Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 2 Episode Guide
Plot summaries for the second season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which aired on NBC from October 2000 to May 2001, featuring Det. Elliot Stabler, Det. Olivia Benson, Det. John Munch, Det. Fin Tutuola, Capt. Donald Cragen and ADA Alexandra Cabot.
- 1
Wrong Is Right
A defense-industry analyst is found shot and burned and his missing teenage ward confesses, while a police commission reviews Stabler and Jeffries over their psychological evaluations.
- 2
Honor
When a young Afghan woman is found raped, stabbed and stoned in a park, suspicion moves from her secret fiancé to her diplomat father and her brother.
- 3
Closure: Part 2
A new rape matching Kenneth Cleary’s method reunites the detectives with his first known victim, who has been following him herself.
- 4
Legacy
A seven-year-old with a history of hidden injuries lies in a coma while the detectives sort through her father, stepfather, stepbrother and mother.
- 5
Baby Killer
A seven-year-old who shot a classmate at recess is charged with murder until the gun leads detectives to a drug killing he witnessed.
- 6
Noncompliance
A market manager is raped and shot, and the man charged is a schizophrenic who refuses medication, until the evidence points to the stabbed bystander he says he attacked to save her.
- 7
Asunder
A woman accuses her police sergeant husband of rape, but a history of mutual violence and her own recantation make the case a test of whether marital rape can be proved in court.
- 8
Taken
A teenage tourist reports a brutal rape at a new hotel’s grand opening, and a registered sex offender is jailed for it before the detectives find a family con aimed at the hotel’s owner.
- 9
Pixies
A murdered girl thought to be a child prostitute turns out to be a gymnast, and the search for her killer exposes her wealthy patron, her controlling coach and a jealous teammate.
- 10
Consent
A college student is drugged and raped after a fraternity party, and the detectives uncover a revenge plot by her sorority sisters while struggling to prove anyone knew she could not consent.
- 11
Abuse
A celebrity’s son dies chasing the tutor suspected of molesting him, and the investigation turns to his younger sister, whose string of injuries points to a home without attention or care.
- 12
Secrets
The rape and murder of a dedicated teacher exposes her secret sex addiction, and the search for her killer runs through her students, her lovers and the sex clubs she visited.
- 13
Victims
Someone is shooting paroled sex offenders named on a neighborhood watch flyer, and Stabler is assigned to find the killer of the man who maimed a child in one of his own cases.
- 14
Paranoia
A police sergeant who trained Benson is raped on a burglary call, then recants as Internal Affairs buries the case, and the squad traces the attack to her own fellow officers.
- 15
Countdown
When an eight-year-old escapes a predator who holds girls for three days before killing them, the squad races the clock to find him before his newest captive’s time runs out.
- 16
Runaway
When a narcotics sergeant takes hostages to find his runaway daughter, the squad hunts for her through New York’s rave scene while Internal Affairs questions every step of the search.
- 17
Folly
A string of attacks on male escorts in Manhattan hotels leads the squad to the agency’s ruthless owner and then to a married couple acting out a violent shared fantasy.
- 18
Manhunt
A diner waitress’s abduction revives Munch’s unsolved serial-killer case and sends him and Fin upstate and on to the Canadian border after the killer and his accomplice.
- 19
Parasites
Bones found under a Manhattan backyard are identified as a Romanian mail-order bride, until dental records reveal the dead woman is her twin and the case leads to a sex-trafficking ring protected by a diplomat.
- 20
Pique
The rape and murder of a software company’s personnel chief lead to a security guard who idolized her, a string of hatpin attacks, and a confession that exposes his mother’s abuse.
- 21
Scourge
A man who believes he is doing God’s work kills four people in a day, and the push to execute him stalls when doctors find a disease his insurer knew about.