Episodes
Hate
Series 5 / Episode 13
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.
Tragedy
Series 5 / Episode 1
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.
Manic
Series 5 / Episode 2
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.
Stranger
Series 10 / Episode 11
Originally thought to be a runaway, Heather Hallander returns home after being held as a sex slave for four years. Her mother doesn't recognize her, but her older sister Erica embraces her after seeing her tattoo.
Hothouse
Series 10 / Episode 12
The body of a young girl is found floating in the Hudson River. She was beaten to death, and ME Warner determines that she was of Ukrainian descent. The cops think she was smuggled into the country by sex traffickers.
Ritual
Series 5 / Episode 14
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.
Families
Series 5 / Episode 15
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.
Home
Series 5 / Episode 16
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.
Mean
Series 5 / Episode 17
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.
Careless
Series 5 / Episode 18
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.
Mother
Series 5 / Episode 3
After a psychiatrist has been abused in a crack house, she's very uncooperative with the investigation.
Loss
Series 5 / Episode 4
While constructing a murder case, ADA Alexandra Cabot becomes the target of a Colombian drug cartel.
Snatched
Series 10 / Episode 13
Eight year-old Rosie is kidnapped, and her mother, Liz, thinks ex-husband Geno Parker is the kidnapper, he just got out of jail for rape and kidnapping, and was furious with Liz when she terminated his parental rights.
Transitions
Series 10 / Episode 14
A man is found bleeding to death in a strip club parking lot, and it looks like a woman was the attacker, they find a fake fingernail embedded in his back, and his genitals are badly beaten.
Sick
Series 5 / Episode 19
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.
Lowdown
Series 5 / Episode 20
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.
Criminal
Series 5 / Episode 21
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.
Painless
Series 5 / Episode 22
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.
Bound
Series 5 / Episode 23
An elderly woman's strangulation leads to a case involving other murders and a home-nursing company run by a sister and brother.
Serendipity
Series 5 / Episode 5
The discovery of the bodies of a newborn and her mother leads to a doctor coming under suspicion. Diane Neal joins the cast as ADA Casey Novak.
Coerced
Series 5 / Episode 6
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.
Lead
Series 10 / Episode 15
Gilbert Keppler is found guilty of sexually assaulting four of his young patients. However, Keppler is suing the NYPD because he claims they knew he was sexually abusing the victims long before they took action to stop him.
Ballerina
Series 10 / Episode 16
A man is killed when a bullet goes through his apartment wall. SVU arrive on the scene to find two bodies, but when they find evidence of a third person in the room, they know the murder-suicide is a setup.
Poison
Series 5 / Episode 24
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 the wrongful incarceration of an innocent woman.
Head
Series 5 / Episode 25
After a video voyeur's hidden camera in a public restroom records a middle school principal sexually assaulting a teenage boy, Novak learns that the pedophilia arose from a brain tumor.
Birthright
Series 6 / Episode 1
A woman kidnaps a child, believing it's her own and a bizarre twist turns custody for the child into an unusual tug-of-war.
Debt
Series 6 / Episode 2
A young mother who is a Chinese immigrant disappears and when the detectives try and find her, they discover a deadly prostitution ring of illegal aliens.
Obscene
Series 6 / Episode 3
A sexy young television star is raped, and the case leads to a shock jock that may have gone too far.
Choice
Series 5 / Episode 7
After a man is arrested for attacking his pregnant wife and then seeks to have her charged with neglect for drinking during her pregnancy, Benson learns that this is not the first time a child has been exposed to these repercussions.
Abomination
Series 5 / Episode 8
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.
Hell
Series 10 / Episode 17
A twelve year-old girl is found in Harlem, her throat cut. She's rushed to the hospital. The doctor says it will be days before she can speak again. When asked to write who attacked her, she draws a picture of the devil.
Baggage
Series 10 / Episode 18
Ceramics artist Casey Chapman is found strangled to death. She was tortured, hog tied, and her lips were glued shut, almost identical to the murder of April Silva, found three weeks before.
Scavenger
Series 6 / Episode 4
A deranged riddler copying a serial killer from the past leads the detectives on a wild goose chase.
Outcry
Series 6 / Episode 5
A teenager, who was raped, tells numerous versions of her story and finally names her rapist, but after all the lies it's hard to tell if she's telling the truth.
Conscience
Series 6 / Episode 6
A young boy is kidnapped and killed by his teenage neighbour.
