of killings that brings a homicide detective into the mix. As the entire squad races against time to prevent further victims, the evidence lead Fin and Deuthorn to a building superintendent, his two sons and a cross to bear.

Poster for episode Fallacy.
S04E21

Fallacy

In the upstairs bathroom of a house party, Cheryl Avery (guest star Katherine Moennig) is discovered with the unconscious and battered body of her boyfriend's brother, who later dies in the hospital. The case seems open and shut when the detectives' investigation into the brother's character falls in line with Cheryl's assertion that he'd tried to rape her. But the case becomes complicated when, through crime scene blood samples, it is discovered that Cheryl is actually a pre-op trans, a fact that eludes boyfriend Eddie Cappilla (Chad Lindberg).

Poster for episode Futility.
S04E22

Futility

Poster for episode Grief.
S04E23

Grief

A dead girl is found outside a bar. The death, however, is ruled a suicide (because the victim's boyfriend continually raped her), but the victim's father snaps on the side and vows revenge against his daughter's rapist.

Poster for episode Perfect.
S04E24

Perfect

A murdered 14-year-old girl leads the detectives to a prominent physician who specializes in reproduction therapy.

Poster for episode Soulless.
S04E25

Soulless

After a rape victim is abducted from the hospital and later found murdered, the detectives discover that one of the multiple suspects is a sociopath with a juvenile conviction for rape, torture and murder.

Poster for episode Tragedy.
S05E01

Tragedy

In a race against time to find a woman with a high-risk pregnancy who's kidnapped as approaches her delivery date, Benson and Stabler are faced with more than one suspect willing to take the fall for the crime.

Poster for episode Manic.
S05E02

Manic

Benson and Stabler enlist Huang's help in probing the connection between the deaths of two high school students and an illegal marketing campaign by a major pharmaceutical company.

Poster for episode Mother.
S05E03

Mother

Although they are hampered by doctor-patient confidentiality as they investigate the near-fatal beating of a psychiatrist who may have been attacked by one of her patients, Benson and Stabler are able to link the assault to child abuse and a unsolved homicide.

Poster for episode Loss.
S05E04

Loss

Investing the brutal rape and murder of an undercover federal agent and forced to use discretion in order to protect the identities of those agents in the field, the detectives arrest a suspect highly connected with a Colombian drug cartel. As the case proceeds towards trial, Cabot is faced with death threats on herself and her family along with pressure to yield the case to federal authorities.

Poster for episode Serendipity.
S05E05

Serendipity

In attempting to falsify the results of a paternity test naming him as the father of a newborn infant murdered shortly after birth along with her mother, a doctor sets in motion a chain of events leading to his own murder and the capture of a serial pedophile.

Poster for episode Coerced.
S05E06

Coerced

In resolving the kidnapping case of a little boy by a schizophrenic, Stabler uncovers further crimes at an adult group home with Huang's help.

Poster for episode Choice.
S05E07

Choice

After a man is arrested for attacking his pregnant wife and then seeks to have her charged her with neglect for drinking during her pregnancy, Benson learns that this is not the first time a child has been exposed to the devastating repercussions of the woman's uncontrolled alcoholism.

Poster for episode Abomination.
S05E08

Abomination

After the homosexual poster-boy for a sexual re-education group is found murdered, the detectives suspect an outspoken minister who was in the process of flooding the victim with hate mail and death threats. When the activist's alibi checks out, the detectives turn their attention to a professor who objects to the victim's thesis on the failure of sexual re-education groups.

Poster for episode Control.
S05E09

Control

As the detectives investigate the castration of a subway commuter, they discover that his assailant may have been one of the many women he abducted, raped, tortured, and enslaved -- crimes that may have been prevented had Olivia believed his first victim when she attempted to file a complaint. After the man is found murdered upon his release from the hospital and the mother of one of his victims is put on trial, her defense attorney attempts to create reasonable doubt in court by positioning Olivia as the murderer.

Poster for episode Shaken.
S05E10

Shaken

The discovery of a beaten infant leads Stabler and Cragen on a search for the attacker who may be a pedophile. When the medical evidence shows that the injuries were a result of shaken baby syndrome, Stabler shifts the focus of the investigation to those closest to the child: her mother, the nannies and a boyfriend of the mother.

