Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 6 Episode Guide
Plot summaries for the sixth season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which aired on NBC from September 2004 to May 2005, featuring Det. Elliot Stabler, Det. Olivia Benson, Det. John Munch, Det. Fin Tutuola, Capt. Donald Cragen, ADA Casey Novak and Dr. George Huang.
- 1
Birthright
An attempt to snatch a little girl from a playground leads to a woman convinced the child is hers, and to a fertility doctor who gave away embryos without consent.
- 2
Debt
Two small children left alone in a Chinatown apartment lead the squad to a mother who owed smugglers for her daughter’s passage, and to the gang that collects such debts.
- 3
Obscene
The rape of a teenage TV star pits a decency crusader against a shock jock, until the culprit turns out to be the crusader’s own son.
- 4
Scavenger
A copycat reviving a 1970s serial killer’s riddles and methods sends the squad on a race across the city to save his next victims.
- 5
Outcry
A teenager found bound at a campus construction site says cadets raped her, but her shifting story and a media frenzy hide the man she is really afraid of.
- 6
Conscience
A five-year-old is murdered after a birthday party, and the case against an unlikely young killer ends in a courthouse shooting by the victim’s father.
- 7
Charisma
A pregnant 12-year-old leads the squad to a cult whose leader escapes after a massacre of children and goes after the girl’s trust fund.
- 8
Doubt
A graduate student says her professor raped her, he says it was rough sex she asked for, and the detectives split over whom to believe.
- 9
Weak
A serial rapist preys on physically vulnerable women, and the detectives must rely on a witness with schizophrenia whose memories return as vivid, broken fragments.
- 10
Haunted
After a shooting makes him a hero, Fin is confronted by a mother whose daughter he abandoned while undercover, and sets out to find the grandson she never knew she had.
- 11
Contagious
A medical exam after a car crash reveals that a nine-year-old has been abused, but the man she names may not be the one who hurt her.
- 12
Identity
A gang member’s fall from a roof leads detectives to teenage twins, and to a doctor who has spent years testing a theory on them.
- 13
Quarry
The remains of a boy missing since 1980 point to a death-row child molester, but the truth lies with a boy he abused.
- 14
Game
An escort’s murder copies a scene from a violent video game, and the teenagers behind it claim they could not tell play from reality.
- 15
Hooked
A teenager found dead with her cousin’s ID turns out to have been selling sex and acting in pornography, and she was HIV positive.
- 16
Ghost
A cartel hit man’s gun links a string of murders to the attack on Alexandra Cabot, forcing the former prosecutor out of witness protection to face him in court.
- 17
Rage
Stabler has one day of interrogation to break the man he could not convict of a child’s murder 14 years earlier, after another girl is killed the same way.
- 18
Pure
A man claiming psychic visions inserts himself into the search for a kidnapped bike messenger, and Stabler is sure he knows more than he should.
- 19
Intoxicated
A mother who tried to have her teenage daughter’s adult boyfriend charged with rape is found beaten to death, and the young couple become the suspects.
- 20
Night
A rapist who pays off undocumented cleaning women leaves one dead, and the trail leads to the son of a wealthy, protective mother.
- 21
Blood
A young mother’s assault and her baby’s near death expose a painkiller pipeline running through a frail grandmother’s home.
- 22
Parts
A dismembered veteran leads the squad from a morgue’s body-selling racket to a black market in kidneys, and to a woman Munch cannot forget.
- 23
Goliath
Two police officers back from Afghanistan attack their wives, and the trail leads to an antimalarial drug the Army gave them.