Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 13

Season 13

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

Air date: 2011-09-20

Episodes: 23

Episodes

E1: 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.

Air date: 2011-09-21 • ★ 8.2

E2: 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.

Air date: 2011-09-28 • ★ 7.4

E3: 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.

Air date: 2011-10-05 • ★ 5.9

E4: 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.

Air date: 2011-10-12 • ★ 8

E5: 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.

Air date: 2011-10-19 • ★ 8.8

E6: True Believers

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

Air date: 2011-11-02 • ★ 5

E7: 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.

Air date: 2011-11-09 • ★ 8.2

E8: 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.

Air date: 2011-11-16 • ★ 7.4

E9: 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.

Air date: 2011-11-30 • ★ 7.7

E10: 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.

Air date: 2011-12-07 • ★ 7.4

E11: 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.

Air date: 2012-01-11 • ★ 8

E12: Official Story

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

Air date: 2012-01-18 • ★ 8.4

E13: 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.

Air date: 2012-02-08 • ★ 7.9

E14: 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.

Air date: 2012-02-15 • ★ 7.8

E15: Hunting Ground

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

Air date: 2012-02-22 • ★ 5.8

E16: 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.

Air date: 2012-02-29 • ★ 7.2

E17: 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.

Air date: 2012-04-21 • ★ 7.6

E18: 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.

Air date: 2012-04-18 • ★ 7.6

E19: 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.

Air date: 2012-04-25 • ★ 6.6

E20: 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.

Air date: 2012-05-02 • ★ 7.4

E21: 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.

Air date: 2012-05-09 • ★ 8.2

E22: 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.

Air date: 2012-05-16 • ★ 5.5

E23: 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.

Air date: 2012-05-23 • ★ 6.2