Broadcast date
21-09-2011 • 23 episodes
Season 13 dealt with the departure of Detective Elliot Stabler from the Special Victims Unit after a shooting in the squad room.
Episodes of this season
1. Scorched Earth
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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The SVU team works together to investigate the case of a promising music student who was brutally raped at gunpoint.
7. Russian Brides
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Benson and Amaro must work around a resistant victim when the CEO of a military contractor is assaulted.
13. Father's Shadow
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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
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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
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Detectives Benson and Amaro lead the search for a serial killer who is targeting young prostitutes.
16. Child's Welfare
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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This season's cast
Mariska Hargitay
Olivia Benson
Olivia Benson
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Ice-T
Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola
Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola
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Richard Belzer
John Munch
John Munch
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Kelli Giddish
Amanda Rollins
Amanda Rollins
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Danny Pino
Nick Amaro
Nick Amaro
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Dann Florek
Donald Cragen
Donald Cragen
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