Poster for episode Escape.
S05E11

Escape

When a convicted pedophile, desperate to prove his innocence before his terminally ill mother dies, escapes from prison and kidnaps his accuser to force him to recant his story, Benson finds herself in the middle of a hostage situation beginning to believe his story. After he is disarmed, Benson reviews his case, uncovers the web of corruption and deceit which caused his wrongful conviction, and reunites him with his mother and his son

Poster for episode Brotherhood.
S05E12

Brotherhood

Benson and Stabler discover that a death of a college student was directly linked to crimes he committed as the pledgemaster of his fraternity, and are shocked when his father agrees to represent the student charged with contributing to the murder.

Poster for episode Hate.
S05E13

Hate

After a man accused of the murders of three Arabs claims that he was genetically and biologically predisposed to hatred and violence, Benson and Stabler dispel the fallacy of his defense when they uncover the real impetus to the slayings.

Poster for episode Ritual.
S05E14

Ritual

The investigation into the death of a young boy who appears to be the victim of a ritualistic killing leads to the discovery that he was one of many children smuggled from Nigeria to be sold into slavery

Poster for episode Families.
S05E15

Families

The investigation into the death of a pregnant teenager exposes a long-held family secret which precipitates another violent death and the destruction of two families.

Poster for episode Home.
S05E16

Home

A mentally ill woman's paranoia intensifies after her innocent-bystander husband is murdered during a robbery, fueling her descent into child abuse, abandonment, and death.

Poster for episode Mean.
S05E17

Mean

The conviction of a group of sociopathic high school bullies who turned one of their own from a victimizer into a torture murder victim escalates the systematic peer abuse at their exclusive private school, leading to further tragedy.

Poster for episode Careless.
S05E18

Careless

The investigation into the death of a foster child, who passed out at a midnight exorcism, leads to charges of neglect and murder for the foster parents and the social worker.

Poster for episode Sick.
S05E19

Sick

The prosecution of a suspected pedophile is impeded by parents who refuse to produce their molested child for questioning to avoid losing the millions they were paid through a non-disclosure agreement, and by the discovery that a second molestation accusation was falsified in an attempt to extort a settlement similiar to that received by the first victim.

Poster for episode Lowdown.
S05E20

Lowdown

When the death of a prosecutor is staged using information gleaned from a co-worker's caseload, Novak endangers her career to obtain a confession.

Poster for episode Criminal.
S05E21

Criminal

When it becomes obvious that a forensics expert raped and murdered a student, the investigation focuses on a criminology professor Cragen arrested decades earlier for similar crimes, and it's up to Cragen and his team to discover if the professor is the perpetrator or the victim of a bitter rival, a disappearing alibi witness, a corrupt businessman, and ultimately, Cragen's rush to judgment.

Poster for episode Painless.
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Painless

A traumatic event from Munch's past leads him to become personally invested in the prosecution of a terminally ill embryologist accused of facilitating the suicide of a severely depressed woman.

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Bound

A nurse, whose brother owns the home-nursing company she works for, takes her childhood abandonment frustrations of her mother out on the rich elderly women the company cares for, leaving the detectives to believe they have a money-hungry serial killer on the loose.

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Poison

Novak enlists Clark's assistance in obtaining evidence to remove a judge from the bench after his bias in two child abuse cases leads to the death of a child and and the wrongful incarceration of an innocent woman.

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Head

After a video voyeur's hidden camera in a public restroom records a middle school principal sexually assaulting a teenaged boy, Novak learns that the pedophilia arose from a brain tumor that is successfully treatable by surgery, and she agrees to a plea agreement, which the offender then violates by contacting the victim.

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Birthright

The investigation into the attempted kidnapping of a six year old girl uncovers a fertility doctor's scheme to steal embryos, and prompts a custody battle between the child's biological and birth mothers.

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Debt

As Benson and Stabler investigate the disappearance of a mother and her teenaged daughter, they uncover a conspiracy between a corrupt immigration attorney and gangsters running a prostitution ring that is staffed by women they have smuggled into the country and imprisoned as sex slaves.

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Obscene

One teenager is raped and another is imprisoned when they are thrown together by the manipulative adults in their lives whose sole motivations are celebrity and publicity for their own self-serving interests.

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Scavenger

The entire squad races against the clock to solve the puzzles and uncover the clues scattered throughout the city by a serial killer who is taunting them to find him and the next victims on his list.

