Stabler finds himself endangered while undercover when the serial rapist he's tailing learns of his true identity.
A pregnant woman ready to commit suicide because she claims that she was raped is quick to take a cash buyout from the defense.
The SVU team works to track down the location of a young girl who claims she's hungry and has been locked in a room for days. While others suspect that the call is a hoax, Benson believes the caller.
Luke, the suspect in the attack of a fellow high school student, becomes angered during an initial interview and punches Detective Fin. Later, at the station, Luke can't remember anything that happened.
The detectives work to track down the murderer of a gay HIV-infected couple and come to believe that it's a an activist who speaks out against the spread of AIDS. Odafin learns that his son is gay.
A white supremacist group is tied to a school shooting wounding three children.
Construction workers find the thirty year old remains of a missing boy and Stabler reopens the long closed case. A woman steps forward and accuses her stepfather of the crime.
Benson goes undercover to expose a serial-rapist whose prey stems from a speed-dating service. When the suspect's new wife ends up on life support, her mother rushes in to prevent her death.
The beating of a runaway kills her unborn child and the father comes under investigation. Eventually, the detectives learn that the girl hit herself to get rid of the child.
After a girl is struck down by a taxi, she reveals at the hospital that the man who took off with her sister wasn't her father but rather someone who saved the girls from New Orleans and asked to be called "daddy". The detectives trail the child molester, but when they catch him, he dies from anthrax. The Feds sweep in and throw the police off the case.
When a thoroughly beaten pre-teen is found at a hospital, the investigation into his attacker reveals a young girl who suffered at the hands of the victim and leads to a legal battle over the rights of same sex parents.
When a woman is found shot to death in her apartment, Detectives Benson and Stabler discover 14-year-old Nathan Phelps, traumatized and hiding in the closet.
A young girl on her way home from school is abducted into a black van. Blood left in the van shows that she's suffering from leukemia.
An abandoned baby trail leads back to a college student who claims that the baby was born out of rape and she wasn't aware she was pregnant before giving birth. Further investigation reveals that she's abandoned a baby before.
The investigation into a murder victim reveals that she lived a double life, half as a lawyer and half as a stripper. It turns out that the lawyer's boss arranged her murder, as well as another stripper's, because of her husband's affair.
The officers try to implicate three teenage boys for the rape and murder of a visiting girl.
Stabler and Tutola investigate the case of a murdered young woman who was drawn into the world of internet gambling, weaving through a slew of possible suspects including the woman's roommate, her best friend and a famous athlete.
Tutuola tries to prove his son Ken's innocence after he was picked up an alley while looking for an alleged dead woman's body he heard discussed in a bar. Tutuola tries to examine the circumstances of Ken's cousin, who was with Ken on the night in question, but a link between the cousins could create problems, and the confession that could clear Ken becomes inadmissible.
A freed sex offender kidnaps a pair of young kids, prompting a frantic widespread effort to catch him.
Jessica Delay, a gifted piano student at a prestigious high school in Harlem, is brutally attacked and sodomized by a group of siblings Through help from Medical Examiner Warner who identifies the attackers as obese, Det. Stabler and his one-time partner Det. Lucius Blaine track down the siblings, who claim they attacked Jessica to avenge an attack on their morbidly obese brother.
When an eight-year-old propositions a male classmate, Stabler and Tutuola are called in to investigate the case and soon learn that Jake Winnock's father spent seven years in prison for molesting his older brother, Teddy.
While a rock star decries the usage of psychiatric medication, a young woman goes off her pills and commits a multi-victim hit and run.