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Episode 1: Amends
In the seventh-season opener, Eames must reinvestigate her husband's murder after his former partner is killed.

Episode 2: Seeds
A fertility doctor's brutal murder leads Det. Logan and his new partner, Nola Falacci, to the victim's brother, also a doctor, with some interesting practices of his own.

Episode 3: Smile
A dentist's murder leads detectives on the trail of counterfeit and poisoned mouthwash that involves the FDA and Wall Street.

Episode 4: Lonelyville
Logan and Falacci look into the strangulation death of a woman, and soon find that her emerald earrings may have been the reason for her murder.

Episode 5: Depths
The case of a dead diver causes tension to surface between the department and the FBI over possible terrorist connections. Goren and Eames' probe, however, leads them to the treacherous world of deep-sea treasure hunters.

Episode 6:  Courtship
Two prime suspects are investigated after a corrupt judges wife is found shot. One is a private investigator with his own style of justice and the other is a divorcing couple.

Episode 7: Self-made
Goren and Eames find suspects from a lavish library circle and urban society known as roots, after a writer is found tortured and murdered.

Episode 8: Offense
The witness of a well-publicized is discovered murdered. The evidence points towards the members of a college football team, but further investigating reveals that an attorney may have had a connection with the crime.

Episode 9: Untethered
Goren goes undercover in a mental ward when his nephew, an inmate, witnesses a possible murder.

Episode 10: Senseless
Logan and Falacci are emotionally effected when they investigate an execution style shooting of a college freshman.

Episode 11: Purgatory
As Goren awaits his reinstatement, he goes undercover to pursue a big time drug dealer as a means to prove his worth.

Episode 12: Contract
The murder of a gossip columnist finds a long list of possible suspects, which includes a real-estate developer and news anchor.

Episode 13: Betrayed
The disappearance of a man and his young lover points a guilty finger towards his jilted lover.

Episode 14: Assassin
A politician from Sri Lanka and members of her entourage are the victims of an assassination attempt and shootings. But the investigation has the detectives believing that she is behind the attacks.

Episode 15: Please Note We are No Longer Accepting Letters of Recommendation from Henry Kissenger
An investigation of exclusive preschool with a long waiting list occurs when three of the parents are found murdered.

Episode 16: Reunion
The case of a former groupie who is now the star of her own television show is found murdered, and the suspects include her own assistant, her son, a famous musician and his wife.

Episode 17: Vanishing Act
A celebrity magician disappears during one of his own magic stunts, bringing Goren and Eames into his world of prestidigitation.

Episode 18: Ten Count
When Logan's friend is implicated in a night club shooting, the investigation leads Logan and Wheeler deep into the world of amateur boxing. However, Logan's tie to the suspect may lead to disaster for his career.

Episode 19: Legacy
The detectives uncovers the online culture, grade obsession and secretive nature at a private school when a student is found dead.

Episode 20: Neighborhood Watch
Wheeler and Logan are called to investigate when a man is found decapitated, mutilated and stabbed.

Episode 21: Last Rites
Logan's career, as well as Wheeler's, is put on the line when a priest convinces him to reopen a case that may reveal the corruption of an ADA who will go to any length necessary -- including getting Logan and Wheeler removed from their jobs -- to keep the truth a secret.

Episode 22: Frame
Bobby must face his past after finding a picture on his mother's grave that leads him to believe a past nemesis has re-entered his life. Later, the case becomes increasingly complex when Bobby's brother and mentor both arrive in town.

Source: TVrage.com

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I will do season 8 once a few episodes have been aired

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I will give a try at doing The Mentalist guide and about

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The Mentalist is an action/adventure drama that premiered in September 2008.

The Plot:
THE MENTALIST stars Golden Globe Award nominee Simon Baker as Patrick Jane, an independent consultant with the California Bureau of Investigation (CBI), who has a remarkable track record for solving serious crimes by using his razor sharp skills of observation. Within the Bureau, Jane is notorious for his blatant lack of protocol and his semi-celebrity past as a psychic medium, whose paranormal abilities he now admits he feigned. Jane's role in cracking a series of tough high-profile cases is greatly valued by his fellow agents. However, no-nonsense Senior Agent Teresa Lisbon openly resists having Jane in her unit and alternates between reluctantly acknowledging Jane's usefulness and blasting him for his theatrics, narcissism and dangerous lack of boundaries. Lisbon's team includes agents Kimball Cho, Wayne Rigsby and rookie member Grace Van Pelt, who all think Jane's a loose cannon but admire his charm and knack for clearing cases.

The Cast:

Simon Baker	Patrick Jane was previously making a living as a psychic who assisted the police on cases. His life was turned upside down when he lost the two most important people in his life to one of the serial killers he was tracking. He now uses his observation skills and genius to help the California Bureau of Investigation hunt down criminals and solve crimes. He works with Senior Agent Teresa Lisbon, Agents Kimball Cho & Wayne Rigsby and the rookie Grace Van Pelt.
Robin Tunney	Teresa Lisbon is a Senior Agent at the California Bureau of Investigation, she is smart, witty, sarcastic, no-nonsense, sometimes impatient and also Courageous, willing to put herself in danger, Lisbon's mother was killed by a drunk driver, and supposedly her father almost killed Lisbon and her brothers.
Tim Kang	Kimball Cho is a straight arrow of an investigator on The Mentalist. He works alongside Patrick Jane and prefers to follow cases by the book like Teresa Lisbon, as opposed to Jane's unique take on investgations.
Owain Yeoman	Wayne Rigsby often works with Cho and Van Pelt, and he has a growing crush on Grace.
Amanda Righetti	Grace Van Pelt Grace's sister Yolanda is a "physic", supposedly. She tends to be sensitive at certain times, but she's very smart. Van Pelt works a lot with Rigsby and Cho most of the time, but she occasionally works with Jane or Lisbon. She is almost like the rookie of the team.

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Episode 1: Pilot
This episode introduces us to the complex life of Patrick Jane, a police detective with a troubled past who has a keen eye for detail. When a man and woman are found dead in their home, many believe they are victims of a serial killer, but Patrick knows better and must prove that this was not the work of Red John.

Episode 2: Red Hair and Silver Tape
The CBI is called in to investigate the murder of a young woman, found tied up and dumped in a Northern Napa County vineyard. Lisbon focuses on the theory that this was the result of a lovers' quarrel, but Jane believes this may be the work of a serial killer. He investigates his own theories and gets the team's assistance with a plan to catch the killer.

Episode 3: Red Tide
A drowned girl's body is found on the Santa Marta beach, and many of her surfer friends are suspects. When interviews lead to nothing, Patrick uses his skills to determine and catch the killer.

Episode 4: Ladies in Red
Jason Sands, a wealthy banker and political contributor is found dead inside his residence vault. After being tortured, he had bled to death in his vault. Patrick and the team delve into Jason's private life to find the murderer.

Episode 5: Redwood
A girl is found stabbed to death in the woods, and her best friend is missing. She is found covered in blood with a knife in her hand, which makes her the prime suspect, but she is suffering from memory loss. Patrick Jane uses his mentalist skills to help find out what really happened.

Episode 6: Red-Handed
A severed hand is found on the California-Nevada state line, that belongs to a murdered hotel casino owner. While the CBI team suspects a mafia hit, Patrick Jane uses the investigation as an opportunity to win at the cards tables.

Episode 7: Seeing Red
hen Rosemary Tennant becomes the victim of a hit and run, Patrick Jane takes on her psychic adviser, who claims to have foreseen her death, as he thinks she is a fraud.

Episode 8: The Thin Red Line
CBI are called to a murder scene, when the State's witness in a drug trial and a girl are found dead in a motel room. Local police are quick to decide that Rick Carass, the drug dealer on trial, is behind the murder, but Patrick Jane thinks otherwise.

Episode 9: Flame Red
Jane and the team head to a small farming town to investigate the murder of a National Guard veteran, Rich Garcia, who was killed in an arson fire. After learning Rich's fellow veteran buddy, Dave Martin, was killed in a house fire a few years back, the team goes to question the town's police chief, also a veteran from Rich's unit, only to find the police station a blaze. With three out of four members from the unit killed by fire, the CBI digs deeper and learns Dave discovered something more valuable than gold to the drought-stricken farming community - a limitless water supply on land purchased for him by his fellow soldiers. When Dave wouldn't cut them in on the potential profits, his "buddies" set his house on fire. Evidence points to the only surviving soldier, Ben Machado, but when someone tries to set him on fire, the team realizes the killer they're after is not motivated by greed but is instead out to revenge Dave's murder.

Episode 10: Red Brick and Ivy
The poisoning of a leading scientific researcher is of a personal interest for Patrick Jane when he learns the victim's wife is the prime suspect, and was Jane's former psychiatrist.

Episode 11: Red John's Friends
Patrick Jane becomes focused on a convicted murderer who promises to reveal information on Red John upon his release, and quits the CBI in order to prove the prisoner's innocence.

Episode 12: Red Rum
When Cody Elkins, a high school football star, is found murdered, all trails point to the local witch, as her motive could be revenge for Cody stealing, torturing and killing her cat. When the CBI goes to investigate, she admits to having put a killing spell on Cody, but Jane still shows skepticism.