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Outcry

A missing teenager found beaten and tied up in a college dormitory under construction claims that she was raped by three students, but as the investigation proceeds and information obtained by the police and the press causes her story to unravel quickly, the girl recants. Since Benson remains convinced that a rape did occur, the focus of the investigation shifts to the girl's overly-protective stepfather who has resisted the investigation from its onset. When the girl finally tells the truth about the attack, it becomes apparent that her lies were calculated to protect her innocent stepfather from physical and financial ruin, as another victim of her attacker comes forward.

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Conscience

The detectives and the district attorney get played first by the teenage murderer of a young boy, and then by the victim's father, who uses his professional expertise to escape punishment for avenging his son's death.

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Charisma

A career con artist, forger and thief turns to murder and serial pedophilia to populate the cult he created and get his hands on a multi-million dollar trust fund.

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Doubt

The detectives find themselves in the middle of a "he said/she said" when a graduate student accuses a professor of rape, and he claims that their encounter was consensual; doubt is cast on the woman's veracity when she later falsely accuses Stabler of touching her inappropriately; the woman's attorney drops a bombshell about Stabler's personal life in the squad room.

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Weak

Benson enlists the help of a former cop turned psychiatrist in apprehending a serial rapist and murderer who attacks disabled women.

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Haunted

Fin is reunited with his own son as he risks his life to save two small children, one caught in the middle of a bodega robbery and the other from the junkie who set the child's mother up for murder and then stole him to use as a front in her scheme to boost materials for her meth lab.

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Contagious

After a car accident a 9 year old girl is examined and it's found she's been sexually abused. Out of fear and desperation, the girl blames her soccer coach for molesting her. Soon a slew of other girls claim they also have been raped by the same coach. During the investigation Olivia has to try keeping Elliot from falling apart from his wife leaving him.

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Identity

Complications ensue in the investigation of a Stone Cold Assassins gangbanger who fell off a building after the victim that he tried to rape bit him in self-defense when the vic's twin sister cops to the crime, seemingly impossible due to the evidence until the secrets regarding the sister's true genetic identity are revealed.

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Game

01/08 - Episode 6.14 - Game: An escort named Melody is run over by a car and kicked to death, closely resembling an easter egg in a violent computer game. A modification for the game with the exact details of Melody's murder posted on a fan site leads detective to a former programmer (Steve Davis) and a manipulative gamer (Robert Perle), who claims he could not tell the difference between the game and reality.

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Hooked

Episode 6.15 - Hooked: Karen Downey is found raped and murdered. While Benson and Stabler break the news to her mother, Karen comes home. Turns out she lent her license to her 15-year-old cousin Stacy who bares a striking resemblance. The case hits close to home for Stabler when they learn Stacy was HIV positive and one of the guys she slept with dated his daughter Kathleen

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Ghost

When a wealthy couple is found dead in their home, Benson and Stabler soon realise that their deaths are connected to a drug smuggling ring. Eventually the road leads back to the same drug dealers who forced a former assistant district attorney into hiding, and Alex Cabot comes home to face her enemies.

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Rage

Fourteen years ago, Elliot had a chance to nail Gordon Rickett for the abduction, rape and murder of Dana MacNamara, but Rickett managed to get off. With the recent discovery of the body of Kerry Lynn Palmer, Elliot has another chance at cracking the case. They can only hold Rickett for twenty-four hours, but are able to glean enough information during that time period to at least have a place to start. Cragen and Benson both worry that Elliot will let his hatred for the suspected child molester interfere with his ability to do his job.

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Pure

After an 18-year-old girl is kidnapped, psychic Sebastian Ballentine comes forward claiming to have information on the killings. Stabler refuses to believe that Ballentine is a real psychic, and is convinced that the hints he is dropping about the case indicate he is somehow involved.

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Intoxicated

When Denise Eldridge finds her fifteen-year-old daughter Carrie in bed with twenty-one-year-old Justin, she immediately calls police to have Justin charged with statuatory rape. Olivia intercedes on behalf of Carrie, calling a children's rights lawyer to assist her, but when Denise turns up dead, Carrie and Justin both end up on the suspect list. Olivia tries to get some help from Simone Bryce, but Bryce is obligated to protect her client.

