Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 14 Episode Guide
Plot summaries for the fourteenth season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which aired on NBC from September 2012 to May 2013, featuring Det. Olivia Benson, Det. Nick Amaro, Det. Amanda Rollins, Sgt. John Munch, Det. Fin Tutuola and Capt. Donald Cragen.
- 1
Lost Reputation
Captain Cragen wakes beside a murdered escort and is charged with killing her, while an outside prosecutor and an interim captain order SVU to stay away from the case.
- 2
Above Suspicion
After an undercover officer is shot by a fellow cop, SVU unravels the plot behind it and finds who in the DA’s office has been protecting a powerful madam.
- 3
Twenty-Five Acts
The credited author of a bestselling erotic novel accuses a talk-show host of rape, and the case turns on whether a jury will believe her once her secret comes out.
- 4
Acceptable Loss
A car crash reveals a ring of trafficked girls branded with bar codes, but a federal terrorism investigation orders SVU to leave the traffickers alone.
- 5
Manhattan Vigil
The kidnapping of a real estate heir’s young son leads Benson back to a boy who vanished from the same neighborhood 13 years earlier.
- 6
Friending Emily
When a 14-year-old tourist vanishes from a college party and turns up on a live darknet stream, the squad tracks her captor through the girls he took before her.
- 7
Vanity's Bonfire
A toddler’s kidnapping by a woman claiming to be her birth mother uncovers a forged adoption and an affair that a Supreme Court candidate wants buried.
- 8
Lessons Learned
A retired teacher’s suicide leads the squad to decades of sexual abuse at an elite boys’ school, and to a board determined to protect the institution.
- 9
Dreams Deferred
When a gunman goes on a killing spree, the squad turns to the aging prostitute he has visited for 25 years and tries to pull her off the street once he is stopped.
- 10
Presumed Guilty
Fin’s ex-brother-in-law is jailed for beating a priest he says he rescued, and clearing him uncovers a parish secret kept under the seal of confession.
- 11
Beautiful Frame
When a rape victim is charged with killing her boyfriend on Long Island, SVU suspects the man she accused framed her, and Barba squares off against the Suffolk County DA who protects him.
- 12
Criminal Hatred
A man who targets closeted married men leaves one dead, and Barba tests the hate crime law against a gay defendant who is shielded by his own marriage.
- 13
Monster's Legacy
An attack on a gymnastics coach leads SVU to a camp director who abused boys for decades, and to one of his victims awaiting execution in Ohio.
- 14
Secrets Exhumed
A cold-case DNA hit on a paralyzed serial killer seems to close five 1980s murders, until he refuses to confess to one and the evidence points to the FBI agent who profiled him.
- 15
Deadly Ambition
Rollins kills her pregnant sister’s abusive ex to stop an attack, then finds herself charged with murder as the sister’s motives come into question.
- 16
Funny Valentine
A teenage pop star beaten by her famous boyfriend refuses to testify, and her loyalty to him draws her mentor and then herself into danger.
- 17
Undercover Blue
When a woman says Brian Cassidy raped her years ago while he was undercover, his defense drags Amaro’s own undercover past into court.
- 18
Legitimate Rape
A sports reporter raped and stalked by her cameraman becomes pregnant, and the man she accuses turns the trial and then family court against her.
- 19
Born Psychopath
A little girl’s injuries lead SVU to her ten-year-old brother, whose lack of empathy alarms the detectives and Dr. Huang as his parents try to protect him.
- 20
Girl Dishonored
A freshman’s gang rape at a fraternity leads SVU to a string of victims and a university that protects its students’ attackers.
- 21
Traumatic Wound
A teenager is sexually assaulted by a mob at a concert, and a security guard with post-traumatic stress is first accused and then becomes the key witness to a plot by her own friends.
- 22
Poisoned Motive
A sniper shoots Rollins and others tied to Fin’s old Narcotics unit, and the case leads to the family of the partner who was disabled saving Fin’s life.
- 23
Brief Interlude
A Canadian mother on her first trip alone is found beaten and raped in Central Park, and the search for her attacker uncovers the nightlife she kept from her family.
- 24
Her Negotiation
A man Rollins arrests for flashing in Central Park refuses an easy plea, then attacks the witness against him, and his record shows a long history of escaping conviction.