The detectives end up in a dangerous situation while investigating the whereabouts of a kidnapped eight-year-old boy.
After a man flashes customers at an electronics store, it is discovered that someone who matches his description has recently raped three young girls. Captain Donald Cragen orchestrates a movement to catch the rapist, and a rookie cop makes an arrest. Detectives Olivia Benson and Eliot Stabler confirm that they’ve found their man, but after ADA Jo Marlowe expresses some doubts, it is soon discovered that the so-called rookie may have some secrets of his own.
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
Then two sisters are killed in a fire, Detectives Olivia Benson and Eliot Stabler are confused about why they are called to investigate. They soon discover that Stabler’s old partner, ADA Jo Marlowe , has been put on the case — despite the absence of a sex crime — because the two victims were so young, and that she has enlisted the duo to help. However, as the investigation continues, Benson and Stabler find that the case might be more suited to their department than anyone originally assumed, and Stabler’s interrogation tactics threaten to get the detectives into trouble.
Benson and Stabler discover that a murder victim had been involved in the fight to expose questionable practices in the meat-packing industry.
Benson and Stabler must determine a murder victim’s actual identity when the presumed victim turns up alive.
Detective Olivia Benson and Detective Eliot Stabler are called to the scene of a crime where an investigative journalist has been found dead in her bed with an “X” carved into her cheek. Captain Donald Cragen recognizes the killer’s tactics from a similar case thirty years earlier, when the “Bedtime Butcher” murdered five women in the Bronx. The detectives soon meet a patrol cop who helps them track down a jealous ex-lover of the prime suspect . Finally, Benson must go on a dangerous undercover mission to uncover the truth.
Detectives Olivia Benson and Eliot Stabler are called in to investigate when a disabled woman, Cara Benson, is beaten and raped. Though the victim’s condition has rendered her unable to speak, the detectives soon deduce that someone close to her is responsible, with the lead suspects being her resentful sister and troubled nephew. As the investigation continues, Benson and Stabler strive to make Cara comfortable with coming forward to stand up for herself and illuminating some of the disturbing truths about the assisted living business.
Soon after a young girl, Laine McAlister, is raped in her apartment building’s stairwell, Detectives Olivia Benson and Eliot Stabler meet Laine in the hospital and find her extremely shaken with a large cut on her hand. After an unpleasant exchange with a man she claims is her boyfriend, the detectives become suspicious that she may have fabricated her rape to get attention. Their suspicions grow when she waits to reveal that there was an eyewitness. As the gravity of the situation intensifies, Benson and Stabler find themselves in a race to track down the witness and get a testimony before it is too late.
A woman’s murder leads Detectives Benson and Stabler to reopen an investigation into a similar crime committed 20 years earlier.