Poster for episode Night (1).
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Night (1)

After a young woman is found raped and murdered near a nightclub, with five hundred dollars stuffed into her mouth, Benson and Stabler follow the fingerprint trail on the money to attorney Jason Whitaker, whose sole responsibility seems to be handling the trust for the Duvall family. Soon detectives are convinced that Gabriel Duvall is their rapist, but don't have quite enough evidence to put him away. A.D.A. Novak is working on both the case and a terrified former victim when she is brutally attacked in her office late at night.

Poster for episode Blood.
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Blood

After a young woman's baby is tossed out of a car, Benson and Stabler investigate to find out what happened, and after learning the young woman is addicted to prescription pain killers, their investigation leads them to an elderly woman named Jenny Rogers, who lives with her son Kevin and daughter-in-law Carol. The young woman finally identifies Carol Rogers as the person who solds her the drugs, but when detectives go to confront Carol they find her body, and are left trying to uncover who really killed Carol.

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Parts

After a woman's head is found in a car junkyard, the detectives track it down to the black market.

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Goliath

After the wife of a police officer claims her husband raped her, Benson and Stabler arrest the man and come close to believing his version of events when he attacks his captain. When another officer murders his wife and attempts to kill himself that same night, the whole force gets involved and soon realises that the two men both recently returned home from Afghanistan, where they were given the drug Quinium, an anti-malarial. With the reluctant help of reporter Sherm Hempell and a base doctor with an attack of conscience, Novak takes on the U.S. army. Elliot has trouble with the case because of his history in the marines.

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Demons

Twenty years after being convicted of the rape of a teenage girl, Ray Schenkel is released, much to the dismay of retired detective William Dorsey. When a teenage girl is raped on the route Schenkel would have taken home, Stabler goes undercover as a recently paroled sex offender so that he can get into the same therapy group as Schenkel, and the same halfway house. Cragen worries that Stabler may be getting in over his head.

Poster for episode Design (1).
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Design (1)

Benson saves April Troost from committing suicide, but feels responsible when Troost dies during the trial of the man she accuses of raping her and getting her pregnant. It isn't long before detectives learn that Barclay Pallister wasn't the only man April picked up in a bar who has no recollection of sleeping with her, and the squad realises that Troost was no victim. Their search takes them from prospective parents looking to adopt her child to the men she drugged and accosted to the sperm center she used to work at, which ends up at the center of the case.

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911

Benson is on her way out for the evening when a call comes in from a little girl who says she's all alone. While trying to draw the girl out, Benson is drawn deeper into the little girl's life, and although the other officers begin to suspect the whole thing may be some sick joke, Benson is convinced that the little girl is the real deal. By talking to Maria, Benson is able to ferret enough information from her so that they have a place to start, but Maria's captor has an affinity for electronics and has done everything he can to make sure that no one can find the little girl he bought and paid for.

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Ripped

When the teenage son of Stabler's old partner comes under suspicion for attacking a classmate, Stabler's inability to treat this like any other case gets him suspended.

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Strain

The discovery of the bodies of two young gay men who were both meth addicts as well as victims of a new strain of AIDS that can kill its victims in less than a year leads to an investigation. Tutuola learns that his son, Ken, is gay, and has difficulty accepting it, even though he and Benson end up going to Ken for help with infiltrating an anti-meth group. The group's leader, Gabriel, soon becomes their top suspect when the squad realises that the two men died because they passed the disease on.

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Raw

After a six-year-old boy dies in a school shooting, detectives trace the gun used back to a white supremacist's gun shop. Munch and Tutuola both face hatred and prejudice from the major suspects in the case, but their investigation soon takes them from the man who pulled the trigger back to the gun shop owner, who makes no bones about his hatred of anyone who isn't white.

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Name

After the bones of a boy who disappeared in 1978 are found at a playground, Stabler, still visibly recovering from a recent gunshot wound, teams up with Vizcarrando to determine the boy's identity, which leads them to a cold case involving four missing Puerto Rican boys that were never found.

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Starved

After a dating service is linked to three rapes, Olivia goes undercover to ferret out the rapist and meets Mike Jergens, a surgeon who enjoys controlling the women in his life. The detectives are soon led to his girlfriend, Cora Kennison, but shortly after testifying in the grand jury hearing Cora marries Mike. After Cora attempts suicide, Mike fights her mother, Virginia, to unplug her feeding tube.

