Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

1999
4.8
9.87K reviews
TV-14
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Season 6 episodes (23)

1 Birthright
9/21/04
Six-year-old Patty Branson (guest star Abigail Breslin), is almost abducted in Central Park while her father reads the paper. Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) investigate to find out that the men who attacked her are actually P.I.'s, and have been hired by Michele Osborne (guest star Lea Thompson) to kidnap Patty, claiming she is Patty's real mother. M.E. Warner (guest star Tamara Tunie) conducts a DNA test to prove the child's true biological mother. Meanwhile, Benson traces the source of the confusion about the child's origins back to a fertility doctor. Dann Florek, Richard Belzer, Ice-T, Diane Neal, and B.D. Wong also star.
2 Debt
9/28/04
After Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) find two small Chinese children mysteriously abandoned by their missing mother, they soon discover that the mother is an illegal immigrant whose older daughter is being held against her will until the mother can pay off the smugglers' fee for bringing the family to America. The police use the missing woman's sister, Li Mei (guest star Ming-Na from NBC's "ER") , to penetrate the secretive society and find out what happened to her -- but their plan backfires when Li Mei is found severely beaten while bearing an ominous message from the kidnappers. Dann Florek, Richard Belzer, Diane Neal, B.D. Wong and Ice-T also star.
3 Obscene
10/12/04
Well-known actress Jesse (guest star Maggie Grace) who is the star of a controversial teen show, is raped in her trailer on the set. Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Fin (Ice-T) investigate, and find the actress is hated by many community members, such as Carolyn Spencer (guest star Dana Delany, "China Beach") because they feel she's a bad influence on young girls. Carolyn's public statements of hatred and disapproval of the actress make her a prime suspect. The investigation unravels further clues, which point to Carolyn's son Danny (guest star Ricky Ullman), who is arrested after being placed at the scene of the crime. Although it appears that he was acting out his mother's wishes, the boy also was influenced by the directions of a radio shock jock (guest star Lewis Black, "The Daily Show With John Stewart"). Diane Neal also stars and Judith Light guest stars.
4 Scavenger
10/19/04
A jogger stroller and baby are found in Central Park with a riddle attached, giving the detectives till tomorrow to find the baby's mother. All kinds of clues follow but tragically, by the time the detectives find the mother, she's dead. The psycho kidnapper starts them on a new chase, and the initials RDK are the biggest clue. Cragen (Dann Florek) remembers that RDK was a serial killer from the late 70's early 80's who raped, kidnapped and dismembered his victims (thus the nickname). The question is, could RDK have resurfaced or could it be a copycat they're dealing with?
5 Outcry
10/26/04
Construction workers discover a teenage girl, Tandi McCain (Amanda Seyfried), who's been missing for days, bound with duct tape and very scared. She was apparently raped, but when her stepfather, Ronald (Michael O'Keefe), arrives, they fight to prevent her from going to the hospital. Benson (Mariska Hargitay) convinces them they have no choice in the situation. Tandi had definitely been raped, and claims she was on the Hudson University campus, when four cadets kidnapped her and took her. She is a little sketchy with the descriptions, but the detectives are able to identify four cadets who all have the same story - Tandi had been at a dorm party, drinking and having a good time. They all claim innocence, and continue to stick by the fact none of them touched her.
6 Conscience
11/9/04
A young boy, Henry Morton (Max Iles), disappears from a child's birthday party. His mother is horrified and there is a "pull out all the stops" search for his abductor. They are determined to find this boy alive. The detectives initiate a massive search, but are disrupted by Malcolm Wolinsky (Bruce Kirkpatrick), an advocate against child molesters who often takes the law in his own hands. Captain Cragen (Dann Florek) warns him to leave the case alone, and threatens to charge him with obstruction if he interrupts again. Detective Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) are questioning Henry's parents when Jake O'Hara (Jordan Garrett), the Morton's 13-year-old neighbor, claims a man in a dark car was following Henry. The trail leads to convicted child molester Billy Turner (P.J. Brown) and Wolinsky is right there when he's picked up.
7 Charisma
11/16/04
A 12 and a half year-old girl, Melanie (Holliston Coleman), arrives at the hospital, pregnant, and won't give anyone information about herself. Benson (Mariska Hargitay) persuades her to write down her address, and gets the name of the baby's father - Abraham (Jeff Kober), Melanie's husband. When Benson goes to the address, she sees numerous children inside and a very strange and dangerous looking Abraham at the door. He slams the door on the police - then they hear shots fired. All of the children in the house are found dead and Abraham has escaped.
