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 8 Episodes
E1
Benson is called in after a young woman shows up at the hospital, raped and beaten with her head shaved. Haley Kerns ref…
E2
Stabler and Tutuola pair up to investigate when two teens go missing while their school is on a field trip to a local mu…
E3
Stabler and his new partner, Dani Beck, investigate the rape of a young woman named Nikki, who soon identifies a promine…
E4
After a mother and her ten-year-old daughter are found raped and butchered in their apartment, Stabler and Beck take in …
E5
Stabler and Beck disagree on how to handle a case involving a rapist who seems to be escalating his attacks. Beck is get…
E6
Novak tries to find Benson when the case for a previous rape victim, Chelsea Arndale, hinges on her testimony. Benson, m…
E7
After a third young teen is found dead, a paw print tattoo on her lower back, Stabler and Beck investigate the tattoo, w…
E8
After a van containing two young children ends up in the river, Beck finds herself drawn to the young girl, Eden, and th…
E9
After Danielle Masoner dies in Central Park, Stabler follows the leads to a homeless man who turns out to be a better wi…
E10
Stabler heads to see terminal cancer patient Judson Tierney after a request from his parish priest, and soon realizes th…
E11
Stabler and Benson find themselves on opposite sides when Valerie Sennet accuses her estranged husband, Miles Sennet, of…
E12
Tutuola reluctantly works on a case involving the rape of a coed after his son Ken feels responsible for catching the ra…
E13
Stabler ends out being out of commission after a perpetrator high on PCP throws him through a window at the station, so …
E14
Benson and Stabler attempt to question a confused young woman about an attack on her parents that left her brother traum…
E15
Stabler finds himself drawn into a case where a young mother has committed suicide after her baby goes missing. The case…
E16
Benson finds herself in a bad situation when she has a closer link to a suspect than she ever could have expected.
E17
Stabler and Benson suspect a charismatic preacher in a case of murder until his wife provides them with another viable s…
E18
Stabler seeks Kathleen's help when investigating a case involving teenage alcohol abuse.
E19
When Detective Benson gets into the middle of an investigation of her brother Simon Marsden, the case begins to threaten…
E20
A woman's murder appears to be the result of a professional hit, when her fiancé receives death threats, apparently resu…
E21
The team investigates the death of a partially clothed teenage boy wearing a leather mask. The detectives discover that …
E22
Darius Parker, goes on trial for the rape and murder of a woman and her 14-month old child. The case brings Fin under fi…
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