Charisma
Series 6 / Episode 7
A religious fanatic kills a house full of kids, and because of his cult-like influence, it is hard to track him down.
Doubt
Series 6 / Episode 8
A classic he said/she said unfolds when a graduate student claims she was raped by one of her advisors, but there are two sides to the story.
Control
Series 5 / Episode 9
A mother and daughter both claim to have killed a man who held the younger woman captive.
Shaken
Series 5 / Episode 10
The discovery of a beaten infant leads Stabler and Cragen on a search for the attacker who may be a pedophile.
Selfish
Series 10 / Episode 19
Ruth Walker reports her granddaughter missing, after her daughter supposedly left her baby with a babysitter she recently met in the park, but when they go to pick her up, it's the wrong address.
Crush
Series 10 / Episode 20
Fifteen year-old Kim Garnet falls down the stairs at her school. ER Dr. Manning calls in Benson and Stabler after finding evidence of months of physical abuse and severe head trauma.
Weak
Series 6 / Episode 9
A serial rapist preys on weak women, and his crimes get more heinous as he progresses.
Haunted
Series 6 / Episode 10
When Fin is seriously injured in a shootout at the bodega, the ensuing publicity leads him to resolve a case from his past.
Contagious
Series 6 / Episode 11
A nine-year-old girl is hospitalized after a car accident and doctors discover she was sexually molested, but finding her attacker is very difficult when she is not always telling the truth.
Identity
Series 6 / Episode 12
A gang member is killed from a fall off a roof after an attempted sexual assault, and the alleged victim has a deep dark secret.
Quarry
Series 6 / Episode 13
A flier sent to Benson pinpointing the remains of a boy who disappeared in 1980 leads to the murder of the boy's surprise killer.
Escape
Series 5 / Episode 11
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.
Brotherhood
Series 5 / Episode 12
Benson and Stabler discover that the death of a college student was directly linked to crimes he committed as the pledge-master of his fraternity.
Liberties
Series 10 / Episode 21
A man calls 911 to report a rape, and the cops arrive to find Owen Walters unconscious on the floor, she was able to break away and hit him with a dumbbell. Walters knew her name, but she's never seen him before.
Zebras
Series 10 / Episode 22
Rachel Nauss from Kansas is found stabbed to death in Central Park. Someone wrote the word "guilty" across her forehead, and the cops find her "innocent" baby alive in an overturned stroller nearby.
Game
Series 6 / Episode 14
A prostitute is run down and beaten to death, and although the cops think the death might be work-related, her demise is actually linked to a bizarre video game.
Hooked
Series 6 / Episode 15
A teenage girl who moonlighted as a hooker is killed, and the tragedy is made worse when it's revealed she was HIV positive.
Ghost
Series 6 / Episode 16
A series of drug related hits lead the cops back to the same man who attempted to kill A.D.A. Cabot, and she returns to help solve the case.
Rage
Series 6 / Episode 17
Stabler interrogates a child rapist and killer who he let get away before, and he is desperate to not let that happen again.
Pure
Series 6 / Episode 18
A virgin disappears and is later found murdered, and a psychic who seems to know all the answers is briefly a suspect, then cleared, then linked to the crime.
Unstable
Officer Nate Kendall aids a woman in trouble and becomes roped into solving a rape case; while Detectives Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson believe that Kendall is not right for the case due to his unstable personality.
Sugar
When a dead woman is found stuffed inside a suitcase, Detectives Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson believe she was murdered by her sugar daddy.
Intoxicated
Series 6 / Episode 19
An abused teenager, who falls in love with a 21 year-old man, is harassed by her mother, who winds up dead.
Night
Series 6 / Episode 20
A woman who was raped dies from a heart attack, and the serial rapist is a rich boy who preys on defenceless illegal immigrant women.
Blood
Series 6 / Episode 21
Drug related crimes turn into a case of elder abuse, with the victim afraid to confront her abuser, her own son.
Parts
Series 6 / Episode 22
A dismembered body leads the detectives to an illegal body part ring, and reunites them with Amy Solwey (Marlee Matlin), the deaf physician who had gone to jail for assisting suicide.
Goliath
Series 6 / Episode 23
Two police officers who turn violent against their wives are linked to an anti-malaria drug, administered to them by the U.S. Army.
Solitary
When a young woman goes missing, her ex-convict neighbor, Callum Donovan becomes the primary suspect and Detective Elliot Stabler finds himself in solitary confinement.
Hammered
A woman is found brutally murdered, and the main suspect is a recovering alcoholic who can't remember what happened.