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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 11 Episodes
Season 11 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 2009 - 2010
Episode 1
Unstable
Wed, Sep 23, 200960 mins
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, Executive ADA Sonya Paxton joins the team, bringing evidence of a common thread among three other rape cases. With Paxton's help, the team might expose a serial rapist.
Episode 2
Sugar
Wed, Sep 30, 200960 mins
The body of an online call girl is found in a suitcase, and the prime suspect for her murder is an Internet entrepreneur who was one of her "sugar daddies."
Episode 3
Solitary
Wed, Oct 7, 200960 mins
Stabler is attacked by a man that he helped put away 19 years earlier. When that man faces attempted murder charges, he claims that he was the victim because of the solitary confinement he faced during his sentence.
Episode 4
Hammered
Wed, Oct 14, 200960 mins
After a night of heavy drinking, Dalton Rindell wakes up to a bloody apartment, a terrible cut on his head and a dead woman in his bed. Unable to recall the night before, Rindell immediately calls the police. Detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler suspect the crime is the result of a deadly love triangle; however Rindell does not recognize the victim. After questioning Rindell and the victim's family and friends, Benson and Stabler are provided with leads in several different directions. Unsure which lead to follow, the two detectives decide to return to the bar where the night began in order to piece together the gruesome truth.
Episode 5
Hardwired
Wed, Oct 21, 200960 mins
After Eva Banks makes a shocking discovery about her son, Cory's behavior at school, she takes him to the doctor, only to find out that he has been the victim of sexual abuse. Detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler come onto the scene and question the victim and his family. From the boy's frightened reaction when his stepfather, Thomas Banks, silences the investigation, it is clear to everyone in the room who the real perpetrator is. Detective Benson and Stabler are about to arrest the suspect when Thomas agrees to give up the leader of the largest pro child-adult relationship civil rights group in exchange for amnesty.
Episode 6
Spooked
Wed, Oct 28, 200960 mins
When a young couple is found murdered in the back of a padlocked truck, Detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler investigate the scene and link the male victim to a dangerous Mexican drug cartel. Benson and Stabler follow a lead to an abandoned drug den where they are surprised to see FBI Special Agent Dean Porter, who is separately working on the case. Porter tries to take over the investigation, but suspicion arises and the two continue the hunt for the murderer. Following their intuition, Benson and Stabler come across shocking discoveries, which lead them to believe this case is much larger than a mere drug-related murder.
Episode 7
Users
Wed, Nov 4, 200960 mins
After a crime scene photo of a murdered teenage girl rapidly becomes an Internet phenomenon, the police initiate an investigation with the victim's father, Greg Dunne. When Greg points the detectives towards Martin Gold, his daughter's suspicious therapist, it turns out that Gold's alibi is airtight. While Fin and Munch are busy tracking down the girl's stolen credit card, Dr. Melinda Warner and Detective Elliot Stabler discover that one of Gold's other patients has broken into the morgue. The case takes an unexpected turn, revealing a sinister prescription for murder at the hands of unlikely suspects.
Episode 8
Turmoil
Wed, Nov 11, 200960 mins
After risqué photos of a fifteen-year-old rape victim are leaked onto the Internet, Detectives Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson's case becomes much more complicated. As the detectives' case slowly morphs into an investigation by the State Bar, Stabler's son becomes entangled in a streak of compromising events at the hands of his best friend, a recovering drug addict. As Benson takes charge of the rape case, Stabler is forced to set his personal opinions aside and deal with the potentially life-threatening situation his son and his friend have so carelessly gotten themselves into.
Episode 9
Perverted
Wed, Nov 18, 200960 mins
While in the park, a family stumbles upon the sexually mutilated body of Clyde Vandyne, a member of a biker gang known for prostitution and contract killing. To everyone's surprise, incriminating DNA evidence points to Detective Benson as the prime suspect. Munch and Fin investigate the murder, while Stabler fights to prove his partner's innocence. The detectives must find the missing link to both Vandyne's murder and Benson's involvement.