8 Doubt
11/23/04
Myra Denning (Shannyn Sossamon) staggers drunk into the street and gets into a fight with a cabbie who won't take her to Brooklyn. She hurls a wine bottle at the cab; it breaks the window and while they're fighting, police arrive. Myra claims she was raped, and SVU is brought in. As they are taking Myra to the hospital, Ron Polikoff (Billy Campbell) arrives on the scene, and tells them that he is the one Myra will accuse of rape. Both Myra and Ron are examined at the hospital for evidence, and the case quickly develops into a classic "he said/she said."
9 Weak
11/30/04
A woman who is paralyzed from the waist down was sexually assaulted, and hours later a woman with an infant who lives upstairs suffers the same fate. The cops want to catch this guy, quickly. The search becomes even more urgent when a woman who was on crutches, shows up at the emergency room (beaten, but not raped), most likely a victim of the same perp.
10 Haunted
12/7/04
Fin and Benson are on a stakeout, and when Fin goes into the bodega to get a cup of coffee, a couple of teenage punks stick up the cashier. Shots are flying everywhere, when the dust settles, the punks and cashier are dead, Fin is badly hurt and a young boy is saved. Fin goes into surgery, and his long lost son pays him a visit. The publicity surrounding the shooting is intense, and Fin is off the hook when surveillance video shows he only fired after the punks shot first. But a woman approaches Fin at the police station, distraught - she says Fin is responsible for her daughter's disappearance.
11 Contagious
1/11/05
A terrible car accident sends nine-year-old Holly Purcell (Jennette McCurdy) and her parents to the hospital. Ultimately everyone is okay, but doctors discover Holly has been sexually abused. Holly is afraid to discuss what happened, but she finally admits that a man hurt her, and then threatened to shoot her like he shot "that girl in the park." The previous spring, an eight-year-old girl disappeared from a park in Queens and they presume Holly was referring to that same case.
12 Identity
1/18/05
A gang member falls to his death from the roof of a building in a bad neighborhood. He had deep bite marks on his penis and appeared to be in the process of raping someone when the accident occurred. The cops believe the victim is in danger - marked by gang members for death. They think a homeless deaf/mute named Katie (Regan Thompson) was the victim, but before they can question her, a gang member kills her. Her death is in vain however, because the M.E. determines that the rape victim was a male.
13 Quarry
1/25/05
Detective Benson is wrapping up a suspect interrogation when she gets a mysterious flier that shows the location of Jeffrey Ronsen's remains. Jeffrey was seven in 1980 when he disappeared, and the prime suspect in the case, Lucas Biggs (John Savage), is on death row for a different murder in Virginia, and is a week away from execution. They dig up the remains and at the funeral start inspecting the guests. Deacon Brinn (Terry Serpico) is there with his wife and son - Deacon was thirteen, and babysitting Jeffrey the night he disappeared. Avery Shaw (Michael Shannon), Jeffrey's former teammate, also arrives and is very shaken up.
14 Game
2/8/05
Melody Quinn (Mam Smith) is a prostitute who's talking on her cell phone after a busy night. Suddenly, a car approaches and runs her over. When the cops get there, her purse and coat are gone and in addition to being run over, she's been raped and brutally beaten. The 911 call from an uptown payphone gives them clues - the prints of a cop who is part of the Joint Terrorism Task Force. His Lieutenant is hesitant to let the SVU team interview him because he is working undercover, but he finally agrees and it turns out the cop overheard the cell phone conversation that occurred before the hit and run, so he broke cover to call an ambulance. Stabler (Christopher Meloni), meanwhile, has his son Dickie (Jeffrey Scaperrotta) at the precinct, and Dickie says that the crime scene photos look just like a hot new video game that he plays called NtenCity. Sure enough, the murder was a direct copy of the game.
15 Hooked
2/15/05
Boy scouts on a stargazing mission check out a rooftop and see a dead body. The victim's purse was dumped in the alley and her identification says Allison Downey (Jessica Dunphy). When Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) visit Allison's grief stricken mother, her daughter walks in the door. Allison is safe, but her 15-year-old cousin, who used her I.D., is not. Lisa (Janae Kram) was killed by a blow to the head, and was dressed in a very expensive cocktail dress. Upon checking her out, Lisa appeared to be a normal, all-American teenage girl from Queens. But the cops discover a secret life. Her father is a truck driver and not home very much, and her mother just passed away. So Lisa hooks up online with lots of boys, and her liaisons have escalated to prostitution. She also tested positive for HIV.