Episode 13: Paint It Red
Jane and the CBI team delve into the art world when a fifty million dollar painting is stolen off the office wall of an oil tycoon, A.P. Caid, and his son-in-law is found dead nearby. While it appears the son-in-law, Harry Lashley, was in on the robbery, Jane thinks otherwise and A.P.’s daughter, Stevie, pleas with him to prove her husband is innocent. As the team works to find the real killer and the stolen painting they encounter a variety of suspects including: an art forger who was hired by A.P. to paint a copy of the stolen painting, an art curator with a side-line in helping rich people purchase art, and a criminal Russian oil baron who A.P. outbid to get the painting originally.

Episode 14: Crimson Casanova
With Patrick Jane's help, Cho goes undercover as a ladies' man with all the right moves in order to catch a killer who has his own set of pseudo-mentalist techniques.

Episode 15: Scarlett Fever
A woman is poisoned at a country club, while a party is in full swing, so the CBI is called to investigate. The team soon finds out, that each of the suspects is hiding something.

Episode 16: Bloodshot (NOT YET AIRED)
Patrick Jane must rely on his other senses during the murder investigation of a financial advisor when he loses his sight as a result of an explosion.

Episode 17: Carnelian, Inc. (NOT YET AIRED)
The CBI is called to investigate when the personnel director of Carnelian, Inc. plummets to his death at Jane's feet during a skydiving exercise.

Episode 18: Russet Potatoes (NOT YET AIRED)
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Episode 19: A Dozen Red Roses (NOT YET AIRED)
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Episode 20: Red Sauce (NOT YET AIRED)
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Source: CBS.com & TV.com

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I will have a go at Law & Order: Special Victims Unit when it comes out doing the guide

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Episode 1: Payback
Benson and Stabler investigate the stabbing and castration of a cab driver, only to learn that the victim had purchased a phony hack license from an inmate at Rikers Island. Further investigation reveals that the dead man was a Serbian soldier named Stefan Tanzic, who had been indicted on charges of ethnic cleansing. Herself a child of rape, Benson has trouble separating herself from the case after realizing that the victim was a rapist. Stabler tries to keep her from crossing the line in her attempts to protect suspects she feels were justified in their actions.

Episode 2: A Single Life
When the body of Gretchen Quinn is found wearing only a red slip after having been defenestrated from her apartment window, Benson and Stabler soon find out that "Gretchen Quinn" was just an alias. While trying to piece together her life, the detectives are led to the victim's psychiatrist and a well-known television newscaster, both of whom were sleeping with her. It soons comes to light she was a young woman who changed her name and identity after graduating high school, to get away from her sexually abusive father.

Episode 3: Or Just Look Like One
After teen model Jazmin Burgess is beaten, raped, and dumped in front of Roosevelt Hospital, Benson and Stabler investigate to find out why a 16-year-old girl was out alone after midnight. High levels of drugs in Jazmin's system lead them to take a look at not only the modeling agency with which Jazmin was signed, but also the photographer who was supervising her last shoot (and had booted her out because she was "too heavy"). Stabler's disgust with the whole issue is aggravated by his concern that their daughter Maureen, who has been refusing to eat, may be anorexic.

Episode 4: Hysteria
When a young woman is found dead, she is initially believed to be a prostitute and the latest victim of a serial killer. When looking into her home life, Benson and Stabler realize that she does not fit the pattern, and may not be connected to the other deaths after all. However, the other deaths have a connection no one anticipated.

Episode 5: Wanderlust
After a travel writer is found nude, strangled, and beaten to death with lingerie stuffed down his throat and duct tape over his mouth, Benson and Stabler initially suspect his landlady's boyfriend, a convicted child molestor. But suspicion soon turns to the landlady and her daughter, who seem far too interested in what their tenant was doing with his time. After learning the daughter had a sexual relationship with the tenant, things take an even stranger turn.

Episode 6: Sophomore Jinx
After a female student is found raped and murdered at a local college, Benson and Stabler turn their attention to two star players on the school's basketball team. However, the college, unwilling to risk the negative publicity that the investigation could bring to the school and the upcoming championship, blocks their investigation at every turn.

Episode 7: Uncivilized
When a young boy is found murdered, suspicion leads Benson and Stabler to a recently paroled child molester, who soon becomes a test case for a new and broader application of civil commitment. Although they both hate what the man has done in the past, it is soon obvious to the detectives that the teenagers who initially steered them in the man's direction are hiding secrets of their own.

Episode 8: Stalked
When the body of an assistant district attorney is found raped and beaten in Central Park, Benson lets her emotions get the best of her as she takes it upon herself to bring the suspected rapist, a local realtor, to justice. Stabler tries to get the man's business partner to help in the investigation, but Benson may be the one who ends up needing help.

Episode 9: Stocks & Bondage
When a financial analyst and devotee of BDSM is found strangled to death in a leather harness in her bedroom, Benson and Stabler at first suspect either suicide or accidental death from autoerotic asphyxiation. However, the discovery of a large quantity of hidden diamonds leads the detectives into a shadowy world of money laundering and securities fraud.

Episode 10: Closure
Benson does her best to help a rape victim, who is able to describe her attack (but not the attacker) in perfect detail, cope. When the detectives revisit the case a few months later, they find the woman even less willing to talk about what happened, as she claims she has moved on. Things turn uncomfortable within the squad when Benson and Cassidy spend the night together, because Benson just wanted one night, but Cassidy is left wanting more.

Episode 11: Bad Blood
The death of a young gay man initially leads Benson and Stabler to investigate his father, but once they start looking into the young man's living arrangements, they realize the person they're looking for may be closer than they think. Munch tries to help Benson find the man who raped her mother and could be her father.

Episode 12: Russian Love Poem
When Andrew Harlin, a bisexual multi-millionaire, is found murdered in his home, Benson and Stabler turn their suspicion to Harlin's long list of lovers. Evidence at the crime scene leads detectives to a pair of Russian escorts, but before they can get the truth from them, one turns up dead, and the boyfriend of the other confesses to murder.

Episode 13: Disrobed
After a judge is found murdered in his car, the detectives begin looking into his background and learn that he often delivered special verdicts for women in return for sexual favors. The team soon turns their eye to a battered wife with a secret. Cassidy transfers to Narcotics.

Episode 14: Limitations
At the request of a victim, the police commissioner comes to Cragen with a special request: close the case of the man who raped three women nearly five years ago before the statute of limitations expires. The detectives finally get a lead when they realize one of the victims knows the rapist, but she's not willing to talk.

Episode 15: Entitled
After a salesman is murdered, the detectives turn their attention to Stephanie Mulroney, the youngest daughter of a well-known family with some deep connections. But as they join forces with the officers from the 27th Precinct, they realize that their case is connected with a long-unsolved case that Briscoe once handled years ago with his former partner.

Episode 16: The Third Guy
An elderly woman is found tied up and sexually assaulted in her apartment, and suspicion is initially on the young men that had broken into her home and robbed her. Once the detectives catch the young men, they learn that there was someone else in the apartment. The offered plea bargain initially doesn't go over well, but they finally reach a deal which leaves the detectives with a new case - whether or not the person who sexually assaulted the woman was mentally handicapped.

Episode 17: Misleader
After the pregnant daughter-in-law of a prominent Christian right leader is found murdered in her hotel room, the detectives investigate a rash of hotel burglaries, only to discover that her adultery -- and the probable father of her child -- was probably what lead to her death.

Episode 18: Chat Room
When a teenage girl comes into the squad room to tell the detectives that she was raped by a man she met on the Internet, the detectives set up a special sting operation. They end up stepping on some highly-placed toes as Munch plays the kid to net the big fish.

Episode 19: Contact
After seven young women in a six-month time span are raped by a flash and dash assailant on the city subways, the brass calls in a psychiatrist to help the team get into the head of the perp. When he is caught, all seven victims identify him in a police lineup, but the IDs are suppressed. However, the detectives find that he possesses the driver's license of a new victim who could put him away.

Episode 20: Remorse
Television reporter Sarah Logan refuses to let her recent rape get her down, and talks about her experiences on the air, leading to the arrest of a young man that the team feels is responsible.

Episode 21: Nocturne
After a pharmacy turns over some disturbing photos of a young boy, Benson and Stabler arrest a piano teacher for child molestation. After the boy claims to have seen other pictures of young boys at the teacher's house, the detectives get a warrant and discover a series of videos that document the life of a young boy named Evan. Believing he can make or break their case, the team searches for him, only to realize that his testimony may not help at all because Evan is scarred far more deeply than they realized.

Episode 22: Slaves
After a shopkeeper brings a note for help to the squad, the detectives begin trying to locate a young Romanian woman named Ilena, who hasn't been seen in months. The squad eventually find her working as a nanny at the home of the Morrows, a successful yuppie couple who harbor a terrible secret. A forensic psychologist analyzes the team, and presents disturbing findings to Cragen, suggesting that one of the detectives be removed from the team.

Source: Wikipedia

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Episode 1: Wrong Is Right
Stabler's daughter, Maureen, bears witness to a horrific crime scene: the murder of a man who was set on fire. The internal investigation into the psyches of the SVU detectives yields interesting results. Monique Jeffries is removed from active duty and placed on desk duty, and is replaced by Fin Tutuola. Cabot joins the SVU squad.

