Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 27 Episode Guide
Plot summaries for the twenty-seventh season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which aired on NBC from September 2025 to May 2026, featuring Capt. Olivia Benson, Sgt. Fin Tutuola, ADA Sonny Carisi, Det. Terry Bruno, Capt. Renee Curry, Sgt. Amanda Rollins and Det. Jake Griffin.
- 1
In the Wind
After Donald Cragen’s memorial, Benson tries to keep the only eyewitness in a rape case out of ICE custody, while Fin hides the theft of his gun and a new chief of detectives takes an interest in the squad.
- 2
A Waiver of Consent
A woman found drugged and dazed in Midtown leads the squad to a members-only sex club whose owner has everyone sign away their right to refuse.
- 3
A Vicious Circle
A bomb at a fertility clinic destroys a rape suspect’s DNA sample, and the murder of the clinic’s owner leads the squad from antinatalist protesters to her own divorce lawyer.
- 4
Clickbait
A 13-year-old’s near-fatal pregnancy and a wave of fake nude images lead the squad to a jealous classmate and then to the AI company whose app made the pictures.
- 5
Feed the Craving
A doula’s client who says she is in labor with a stillborn baby conceived in a rape is abducted, then turns out never to have been pregnant, and the squad finds dozens of doulas she deceived.
- 6
Under the Influence
An influencer hired to liven up a luxury open house is drugged and raped, and DNA from the shower drain leads the squad to two real estate brothers and the father who protects them.
- 7
False Idols
When an author’s assistant stabs the author’s husband and accuses him of rape, SVU looks at how much his celebrated wife knew and enabled.
- 8
Showdown
A con man’s report that his girlfriend was raped and kidnapped sends SVU after the wrong suspect, and the mistakes follow the squad into court.
- 9
Purity
After a bombing nearly kills Bruno, SVU traces a surrogacy trafficking ring to a white supremacist community and the multimillionaire buying its embryos.
- 10
Fidelis ad mortem
A thrift-store cassette leads SVU to a 1999 rape and murder, and to the detectives who were secretly recording the victim.
- 11
Career Psychopath
After a gunman ambushes Rollins and Carisi at home, SVU finds a string of attacks on people who helped convict Henry Mesner.
- 12
Hubris
Benson rescues a trafficked foster girl and comes to doubt the child-abuse pediatrician whose testimony took her from her father and sent another mother to jail.
- 13
Corrosive
When Carisi’s mentor is shot after a student accuses him of rape online, SVU finds a manipulative father running his son’s dorm room like a cult.
- 14
Frequency
A baby monitor intercepts a live feed of a caged, non-speaking boy, and the squad races to find him while Griffin tries to reach him.
- 15
Thirsty
A superfan accuses a 16-year-old ballet star of rape at his fan convention, but his mother’s murder and his own account turn the case around.
- 16
Vivid
A streamer’s memory of being raped, recovered during a psychedelic drug trial, points SVU not to her ex but to the therapists treating her.
- 17
Deep Under
Former SVU detective Joe Velasco, now undercover for the DEA inside a cartel crew, secretly helps the squad find women being trafficked through New York.
- 18
Gimmick
The murder of a former teenage fight fan leads SVU to the aging champion he said abused him, and to the agent who paid for his silence.
- 19
Impropriety
A 16-year-old dropped outside a hospital after a party leads SVU to a retired judge’s daughter who drugged her son’s friends and watched them on a hidden camera.
- 20
Old Friends
A woman is raped during a reunion sleepover with her oldest college friends, and every man in the house becomes a suspect.
- 21
Monster
A suppressed search frees a man caught with a kidnapped boy in his trunk, and SVU must rebuild the case before he takes another child.