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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 20 Episodes
Season 20 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 2018 - 2019
Episode 1
Man Up
Thu, Sep 27, 201841 mins
Sam Conway is an adolescent boy with a particular affection for animals. When taken to his first hunting trip by his domineering father and his older brother, Sam refuses to shoot a rabbit. He is consequently insulted by his brother, and treated as a failure by his father. Following his return to school, teachers notice anal bleeding from Sam. They report the case to the police, and a rape kit determines that he was raped. Sam refuses to name his rapist, but his mother reports that Sam's father uses anal rape in order to discipline and humiliate Sam. The case goes to trial, but Sam refuses to testify against his father and the case collapses. The abusive father is vindicated in court.
Episode 2
Man Down
Thu, Sep 27, 201841 mins
Sam Conway is struggling with trauma from his recent rape. His domineering father has always told him that a real man is a killer. So, Sam tries to prove his manhood by becoming a school shooter. He randomly kills or injures several of his classmates, before being arrested by Carisi. He seem destined to face a life sentence. ADA Stone insists that Sam's father has to be arrested as well. He tries to prove at court that the parenting style of John Conway, and the glorification of violence and aggression in his lectures to his sons were the reason that Sam became a criminal. Rollins is pregnant again and is considering an abortion, fearing that she will give birth to a criminal. Benson learns that her son has violent tendencies, particularly when he is angry.
Episode 3
Zero Tolerance
Thu, Oct 4, 201841 mins
After the rescue of a young girl from a sex trafficker, Benson and Stone must take drastic measures to reunite her with her mother. Meanwhile, Rollins decides to give her rocky relationship another chance.
Episode 4
Revenge
Thu, Oct 11, 201840 mins
Three young men come in contact at a website for the incel community, and orchestrate a series of rapes. Their plan is based on the film "Strangers on a Train", with each of them targeting a woman who recently rejected the advances of someone else in the trio. Two of the men are unaware that their partner is using their crimes as a cover for his own murder scheme. He has been stalking a specific woman for the last 10 years, and he wants to personally kill her current fiance.
Episode 5
Accredo
Thu, Oct 18, 201841 mins
A member of a women's empowerment group is found murdered, leading the cops to the group's charismatic male leader. Meanwhile, Rollins keeps her pregnancy under wraps to avoid going on desk duty.
Episode 6
Exile
Thu, Oct 25, 201841 mins
During a rainy night, a young woman enters a bar. She is broke, but tries to convince a guy to buy her a drink. She is later found unconscious and with a head injury. She introduces herself to the police as Grace Walker, but it is only an alias. Grace is soon identified as the college student Sophie Simmons who mysteriously disappeared three years before. The police realize that "Sophie" and "Grace" are different personalities of the same woman, each with its own set of memories. The SVU has to find out what traumatic event triggered the emergence of separate personalities in the woman, and who had victimized her in the first place.
Episode 7
Caretaker
Thu, Nov 1, 201841 mins
Anne Mill is an executive at a law firm. She stole 3 million dollars from the firm's clients, through unnecessary payments to another company, which she secretly owned. Shortly before her financial crimes are revealed, she decides to murder her husband and their two children. She rationalizes that she is protecting them from any repercussions from her crimes. When the murder case goes to trial, ADA Stone tries to "prove" than Anne is faking mental instability. Anne commits suicide shortly after the trial.
Episode 8
Hell's Kitchen
Thu, Nov 8, 201840 mins
Andrew Liebowitz is the owner of trendy bars and restaurants, but he had a reputation for sexually harassing his female employees. The SVU investigates a report that Andrew raped one of his waitresses, and discover that he has been accused of three previous rapes. All the cases were dismissed by ADA Hodges, who supposedly found that the victims were not credible enough. The investigators found this suspicious, since Hodges is an expert in rape cases and there were sufficient evidence to win this case. They start investigating Hodges himself, and realize that Hodges and Liebowitz used to be close friends and classmates. Further, they get reports that Hodges himself had raped a girl in his high school days, and that Liebowitz was a witness to that rape. The police try to cause the two men to turn on each other, in hopes of using their testimonies in a trial.
