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
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