16 Ghost
2/22/05
A well-to-do couple, the Brevets, own an investments firm, and they are found separately, tortured and murdered. It turns out they were laundering money for South American drug dealers, and skimming some for themselves. Through Detective Sandoval (Nicholas Gonzalez), they find the middleman, Fausto Montoya, and when they go to his apartment, he and his wife are also dead. His eight-year-old son Antonio (Reymond Wittmann) has been shot in the head but miraculously survives, and he tells the cops a "ghost" killed his parents. Ballistics matches the slugs from the Brevet murder to the "murder" of the SVU's former A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot.
17 Rage
3/1/05
Gordon Rickett (Matthew Modine) is about to be interrogated by a very angry and anxious Detective Stabler. Fourteen years ago, Rickett was suspected of killing an 11-year-old girl and they couldn't make it stick. Rickett and Stabler have some serious history...they hate each other and they know how to push each other's buttons. Munch (Richard Belzer), Benson (Mariska Hargitay), Stabler and Fin (Ice-T) all take turns in the interrogation room, where Rickett refuses anything to eat or drink and doesn't want an attorney. They go back and forth with Rickett trying desperately to outsmart the cops. They can only hold him 24 hours, so the clock is ticking. This goes on all night, and no matter how hard Stabler tries, he can't get Rickett to confess to the new crime - the rape and murder of twelve-year-old Kerry Lynn Palmer.
18 Pure
3/8/05
Roni Sellers (Marianne Hagan) is horrified when she calls her daughter's cell phone and hears screaming and a man's voice. Kaley (Molly Bea Spears), 18, works as a bicycle messenger to help pay her tuition for NYU. She's a good girl and a good student. When she disappears, a high profile case ensues. Mrs. Sellers holds a press conference and offers a reward for Kaley's return, and tips start coming in as to her whereabouts. Sebastian Ballentine (Martin Short), a psychic, also arrives at the station, and claims he's had a vision of Kaley. Stabler (Christopher Meloni) thinks he's a fraud but when he gives them specific clues, they think he could be a suspect.
19 Intoxicated
3/29/05
Fifteen-year-old Carrie Eldridge (Danielle Panabaker) and her boyfriend, Justin Sharp (Jon Foster), are "busted" by Carrie's mother, Denise (Cathy Moriarty-Gentile), who goes berserk and accuses Justin of rape. Detectives Stabler (Christopher Meloni) and Benson (Mariska Hargitay) are called in and they try and mediate. Carrie claims she wasn't raped, but her mother is convinced otherwise. Denise is overprotective and Carrie clearly wants to escape. Simone Bryce (Glenne Headly) is called in as a children's advocate and represents Carrie.
20 Night
5/3/05
The body of a woman who was raped is found near a nightclub, and five thousand dollars in hundred dollar bills have been stuffed into her mouth. The victim is Marguerite Beauclair, an attendant for the bathroom at a fancy nightclub nearby. The only lead Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) have is the brand new dollar bills that came straight from the bank. Prints from the money lead them to hotshot lawyer Jason Whitaker (Bradley Cooper), and they discover that he was trustee of the Duvall family estate. The detectives talk to matriarch Eleanor Duvall (Angela Lansbury), who leads them to her son, Gabriel (Alfred Molina). Meanwhile, a neighborhood activist, Mildred Quintana (Rita Moreno), is appalled that the rapist is apparently a repeat offender, targeting defenseless immigrant women.
21 Blood
5/10/05
Sam Beavan (Lauren Hodges) is beaten outside a club, and her car is stolen - she is horrified because her baby is in the car. The baby is tossed out the window and miraculously survives. At the hospital, Sam tries to escape but is busted by the hospital because she is nursing, and they find drugs in the baby's system. Sam is clearly a drug addict and initially refuses to cooperate. She finally agrees and gives up her dealer, Jake Lumet (Brian Gant). The detectives find Oxycodone in his apartment, and a Medicare prescription for Jenny Rogers (Melinda Dillon). The cops question Jenny, who appears to be senile, and her daughter-in-law Carol (Christine Elise) who is supposedly watching over her. Jenny picks Jake out of a line up, but they want to know who Jake's accomplice was... since that's who threw the baby out of the car window.