Episode 10
Anchor
Wed, Dec 9, 200960 mins
When two young girls are similarly murdered a little over a month apart, Detective Odafin Tutuola decides to investigate the gruesome crimes. After a third killing, Fin discovers that all three children were "anchor babies" of immigrant families, and reaches out to the Center of Immigrant Services. After sifting through the Center's hate mail, and witnessing a fight between immigration lawyer Randall Carver and Joe Thagard, a fanatical follower of a xenophobic talk show host, Fin begins to narrow in on the killer.
Episode 11
Quickie
Wed, Jan 6, 201060 mins
When seventeen year-old Anna McWilliams is found strangled and beaten to death in an alley, her ex-boyfriend leads the cops to a website that McWilliams used to meet up with random men. Detective Olivia Benson decides to create a user account for the site and finds womanizer Peter Butler, the man who met up with McWilliams. The case is closed when a different suspect is proven guilty of her murder, and a new one opens when McWilliams rape kit tests positive for HIV. Not only is HIV spreading as a result of countless attacks, but now the detectives must also catch a rapist on the loose.
Episode 12
Shadow
Wed, Jan 13, 201042 mins
When a wealthy affluent couple are killed and where there are signs of sexual overtones SVU is brought in. And despite evidence showing it's not a sex crime, Benson and Stabler are kept on it cause the couple were friends with the mayor among other people. They talk to the couple's daughter who tells them she suspects she has a stalker and when they check out the surveillance videos from the places she's been, they see him. So set out to apprehend him and when they do they learn he's a cop from the frauds unit. It seems that he's investigating possible embezzlement from the couple's accounts and the trail led to the daughter. It seems she an uncontrollable party girl and when her parents were threatening to cut her off she found other ways to fund her lifestyle. And he thinks she had her parents killed. Later when she's arrested she puts a bounty on those who arrested her including the frauds detective and Benson.
Episode 13
P.C.
Wed, Mar 3, 201042 mins
A militant lesbian group is convinced that the detectives are doing nothing to stop a rash of attacks on lesbians. In the process of obstructing justice, making false accusations, and seeking publicity for their organization, the head of the organization lead by Babs Duffy (Kathy Griffin) inadvertently helps the police, who themselves make her face the truth about her own sexuality during the investigation.
Episode 14
Savior
Wed, Mar 3, 201060 mins
SVU tries to make the case against a Christian zealot who is targeting prostitutes, but it hangs on the cooperation of a pregnant prostitute who is terrified of the man and has her own demons.
Episode 15
Confidential
Wed, Mar 10, 201060 mins
In 1987, an accounting firm negotiated a merger with the company of a powerful business tycoon. A young female partner in the firm was set to earn 500,000 dollars from the deal, and she promised to finance her boyfriend's college studies. Instead she was strangulated within corporate offices. Her boyfriend was convicted and imprisoned for her murder, on somewhat flimsy evidence against him. In the present, a female accounting clerk working for the same tycoon is fired and her access card to the office is confiscated. She later re-enters the office for unknown reasons, and a security camera records someone grabbing her and dragging her to the men's toilets. The attack happens on Friday, but the guards do not notice the recording until the following Monday. Her remains are discovered a few hours later. The murder is identical to the one from 1987. The police collect evidence against the businessman, and they deduce that both victims had discovered something important about his finances and his white-collar crimes. The businessman is murdered by a disgruntled client. The female lawyer apparently loyal to him for decades reluctantly confesses that she was aware that her boss was a murderer, but clams that she was legally required to keep his secrets due to attorney-client privilege. The SVU pressures her into testifying in court, but they also start suspecting that she had orchestrated her client's murder.
Episode 16
Witness
Wed, Mar 17, 201060 mins
A girl who appears to have been assaulted is brought to the hospital. When she wakes up she denies that anything happened to her but the doctors already examined her and confirm she was sexually assaulted. Benson and Stabler try to convince her to come forward but she's reluctant to. They eventually catch the one who attacked her and his lawyer mounts a defense on the fact that she's extremely promiscuous. And when she collapses just as she's about to testify, she's brought to the hospital and the doctors says she doesn't have much time. She dies so there's no one to testify against the one who assaulted her. But they know of a witness so they to try to find the witness and learn that she's an African woman. She's reluctant to testify because woman in her country are mistreated. They try to convince her to. The defendant's lawyer reports her to the INS and she faces deportation. So they try to find a way to keep her in the country.