Episode 2: Honor
The vicious assault of an Afghan diplomat's daughter uncovers clues that may suggest Taliban traditions justify "honor killings" when the child defies the wishes of their parents or their culture.

Episode 3: Closure Part 2
Stabler and Benson investigate a sexual assault very similar to one they worked six months ago whose victim follows her alleged attacker and reports his activities to the police.

Episode 4: Legacy
An abused 7-year-old girl lays comatose as the detectives investigate members of her dysfunctional family to determine the source of the abuse, in a case that hits close to home for Munch.

Episode 5: Baby Killer
The tragic shooting death of a young girl leads investigators to a little boy, and they soon realise that the gun used has been used in another crime scene.

Episode 6: Noncompliance
The question of patients' rights surfaces when a schizophrenic man refusing to take his medication is a suspect in the stabbing death of psychiatric doctoral student.

Episode 7: Asunder
The truth behind the alleged rape of a woman by her police officer husband comes to light when a history of domestic abuse is uncovered. Monique Jeffries leaves the squad and files a discrimination suit against the NYPD.

Episode 8: Taken
The case of a seventeen-year-old rape victim during the opening festivities of a luxury hotel takes a strange turn when her immediate family tries to keep the scandal quiet by preparing a lawsuit. Detectives soon realise that the girl isn't the innocent she pretends to be. Benson struggles to deal with her mother's death.

Episode 9: Pixies
The investigation of a gymnast's murder involves her strict trainer, a wealthy benefactor and a competitor.

Episode 10: Consent
A college girl is raped during a frat party, but can't remember anything that happened. The detectives find that she had a date rape drug in her system, leaving the detectives with many suspects and accomplices.

Episode 11: Abuse
Stabler and Benson suspect parental neglect may have led to the tragic death of the son of two famous singers, leading them to fear for their little girl. When Benson develops a strong attachment to the girl, her parents' reaction puts her job in jeopardy.

Episode 12: Secrets
A case involving the rape and murder of a teacher hits a snag after the woman's illicit sexual history is exposed by one of her students.

Episode 13: Victims
A former police officer, now a community activist, is a suspect in the murders of known sex offenders, all of whom share a certain characteristic that scars their victims for life.

Episode 14: Paranoia
The rape of a veteran police officer, who trained Benson, is first linked to her ex-husband's gambling debts, and then to her fellow officers.

Episode 15: Countdown
The detectives work around the clock to find an abducted girl when clues point to a serial killer who kills his victims after three days, and follows a very specific pattern: during the three days the man has a Party Day, a Picture Day, and finally a Special Day on which the victims are raped and murdered. The investigation is assisted by the killer's last victim, who escaped.

Episode 16: Runaway
The search for a police officer's runaway daughter, which leads the detectives through an underground rave culture that caters to wayward teens, is seen through the eyes of the squad room personnel and their interviews with the Internal Affairs division. Monique Jeffries returns in her final appearance to help her former colleagues find the missing girl.

Episode 17: Folly
The beating of a young man uncovers a dangerous male escort service where the boss may have reasons for sending her staff on potentially deadly dates.

Episode 18: Manhunt
The details of a kidnapping are similar to a series of rapes and murders that may link the crime to a serial killer.

Episode 19: Parasites
When the remains of a young woman are found buried in an apartment courtyard with a collar and leash, Detectives Benson and Stabler determine that the dead woman is Ava Parulis, a Romanian immigrant who was brought to the United States for an arranged marriage. They discover from Ava's estranged twin, Irina, that the dead woman had left her abusive husband, and made a habit of taking advantage of wealthy suitors.

Episode 20: Pique
Observed by a FBI psychiatrist, George Huang, the detectives uncover a horrifying motive for the slaying of a software company employee by a fired colleague when they learn of the suspect's true relationship with his overbearing mother.

Episode 21: Scourge
The team searches for a serial killer who justifies his crimes with paranoid religious motivation set on by a rapidly deteriorating medical condition.


Source: Wikipedia

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Episode 1: Repression
After therapy uncovers repressed memories of abuse and fearing her seven-year-old sister is currently being molested, an eighteen-year-old girl brings charges of rape against her father who winds up murdered when those charges are dismissed.

Episode 2: Wrath
The detectives investigate three murders that seemingly have with no connection to each other, but each one has ties to Benson's previous cases and the detectives worry that Benson is the intended target.

Episode 3: Stolen
The kidnapping of an infant at a grocery store leads to a scheme of snatching and selling babies for adoption which brings back a case from twelve years ago that involved Captain Cragen and his partner, the late Max Greevey.

Episode 4: Rooftop
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 that cannot be traced to him, though, they begin to wonder if they've been looking the wrong way.

Episode 5: Tangled
When arriving party guests find a prominent doctor murdered and his wife raped, the investigation starts with his estranged son and a former patient, then moves to his mistress and her neighbor and the realization that the wife was the intended victim.

Episode 6: Redemption
Detective Stabler is paired with John "Hawk" Hawkins, a rough opinionated cop, who damages both his job and his personal life. They try to catch a serial rapist and murderer. Their suspect is a recently released prisoner, who was put in jail years ago due to Hawk. Alas, they come to deduct that not only is the predator someone else, but that the former prisoner is innocent of his past crimes too, which means Hawk was responsible for putting an innocent man behind bars.

Episode 7: Sacrifice
A shooting outside of a gay bar leads the detectives to the victim's family, which includes a bitter feud with his parents, and his wife's involvement in pornographic movies.

Episode 8:  Inheritance
A young Asian woman is severely beaten and raped at a burglary site. Benson and Stabler initially suspect rival Asian gang members, who are in dispute over the victim's loyalty. The theory is disproved when another Asian victim is found, which leads to a serial rapist whose father may have committed similar crimes in his own past. The trial focuses on the impact of genetic predisposition versus environmental upbringing on the nature of violence.

Episode 9: Care
The beaten body of a five year-old girl in foster care is found. Detectives Benson and Stabler investigate her complicated family ties. They learn the girl's birth mother always tried to get back her daughter from the foster mother and grandmother, who was responsible for the girl before she died. They then investigate her foster brother. Captain Cragen manages to reach him with the help of a video game.

Episode 10: Ridicule
What appears as an accidental death leads to a case involving a male stripper who claims that the deceased was one of three women who raped him at a bachelorette party.

Episode 11: Monogamy
A pregnant woman is attacked and has her fetus ripped from her womb. Detectives Benson and Stabler quickly look for the baby hoping he's still alive. The woman's husband seems shocked, but it is soon learned she may have had an affair with a construction worker. Thus both men become suspects.

Episode 12: Protection
A troubled six year-old kid is shot and then abandoned by his angry mother in an emergency room. Detectives Benson and Stabler look for his missing family members in order to find his shooter. But when he is attacked again, another reason is added for finding his mother: To warn her she might be the next victim.

Episode 13: Prodigy
A man and a woman are stabbed during a supposedly romantic park encounter. The woman's head as well as her hands are missing, which makes it difficult for detectives Benson and Stabler to identify the victims. They soon learn the crime scene was staged and that the woman was an officer of the Manhattan Federation for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. This leads them to various people from her organization, as well as its opposers.

Episode 14: Counterfeit
A woman is found raped and killed by her car. Benson and Tutuola try to figure out why there were drugs in the victim's trunk but then find that a similar rape was committed. This victim says that a police officer raped her after pulling her over for a supposed driving violation. The D.A. now has to zero in on the corrupt cop.

Episode 15: Execution
As an inmate gets closer and closer to his death penalty sentence, Stabler struggles to find out whether that man was the perpetrator of a different crime with an unidentified murderer. Dr. Huang assists Stabler but the investigation goes haywire to mixed results.

Episode 16: Popular
Stabler's wife tells him that her friend (a nurse) treated a young girl for rape by a teacher. Despite being advised not to find out further details, Stabler, with help from Benson, crack open the case to disturbing details. The girl had been part of a club in which sexual favors were given for drugs in a group of teenagers.

Episode 17: Surveillance
A young cellist, Cassie Germaine is attacked in her apartment. Detectives Benson and Stabler investigate her orchestra conductor, Robert Prescott. They learn he was involved with amateur erotic filmmaking, and that her apartment is surrounded with hidden cameras installed by an obsessed stalker.

Episode 18: Guilt
ADA Cabot faces a reluctant witness in a case of child molestation. She goes far beyond the line of duty to find evidence against the serial abuser. She even sends detectives Benson and Stabler to illegally search the boy's home and almost ruins the case and all of their careers.

Episode 19: Justice
The stepdaughter of a judge is raped and killed. The judge is known for throwing hard sentences on sex offenders. However, his stepdaughter also had a troubled past that involved relationships both with her father's court's sex offenders and within her own family.

Episode 20: Greed
The wife of a business man is found raped and bludgeoned on their kitchen floor. Detectives Benson and Stabler suspect it was a serial rapist. When another attack takes place, they re-focus their attention on both sets of grieving husbands and their recovering wives.

