Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 11 Episode Guide
Plot summaries for the eleventh season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which aired on NBC from September 2009 to May 2010, featuring Det. Elliot Stabler, Det. Olivia Benson, Sgt. John Munch, Det. Fin Tutuola, Capt. Donald Cragen, ADA Alexandra Cabot, Dr. George Huang and Dr. Melinda Warner.
- 1
Unstable
A volatile detective helps SVU with a rape victim who trusts only him, and the case suggests Stabler sent the wrong man to prison ten years earlier.
- 2
Sugar
The murder of a young woman found in a suitcase draws SVU into the world of paid “sugar” dating and the family of the website’s owner.
- 3
Solitary
A woman’s disappearance points SVU to an ex-con Stabler sent to prison two decades ago, and the fallout puts long-term solitary confinement on trial.
- 4
Hammered
A recovering alcoholic wakes up next to a murdered abortion doctor with no memory of the night, and his trial exposes the prosecutor’s own drinking.
- 5
Hardwired
A boy’s sexual abuse leads SVU from his wrestling coach to his stepfather and then to the leader of a group that campaigns for pedophiles’ “rights.”
- 6
Spooked
A double murder staged to look like a rape draws SVU into a cartel heroin case and then into a spy operation, with an FBI agent Benson trusts working against the squad.
- 7
Users
The murder of a 16-year-old in a cheap hotel exposes the therapist who controls her treatment program, and Huang breaks the law to get the case’s key witness off heroin.
- 8
Turmoil
A missing teenager pulls Stabler’s son into danger while a leaked photo and a state bar inquiry threaten Cabot’s rape case against a high school football star.
- 9
Perverted
A biker’s mutilation murder is pinned on Benson through her car and her DNA, and the squad races to prove the evidence against her was manufactured.
- 10
Anchor
Fin tracks a man strangling the American-born children of undocumented immigrants, and a crusading lawyer puts an anti-immigrant TV host on trial in all but name.
- 11
Quickie
A teenager’s murder leads SVU to an anonymous-sex app and a stockbroker who knowingly spreads HIV, and then to the victim who takes revenge on him in court.
- 12
Shadow
SVU teams with a Special Frauds detective to prove that a socialite who embezzled from a charity also murdered her wealthy parents.
- 13
P.C.
SVU hunts the man who raped and killed a lesbian artist while clashing with an abrasive activist who accuses the police of indifference.
- 14
Savior
SVU hunts a religious zealot who strangles prostitutes, and the case depends on a pregnant survivor whose premature baby leaves Benson facing a hard decision.
- 15
Confidential
A woman’s murder in a Manhattan tower matches a 1987 killing, and the case turns on what the killer’s lawyer has kept secret ever since.
- 16
Witness
A rape case hinges on a neighbor who stopped the attack, a Congolese survivor of wartime sexual violence who fears that testifying will get her deported.
- 17
Disabled
A former opera singer who can communicate only by blinking is raped in her home, and SVU must sort out which of the people with her house key attacked her.
- 18
Bedtime
A journalist’s murder brings back a 1970s serial killer’s signature, and one of his supposed victims turns out to have been killed by someone else.
- 19
Conned
A teenage hustler dies at a wedding carrying a runaway’s ID, and the runaway’s story exposes the psychiatrist who has controlled him for years.
- 20
Beef
An animal-rights activist working undercover at a meat-packing plant is murdered, and the evidence left at the scene has been planted to frame a co-worker.
- 21
Torch
A father is charged with setting the fire that killed his two young daughters, until the new SVU prosecutor, his accuser, comes to doubt the fire marshal’s science.
- 22
Ace
A pregnant rape victim who vanishes from the hospital leads SVU to a Bulgarian ring smuggling women into New York to sell their babies.
- 23
Wannabe
The rookie officer who catches a serial rapist in Central Park is really a teenager posing as a cop, which puts the whole case at risk.
- 24
Shattered
A boy is snatched from a Manhattan street, and suspicion falls on his mother, an anthropologist who lost custody and wanted to take him abroad.