Episode 17
Disabled
Wed, Mar 24, 201060 mins
A woman who appears to have been sexually assaulted is brought to the hospital. The doctor calls SVU and they arrive but problem is that the woman can't speak so she can't tell them who did it. They also learn that the woman is being beaten. So they wonder did the one who assaulted also beat her or was she beaten by someone else. They discover that ones who did that to her are close to her and they have to find a way to handle it.
Episode 18
Bedtime
Wed, Mar 31, 201060 mins
When a reporter is found dead, the team investigates and Cragen upon seeing the body sees something that makes him think she was killed by a serial killer who was active 30 years ago. They eventually find the man and when confronted he says it's not him because one of the victims he couldn't have killed. They check it out and while he killed the others the one he claims he didn't kill was made to look like he killed her. So they re investigate and learn the woman was married to a celebrity businessman who's a womanizer. They think they should focus on him but he's dead. They talk to a patrol cop who worked the original case. And they talk to all the women the man was with and none of them stand out.
Episode 19
Conned
Wed, Apr 7, 201060 mins
An abused, schizophrenic 16-year-old is a suspect in the brutal murder of his close friend. But why is Fin's son protecting the suspect from the police? And did his psychiatrist misdiagnose him for selfish reasons?
Episode 20
Beef
Wed, Apr 21, 201060 mins
After a young woman is sexually assaulted and murdered, Detectives Olivia Benson and Eliot Stabler track down the woman's boyfriend - their first suspect - but learn that he is a devout vegan who wouldn't hurt a fly. They soon find that the victim had been deeply involved in the fight to expose questionable practices in the meat-packing industry, even going undercover at a large company to find out the truth. Benson goes undercover herself to retrace the woman's footsteps and to identify who the victim might have angered along the way.
Episode 21
Torch
Wed, Apr 28, 201060 mins
Working-class father Frank Sullivan was struggling with unemployment and mounting debts since he was fired from his last job. One night, a fire starts at his private residence. Frank suffers minor burns and smoke inhalation, but his two younger daughters Kedzie and Faye were burned to death in their shared bedroom. Frank's college-aged eldest daughter Emily was working elsewhere at the time of the fire, and there were no other residents in their house. A local pyromaniac with a history of sexually harassing Kedzie is arrested, and he is coerced into confessing by Elliot. However the coerced confession is considered useless, and there are no forensic evidence against him. Deputy Fire Marshal Kurek determines that the fire was caused by arson, and determines that all forensic evidence points to Frank himself as the main suspect. Frank is arrested and everyone turns against him, including his surviving daughter. The new assistant district attorney Jo Marlowe has her doubts about the evidence and asks a freelance fire investigator, Dr. Iggy Drexel, to look into the case for her. Drexel finds several faults in Kurek's initial report, but does not have enough evidence to testify in court. Marlowe and Drexel recreate the conditions of the fire in an abandoned house with an identical design to that of Frank Marshall. They find enough evidence that the fire started in the girls' bedroom due to a malfunctioning electrical device. Kurek destroys his own credibility by failing to recognize that no accelerant was present in the second fire, revealing his poor understanding of a number of scientific facts concerning fires, and admitting that he never even considered the possibility of an accidental fire. Frank is acquitted.
Episode 22
Ace
Wed, May 5, 201060 mins
When a pregnant woman is raped, Detectives Olivia Benson and Eliot Stabler arrive at the hospital to find that she has fled. Even when someone is arrested for a similar offense, ADA Jo Marlowe says she doesn't have a case in court unless they find the victim and get a statement from her. Soon, Benson and Stabler connect the woman to an illegal adoption operation, forcing them to go undercover and expose the truth.
Episode 23
Wannabe
Wed, May 12, 201060 mins
The arresting officer in a serial rapist case turns out to be a 16-year-old impersonating a police officer, and his actions put ADA Marlowe's case in jeopardy.
Episode 24
Shattered
Wed, May 19, 201060 mins
When an 8-year-old boy is kidnapped off a city street, Detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler are called to investigate. They soon find that the boy is in his father's custody, and his mother has a history of overstepping her bounds. As the case comes to a head, members of the SVU team find themselves in a life-threatening standoff and learn shocking details about ADA Jo Marlowe's past.
