Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 12 Episode Guide
Plot summaries for the twelfth season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which aired on NBC from September 2010 to May 2011, featuring Det. Elliot Stabler, Det. Olivia Benson, Sgt. John Munch, Det. Fin Tutuola, Capt. Donald Cragen, Dr. George Huang and Dr. Melinda Warner.
- 1
Locum
A ten-year-old who stages her own disappearance reveals that her adoptive parents are remaking her in the image of the daughter they lost to a kidnapper years earlier.
- 2
Bullseye
When a starved girl is raped near a children’s club, a neighborhood anti-predator group and its eager volunteer push the squad toward a registered offender.
- 3
Behave
A recluse who says one man has raped her across the country for 15 years helps Benson pursue him, but his crimes are buried in untested evidence.
- 4
Merchandise
A girl killed fleeing a farmers’ market leads the squad to a ring that buys poor American children, works them on a Long Island farm and sells them for sex.
- 5
Wet
A public relations executive for a soda company is poisoned with wild mushrooms, and a water-rights activist eagerly claims the blame.
- 6
Branded
Revenge attacks on three men by a gifted hacker uncover a gang rape at a summer camp 14 years earlier, and the unit’s new ADA must prosecute the victim.
- 7
Trophy
A rape-murder suspect’s box of keepsakes points to attacks from 1970, leading Benson to a woman who learns, as Benson once did, that she was conceived in a rape.
- 8
Penetration
An undercover FBI agent who was raped hides the attack to protect her militia case, then turns her pursuit of the rapist into a personal hunt.
- 9
Gray
A college student accused of raping a drunk classmate is found to have secretly used an abortion-inducing drug on his pregnant girlfriend.
- 10
Rescue
A partygoer’s death exposes paramedics who prey on patients, while Benson’s search for Vivian Arliss threatens her guardianship of Calvin.
- 11
Pop
A boy’s death on a carousel exposes a ring of fathers betting on fights between their sons, and Stabler tries to free a teenage fighter from his abusive stepfather.
- 12
Possessed
A masked attack on a young woman reveals she was the child in a notorious series of abuse films, and the man acquitted of making them still walks free.
- 13
Mask
A masked serial rapist who claims to redeem his victims is traced to a sex-addiction clinic run by the estranged father of one of them.
- 14
Dirty
A Brooklyn narcotics prosecutor’s fatal fall draws Benson into a unit under federal investigation for stolen drug money, where a fellow investigator is first to the scene.
- 15
Flight
A 12-year-old French girl’s rape claim against a billionaire defense contractor uncovers a network of girls brought to his massage room, as he uses his connections to fight back.
- 16
Spectacle
A student broadcasts a staged rape and holds a classmate hostage to force SVU to reopen the cold case of his little brother’s abduction.
- 17
Pursuit
A TV host who exposes predators is stalked by a man the squad comes to believe killed her sister 25 years earlier, and the hunt costs Executive ADA Sonya Paxton her life.
- 18
Bully
The death of a wine company’s timid finance chief exposes a CEO who abuses her staff and employees willing to stay silent for a fortune.
- 19
Bombshell
The stabbing of a seemingly ordinary executive leads Benson and Stabler undercover at a sex club, where a pair of grifters prey on lonely married men.
- 20
Totem
A psychiatrist filling in for Huang convinces Benson and Stabler that a ten-year-old’s rape and murder was committed by a woman, and the trail leads to a family of abused daughters.
- 21
Reparations
A teacher’s rape accusation against a Black deliveryman uncovers a 1964 Klan attack on his mother in which her own grandfather took part.
- 22
Bang
A baby left in an alley leads SVU to his adoptive mother’s fiancé, who secretly sabotages condoms to father children with as many women as he can.
- 23
Delinquent
A teenager caught in a woman’s bed falsely accuses Stabler of molesting him, and the detectives come to suspect he is a serial rapist.
- 24
Smoked
A rape victim is shot dead before her attacker’s trial, and the trail leads to a hired stalker who is also a federal informant.