Episode 21: Denial
A drug addict is sexually attacked. In her purse, detectives Benson and Stabler find a decomposing baby's finger. When looking for both her attacker and the baby, they suspect she might be withholding information to protect her mother or grandmother. The former narcotics detective Tutuola tries to help by getting her clean.

Episode 22: Competence
The investigation into the rape and impregnation of a young girl with Down Syndrome uncovers a serial rapist who preys on handicapped young girls under the guise of being their benefactor.

Episode 23: Silence
A murder takes place in a church. Detectives Benson and Stabler learn that the murderer had been paid off by the church to stop him from reporting how he was sexually abused by a priest as a child. He blames the church for taking away his innocence and accuses a priest from his youth, Father Michael of child molestation.

Source: Wikipedia

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Episode 1: Chameleon
The detectives go on the trail of a recently paroled rapist responsible for the murder of a prostitute during a raid at a men's club and are called to the scene where he was shot in self defense by his own gun. However, the murder weapon was also used in another crime while he was still in prison, leading the detectives to investigate the victim through a trail of previously unsolved cases, a spending spree and another victim.

Episode 2: Deception
A family portrait painted by a kindergartner leads the detectives to investigate her mother for child sexual abuse of her teenage stepson. When the boy's father is found murdered, the focus of the investigation shifts to the boy - and his stepmother goes to great lengths to protect him and prevent the detectives from learning the truth. The stepmother is played by actress Sherilyn Fenn.

Episode 3:  Vulnerable
When an elderly woman breaks into an apartment, the detectives discover she had been mistreated but have to investigate with no credible information from the victim because of Alzheimer's disease. They discover that she had been released from a nursing home to the custody of her financially scheming son who becomes the prime suspect. However, they go back to the nursing home to find a pair of suspects, including the director who details the dangers faced by both patients and staff with her own heroics precariously standing out.

Episode 4: Lust
The wife of a retired attorney, a public-health doctor, is found murdered and raped in Central Park. Her work involved contacting sexual partners of HIV patients which gives the detectives a long list of suspects. The discovery of a second body in Central Park with the same signature shifts the focus to a serial killer; however, the trail leads to a man who has no knowledge of the crimes but has a distant connection to the doctor and her husband.

Episode 5: Disappearing Acts
The detectives respond to a brutal rape only to have the victim taken into custody by federal agents on racketeering charges. The investigation leads them to a father-son duo who are in the federal witness protection program and an agent who appears bound and determined to protect them, regardless of consequence, so they can testify against the Russian mob.

Episode 6: Angels
The body of a battered young boy found in a luggage compartment of an airport shuttle bus sends the detectives to his guardian who was discovered to be a pedophile only to find his corpse in bed with his genitals removed. The subsequent investigation leads them to a travel agency specializing in exotic trips for sexual predators.

Episode 7: Dolls
When the decomposing body of sexually molested five-year-old girl is discovered, Detectives Benson and Stabler's investigation leads them to the painful reality that they are searching for a serial pedophile as they race to save the life of his latest victim. As the mother of the missing girl frantically awaits news of her daughter's whereabouts, she must reconcile the fact that her own recent bout with addiction may have played a part in her daughter's fate.

Episode 8: Waste
The investigation into the rape of a comatose woman leads to a doctor whose stem cell research is funded by a billionaire with Parkinson's disease who is desperate for a cure.

Episode 9: Juvenile
Two kids blame eachother for the death and rape of a marijuna-growing drug dealer.

Episode 10: Resilience
When a fifteen year old girl is saved from jumping in front of a train, SVU is called in to help her. She falsely accuses an ex-boyfriend of raping her, but when the search turns to her dysfunctional family, surprise discoveries are made. From an overly helpful father, mysterious children, an overaffectionate little girl, a bracelet, and finally sperm from two men who never raped, SVU discovers that the family is even worse off than they thought.

Episode 11: Damaged
When a six-year-old girl who was critically injured in an apparent robbery gone bad later dies and tests positive for a sexually transmitted disease, detectives investigate the family, the store clerk, and the son of a prominent attorney who had appeared to foil the crime. After evidence turns up that the little girl's older sister was dating the alleged sexual predator, ADA Cabot attempts to eradicate the deal that had been made with the older sister for her testimony.

Episode 12: Risk
Cocaine being smuggled in baby formulas leads detectives to a good cop gone bad. When they start to get closer to the truth they have to put Detective Elliot Stabler undercover.When things get really heated it ends up putting Stabler's life in danger and he ends up having to make a choice to either kill or be killed.

Episode 13: Rotten
In their investigation of a prisoner's death, Benson and Tutuola learn that he was assaulted before being incarcerated.

Episode 14: Mercy
When the body of a baby girl is found inside a cooler, the detectives need to investigate just who she is, and how she got there. They soon learn that the little girl had a genetic disorder known as Tay-Sachs disease, and that her name is Sarah Brown, and she is the only daughter of Andrea and Daniel Brown. When Andrea admits to having killed her daughter, Alex has to put aside her own feelings of sympathy to prosecute Andrea Brown for the murder of her daughter.

Episode 15: Pandora
The brutal rape, and subsequent death, of a female motorist turns out to be an informant for the FBI acting as a cyber vigilante for catching on-line pedophiles to capture the predators. Stabler, along with the homicide detective who found the victim's husband murdered, follow the trail of evidence for the latest victim she had been tracking, leading them to the US Attorney's Office and a trip to Prague for Stabler to assist the Czech authorities when they find the girl who was tricked into going there.

Episode 16: Tortured
A Tibetan woman who was tortured in her home country is found murdered, with her foot missing, and after an exhaustive search of potential suspects, the killer is a victim of torture himself.

Episode 17: Privilege
Detectives Benson and Stabler are called to a crime scene – a young woman dressed in a maid's uniform has apparently committed suicide. But there's lots of sexual related bruising so they question whether she was pushed and if she was raped.

Episode 18: Desperate
After a young boy witnesses the brutal sexual assault and murder of his stepmother, his father blocks the efforts of the detectives to question him.

Episode 19: Appearances
The body of an eight year old beauty pageant contestant is found on a bus, leading the detectives to a paroled sex offender convicted in Florida who played out the crime on a virtual-pronography website, which results in Cabot putting the owner of the web hosting company on trial for facilitation of murder.

Episode 20: Dominance
A quadruple homicide with sexual overtones is just the start of an intense rampage of killings that brings a homicide detective into the mix. As the entire squad races against time to prevent further victims, the evidence leads Tutuola to a building superintendent, his two sons and a cross to bear.

Episode 21: Fallacy
Benson and Stabler try to prove self-defense when a rape victim kills her attacker. Events take an unusual turn when they find out that the victim is a pre-operative transvestite.

Episode 22: Futility
After arresting a man accused of raping several neighborhood women, Detectives Benson and Stabler attempt to obtain an indictment for their suspect with the help of a key eyewitness - his last victim. However, the suspect's decision to handle his own defense casts some doubt over the trial's outcome as he proves to be a formidable opponent for A.D.A. Cabot.

Episode 23: Grief
A dead girl is found outside a bar. The death, however, is ruled a suicide (because the victim's boyfriend continually raped her), but the victim's father snaps on the side and vows revenge against his daughter's rapist.

Episode 24: Perfect
A murdered 14-year-old girl leads the detectives to a prominent physician who specialises in reproductive therapy.

Episode 25: Soulless
After a rape victim is abducted from the hospital and later found murdered, the detectives discover that one of the multiple suspects is a sociopath with a juvenile conviction for rape, torture and murder.

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spratt89

Episode 1: Tragedy
In a race against time to find a woman with a high-risk pregnancy who's kidnapped as approaches her delivery date, Benson and Stabler are faced with more than one suspect willing to take the fall for the crime.

Episode 2: Manic
When a student is accused of shooting and killing two of his classmates, his lawyer defends that he was forced to take depression medication in order to attend school. The trail of evidence eventually leads to an illegal marketing scheme by a major pharmaceutical company.

Episode 3: Mother
Although they are hampered by doctor-patient confidentiality as they investigate the near-fatal beating of a psychiatrist who may have been attacked by one of her patients, Benson and Stabler are able to link the assault to child abuse and a unsolved homicide.

Episode 4: Loss
nvestigating the brutal rape and murder of an undercover federal agent and forced to use discretion in order to protect the identities of those agents in the field, the detectives arrest a suspect highly connected with a Colombian drug cartel. As the case proceeds towards trial, Cabot is faced with death threats on herself and her family along with pressure to yield the case to federal authorities.

Episode 5: Serendipity
A dead baby is found in a gutter, sending the detectives on a hunt for its mother. She too turns up dead, and the clues point to a dermatologist whose DNA happens to match the evidence in a cold case of child molestation. Casey Novak, the ADA newly assigned to prosecute SVU cases, butts heads with Benson and Stabler over their handling of these murders. Though she has the blessing of DA Arthur Branch, she is still unsure of whether or not she is the right person to take Cabot's place.

Episode 6: Coerced
In resolving the kidnapping case of a little boy by a schizophrenic, Stabler uncovers further crimes at an adult group home with Huang's help.