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Rockabye

After sixteen-year-old Lauren Westley loses her unborn child due to a severe abdominal beating, her father's insistance that Lauren was raped leads detectives to the baby's father, but it isn't long before the detectives realise that Lauren was an active party in her own beating, and the two teens had found it necessary to take the steps they did because the abortion clinic kept putting off Lauren's request for an appointment. Novak faces a tough opponent in her own office when she and Branch disagree over the appropriate action to be taken against Wayne Mortens, the young girl's boyfriend.

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Storm

When a teenager and her younger sister end up in the hospital after a day at the park, detectives learn that both girls were abducted from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina along with a third sister who is still missing. Despite the interference of a local reporter, Jackson Zane, detectives are able to catch the kidnapper, a known pedophile, and recover the girl, but when Alvin Dutch dies and the autopsy determines it was Anthrax, Benson puts everything on the line so that she can get the truth out there.

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Alien

After young Sean Hamill is stabbed in the back at the schoolyard, detectives are led to Charlie Monaghan, the older boy who had previously gotten into trouble over Hamill, but it isn't long before their attention turns to Monaghan's half-sister Emma Boyd. Hamill had been torturing the little girl for months because she had two mothers. After getting a nice deal for Emma's side, Benson and Stabler are thrown for a loop when Emma's biological grandparents accuse Zoe, who had never legally adopted Emma, of sexually molesting the little girl, and evidence seems to support their claims.

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Infected

Monica Phelps is found dead in her apartment, her son Nathan hiding in the closet behind her body. Detectives soon link Monica's death to philanthropist Ted Carthage, who runs an organization dedicated to helping people get off the streets. Benson is certain that Carthage is the killer, but a shaky ID from Nathan puts him back on the street. After Nathan kills Carthage himself, Sophie Devere argues that Nathan committed the killing because he saw Carthage shoot his mother -- something the gun manufacturers don't like.

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Blast

The team investigates when young Carly Hunter disappears while walking home from school one day. While processing evidence found at the scene, Warner realises that the little girl has leukemia, and they need to get her home as soon as possible to begin treatment. Despite the ransom drop going wrong, the detectives are able to find the little girl thanks to evidence O'Halloran finds at the scene, but as she tells her story to Stabler and her mother, it soon becomes clear that her kidnapper is someone very close to home. Stabler and Warner end up becoming hostages when the kidnapper approaches Jake Hunter directly.

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Taboo

A college co-ed's tale of rape and an unknown pregnancy is suspect after detectives learn that she's been linked to not one but two abandoned newborns.

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Manipulated

of Vicky Riggs is found, Benson and Stabler delve into her private life and finally learn that in addition to being a respected lawyer, she was also a stripper. A surveillance photo leads them to Linus McKellen, her boss' husband, who was also having an affair with her. There isn't enough evidence to prove he murdered Vicky, but when Vicky's co-worker at the club, Josie Post, is also found murdered, DNA proves that McKellen's semen was found in her body, despite his disabled wife Tessa's conviction that he would never murder anyone. Suspicion turns on Tessa herself once the detectives interview the only man who seems capable of having committed the murders.

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Gone

Doug Waverly and Nick Pratt are charged with rape and murder in the disappearance of Canadian student Jennifer Durning after Nick's cousin, Jason King, claims that while he had consensual sex with her that night the other two raped her. A stray pubic hair leads Novak to Keith Willis, a drunk who was paid off by the boys to get Jennifer out of the hotel and who later saw the boys kidnap her, but Willis exactly fit to be a witness as his mind has gone after years of alcohol abuse. Jason King disappears. Although they are able to find a bug in Donnelly's office, they are not able to prove that it was placed there by Pratt or Waverly. Judge Donnelly is forced to dismiss the case against the two boys since there is no case without Jason's testimony.

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Class

After Carolyn Pereira's body is dumped in an area frequented by prostitutes, Stabler and Tutuola soon realise she had far more money than a student on financial aid should have had, and learn that she was deeply involved in the worlds of online gambling and high stakes poker. Suspects include the Gloria Culhane, the roommate who ended up with the very expensive ring that Caroline stole from a star athlete, Roddy Franklin, the star athlete who had his ring taken by Caroline, and Adam Halder, Caroline's best friend from childhood who turned out to be her backup during her online gambling forays. Stabler makes a special plea for Halder, feeling like he and the young man have something in common because both were boys from the wrong side of the tracks dealing with rich kids who treated them like dirt.

