Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 13

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 13

Season 13 dealt with the departure of Detective Elliot Stabler from the Special Victims Unit after a shooting in the squad room.

21 September 2011

Episodes

Scorched Earth

1. Scorched Earth

An African immigrant working as a maid accuses an Italian diplomat of rape, but is she really in it just for the money? Meanwhile, Stabler's return remains in doubt after his latest shooting.

21 September 2011

Personal Fouls

2. Personal Fouls

SVU investigates an accusation that a revered high school basketball coach sexually abused his players, but they ultimately may need the cooperation of a reluctant pro superstar to make the case.

28 September 2011

Blood Brothers

3. Blood Brothers

A pregnant thirteen-year-old girl from Washington Heights claims that the son of an ambassador raped her, but the accused goes missing before SVU can question him.

05 October 2011

Double Strands

4. Double Strands

Detective Rollins believes that SVU has caught a serial rapist from one of her earlier cases in Georgia, but a passioned request after a suicide attempt leads Amaro to suspect that they may have the wrong person.

12 October 2011

Missing Pieces

5. Missing Pieces

Detectives search for a missing baby on Halloween after a young mother from Buffalo tells them her car was stolen while her baby was still in it.

19 October 2011

True Believers

6. True Believers

The SVU team works together to investigate the case of a promising music student who was brutally raped at gunpoint.

02 November 2011

Russian Brides

7. Russian Brides

In order to bring down a Russian mobster running an international prostitution/kidnapping ring disguised as a Russian bride website, Cragen steps from behind the desk to go undercover.

09 November 2011

Educated Guess

8. Educated Guess

A patient in a mental hospital claims to have witnessed a sexual assault. However, the supposed victim is a fellow patient who has a history of making rape allegations, but she denies being assaulted this time.

16 November 2011

Lost Traveller

9. Lost Traveller

When a Romani boy vanishes on his way home from school, the Special Victims Unit must penetrate his insular community to find the unlikely abductors.

30 November 2011

Spiraling Down

10. Spiraling Down

A retired pro quarterback is busted for having sex with a fourteen-year-old prostitute, but he may be suffering from diminished capacity because of all the concussions he had on the field.

07 December 2011

Theatre Tricks

11. Theatre Tricks

SVU tries to figure out who was responsible for the real-life rape of an actress during an interactive theater performance that everybody just assumed was part of the show.

11 January 2012

Official Story

12. Official Story

Benson and Amaro must work around a resistant victim when the CEO of a military contractor is assaulted.

18 January 2012

Father's Shadow

13. Father's Shadow

A nineteen-year-old creates a hostage situation after his father is accused of sexual assault, and Olivia uses her personal experience to help defuse the situation.

08 February 2012

Home Invasions

14. Home Invasions

After a couple is murdered in their home and their daughter is critically injured, SVU uncovers a number of twisted family secrets, as well as Detective Rollins' gambling addiction.

15 February 2012

Hunting Ground

15. Hunting Ground

Detectives Benson and Amaro lead the search for a serial killer who is targeting young prostitutes.

22 February 2012

Child's Welfare

16. Child's Welfare

Detective Benson calls on Bayard Ellis for legal help when her estranged brother gets caught in a child custody battle. Also, Detectives Tutuola and Rollins investigate why a newborn baby is abandoned near a hospital.

29 February 2012

Justice Denied

17. Justice Denied

A closed rape case of Benson's is reopened because of it's similarities to a new case, and the possibility of wrongful imprisonment surfaces. As Benson's work is questioned, tension develops between her, ADA Haden, and Bayard Ellis.

21 April 2012

Valentine's Day

18. Valentine's Day

A man witnesses his wife's rape and kidnapping while video chatting with her on his way home from a business trip. The abductors seek a ransom, and the case grows more complex as detectives probe deeper.

18 April 2012

Street Revenge

19. Street Revenge

The task of find a serial rapist becomes more difficult when a team of neighborhood vigilante "superheroes" starts trying to avenge the crimes.

25 April 2012

Father Dearest

20. Father Dearest

Detectives search for a missing teenage girl who vanished while looking for her biological father, an anonymous sperm donor. A puzzling prime suspect who's targeted several young women soon emerges.

02 May 2012

Learning Curve

21. Learning Curve

As Fin tries to get justice after his gay son's fiancé is brutally beaten in a hate crime, SVU uncovers a scandal involving a teacher sexually abusing a student at a prep school.

09 May 2012

Strange Beauty

22. Strange Beauty

The investigation of the homicide of a young woman who recently had her leg amputated sends SVU into the strange culture of body modification.

16 May 2012

Rhodium Nights

23. Rhodium Nights

The murder of a prostitute at a bachelor party sends SVU on a dangerous investigation that could lead all the way into the highest reaches of New York power and influence.

23 May 2012

Cast