Episode 7: Choice
A man is arrested for attacking his pregnant wife in protest of her drinking during pregnancy. Detective Benson finds out it is not the first time she has overindulged in alcohol during pregnancy. The wife is taken to family court by her husband, who accuses her of endangering the fetus by putting it at risk of developing fetal alcohol syndrome.

Episode 8: Abomination
A minister (clearly based on Fred Phelps), who used to harass a sexual re-education group's homosexual poster-boy, is suspected for his murder. However, his alibi checks out. It is revealed the victim had a thesis about the failure of sexual re-education groups, which drew the attention of an opposing professor.

Episode 9: Control
Detectives Benson and Stabler investigate a man's mutilation in a subway station. The victim soon becomes a suspect when they learn he used to abduct women, make them his "brides," and force them to live in his dungeon. However, a woman manages to kill him before he is arrested. She claims she took the law into her own hands because when she reported the man's crimes to Detective Benson four years earlier, she didn't believe her. Based on the crimes of John Jamelske.

Episode 10: Shaken
The discovery of a beaten infant leads Stabler and Cragen on a search for the attacker who may be a pedophile. When the medical evidence shows that the injuries were a result of shaken baby syndrome, Stabler shifts the focus of the investigation to those closest to the child: her mother, the nannies and a boyfriend of the mother.

Episode 11: Escape
When a convicted pedophile, desperate to prove his innocence before his terminally ill mother dies, escapes from prison and kidnaps his accuser to force him to recant his story, Benson finds herself in the middle of a hostage situation beginning to believe his story. After he is disarmed, Benson reviews his case to try to uncover the truth.

Episode 12: Brotherhood
A local fraternity pledge master is sodomized and murdered. The detectives link it to a pornographic website that features college girls at a local bar. The investigation later re-focuses on ceremonies held for prospective pledges in the fraternity, even though the members won't talk.

Episode 13: Hate
After a man accused of the murders of three Arabs claims that he was genetically and biologically predisposed to hatred and violence, Benson and Stabler dispel the fallacy of his defense when they uncover the real impetus to the slayings.

Episode 14: Ritual
The investigation into the death of a young boy who appears to be the victim of a ritualistic killing leads to the discovery that he was one of many children smuggled from Nigeria to be sold into slavery

Episode 15: Families
The investigation into the death of a pregnant teenager exposes a long-held family secret which precipitates another violent death and the destruction of two families.

Episode 16: Home
A bystander is killed in a robbery, which triggers his mentally ill home-schooling wife towards child abuse, abandonment and death.

Episode 17: Mean
The conviction of a group of sociopathic high school bullies who turned one of their own from a victimiser into a torture murder victim escalates the systematic peer abuse at their exclusive private school, leading to further tragedy.

Episode 18: Careless
The investigation into the death of a foster child, who passed out at a midnight exorcism, leads to charges of neglect and murder for the foster parents and the social worker.

Episode 19: Sick
The prosecution of a suspected pedophile is impeded by parents who refuse to produce their molested child for questioning to avoid losing the millions they were paid through a non-disclosure agreement, and by the discovery that a second molestation accusation was falsified in an attempt to extort a settlement similiar to that received by the first victim.

Episode 20: Lowdown
When the death of a prosecutor is staged using information gleaned from a co-worker's caseload, Novak endangers her career to obtain a confession.

Episode 21: Criminal
When it becomes obvious that a forensics expert raped and murdered a student, the investigation focuses on a criminology professor Cragen arrested decades earlier for similar crimes, and it's up to Cragen and his team to discover if the professor is the perpetrator or the victim of a bitter rival, a disappearing alibi witness, a corrupt businessman, and ultimately, Cragen's rush to judgment.

Episode 22: Painless
A defense lawyer challenges the assisted-suicide law in a case involving a hearing-impaired embryologist, whose website encouraged a woman to kill herself by putting a bag over her head and handcuffing herself to her bed, but failed after being found by two maids. The woman claims she was raped, and later commits suicide by medicine. Munch reveals that his father committed suicide after Munch insulted him.

Episode 23: Bound
An elderly woman's strangulation leads to a case involving mass murders in a home-nursing company owned by a brother and nursed by his sister. It turns out the sister tried to frame her brother to get back at him and their mother.

Episode 24: Poison
A child passes out and is hospitalized after having a huge amount of detergent in her stomach. Her sister reveals their mother forced the child to drink it, but a judge disqualifies the sister's testimony. Novak and Clark have the judge fired due to his prior two child abuse cases: In the first one, his ruling ended up with a mother killing her child by suffocation. In the second, he falsely jailed a woman.

Episode 25: Head
A man is investigated for hiding a video camera in a public restroom for sexual pleasure. To escape trial, he reveals an incriminating clip. In the clip a middle school female principal commits statutory rape with her teenaged male student in said public restroom. When the incident is exposed, her ashamed student son attacks her raped student at their school as revenge. It is then learned the principal did it due to her brain tumor, which can be cured by surgery. However, it is known to be able to grow back. Therefore, she agrees to register herself as a sex offender as part of a plea bargain. But after learning she got pregnant by her student, she breaks the bargain to contact him.

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spratt89

Episode 1: Birthright
The investigation into the attempted kidnapping of a six-year-old girl uncovers a fertility doctor's scheme to steal embryos, and prompts a custody battle between the child's biological and birth mothers.

Episode 2: Debt
As Benson and Stabler investigate the disappearance of a mother and her teen-aged daughter, they uncover a conspiracy between a corrupt immigration attorney and gangsters running a prostitution ring that is staffed by women they have smuggled into the country and imprisoned as sex slaves.

Episode 3: Obscene
One teenager is raped and another is imprisoned when they are thrown together by the manipulative adults in their lives whose sole motivations are celebrity and publicity for their own self-serving interests.

Episode 4: Scavenger
The entire squad races against the clock to solve the puzzles and uncover the clues scattered throughout the city by a serial killer who is taunting them to find him and the next victims on his list.

Episode 5: Outcry
A missing teenager found beaten and tied up in a college dormitory under construction claims that she was raped by three students, but as the investigation proceeds and information obtained by the police and the press causes her story to unravel quickly, the girl recants. Since Benson remains convinced that a rape did occur, the focus of the investigation shifts to the girl's overly-protective stepfather who has resisted the investigation from its onset. When the girl finally tells the truth about the attack, it becomes apparent that her lies were calculated to protect her innocent stepfather from physical and financial ruin, because the girl says her father's boss raped her. After the girl says who attacked her a previous victim comes forward and says that she had the same attacker.

Episode 6: Conscience
The detectives and the district attorney get played first by the teenage murderer of a young boy, and then by the victim's father, who uses his professional expertise to escape punishment for avenging his son's death.

Episode 7: Charisma
The investigation of an impregnated 12-year-old girl leads to a religious cult led by a con-artist who massacres the children raised within the "church," and an attempt to embezzle a fortune from the girls parents, one of which they suspect he murdered. Foiling his plot proves to be difficult, when his largely female followers refuse to cooperate with the police.

Episode 8: Doubt
After a woman claims to have been sexually assaulted by her college professor, the accused academician agrees to help Detectives Benson and Stabler by volunteering to submit a DNA sample for testing. But the case turns into a classic "he said, she said" stand-off when the professor claims the alleged victim showed up at his apartment seeking more then professional advice.

Episode 9: Weak
After arguing with Stabler about their personal lives, Benson enlists the help of a former cop turned psychiatrist in apprehending a serial rapist and murderer who attacks disabled women.

Episode 10: Haunted
Tutuola is reunited with his son as he risks his life to save two small children, one caught in the middle of a bodega robbery and the other from the junkie who set the child's mother up for murder and then stole him to use as a front in her scheme to boost materials for her meth lab.

Episode 11: Contagious
A medical exam after a car accident reveals a fourth-grader's sexual assault. The perpetrator is obvious -- but not as obvious as everyone thinks.

Episode 12: Identity
When a murdered gang member is linked to a sexual assault, Benson and Stabler find neither the alleged victim nor the alleged killer to be who they think.

Episode 13: Quarry
When the body of a seven-year-old child is found, the squad again begins to investigate convicted serial killer Lucas Biggs, believing that he molested and murdered the boy. While Biggs can detail every child he ever molested, he swears that he has no memory of this one. Further investigations show that there is another suspect, but before he can be picked up, someone picks him off.

Episode 14: Game
The squad is at a loss on what to do with a violent homicide when Stabler's son points out that the event is straight out of a video game. Interviewing the game's creators leads them to a former employee, who then leads them (with a few other steps along the way) to a teenage couple who claim to be unable to distinguish fantasy from reality.

Episode 15: Hooked
When the body of a teenager is found with her older cousin's I.D., Benson and Stabler investigate only to learn that that the teen had been part of a group who had 'hooked up' online. As their investigation intensified, they realised that the victim was the object of an older man's obsession, but before they can arrest him he also turns up dead.

Episode 16: Ghost
A series of drug-related hits leads the detectives back to the same man who tried to kill Alexandra Cabot, who returns from Witness Protection to assist with the case.

