Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 19 Episode Guide
Plot summaries for the nineteenth season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which aired on NBC from September 2017 to May 2018, featuring Lt. Olivia Benson, Det. Amanda Rollins, Fin Tutuola, Det. Sonny Carisi and ADAs Rafael Barba and Peter Stone.
- 1
Gone Fishin'
Fin brings a fugitive serial rapist back from Cuba, and his unorthodox arrest turns the prosecution into an international dispute.
- 2
Mood
Detectives doubt a young woman’s report of a rape by a man in a Prince Charming mask until a second victim describes the same attacker.
- 3
Contrapasso
A man is castrated in a hotel room, and the trail leads to three former students he sexually exploited when he was their high school teacher.
- 4
No Good Reason
A sophomore disappears after a degrading photo from a party goes around her school, and her report of rape makes her the target of more bullying.
- 5
Complicated
A young woman found in Central Park is taken for a girl kidnapped ten years earlier, and the detectives come to doubt both her story and the missing girl’s family.
- 6
Unintended Consequences
A runaway from an exclusive rehab dies of a fentanyl overdose after being raped, and SVU finds the center and a sober house recycling addicted girls for insurance money.
- 7
Something Happened
A woman who knows she was raped but remembers nothing works through the night with Benson, and the memories lead to a dead man and a family secret.
- 8
Intent
A social media star is raped by a fighter who believes she asked him to force her, and SVU traces both sides of their messages to a lonely woman in West Virginia.
- 9
Gone Baby Gone
Noah is abducted from a Manhattan mall, and Benson discovers that his grandmother, Sheila Porter, planned the kidnapping.
- 10
Pathological
A disabled teenager’s sexual encounter at school leads SVU to discover that her mother has been faking and causing her illnesses for years.
- 11
Flight Risk
A co-pilot who seized her plane’s cockpit says the captain raped her, and SVU uncovers an airline that bought women’s silence.
- 12
Info Wars
When a far-right pundit is sexually assaulted during a campus riot, SVU must decide whether an antifa protester or one of her own fans attacked her.
- 13
The Undiscovered Country
A father kidnaps his terminally ill baby to stop doctors from ending his life support, and Barba’s response lands him on trial for murder.
- 14
Chasing Demons
After his courtroom outburst frees an accused child molester, Cassidy is suspected of killing him, and Benson risks her career to clear him.
- 15
In Loco Parentis
Carisi’s niece recants a campus rape claim to him, then says the student she accused raped her in revenge, putting Carisi’s honesty on trial.
- 16
Dare
When a girl dies after a schoolyard dare, SVU discovers that her surgeon harvested her organs without her parents’ consent, as she has done for dozens of other children.
- 17
Send in the Clowns
A teenage piano prodigy disappears during a school trip to New York, and the case against the butcher last seen with her goes to trial without a body.
- 18
Service
A sex worker is raped and beaten by one of three soldiers who hired her, and the only witness willing to testify fears that doing so will end his military career.
- 19
Sunk Cost Fallacy
A woman and her young daughter disappear after a frantic phone call, and the case against the husband collapses when Benson finds them alive under Alex Cabot’s protection.
- 20
The Book of Esther
A starved young woman found on a commuter train leads Rollins to a family ruled by an apocalyptic father, and a police siege of their home ends in deaths.
- 21
Guardian
A 16-year-old’s report of a playground gang rape leads SVU to the three teenagers who say they paid her brother and guardian for sex with her.
- 22
Mama
An Alzheimer’s patient’s rape claim, mixed up with a 50-year-old memory, leads SVU to a temp aide who targets elderly women in care homes.
- 23
Remember Me
A nanny holds a man she says trafficked and raped her at gunpoint in a Central Park West penthouse while a hidden camera streams the ordeal, and Benson becomes her hostage.
- 24
Remember Me Too
Charged after the hostage standoff, Lourdes Vega goes on trial while Benson tries to prove Miguel Lopez trafficked her, and his associates go after Stone’s sister.