Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Season 13

Air Date

September 21, 2011

Episodes

23 episodes

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Season 13

Overview

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

Episodes

Scorched Earth

1. Scorched Earth

8.2
September 21, 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.

Personal Fouls

2. Personal Fouls

7.8
September 28, 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.

Blood Brothers

3. Blood Brothers

5.9
October 5, 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.

Double Strands

4. Double Strands

7.6
October 12, 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.

Missing Pieces

5. Missing Pieces

8.8
October 19, 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.

True Believers

6. True Believers

5.0
November 2, 2011
44 min

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

Russian Brides

7. Russian Brides

8.2
November 9, 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.

Educated Guess

8. Educated Guess

7.4
November 16, 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.

Lost Traveller

9. Lost Traveller

8.0
November 30, 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.

Spiraling Down

10. Spiraling Down

7.4
December 7, 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.

Theatre Tricks

11. Theatre Tricks

8.0
January 11, 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.

Official Story

12. Official Story

8.4
January 18, 2012
44 min

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

Father's Shadow

13. Father's Shadow

7.9
February 8, 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.

Home Invasions

14. Home Invasions

8.4
February 15, 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.

Hunting Ground

15. Hunting Ground

6.8
February 22, 2012
43 min

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

Child's Welfare

16. Child's Welfare

7.2
February 29, 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.

Justice Denied

17. Justice Denied

7.6
April 21, 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.

Valentine's Day

18. Valentine's Day

7.6
April 18, 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.

Street Revenge

19. Street Revenge

6.6
April 25, 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.

Father Dearest

20. Father Dearest

7.4
May 2, 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.

Learning Curve

21. Learning Curve

8.2
May 9, 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.

Strange Beauty

22. Strange Beauty

6.2
May 16, 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.

Rhodium Nights

23. Rhodium Nights

7.0
May 23, 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.