Episode 17: Rage
Fourteen years ago, Stabler had a chance to nail Gordon Rickett for the abduction, rape and murder of Dana MacNamara, but Rickett managed to get off. With the recent discovery of the body of Kerry Lynn Palmer, Stabler has another chance at cracking the case. They can only hold Rickett for twenty-four hours, but are able to glean enough information during that time period to at least have a place to start. Cragen and Benson both worry that Stabler will let his hatred for the suspected child molester interfere with his ability to do his job.

Episode 18: Pure
After an 18-year-old girl is kidnapped, psychic Sebastian Ballentine (played by Martin Short) comes forward claiming to have information on the killings. Stabler refuses to believe that Ballentine is a real psychic, and is convinced that the hints he is dropping about the case indicate he is somehow involved.

Episode 19: Intoxicated
When Denise Eldridge finds her fifteen-year-old daughter Carrie in bed with twenty-one-year-old Justin, she immediately calls police to have Justin charged with statutory rape. Benson intercedes on behalf of Carrie, calling a children's rights lawyer to assist her, but when Denise turns up dead, Carrie and Justin both end up on the suspect list. Benson tries to get some help from Simone Bryce, but Bryce is obligated to protect her client.

Episode 20: Night
Stabler and Benson investigate the case of a woman found raped and murdered, with a wad of money stuffed in her mouth, outside a nightclub and trace the money to a lawyer handling the finances of a wealthy family, the Duvalls. The detectives determine that Gabriel Duvall is the rapist and killer, but lack the evidence they need to put Duvall away until another woman, a Bosnian immigrant, comes forward and accuses Duvall of rape. Novak takes on the two cases when she is brutally assaulted in her office by the other victim's brother, an Islamic fundamentalist.

Episode 21: Blood
After a young woman's baby is tossed out of a car, Benson and Stabler investigate to find out what happened, and after learning the young woman is addicted to prescription pain killers, their investigation leads them to an elderly woman named Jenny Rogers, who lives with her son Kevin and daughter-in-law Carol. The young woman finally identifies Carol Rogers as the person who solds her the drugs, but when detectives go to confront Carol they find her body, and are left trying to uncover who really killed Carol. Stabler uses his influence as a police officer when his daughter, Kathleen, is arrested for drunk driving.

Episode 22: Parts
After a woman's head is found in a car junkyard, the detectives track it down to the black market.

Episode 23: Goliath
When two Police officers from separate precincts attack their wives and demonstrate suicidal behavior, Detectives Benson and Stabler investigate, and connect the incidents to both men serving in the same Reserve unit in Afghanistan. Linking this behavior to a similar trail of attacks in 2002 by officers, Benson and Stabler connect this to a drug called Quinium, which the Army prescribes to fight malaria. When they discover that the Army is aware of its side affects, Novak goes after the government for administering the drug. Meanwhile, Detective Stabler faces some tough personal issues at home with his wife.

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spratt89

Episode 1: Demons
Twenty years after being convicted of the rape of a teenage girl, Ray Schenkel is released, much to the dismay of retired detective William Dorsey. When a teenage girl is raped on the route Schenkel would have taken home, Stabler goes undercover as a recently paroled sex offender so that he can get into the same therapy group as Schenkel, and the same halfway house. Cragen worries that Stabler may be getting in over his head.

Episode 2: Design
Benson saves April Troost from committing suicide, but feels responsible when Troost dies during the trial of the man she accuses of raping her and getting her pregnant. It isn't long before detectives learn that Barclay Pallister wasn't the only man April picked up in a bar who has no recollection of sleeping with her, and the squad realizes that Troost was no victim. Their search takes them from prospective parents looking to adopt her child to the men she drugged and accosted to the sperm center she used to work at, which ends up at the center of the case.

Episode 3: 911
Benson is on her way out for the evening when a call comes in from a little girl named Maria, who says she's all alone in a locked room. While trying to draw the girl out, Benson is drawn deeper into the little girl's life, and although the other officers begin to suspect the whole thing may be some sick joke, Benson is convinced that the little girl is the real deal. By talking to Maria, Benson is able to ferret enough information from her so that they have a place to start, but Maria's captor has an affinity for electronics and has done everything he can to make sure that no one can find the little girl he bought and paid for.

Episode 4: Ripped
When the teenage son of Stabler's old partner comes under suspicion for attacking a classmate, Stabler's inability to treat this like any other case gets him suspended.

Episode 5: Strain
The discovery of the bodies of two young gay men who were both meth addicts as well as victims of a new strain of HIV that can kill its victims in less than a year leads to an investigation. Tutuola learns that his son, Ken, is gay, and has difficulty accepting it, even though he and Benson end up going to Ken for help with infiltrating an anti-meth group. The group's leader, Gabriel, soon becomes their top suspect when the squad realizes that the two men died because they passed the disease on.

Episode 6: Raw
After a six-year-old boy dies in a school shooting, detectives trace the gun used back to a white supremacist's gun shop. Munch and Tutuola both face hatred and prejudice from the major suspects in the case, but their investigation soon takes them from the man who pulled the trigger back to the gun shop owner, who makes no bones about his hatred of anyone who isn't white. One of the few SVU episodes to contain a parental advisory warning.

Episode 7: Name
After the bones of a boy who disappeared in 1978 are found at a playground, a recovering Stabler teams up with Vizcarrando to determine the boy's identity, which leads them to a cold case involving four missing Puerto Rican boys whom were never found.

Episode 8: Starved
After a dating service is linked to three rapes, Olivia goes undercover to ferret out the rapist and meets Mike Jergens, a surgeon who enjoys controlling the women in his life. The detectives are soon led to his girlfriend, Cora Kennison, but shortly after testifying in the grand jury hearing Cora marries Mike. After Cora attempts suicide, Mike fights her mother, Virginia, to unplug her feeding tube.

Episode 9: Rockabye
After sixteen-year-old Lauren Westley loses her unborn child due to a severe abdominal beating, her father's insistence that Lauren was raped leads detectives to the baby's father, but it isn't long before the detectives realise that Lauren was an active party in her own beating, and the two teens had found it necessary to take the steps they did because the abortion clinic kept putting off Lauren's request for an appointment. Novak faces a tough opponent in her own office when she and Branch disagree over the appropriate action to be taken against Wayne Mortens, the young girl's boyfriend. This episode is 'ripped from the headlines' episode. The original case occurred in Michigan. Since there was no statute that specifically covered this incident, the teens were convicted on lesser charges.

Episode 10: Storm
When a teenager and her younger sister end up in the hospital after a day at the park, detectives learn that both girls were abducted from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina along with a third sister who is still missing. Despite the interference of a local reporter, Jackson Zane, detectives are able to catch the kidnapper, a known pedophile, and recover the girl. But when Alvin Dutch dies and the autopsy determines the cause was anthrax smuggled out of a New Orleans laboratory during the hurricane by a rogue scientist, Benson puts everything on the line so that she can get the truth out there.

Episode 11: Alien
An investigation into the serious stabbing of a grade-school boy uncovers a suspect whose trial becomes about the rights of same-sex parents.

Episode 12: Infected
When a boy shoots the man he believes killed his mother, it leads to a legal battle over gun control.

Episode 13: Blast
The abduction of a little girl turns even more desperate when it's found she's suffering from an undiagnosed leukemia.

Episode 14: Taboo
A college student's tale of rape and an unknown pregnancy becomes suspicious to the detectives when they learn that she has been linked to not one but two abandoned newborns.

Episode 15: Manipulated
A successful lawyer's secret life as an exotic dancer is revealed to her boss and her fiancé after she and a stripper friend are found murdered.

Episode 16: Gone
A female student from Montreal goes missing during a class trip to New York City after she spends a night partying with three cocky prep school boys.

Episode 17: Class
A Hudson University co-ed dependent on financial aid is found murdered with an unexplained influx of cash. Her wealthy roommate is found with one of her rings, making her a suspect as the two were not friends. Benson, Fin, and Stabler have several theories about her murderer and their motive and investigate the various suspects; the roommate, her childhood friend, and someone connected to a heavily trafficked website where the victim was selling term papers for cash.

Episode 18: Venom
Detecitve Tutuola is torn between his work and family when his son, Ken, is implicated in a crime. While investigating, Detectives Benson and Stabler find themselves with a much bigger crime

Episode 19: Fault
A manhunt ensues when Victor Paul Gitano, a recently released sex offender, kidnaps two children after killing the rest of their family. Benson and Stabler pursue Gitano only to find their own relationship challenged as both experience opportunities where they put their personal relationship ahead of their job. After having her throat slashed, Benson requests for a new partner when she hears what Stabler has to say about their relationship and their job.

Episode 20: Fat
A band of teenage siblings attack and sodomize a teenage girl, who is a gifted piano student at a prestigious high school in Harlem. When Warner identifies the attackers as overweight, Detective Stabler and his new partner, Detective Lucius Blaine, track down the siblings -- who claim they attacked the victim to avenge an attack on their morbidly obese brother.

Episode 21: Web
After a young boy claim molestation, the investigation turns from his pedophile father to another family member.

Episode 22: Influence
In seventh season finale, rock star Derek Lord goes on a national talk show and lectures about the abuse of psychiatric drugs. Meanwhile, an unstable young woman loses her virginity, goes off her prescribed medication, gets behind the wheel of a car, and mows down 10 people. As these events are played out in a highly charged way, the argument about prescribed "meds" is challenged.