Episode 9
Mea Culpa
Thu, Nov 15, 201841 mins
Twelve years ago, ADA Stone took part in a party with several friends. He was romancing a woman he had just met, but he apparently passed out drunk and then woke up alone in his bedroom. In the present, the woman first claims that Stone raped her during that party, and then that Stone is the father of her daughter. Stone starts a police investigation against himself, though both Stone and the victim only have partial memories of that night. There are no forensic evidence in this case, but there is at least one more suspect for the rape. A paternity test reveals that Stone is not biologically related to his supposed daughter.
Episode 10
Alta Kockers
Thu, Nov 29, 201840 mins
The investigation into a promising new author's death leads to a decades-old secret kept between two reclusive brothers.
Episode 11
Plastic
Thu, Jan 10, 201941 mins
A woman accuses a celebrity plastic surgeon (guest star Mark Feuerstein) and his girlfriend of rape.
Episode 12
Dear Ben
Thu, Jan 17, 201941 mins
A serial rapist strikes again after two decades of silence, and SVU is determined to uncover the elusive criminal and bring justice to his many victims. Stone discovers that his father worked on the case before it went cold.
Episode 13
A Story of More Woe
Thu, Jan 31, 201941 mins
A man is found dead, killed by one of his daughters due to the sexual violence endured by her 13-year-old sister. But by digging, the detectives discover that the person who molested the 13-year-old girl was actually a neighbor who had also promised to marry her and to live a Romeo and Juliet love affair.
Episode 14
Part 33
Thu, Feb 7, 201941 mins
As Stone prosecutes the case of a woman who killed her abusive husband, Benson and her squad wrestle with the duty of testifying against her.
Episode 15
Brothel
Thu, Feb 14, 201941 mins
Benson and the team investigate the death of a prostitute at a brothel. They wonder if there was foul play or if this could be a case of a junkie who relapsed, turned to tricking, got depressed and committed suicide.
Episode 16
Facing Demons
Thu, Feb 21, 201941 mins
Benson and the SVU investigate the death of a man they believe to be a pedophile. When they dig deeper, they realize things are not what they seem and that the case actually hits really close to home.
Episode 17
Missing
Thu, Mar 14, 201941 mins
The SVU squad pursues a suspect after a child is found in the trunk of an abandoned car.
Episode 18
Blackout
Thu, Mar 21, 201940 mins
When defense attorney Nikki Staines is raped after a police charity event, Benson reluctantly looks to her own for a suspect.
Episode 19
Dearly Beloved
Thu, Apr 4, 201940 mins
The SVU investigates a he-said, she-said case when a woman crashes a wedding to accuse her therapist of sexual assault.
Episode 20
The Good Girl
Thu, Apr 11, 201941 mins
The Special Victims Unit are called in to investigate a complicated pregnancy case involving a thirteen year old girl. Benson works to try and find out who the baby's father is, but getting the answer becomes complicated when the teenage girl is reluctant to expose the baby's father. She refuses to speak to Benson and the Special Victims Unit, prompting Benson to believe that the baby's father might be someone close to the teenage girl who may have taken advantage of her.
Episode 21
Exchange
Thu, Apr 25, 201940 mins
The Italian exchange student Emilia Barassi gets uncomfortable during a strip poker game at the house of her friends, and flees in her underwear. She enters a taxi, and is sexually assaulted by the taxi driver. The SVU has little trouble in arresting the rapist and getting a confession. But they learn that Emilia and her sister were both reportedly raped by their father in Italy, and that both girls are under the long-term protection of an American businessman. Olivia goes out of her way to prove that the two girls have false memories of their past lives due to brainwashing, and that their protector is the actual sexual predator.
Episode 22
Diss
Thu, May 2, 201941 mins
When a pop star is assaulted in her home, the SVU investigates the public feud between her rapper husband (guest star Orlando Jones) and a competing recording artist (guest star Snoop Dogg). Meanwhile, Fin's family ties to a suspect takes him off the case.
Episode 23
Assumptions
Thu, May 9, 201941 mins
After a Muslim woman is assaulted inside of a synagogue, SVU searches for two suspects that were spotted fleeing the scene of the crime.
Episode 24
End Game
Thu, May 16, 201941 mins
When a teenager is found dead in the Hudson River, Lt. Benson suspects Rob Miller is behind the mysterious death but can't prove it. Despite having only circumstantial evidence, ADA Stone takes the case to court before Miller can destroy more lives.