22 Parts
5/17/05
The head, arm and leg of a woman are found in an abandoned car. With no hands, they can't check for prints, so the only way they can figure out who she is by tracing her artificial knee to the manufacturer. The victim is Mannette Combs; she had been in Iraq and injured her knee, then became addicted to Vicodin, then heroin, and was estranged from her family. Her boyfriend Leon Shragewitz (Glenn Kessler), a butcher, was apparently seen screaming at her. The Medical Examiner found semen in her throat, and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) and Benson (Mariska Hargitay) suspect he caught her prostituting herself for drugs and went nuts. They find Leon and he is hysterical; he admits to killing her at a subway station. He left the body there, and as the cops start to track it, they discover her coffin was filled with five twenty-five pound sand bags.
23 Goliath
5/24/05
Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) are called into Cragen's (Dann Florek) office, where a lieutenant from the Internal Affairs Bureau informs them a uniformed cop's wife, Jamie Callahan (Amy Landecker), claims her husband raped and abused her. They question Jamie and she doesn't trust that they'll believe her, so they talk to her husband, Tommy (R.E. Rogers). He denies ever hurting his wife, but while still in the squad room, he attacks his captain. Shortly thereafter, another cop, Wes Meyers (Brian Hutchison), kills his wife and tries to kill himself by putting a gun to his head. There's a connection - both Meyers and Callahan had been in the Army Reserve unit and served in Afghanistan. The detectives wonder if it isn't post-traumatic stress disorder, but Huang (B.D. Wong) talks to Callahan and believes that's not the case.

About this show

From the creator of the longest running drama series on television, "Law & Order", comes a powerful series chronicling the life and crimes of the Special Victims Unit of NYPD. Each episode follows the exploits of detectives Elliot Stabler, Olivia Benson, John Munch and Odafin Tutuola as they attempt to solve the city's most complex cases. They diligently follow lead after lead, relentless in their quest for justice and the search for truth.

Ratings and reviews

4.8
9.87K reviews
Jennifer Compton (Jen)
December 16, 2018
I've always loved SVU, because it had a variety of crimes to investigate, but the current season (20), and the one before, has them going full libtard...and you NEVER go full libtard! Pretty much every episode is about someone being raped. Olivia was always my fave, but this season she is just terrible. They had an episode that was taken from the Brett Kavanaugh sexual assault allegations, and even though the they had just started the investigation of the rape, and there was no evidence against the suspect they were interrogating, Olivia told ADA Stone that he is guilty, she can tell he did it, just by looking at him! She believed the victim with ZERO evidence against the man they arrested. Olivia is a detective, a cop, and she is supposed to believe in due process, and that a person is innocent till proven guilty. She was basically saying this suspect, this PERSON, shouldn't have the right to due process, and she doesn't care if an innocent man gets punished for a crime he might not have done. She was saying the exact same things that the Democrats were saying during the Kavanigh hearings, like we should believe all women, even if there is no evidence. I had to make myself watch this current season, after that episode. They are trying to put liberal talking points in the episodes, and sliding in things to get people to agree with the liberal agenda. I will never watch this show again. I don't care how much I loved it in the past. But it's all good, because I have something even better to watch now. I get to watch Detective Stabler in his new SyFy show, "Happy!" I loved the first season and cant wait till season 2, which should be coming on in the Spring. The first season was shown during Christmas, and the 2nd is supposed to take place at Easter. CANNOT WAIT! Stabler is much better on this show, than on SVU!
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Jean Luc Pressoir
February 3, 2021
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit is an awesome police crime series I known for a long time so different from Law & Order, Miami Vice, New York Undercover, Chicago P.D., and Chicago Justice. Special Victims Unit represents more sexual related crimes than any other police division. The New York City Police Department have the Special Victims Division is a lot Special Victims Unit that investigates sex crimes in all five boroughs of New York City (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx). Law & Order: SUV is one of my long time favorite shows my family, friends and I grow up watching the series then and now. I wish hoping someday Atlanta Police Department start having a Special Victims Unit or Special Victims Division just like with New York City Police Department.
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Ameska Edwards
February 14, 2014
I love law n order all of them my favorite people play n it my girl Olivia her partner ice t his partner the head man n the special victims unit even the one that be going to the courts five star I watch it every day even when I'm at dailysis Tuesday Thursday Saturdays I'm clued cuz its always different I give it a five star y'all what make TV, TV thank u fa giving me a reason to watch TV I love this show ain't nobody better then law n order special victims unit five star show
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