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spratt89

Episode 1: Informed
When a particularly brutalized rape victim resists all efforts to help her, Olivia takes her as a cause and turns up an old acquaintance during the investigation.

Episode 2: Clock
Stabler and Tutuola team up to investigate when a teenage boy and girl go missing on a field trip to a museum. The case takes a different turn however, when they realize the girl has Turner's syndrome so she looks twelve even though she's seventeen. When the missing boy is found the team wonders if they were even missing in the first place. Connie Nielsen is introduced at the end of this episode as Stabler's new partner, Det. Dani Beck.

Episode 3: Recall
Stabler and Cragen have concerns about Beck's reputation as an overzealous investigator. She works with Stabler on a vexing rape case in which they are unable to make the charges stick until a surprise witness (played by Leslie Caron) comes forward.

Episode 4: Uncle
When a mother and daughter are found raped and murdered, Stabler and Beck take in a homeless man who turns out to be Munch's uncle, Andrew. Initially he's their main suspect until they find their way to a new suspect. Unfortunately, when their only evidence, a bite mark on one of the victims linked to a suspect in a prior rape case, is thrown out of court the suspect walks. Stabler and Beck follow the suspect in a last ditch scramble to catch him in the act of committing his next rape, but Munch's uncle takes the law in his own hands.

Episode 5: Confrontation
Stabler and Beck disagree on how to handle a case in which the attacker seems to be coming back to rape his victims again and again. They soon discover the rapist has a much more deviant plan that anybody thought and Beck gets in over her head when she attacks the man she believes to be responsible for the crimes.

Episode 6: Infiltrated
The environmental group Olivia is infiltrating for the FBI is accused of murdering the CEO of a pharmaceutical company. But when she discovers that the crime may be sexual in nature, she conducts her own independent investigation.

Episode 7: Underbelly
After a third young teen is found dead, a paw print tattoo on her lower back, Stabler and Beck investigate the tattoo, which leads them to Broder House, a foster home for young girls. They learn that Chantal was one of a number of girls who had ended up working the streets for a man named Victor. Stabler warns Beck that she can't get emotionally involved in every case, but the two work together to bring down Victor, relying on one of his girls to get the evidence that they need.

Episode 8: Cage
Detectives Stabler and Beck investigate a car accident involving two foster children. The accident leads the detectives to the foster parents and some questionable medical practices involving controversial "rebirthing" therapy. As the detectives dig deeper into the case, they discover other gruesome secrets involving the children, and after one of the foster children, Eden sets the drapes in Beck's living room on fire, attempting to murder Beck and commit suicide, Beck says goodbye to Stabler and Special Victims Unit.

Episode 9: Choreographed
A woman is found dead in Central Park, and when medical examiner Warner can find no apparent reason for her death, Det. Stabler begins the investigation by talking to the victim's husband, Wesley Masoner, who owns a dance troupe, as his friends Glenn and Naomi Cheales pay a condolence visit. Stabler's investigation unravels a case of drugs, infidelity and an elaborate plot that impacts everyone involved in the troupe. Stella Danquiss defends Wesley. Stabler also discovers Detective Benson is back in town, as she is reassigned to be his partner (or, as she points out, 'handler') once again.

Episode 10: Scheherezade
Stabler agrees to hear the dying confession of a cancer patient named Judson Tierney, but first he and Benson do some digging into what possible crime Tierney could be guilty of and come up with an unsolved case that goes back 47 years. Tierney is later found responsible for 21 armed bank robberies, murder, and kidnapping. Tierney's daughter, Shelia refuses to see him in his last days, but as he lays dying she goes to his bedside.

Episode 11: Burned
Stabler and Benson are at odds over whom to believe in a “he said, she said” rape case involving a husband and wife in the middle of an extremely bitter child-custody dispute.

Episode 12: Outsider
Fin looks into an alleged rape at the college where his son, Ken, attends. Fin is joined in his investigation by a Brooklyn SVU detective named Chester Lake, who is working a strikingly similar case.

Episode 13: Loophole
An anonymous letter leads to an apparent child-pornography case and the testing of pesticides on unwitting apartment tenants. Olivia is also exposed to the pesticide and develops medical symptoms similar to those exhibited by the victim and his mother. The latter part of the episode explains a controversial United States Environmental Protection Agency rule that allows intentional dosing of human beings in pesticide experiments.

Episode 14: Dependent
After a mob lawyer is attacked and his wife brutally murdered, Benson and Stabler question their daughter. But her wild night of drunken partying leaves her unable to recall her actions, even though her father insists she was at the scene of the crime. Stabler is charged with excessive force when the daughter's boyfriend dies in his custody.

Episode 15: Haystack
In a "ripped-from-the-headlines" episode, overzealous reporter Cindy Marino accuses new mother Laura Kozowloski on television of kidnapping and trying to kill her baby. That's the last straw for the despondent woman, who promptly commits suicide. Although everyone is under suspicion, including the mother and her ex-husband, Mike the case takes an unusual emotional toll on Detective Stabler who is drawn in on the mother and her past.

Episode 16: Philadelphia
Benson investigates a rape case outside her jurisdiction and must meet with Dr. Rebecca Hendrix to discuss her recent actions which have compromised her performance. Also, Benson finally unravels a part of her past when she finds her brother Simon Marsden who may be a rapist.

Episode 17: Sin
A successful preacher is the prime suspect in a murder case, until his wife provides detectives with a taped conversation.

Episode 18: Responsible
Stabler and Benson are forced to dive in to the world of underage drinking when a death leads to high school binge parties and a mother who not only supplies booze to her daughter's friends but sleeps with those friends as well.

Episode 19: Florida
When Detective Benson gets into the middle of an investigation of her brother Simon Marsden, the case begins to threaten her career. As Simon makes a run for it, Benson investigates further into his family life, and begins to question whether or not she was the product of a rape in the first place. She digs deeper to discover that Simon was the victim of a frame-job by Capt. Julia Milfield.

Episode 20: Annihilated
A woman's murder appears to be the result of a professional hit, when her fiancé receives death threats, apparently resulting from his CIA career. Elliot, investigating this, finds that the man may not be all that he seems; the case takes a shocking turn when the man's original family are all found dead. Meanwhile, Elliot continues to rebuild his relationship with his family.

Episode 21: Pretend
The investigation into an extreme fighting death leads to the discovery of a 28-year-old woman posing as a 16-year-old high school student.

Episode 22: Screwed
In the season 8 finale, Darius Parker, goes on trial for the rape and murder of a woman and her 14-month old child. The case brings Fin under fire from the media and even has Munch and Stabler at odds. Novak prosecutes the trial that brings Stabler and Tutuola, among others, to the stand. Many previous stories are brought into the trial, such as Stabler's daughter Kathleen's DUI, and Benson's illegal money-wiring to her half-brother, Simon Marsden. It is also revealed that Kathy Stabler, Elliot's wife, is pregnant.

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Episode 1: Alternate
Benson and Stabler investigate a suspected child abuse case only to learn that the woman who reported it is the real case.

Episode 2: Avatar
Rachel McGarrett, a participant in virtual reality video games, goes missing. Her boyfriend, Dan Friedich, is a suspect in the case and is discovered to suffer from sexsomnia which caused him to accidentally rape her sister, Kristi McGarrett. In an effort to locate Rachel, Detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler use her avatar to track her kidnapper down.

Episode 3:  Impulsive
Sarah Trent, a high school teacher, is suspected of statutorily raping her student, Shane Mills, after he is diagnosed with gonorrhea. Sarah claims that Shane actually raped her. The team finds that Shane has a brain disorder making him obsessed with sex (he hires prostitutes, photoshops scantily-clad women, and masturbates with high frequency) and he confesses to raping his teacher. Shane is given another chance and is sent to a rehabilitation clinic, but the situation quickly changes gears when Shane himself is raped. When a guard is identified as the culprit he uses the same defense as Shane.

Episode 4: Savant
Ben Nicholson discovers that his mentally challenged daughter, Katie, is the only witness to the savage beating of his wife, which placed her in a coma. Detectives Benson and Stabler and ADA Novak work with Katie to reconstruct the night the beating took place.

Episode 5: Harm
The detectives investigate the fatal stabbing of a private school teacher, who had volunteered at a victim's rehabilitation center. The teacher had been working with an Iraqi man whose story helped uncover some military secrets, which may have led to her murder.

Episode 6: Svengali
A college student is found murdered in an attack that bears the hallmarks of infamous serial killer Robert Morton. Detectives Benson and Stabler investigate Morton and discover his loyal following, which includes a man whose comic books glorify Morton's murders. When Cecilia, the last person to have seen the victim alive, goes missing, the detectives are pressed to save her life. Benson also finds herself in danger when the investigation angers Morton's followers.

Episode 7: Blinded
The discovery of a kidnapped girl leads Detectives Benson and Stabler to her abductor, Saul Picard, who is a violent, schizophrenic artist. As Detective Stabler prepares to take Saul into custody, he head butts Stabler, slamming his head into a car window which then shatters on impact. As Stabler wakes up in the hospital room he is unable to see anybody around him. A.D.A. Casey Novak must face her own dark past while attempting to convict Picard.

