
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit — Season 13
Hope in the darkness.
About this season
Season 13 dealt with the departure of Detective Elliot Stabler from the Special Victims Unit after a shooting in the squad room.
Episodes (23)

1. Scorched Earth
8.2Aired 21 September 2011 • 44 min
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.

2. Personal Fouls
7.4Aired 28 September 2011 • 43 min
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.

3. Blood Brothers
5.9Aired 5 October 2011 • 44 min
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.

4. Double Strands
8.0Aired 12 October 2011 • 44 min
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.

5. Missing Pieces
8.8Aired 19 October 2011 • 43 min
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.

6. True Believers
5.0Aired 2 November 2011 • 44 min
The SVU team works together to investigate the case of a promising music student who was brutally raped at gunpoint.

7. Russian Brides
8.2Aired 9 November 2011 • 44 min
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.

8. Educated Guess
7.4Aired 16 November 2011 • 44 min
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.

9. Lost Traveller
7.7Aired 30 November 2011 • 44 min
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.

10. Spiraling Down
7.4Aired 7 December 2011 • 44 min
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.

11. Theatre Tricks
8.0Aired 11 January 2012 • 42 min
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.

12. Official Story
8.4Aired 18 January 2012 • 44 min
Benson and Amaro must work around a resistant victim when the CEO of a military contractor is assaulted.

13. Father's Shadow
7.9Aired 8 February 2012 • 44 min
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.

14. Home Invasions
7.8Aired 15 February 2012 • 43 min
After a couple is murdered in their home and their daughter is critically injured, SVU uncovers a number of twisted family secrets, as well as Detective Rollins' gambling addiction.

15. Hunting Ground
5.8Aired 22 February 2012 • 43 min
Detectives Benson and Amaro lead the search for a serial killer who is targeting young prostitutes.

16. Child's Welfare
7.2Aired 29 February 2012 • 44 min
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.

17. Justice Denied
7.6Aired 21 April 2012 • 44 min
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.

18. Valentine's Day
7.6Aired 18 April 2012 • 43 min
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.

19. Street Revenge
6.6Aired 25 April 2012 • 43 min
The task of find a serial rapist becomes more difficult when a team of neighborhood vigilante "superheroes" starts trying to avenge the crimes.

20. Father Dearest
7.4Aired 2 May 2012 • 44 min
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.

21. Learning Curve
8.2Aired 9 May 2012 • 44 min
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.

22. Strange Beauty
5.5Aired 16 May 2012 • 44 min
The investigation of the homicide of a young woman who recently had her leg amputated sends SVU into the strange culture of body modification.

23. Rhodium Nights
6.2Aired 23 May 2012 • 44 min
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.