Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 3

September. 28,2001      TV-14
Rating:
8
Trailer Synopsis

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

Episode 23 : Silence
May. 17,2002
A murder in a church of a young cross-dresser leads Benson and Stabler to an alleged cover-up involving sexual child abuse by a priest.
Episode 22 : Competence
May. 10,2002
A mentally challenged girl with Down's Syndrome is pregnant, and the question is, was she raped or did she consent and is she competent enough to keep her child?
Episode 21 : Denial
May. 03,2002
When a heroin junkie is found raped, Tutuola takes an interest in her, but he's not the only one. The case turns into a bizarre murder investigation when the finger of a small child is found in the victim's purse opening a can of worms that spans back thirteen years.
Episode 20 : Greed
April. 26,2002
Investigating the rape of the wife of a restaurateur during a robbery, leads the detectives to a similar assault, and to a locksmith.
Episode 19 : Justice
April. 05,2002
A rebellious 16-year-old teenager is raped and murdered; the case becomes complex when they learn that her stepfather is a judge with whom she has had major problems.
Episode 18 : Guilt
March. 29,2002
When A.D.A. Cabot is faced with a reluctant teenage witness in a child molestation case, she goes above and beyond the normal scope of duty in her search for evidence to convict the serial abuser. But her passion supercedes her compliance with the law, jeopardizing not only her case, but the careers of all involved.
Episode 17 : Surveillance
March. 08,2002
An accomplished cellist is raped in her own apartment and the detectives are lead to a stalker who uses surveillance equipment and has been watching her every move.
Episode 16 : Popular
March. 01,2002
Stabler's wife tells him that her friend, a high school nurse, treated a young girl for rape. Despite being advised not to find out further details, Stabler, with help from Benson, crack open the case to disturbing details.
Episode 15 : Execution
February. 01,2002
Detective Stabler and Dr. Huang question a convicted serial killer on death row, hours before his execution, with the hope of solving an old murder case for the sake of the victim's parents. The investigation goes haywire with mixed results.
Episode 14 : Counterfeit
January. 25,2002
A woman is found raped and killed by her car. Then, a similar rape is committed and the victim says that a police officer raped her after pulling her over for a supposed driving violation. This leads police to look at one of their own, until they realize the suspect is not who they think he is.
Episode 13 : Prodigy
January. 18,2002
Two people are found murdered in the park, including an animal rights activist who has been raped and then decapitated. Benson and Stabler must determine which of their two main suspects -- a sociopathic teenager and a recently paroled rapist -- is responsible for the murder.
Episode 12 : Protection
January. 11,2002
A 6-year-old boy wounded in a shooting is brought to the ER but abandoned by his brother, who reported it, and their mother, who fears for her own life. The case leads the detectives to a woman who is on the run from an abusive drug-dealer boyfriend.
Episode 11 : Monogamy
January. 04,2002
The pregnant wife of a psychiatrist is found in a parking garage, unconscious and bleeding from a gaping abdominal wound with her fetus missing. The investigation leads to infedility and uncertainty as to the paternity, adding fuel to the fire of an already agitated Stabler.
Episode 10 : Ridicule
December. 14,2001
What appears as a bizarre accidental death leads to a case involving a male stripper who claims that the deceased was one of three powerful women who raped him at a bachelorette party.
Episode 9 : Care
November. 23,2001
The battered body of a five-year-old girl in foster care is discovered and suspicion soon turns to members of the girl's foster family as well as to the girl's biological mother; who is the real guilty party and who is only a red herring?
Episode 8 : Inheritance
November. 16,2001
A series of brutal rapes and attacks on Asian women lead the police to a suspect who was himself a product of rape - his father being a rapist who was convicted. The question is brought to court of whether his genetic make-up was responsible for the crimes.
Episode 7 : Sacrifice
November. 09,2001
A man, who is shot and raped outside a gay bar, initially doesn't want to cooperate to find his shooter. When he finally does, the investigation leads to his family and turns his life upside down.
Episode 6 : Redemption
November. 02,2001
A string of murders leads detectives to question an initial suspect, the Soho Strangler, but they realize he might have been the wrong person all along.
Episode 5 : Tangled
October. 26,2001
When arriving party guests find a prominent doctor beaten to death and his wife raped, the detectives have a parade of suspects and the realization that the wife was the intended victim.
Episode 4 : Rooftop
October. 19,2001
When an HIV-positive male, with a record of assaulting underage girls, is discovered in a sexual clincher with a young woman on a rooftop, the detectives are determined to put him back inside. After a series of rapes and murders of young African-American women cannot be traced to him though, they begin to wonder if they've been looking at the wrong suspect.
Episode 3 : Stolen
October. 12,2001
The kidnapping of an infant at a grocery store leads to an illegal adoption ring and the long lost closure of a case from 12 years prior of a murdered mother and missing baby which involved Capt. Cragen and his partner, the late Max Greevey.
Episode 2 : Wrath
October. 05,2001
The detectives investigate three murders that seemingly have no connection to each other, but each murder has ties to Benson's previous cases. As they join with the FBI to investigate, the detectives worry that Benson is the intended target.
Episode 1 : Repression
September. 28,2001
An 18-year-old girl is aided by her therapist in recalling repressed memories of childhood molestation by her father and reports the incest to Benson and Stabler in hopes of sparing her younger sisters the same fate. She brings charges of rape against her father who winds up murdered when those charges are dismissed.

Seasons

Season 25
Season 25 2024
Season 24
Season 24 2022
Season 23
Season 23 2021
Season 22
Season 22 2020
Season 21
Season 21 2019
Season 20
Season 20 2018
Season 19
Season 19 2017
Season 18
Season 18 2016
Season 17
Season 17 2015
Season 16
Season 16 2014
Season 15
Season 15 2013
Season 14
Season 14 2012
Season 13
Season 13 dealt with the departure of Detective Elliot Stabler from the Special Victims Unit after a shooting in the squad room.
Season 13 2011
Season 12
Season 12 2010
Season 11
Season 11 2009
Season 10
Season 10 2008
Season 9
Season 9 2007
Season 8
Season 8 2006
Season 7
Season 7 2005
Season 6
Season 6 2004
Season 5
Season 5 2003
Season 4
Season 4 2002
Season 3
Season 3 2001
Season 2
Season 2 2000
Season 1
Season 1 1999

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