Episode 8: Fight
A brutal murder leads the detectives into the dangerous world of ultimate fighting. The investigation then leads to two brothers who confessed that they had to rape the victim to enter a gang. The case gets harder when the leader of the gang and prime suspect is accidentally crushed in a trash compactor and one of the brother lies to protect the brother.

Episode 9: Paternity
The murder of a young boy's nanny leads Detectives Benson and Stabler to suspect her Internet love interest, "Casanova". However, the nanny's employers soon become suspects in the case. Stabler's family suffers a tragedy leaving his unborn child in serious danger after Benson and Kathy are hurt in a car accident.

Episode 10: Snitch
Detectives Benson and Stabler investigate when a Nigerian polygamist's wife is killed, and the husband fears that his testifying in a crime may have led to his wife's demise. Benson and Stabler suspect that the man's cultural tradition may have been the cause of his wife's murder when they find a website that exposes potential witnesses to the crime that he was testifying for. Method Man plays the antagonist who threatens the man's family

Episode 11: Streetwise
The SVU squad are called in when a wealthy teenager is found murdered in Central Park. The case soon develops into an investigation of a community of homeless children.

Episode 12: Signature
Detectives Benson and Lake investigate the murder of a female alongside a man with a bullet inside his head; they soon team up with Special Agent Cooper, who's tracking a serial killer by the name of "The Woodsman", but things turn weird when the male victim is identified as the serial killer and Special Agent Cooper seems to be hiding something of her own.

Episode 13: Unorthodox
The sexual assault of a Jewish boy prompts the attention of Benson and Stabler. Initially an orthodox Jewish rabbi is suspected to be the one responsible for the raping of the kid, but the case turns into a media circus as a flood of young victims are revealed, with all the clues pointing to one of their classmates. It's discovered that a 14 year old boy is the rapist, but he doesn't go to prison because (thanks to a psychological examination) he is declared mentally ill, as a result of daily exposure to pornography.

Episode 14: Inconceivable
When fertilized embryos disappear from a sperm bank, examination of a security tape points the detectives to two publicity-hungry extremists. Meanwhile, Benson ponders her own decisions about fertility and motherhood.

Episode 15: Undercover
After a young girl is found raped in a community garden, Benson and Stabler realize the girl has a mother who is in a female correction facility. After the rape kit on the girl goes missing, the detectives realize one of the corrections officers at the facility is raping and brutalizing women. Without the rape kit, however, Benson and Stabler have no proof, so Benson goes in undercover at the same facility to catch the officer, but is almost raped herself in the basement of the facility.

Episode 16: Closet
When investment banker Jeremy Haynes is found murdered, suspicion turns to his boyfriend Lincoln Haver, a professional football player who could lose everything if the truth about his sexuality came to light. When information about Haver's sexual orientation is leaked to the media, Benson comes under fire for her relationship with a reporter. Bill Pullman guest stars as Benson's boyfriend.

Episode 17: Authority
The 200th episode of the show features an engineer, Merritt Rook who has been posing as a cop to make people do abnormal things all in the act of trying to convince people to oppose authority. He turns his trial into a media circus and the case gets more complicated when Rook abducts Benson. He tries to make Elliot inflict pain on her by way of a Milgram experiment, but he refuses.

Episode 18: Trade
When a pregnant woman's body is found raped and murdered inside her burnt loft the team investigates a family of coffee importers. The suspects are numerous ranging from the woman's fiance to his father. Further investigation reveals a twisted love rectangle between the woman, her fiance, the father, and the son's lawyer, who is ultimately revealed to tbe the killer and who kills herself and the son in dramatic fashion.

Episode 19: Cold
Detective Lake is accused of killing a police officer, and SVU soon discovers that he has been investigating a 10-year-old cold rape case without anyone's knowledge.

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spratt89

Episode 1: Trials
Olivia discovers that a case involving a troubled foster child is tied to a cold rape case from her past, and it could be the missing link that could help catch a serial rapist. Meanwhile, Olivia is haunted by her sexual assault in prison.

Episode 2: Confession
Detectives Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson investigate when Eric Byers admits to the squad about his sexual advances towards his stepbrother. Eric admits to also looking at a website to try to curb his pedophilic urge. With no crime committed, the detectives decide to investigate the website for pedophiles leading them to the creator, Jake Berlin. When Stabler discovers his daughter's picture on the website he confronts Jake and beats him up and is suspended. When Eric goes missing his whole family is under investigation.

Episode 3: Swing
Detective Elliot Stabler is called to the scene of a breaking and entering at a home. The trespasser’s wallet leads Stabler to his daughter, Kathleen Stabler. Detective Stabler is shocked to find his daughter is abusing drugs and behaving promiscuously. It is determined that Kathleen has bipolar disorder, but she refuses to admit it. Elliott must turn to his estranged mother Bernadette Stabler, as she is also bipolar to testify in court that bipolar runs in the family. In order to help Kathleen, Detective Olivia Benson must step in to save both of them before things get out of control.

Episode 4: Lunacy
Detectives Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson investigate when a famous astronaut, Marga Janssen is found dead, and Detective Stabler's old mentor, Dick Finley, helps investigate the case. They first believe the rape is linked to a string of serial rapes, but they are soon lead to look for a suspect in the group of people Marga worked with. An obsessed fan is questioned, but is released and gets into a gun battle with Dick. Stabler becomes suspicious of Dick after he keeps pointing them away from him, but it's revealed that Dick killed Marga because she was stealing his spotlight.

Episode 5: Retro
When a baby is found with advanced AIDS, Detectives Benson and Stabler are called in to investigate why someone would let a baby go untreated for HIV. They are lead to a highly unethical doctor, Gideon Hutton who believes and teaches that HIV doesn't cause AIDS and offers alternative treatments to cure HIV. They search for more families that have been influenced by Gideon and are lead to a particular family whose younger daughter died of AIDS and the mom and son are called into court along with Gideon.

Episode 6: Babes
The investigation into the burning death of a homeless teeenager leads the detectives to an elite high school where they meet high school students Max Matarazzo and senior Alec Bernardi, who confesses to the killing of the homeless teenager. Alec admits to the murder because he thought his sister was raped by the man, but in truth his sister and her friends willingly had sex with him in order to become pregnant. However, the case takes a strange twist when the ringleader of the pregnancy pact apparently commits suicide, after being harased online by parties unknown.

Episode 7: Wildlife
His marriage once again on the rocks, Detective Stabler goes undercover to expose an animal smuggling ring when a women turns up dead mauled to death by a tiger and she has a rare species of bird in her purse. They are lead to Hip Hop artist, Gots Money who helps Stabler infiltrate the smuggling ring, but when Detective Benson poses as a prostitute to help out her partner undercover, Detective Stabler finds himself wounded after his identity is uncovered, forcing Benson to take drastic action to avenge her partner.

Episode 8: Persona
Mia claims to have been raped in an alley to hide being abused and raped by her husband. Benson gets her to admit the abuse, but Mia recants which ends in her murder at the hands of her husband. While solving this crime, Benson stumbles upon another case of spousal abuse and murder which involves Mia's elderly neighbor Linnie who is revealed to have been involved in an abusive relationship, which ended when she killed her former husband, and escaped custody under the supervision of Judge Donnely.

Episode 9: PTSD
SVU clashes with the Marines over jurisdiction in a case involving the murder in New York of a pregnant soldier who claims she was raped in Iraq. During the investigation, Benson has traumatic flashbacks of her sexual assault.

Episode 10: Smut
A beaten and raped woman who has no memory of what happened to her puts Benson and Stabler on the trail of a serial rapist, but when women refuse to testify Olivia will have to face how her assault has affected her job performance.

Episode 11: Stranger
A girl who vanished at age 14, four years ago, reappears with a tale of imprisonment and sexual slavery, but Benson and Stabler find themselves on an odd fact-finding journey as they try to piece together her story and resolve the discrepancies.

Episode 12: Hothouse
A teenager's body is found in the Hudson, triggering a search for her identity, and an undercover assignment for Benson as a madam. But once the girl's name is known, even more mysteries unfold leaving Fin to find the missing piece.

Episode 13: Snatched
The clues to a kidnapped girl's location are locked inside an Alzheimer's victim's brain, and Dr. Huang will need all his skill to give the detectives any hope of finding her before it's too late.

Episode 14: Transitions
A man is brutally beaten outside a strip club because of his lack of support for his trans-gender teenage son's desire for gender reassignment, but the guilty party may be hiding a secret.

Episode 15: Lead
A pediatrician convicted of molesting his patients is found murdered after threatening a countersuit against his medical practice and the police department, and while investigating his claims along with motives for his killing Stabler and Benson run into former ADA Cabot who has her own reason for involving herself in the case.

Episode 16: Ballerina
A single murder suddenly turns into a scene with three bodies, leaving Benson and Stabler to work with a strip club owner to find a murderer whose motive may be more about righteousness than perversity.

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will upload the Law & Order SVU guide into season 1-5 and season 6-10 once the thread is made

spratt89

I will do Law & Order as it will take me some time to do 20 seasons of it.

spratt89

1 Month to do 20 seasons that will be a good challenge