Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

This series follows the Special Victims Unit, a specially trained squad of detectives in the New York City Police Department that investigate sexually related crimes.

Genre: CrimeDramaMystery

Cast:Mariska HargitayChristopher MeloniIce-TDann FlorekRichard BelzerKelli GiddishBD WongTamara TuniePeter ScanavinoRaúl EsparzaDiane NealStephanie MarchDanny PinoMike DoyleJoel de la FuenteJoanna MerlinCaren BrowningOctavio Pisano


1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Repression

Fri, Sep 28, 2001

The false memories of a girl's childhood molestation by her father lead to a tragedy.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Wrath

Fri, Oct 5, 2001

Three people are found murdered, all unconnected to each other, except to that of cases that Detective Benson has investigated.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Stolen

Fri, Oct 12, 2001

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.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Rooftop

Fri, Oct 19, 2001

Detective Tutuola becomes personally involved in a case when a friend's daughter becomes a fatal victim of sexual assault.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Tangled

Fri, Oct 26, 2001

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.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Redemption

Fri, Nov 2, 2001

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.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ Sacrifice

Fri, Nov 9, 2001

The squad is called in to investigate when a detective discovers a man shot and sodomized in an alley behind a gay bar.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Inheritance

Fri, Nov 16, 2001

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.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ Care

Fri, Nov 23, 2001

When a girl in foster care is found dead, the squad's investigation leads close to home.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ Ridicule

Fri, Dec 14, 2001

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.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ Monogamy

Fri, Jan 4, 2002

The case involves the beating of a seven-months-pregnant woman, whose unborn child has been torn from her body via a primitive cesarean section. Among the many witnesses questioned is the woman's husband, a psychiatrist with several devastating secrets and knows more about his wife's beating than he's willing to admit.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ Protection

Fri, Jan 11, 2002

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.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ Prodigy

Fri, Jan 18, 2002

Benson and Stabler have the gruesome task of identifying the remains of a man and a woman who were stabbed in a park.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ Counterfeit

Fri, Jan 25, 2002

A woman is found by her car, where she had been raped and killed. Benson and Tutuola try to figure out why there were drugs in the victim's trunk but then find that a similar rape was committed. This victim says that a police officer raped her after pulling her over for a supposed driving violation. The DA now has to zero in on the corrupt cop.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ Execution

Fri, Feb 1, 2002

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.

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ Popular

Fri, Mar 1, 2002

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.

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ Surveillance

Fri, Mar 8, 2002

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.

18Season 3

S3.E18 ∙ Guilt

Fri, Mar 29, 2002

When one difficulty after another hinder the prosecution of serial pedophile, Roy Barnett, desperate A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot oversteps the bounds of the law, risking both her job, and that of Benson and Stabler, to put this dangerous man behind bars.

19Season 3

S3.E19 ∙ Justice

Fri, Apr 5, 2002

A teen with no ID found beaten and apparently raped dies in ER. Benson & Stabler spend all day trying to identify the victim, who turns out to be the stepdaughter of a local judge. Further investigation reveals the victim to have become a mother four years ago, and be a pen pal of inmates sent to prison by her stepfather.

20Season 3

S3.E20 ∙ Greed

Fri, Apr 26, 2002

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.

21Season 3

S3.E21 ∙ Denial

Fri, May 3, 2002

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.

22Season 3

S3.E22 ∙ Competence

Fri, May 10, 2002

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.

23Season 3

S3.E23 ∙ Silence

Fri, May 17, 2002

A murder in a church leads Benson and Stabler to an alleged cover-up involving sexual abuse by a priest.