Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
"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.
Season 3 Episodes
E1
An 18-year-old girl is aided by her therapist in recalling repressed memories of childhood molestation by her father and…
E2
The detectives investigate three murders that seemingly have no connection to each other, but each murder has ties to Be…
E3
The kidnapping of an infant at a grocery store leads to an illegal adoption ring and the long lost closure of a case fro…
E4
When an HIV-positive male, with a record of assaulting underage girls, is discovered in a sexual clincher with a young w…
E5
When arriving party guests find a prominent doctor beaten to death and his wife raped, the detectives have a parade of s…
E6
A string of murders leads detectives to question an initial suspect, the Soho Strangler, but they realize he might have …
E7
A man, who is shot and raped outside a gay bar, initially doesn't want to cooperate to find his shooter. When he finally…
E8
A series of brutal rapes and attacks on Asian women lead the police to a suspect who was himself a product of rape - his…
E9
The battered body of a five-year-old girl in foster care is discovered and suspicion soon turns to members of the girl's…
E10
What appears as a bizarre accidental death leads to a case involving a male stripper who claims that the deceased was on…
E11
The pregnant wife of a psychiatrist is found in a parking garage, unconscious and bleeding from a gaping abdominal wound…
E12
A 6-year-old boy wounded in a shooting is brought to the ER but abandoned by his brother, who reported it, and their mot…
E13
Two people are found murdered in the park, including an animal rights activist who has been raped and then decapitated. …
E14
A woman is found raped and killed by her car. Then, a similar rape is committed and the victim says that a police office…
E15
Detective Stabler and Dr. Huang question a convicted serial killer on death row, hours before his execution, with the ho…
E16
Stabler's wife tells him that her friend, a high school nurse, treated a young girl for rape. Despite being advised not …
E17
An accomplished cellist is raped in her own apartment and the detectives are lead to a stalker who uses surveillance equ…
E18
When A.D.A. Cabot is faced with a reluctant teenage witness in a child molestation case, she goes above and beyond the n…
E19
A rebellious 16-year-old teenager is raped and murdered; the case becomes complex when they learn that her stepfather is…
E20
Investigating the rape of the wife of a restaurateur during a robbery, leads the detectives to a similar assault, and to…
E21
When a heroin junkie is found raped, Tutuola takes an interest in her, but he's not the only one. The case turns into a …
E22
A mentally challenged girl with Down's Syndrome is pregnant, and the question is, was she raped or did she consent and i…
E23
A murder in a church of a young cross-dresser leads Benson and Stabler to an alleged cover-up involving sexual child abu…
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