Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 16 Episode Guide
Plot summaries for the sixteenth season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which aired on NBC from September 2014 to May 2015, featuring Sgt. Olivia Benson, Det. Nick Amaro, Det. Amanda Rollins, Det. Fin Tutuola, ADA Rafael Barba and Det. Sonny Carisi.
- 1
Girls Disappeared
A teenage witness to the murder of Noah’s mother leads SVU into a Mexican trafficking ring that starts killing anyone who might talk.
- 2
American Disgrace
A press rep accuses a beloved retired basketball star of drugging and raping her, and two more women come forward, each paid by the same sponsor.
- 3
Producer's Backend
A troubled former child star is charged with abusing a 15-year-old, and her story leads SVU to the producer who abused her and to a girl’s drowning.
- 4
Holden's Manifesto
A socially isolated young man who blames women for his loneliness stabs women from his past, kills his neighbors and takes schoolgirls hostage.
- 5
Pornstar's Requiem
A Hudson freshman who made porn videos to pay her tuition is raped by two classmates, and her past is put on trial alongside them.
- 6
Glasgowman's Wrath
A girl is found stabbed in Inwood Hill Park after a hunt for an urban legend, her sister and their friend are missing, and a homeless man takes the blame.
- 7
Chicago Crossover
Chicago P.D.’s Voight, Lindsay and Halstead team up with SVU to stop a ring streaming child abuse online, a case tied to Lindsay’s runaway half brother.
- 8
Spousal Privilege
A leaked video shows a retired football star knocking out the mother of his son, and SVU pursues the case although she refuses to cooperate.
- 9
Pattern Seventeen
A serial rapist who hums hymns and chokes his victims strikes in New York, and Rollins links him to Atlanta cases whose rape kits were never tested.
- 10
Forgiving Rollins
A visiting Atlanta detective says her deputy chief raped her during a New York conference, and the case forces Rollins to reveal what he did to her.
- 11
Agent Provocateur
A 15-year-old fan of a movie star is found drugged in a suitcase after his hotel party, and the security video that could show what happened is in the hands of a gossip site.
- 12
Padre Sandunguero
When Amaro’s estranged father is accused of fracturing his young fiancée’s skull the night before their wedding, Nick becomes the key witness to what she first said.
- 13
Decaying Morality
A girl’s rape accusation against a man already suing the NYPD ends with her father killing him, before the evidence turns toward her uncle, a respected dentist.
- 14
Intimidation Game
Misogynist gamers who have harassed a female developer online escalate to assault, swatting and kidnapping as she refuses to cancel her game’s launch.
- 15
Undercover Mother
SVU teams up with a mother who has spent three years posing as a madam to find her trafficked daughter, and runs into Declan Murphy working undercover in the same trade.
- 16
December Solstice
A novelist’s daughters accuse his much younger wife of secretly drugging him for sex, and his death after she pulls him from the hospital leads to a manslaughter charge.
- 17
Parole Violations
Carisi’s sister’s fiancé, a parolee, accuses his female parole officer of raping him at gunpoint, and Barba must persuade jurors that a man can be raped by a woman.
- 18
Devastating Story
A TV newsmagazine’s story of a fraternity gang rape goes viral, and SVU’s case unravels as the student’s account changes and the reporting proves unchecked.
- 19
Granting Immunity
An investigation into explicit photos from a teen party at a Tribeca school uncovers parents who faked vaccination records, as a measles outbreak puts Benson’s son in the hospital.
- 20
Daydream Believer
SVU and Chicago’s Intelligence Unit hunt a doctor suspected of a decade of rape-murders after he abducts a young woman from Voight’s office and drives her to New York.
- 21
Perverted Justice
When a recovering addict recants the testimony that convicted her father of raping her, SVU and Bayard Ellis dig into how the original detective handled the case.
- 22
Parents' Nightmare
When an eight-year-old is taken from school and held for ransom, SVU has to work out which of his divorced parents set up the abduction.
- 23
Surrendering Noah
As sex trafficker Johnny D goes on trial, Benson discloses that he is Noah’s birth father, putting her adoption and the case at risk.