Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 24 Episode Guide
Plot summaries for the twenty-fourth season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which aired on NBC from September 2022 to May 2023, featuring Capt. Olivia Benson, Det. Amanda Rollins, Sgt. Fin Tutuola, ADA Sonny Carisi, Det. Joe Velasco and Det. Grace Muncy.
- 1
Gimme Shelter – Part Two
SVU, Organized Crime and Law & Order detectives hunt Mark Sirenko, a trafficker linked to a girl’s murder who has built a large bomb and vanished with it.
- 2
The One You Feed
After a Bronx gang attacks a tourist family on the subway, Benson works the case with a Gang Unit captain who cares more about taking down the gang’s leader.
- 3
Mirror Effect
A pop star accuses her equally famous boyfriend of assault, then of rape, and the case plays out in court and on social media.
- 4
The Steps We Cannot Take
A gunman shoots a restaurant owner and his wife and abducts their daughter, and the search uncovers two women held captive for years in a house upstate.
- 5
Breakwater
A young lifeguard accuses the chief of the Bronx lifeguards of rape, and when he drowns on duty the squad uncovers how the chief qualified his staff.
- 6
Controlled Burn
A woman who insists she cannot have been raped wakes up in the hospital after a secret party, and the investigation exposes a powerful businesswoman filming her guests.
- 7
Dead Ball
A reporter accuses a soccer superstar of rape and then withdraws, and the squad’s search for other victims leads to his best friend’s teenage daughter.
- 8
A Better Person
A detective’s child is murdered, and the case turns on what her father did to the crime scene to hide that she was living as a woman.
- 9
And a Trauma in a Pear Tree
Benson’s Christmas trip to introduce Noah to his half-brother turns into an off-duty hunt for the men filming guests at her motel, as Rollins prepares to leave SVU.
- 10
Jumped In
After surviving a gang attack, Benson takes her squad to the Bronx and reopens a closed serial rape case against deaf schoolgirls.
- 11
Soldier Up
Benson and a Gang Unit captain discover that BX9 uses rape to force boys into the gang, and race to tie the gang’s leader to the attack on her.
- 12
Blood Out
As the BX9 leader’s trial loses its witnesses one by one, the gang turns its violence on the captain who hunted it.
- 13
Intersection
A man posing as an EMT rigs traffic lights to cause crashes and rapes injured women at the scene, until a third crash turns deadly.
- 14
Dutch Tears
A man Fin arrested as a teenager 23 years ago confronts him at gunpoint and demands justice for his rape in a city holding cell.
- 15
King of the Moon
A neurologist with dementia confesses to raping and killing his wife of 40 years, but Carisi and Benson set out to prove he did not do it.
- 16
The Presence of Absence
A young widow is assaulted by the man she met online, who turns out to be her best friend, and the case goes to trial.
- 17
Lime Chaser
SVU uses Muncy’s brother to expose a family ring that drugs women in bars and delivers them to paying men in hotel rooms.
- 18
Bubble Wrap
When a construction magnate’s son is accused of raping an employee, his mother buys the victim’s silence, and then the victim dies of a mysterious lung injury.
- 19
Bend the Law
Carisi must build a case against his own boss’s husband when 15-year-old girls are found serving members of an exclusive club, while Velasco tracks down an old cartel friend in Maine.
- 20
Debatable
A teenage debater who torched her team’s bus says she was raped, and the trail leads from her teammates to the married coaches who took her under their wing.
- 21
Bad Things
A string of stranger rapes in which the attacker knows each woman’s name points to men paying for revenge, while Muncy pursues a captor who starves his victim in a cage.
- 22
All Pain Is One Malady
As SVU and Organized Crime close in on the revenge-for-hire site Shadowërk, a serial attacker unconnected to the site preys on strangers across the city.