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Venom

Ken Randall calls Benson for help after he's picked up in an alley late at night. He claims that he was looking for a body after overhearing a man talk about murdering a woman and dumping her body while he was at the bar that night. Tutuola is upset that no one informed him, and determined to clear his son's name even though Ken immediately gets his own lawyer. Tutuola turns his eye on Ken's cousin, Darius Parker, who was with Ken that night and has been in and out of trouble for years, and after Ken voluntarily submits his DNA to clear his name, a shocking family connection between Darius and Ken is revealed. Darius confesses to having murdered the woman and her baby, but his confession is out because no one had contacted his lawyer.

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Fault

A manhunt ensues when Victor Paul Gitano, a recently released sex offender, kidnaps two children after killing the rest of their family. Benson and Stabler pursue Gitano only to find their own relationship challenged as both experience opportunities where they put their personal relationship ahead of their job. After having her throat slashed, Benson requests for a new partner when she hears what Stabler has to say about their relationship and their job.

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Fat

Stabler teams up with an new partner to investigate a sexual attack on Jessica DeLay, a sixteen-year-old girl who worked tobacco stings for the Department of Health and face an overweight young brother and sister who claim it was an act of vengeance for Jessica and her friend, Tommy Strahan, beating up their older brother Rudi for being fat. Stabler and Blaine arrest DeLay and Strahan, but when the two are released due to lack of admissable evidence, Rudi Bixton takes justice into his own hands.

Poster for episode Web.
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Web

When an eight-year-old propositions a male classmate, Stabler and Tutuola are called in to investigate the case and soon learn that Jake Winnock's father spent seven years in prison for molesting his older brother, Teddy. D.N.A. tests clear Gregory Hensal of abusive his son, but implicate Jake's older brother, whom detectives soon learn has been running his own personal Internet pornography site. T.A.R.U. tech Ruben Morales joins the detectives in their search for Teddy after he goes missing, but his own guilt about his nephew's molestation after being raped by an online predator he met using the computer Morales had given him colors his judgment when dealing with one of the suspects.

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Influence

After Jamie Hoskins falsely accuses two classmates of rape after a consensual act then hits nine pedestrians during an attempted suicide, medical tests reveal she has been taking medication for bipolar disorder and stopped her pills a week earlier. Jamie is charged with murder and released on her own recognizance after she agrees to take her medication, but after rock star Derek Lord, who is well known for his negative views on psychiatry, gets involved and begins spearheading her defense, Jamie again stops taking her medication. Novak is sympathetic to Jamie, but Jamie's insistence on following Derek Lord's advice leaves Novak with no choice but to take the case to trial.

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Informed

Benson is called in after a young woman shows up at the hospital, raped and beaten with her head shaved. Haley Kerns refuses to submit to a rape kit, but Benson steals her underwear before leaving the apartment and gives it to Warner to check out. When Benson returns to her apartment she encounters Star Morrison, who admits that Haley is a federal informant working with them on eco-terrorism. After Stabler is wounded while out on a search with Morrison, Benson and she work to get information from Haley before the eco-terrorists can strike.

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Clock

Stabler and Tutuola investigate two missing teens, neither one of which turns out to actually be missing.

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Recall

Stabler and Beck have difficulty making rape charges stick against lawyer Martin Trenway until Beck digs through his past and finds an unsolved attack from his youth with a surprising victim.

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Uncle

After a mother and her ten-year-old daughter are found raped and butchered in their apartment, Stabler and Beck take in a homeless man who turns out to be Munch's uncle, Andrew. Intially he's their main suspect until they find their way to a new suspect. Unfortunately, when their only evidence against Brent Allen Banks is thrown out in court, Andrew, suffering from mental illness, goes too far trying to do what he is convinced is the right thing.

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Confrontation

Stabler and Beck disagree on how to handle a case involving a rapist who seems to be escalating his attacks. Beck is getting too personally involved in the case and with the victims, which Stabler warns her against. The key witness in the case is a pregnant woman who denies having been raped more than once by the man, whose goal appears to have been to impregnate the women.

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Infiltrated

Benson's loyalties are tested when she is called back to testify in a rape case while still undercover as Persephone James.

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Underbelly

Beck is rattled by the investigation of an underage prostitution ring.