Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Created by Emmy Award-winning Producer Dick Wolf, "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," now in its 21st season, makes television history as the longest-running primetime live-action series of all time.
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- 1999-2026
- 28 seasons
- NBC
- Suspense, Drama
- TV-14
Created by Emmy Award-winning Producer Dick Wolf, "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," now in its 21st season, makes television history as the longest-running primetime live-action series of all time.
Season 3 Episode Guide
23 Episodes 2001 - 2002
Episode 1
Repression
Fri, Sep 28, 2001 43 mins
Stabler and Benson investigate the allegations of an woman who claims to have been sexually abused as a child by her father. The victim's allegations come as a result of repressed memories retrieved during sessions with her therapist. The detectives' concerns quickly turn to the minor daughters remaining under the father's care despite their mother's objections.
Episode 2
Wrath
Fri, Oct 5, 2001 43 mins
Three people are found murdered, all unconnected to each other, except to that of cases that Detective Benson has investigated.
Episode 3
Stolen
Fri, Oct 12, 2001 43 mins
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
Rooftop
Fri, Oct 19, 2001 43 mins
An HIV-positive man with a habit of carrying out sexual trysts with teenage girls on the roofs of buildings is caught by the detectives, who are determined to put him back in prison. But when a series of rapes and murders throughout Harlem cannot be traced to the man, and begin to affect Fin personally, they begin to wonder if they've been wrong about their prime suspect.
Episode 5
Tangled
Fri, Oct 26, 2001 43 mins
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
Redemption
Fri, Nov 2, 2001 44 mins
Detective Stabler is reunited with an old partner, a gung-ho cop who long ago put a serial rapist/murderer in prison who's now on parole, just in time for another series of attacks on women. But when it becomes clear that the prime suspect is not only innocent but incapable of such crimes, his old partner regrets his previously celebrated arrest and teams up with Stabler to find the real killer.
Episode 7
Sacrifice
Fri, Nov 9, 2001 43 mins
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
Inheritance
Fri, Nov 16, 2001 44 mins
The team is searching for someone who is targeting Asian women. They learn that he is African American but speaks Chinese well. they discover that he was the product of a rape wherein the victim was Asian and the perp is AFrican American. After he is caught his defense is that he was mistreated because he was a reminder to his mother of what happened to her and he was not really accepted in her community. Which strikes a nerve for Olivia who's also the product of a rape.
Episode 9
Care
Fri, Nov 23, 2001 42 mins
When a girl in foster care is found dead, the squad's investigation leads close to home.
Episode 10
Ridicule
Fri, Dec 14, 2001 43 mins
When a young wife is found dead after what appears to have been an auto-erotic encounter, Detectives Benson and Stabler find out that the deceased and a group of her girlfriends had recently been accused of raping a male stripper (Pete Starrett). A.D.A. Cabot prosecutes the sexual assault. The rape leads the Detectives to believe that the woman's death may have been a murder.
Episode 11
Monogamy
Fri, Jan 4, 2002 43 mins
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.
Episode 12
Protection
Fri, Jan 11, 2002 43 mins
A Latino woman brings her five-year old son into a hospital with a gunshot wound. Mention of police scares her so much that she leaves with her other son. The name she gave was false. SVU have to try to track down the woman, when she and her sons lives are in danger.
Episode 13
Prodigy
Fri, Jan 18, 2002 43 mins
A deaf burglar leads to the discovery of two bodies in a marina park: a male with a pacemaker, BAC of .17 and open trousers; and a violated headless and handless younger female who turns out to be an undercover officer whose duty included locating perpetrators of cruelty to animals.
Episode 14
Counterfeit
Fri, Jan 25, 2002 43 mins
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.
Episode 15
Execution
Fri, Feb 1, 2002 42 mins
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
Popular
Fri, Mar 1, 2002 42 mins
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
Surveillance
Fri, Mar 8, 2002 43 mins
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
Guilt
Fri, Mar 29, 2002 43 mins
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.
Episode 19
Justice
Fri, Apr 5, 2002 60 mins
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.
Episode 20
Greed
Fri, Apr 26, 2002 44 mins
A man comes home to find the newly installed alarm system off, what looks like a burglary without a break-in, and his wealthy wife bloodied on the kitchen floor. The couple's maid was locked out of her apartment after work until her live-in, limo-driver boyfriend came home at 4AM because he had taken her keys instead of his own "by mistake". On investigation, a rape/burglary from two weeks earlier is found elsewhere, also with a new alarm system and no evidence of break-in.
Episode 21
Denial
Fri, May 3, 2002 44 mins
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
Competence
Fri, May 10, 2002 42 mins
The SVU receives a complaint from an elderly woman that her daughter Katie, who has Downs Syndrome, has been raped and is now pregnant. She is reluctant to provide the identity of the father and it is apparently questionable whether or not she even knew what she was doing. This brings up all manner of questions of competency, about who the father might be and whether or not she had consensual sex or was raped. Was it the bus driver? Her employer? Her boyfriend? The administrator at the care facility? Even further, is Katie fit to be a mother and raise a child?
Episode 23
Silence
Fri, May 17, 2002 44 mins
A murder in a church leads Benson and Stabler to an alleged cover-up involving sexual abuse by a priest.
