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  • NBC
  • Sep 28, 2001
  • NBC
  • Sep 28, 2001

Summary "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."

Created By: Dick Wolf

  • NBC
  • Sep 28, 2001
  • NBC
  • Sep 28, 2001
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Season 3
26 Seasons
Season Premiere: Sep 28, 2001
Metascore Available after 4 critic reviews
User Score Universal Acclaim Based on 13 User Ratings
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Summary "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."

Created By: Dick Wolf

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Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 28, 2001 • 1 h
Repression
The false memories of a girl's childhood molestation by her father lead to a tragedy.
Episode 2 • Oct 5, 2001 • 1 h
Wrath
Three people are found murdered, all unconnected to each other, except to that of cases that Detective Benson has investigated.
Episode 3 • Oct 12, 2001 • 1 h
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 Greevey.
Episode 4 • Oct 19, 2001 • 43 m
Rooftop
Detective Tutuola becomes personally involved in a case when a friend's daughter becomes a fatal victim of sexual assault.
Episode 5 • Oct 26, 2001 • 43 m
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.
Episode 6 • Nov 2, 2001 • 44 m
Redemption
Detectives Stabler and Hawk work together to capture a serial rapist and murderer, but as the investigation leads to fresh evidence, Hawk begins to suspect that he may have convicted the wrong man.
Episode 7 • Nov 9, 2001 • 43 m
Sacrifice
The squad is called in to investigate when a detective discovers a man shot and sodomized in an alley behind a gay bar.
Episode 8 • Nov 16, 2001 • 44 m
Inheritance
The detectives search for a rapist targeting Asian women. The case becomes particularly significant for Benson when the rapist's defense is that he inherited the "violence gene" from his father, also a rapist.
Episode 9 • Nov 23, 2001 • 42 m
Care
When a girl in foster care is found dead, the squad's investigation leads close to home.
Episode 10 • Dec 14, 2001 • 43 m
Ridicule
Detectives Benson and Stabler investigate the death of a young wife who was recently accused of assaulting a male stripper with a group of her girlfriends.
Episode 11 • Jan 4, 2002 • 43 m
Monogamy
Episode 12 • Jan 11, 2002 • 43 m
Protection
A 6-year-old boy is shot and then abandoned in an emergency room by his fearful mother, sending detectives in search of his missing family and the gunman before his mother becomes a victim too.
Episode 13 • Jan 18, 2002 • 43 m
Prodigy
Benson and Stabler have the gruesome task of identifying the remains of a man and a woman who were stabbed in a park.
Episode 14 • Jan 25, 2002 • 43 m
Counterfeit
Episode 15 • Feb 1, 2002 • 42 m
Execution
When the parents of a teenage murder victim approach Stabler, he goes with Dr. Huang to interview their prime suspect, a serial killer soon to be executed in a New Jersey prison.
Episode 16 • Mar 1, 2002 • 42 m
Popular
When Stabler hears from a family friend about a teenage girl who was raped, but refuses to report it to police, he begins a covert investigation, and the case progresses to uncover a web of sexual activity among teenagers.
Episode 17 • Mar 8, 2002 • 43 m
Surveillance
Cellist Cassie Germaine is attacked in her apartment. Benson & Stabler's investigation leads to discovery of hidden cameras streaming Cassie's home activities to a web site with only one discovered visitor, and a shrine.
Episode 18 • Mar 29, 2002 • 43 m
Guilt
Episode 19 • Apr 5, 2002 • 1 h
Justice
Episode 20 • Apr 26, 2002 • 44 m
Greed
Stabler and Benson investigate two rapes that seem to have been committed by the same man, but clues that originally lead them in one direction soon point towards another perpetrator.
Episode 21 • May 3, 2002 • 44 m
Denial
A woman is raped at a party and the attacker is quickly caught but the detectives must still determine why the victim was carrying a finger from a long dead infant.
Episode 22 • May 10, 2002 • 42 m
Competence
The detectives investigate to determine whether a 22-year-old woman with Down syndrome is pregnant as a result of rape, as her mother contends.
Episode 23 • May 17, 2002 • 44 m
Silence
A murder in a church leads Benson and Stabler to an alleged cover-up involving sexual abuse by a priest.
26 Seasons

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Mariska Hargitay

Detective Olivia Benson, Captain Olivia Benson, Lieutenant Olivia Benson

Christopher Meloni

Detective Elliot Stabler

Ice-T

Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola, Sergeant Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola

Dann Florek

Captain Donald 'Don' Cragen, Donald 'Don' Cragen

Richard Belzer

Detective John Munch, Sergeant John Munch, DA Investigator John Munch

Kelli Giddish

Detective Amanda Rollins, Professor Amanda Rollins, Amanda Rollins

BD Wong

Special Agent Dr. George Huang, M.D., Dr. George Huang

Tamara Tunie

ME Dr. Melinda Warner, Chief ME Dr. Melinda Warner

Peter Scanavino

Detective Dominick 'Sonny' Carisi, Jr., ADA Dominick 'Sonny' Carisi, Jr., ADA Dominick Carisi Jr.

Raúl Esparza

ADA Rafael Barba, Defense Attorney Rafael Barba, Rafael Barba

Diane Neal

ADA Casey Novak, Amelia Chase

Stephanie March

ADA Alexandra 'Alex' Cabot, Alexandra 'Alex' Cabot

Danny Pino

Detective Nick Amaro

Octavio Pisano

Detective Joe Velasco

Mike Doyle

Forensics Technician Ryan O'Halloran, Assistant M.E. Karlan

Joel de la Fuente

TARU Technician Ruben Morales, TARU Lieutenant Ruben Morales

Joanna Merlin

Judge Lena Petrovsky

Caren Browning

CSU Captain Judith Siper, Dr. Sheila Queen, Mrs. Davies

Lynn Marocola

Police Officer, NYPD Officer, FDNY Emt, EMT, FDNY EMT, FDNY Paramedic, Police Office

Ryan Buggle

Noah Porter-Benson

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Jun 14, 2013
[The show] still portrays Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay as the most naive, bleeding-heart molester busters in America.
By Ken Tucker FULL REVIEW

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