Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 22 Episode Guide
Plot summaries for the twenty-second season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which aired on NBC from November 2020 to June 2021, featuring Capt. Olivia Benson, Det. Amanda Rollins, Sgt. Fin Tutuola, ADA Sonny Carisi, Kat Tamin and Deputy Chief Christian Garland.
- 1
Guardians and Gladiators
After a white woman’s false 911 call gets a Black man arrested at the scene of a rape in Central Park, the squad faces a lawsuit, an IAB inquiry and a distrustful grand jury.
- 2
Ballad of Dwight and Irena
When an abusive boyfriend is electrocuted in his bathtub, his girlfriend’s bullied 14-year-old son confesses, but the squad suspects he is covering for his mother.
- 3
Remember Me in Quarantine
When an Italian exchange student is found dead in a freezer weeks after she vanished, suspicion falls on her party-loving roommate and the drug dealer she brought home.
- 4
Sightless in a Savage Land
A 13-year-old foster child is found hemorrhaging after a forced abortion, and when her foster father is charged, her wounded veteran father shoots him outside court.
- 5
Turn Me on Take Me Private
A webcam performer is sexually assaulted during a live role-play by a fan who believes they are in love, and he acts as his own lawyer at trial.
- 6
The Long Arm of the Witness
After a judge throws out a rape case and launches a campaign for attorney general, the squad uncovers a history of sexual assaults dating to his college years.
- 7
Hunt, Trap, Rape & Release
A serial rapist case that crosses from the Bronx into Manhattan forces SVU to work with Bronx SVU’s new commander, Carolyn Barek, and her veteran sergeant.
- 8
The Only Way Out Is Through
Twenty years after their attack, two sisters seek answers from the man who assaulted them, while Fin tries to keep a manipulative rapist from winning parole.
- 9
Return of the Prodigal Son
A car bomb nearly kills Kathy Stabler, bringing Elliot Stabler back to New York and into an uneasy reunion with Benson as SVU hunts the bomber.
- 10
Welcome to the Pedo Motel
When a teenage girl is murdered near a hotel housing sex offenders, suspicion of a parolee coworker spreads to the neighborhood with deadly results.
- 11
Our Words Will Not Be Heard
A white supremacist crew kidnaps the sister of an activist for missing Black women and auctions her fate online, while Benson weighs how to push the NYPD toward reform.
- 12
In the Year We All Fell Down
Benson walks into a standoff at a favorite restaurant, where the owner, ruined by a year of pandemic losses, holds her realtor at knifepoint.
- 13
Trick-Rolled at the Moulin
Three women drug and rob wealthy men with a lethal batch of counterfeit pills, and the case leads back to the death of Benson’s brother Simon.
- 14
Post-Graduate Psychopath
Henry Mesner, the boy who shot Amaro, is released from a psychiatric facility at 18 and starts a killing spree that reaches Rollins’s family.
- 15
What Can Happen In the Dark
Garland’s neighbor turns up badly hurt, and the squad comes to suspect his wife sexually assaulted him, a case few will believe.
- 16
Wolves in Sheep's Clothing
A single mother in a luxury building’s subsidized apartment is pressured into sex with powerful men, and the trail leads to a celebrated housing advocate.