Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 7 Episode Guide
Plot summaries for the seventh season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which aired on NBC from September 2005 to May 2006, featuring Det. Elliot Stabler, Det. Olivia Benson, Det. John Munch, Det. Fin Tutuola, Capt. Donald Cragen, ADA Casey Novak, Dr. George Huang and medical examiner Dr. Melinda Warner.
- 1
Demons
A rapist freed after 21 years falls under suspicion when a teenager is attacked, and Stabler goes undercover as a fellow parolee to find out whether he has changed.
- 2
Design
A pregnant woman’s rape case against a rich scientist collapses into a hunt for her body, then for the truth about her baby and the men she targeted.
- 3
911
A girl calls 911 from a locked room, and Benson spends the night on the line while a cloned, rerouted phone keeps the squad from finding her.
- 4
Ripped
When a teenage pitcher attacks his best friend, Stabler’s loyalty to the boy’s father, his old partner, collides with the case, and steroids prove to be at the heart of it.
- 5
Strain
Two gay men carrying a fast-killing strain of HIV are executed and labeled killers, and the hunt for their murderer draws in Fin’s own son.
- 6
Raw
A sniper’s attack on a schoolyard leads the squad to a neo-Nazi gun dealer and a skinhead shooter, and finally to a motive inside the dead boy’s own home.
- 7
Name
A child’s remains found under a new playground reopen the 1978 disappearance of four boys and lead a CSU technician back to the unsolved case that consumed her father.
- 8
Starved
A speed-dating sting catches a controlling surgeon suspected of serial rape, and the girlfriend who could convict him becomes the subject of a right-to-die fight.
- 9
Rockabye
A pregnant 16-year-old beaten in a Manhattan hotel turns out to have planned her own attack after every legal route to an abortion was closed to her.
- 10
Storm
Three Katrina orphans taken to New York by a pedophile lead the squad to a vial of stolen anthrax and a fight with federal agents over the public’s right to know.
- 11
Alien
A Catholic schoolboy’s stabbing leads to an eight-year-old girl with two mothers, and her grandparents use the case to try to take her from the woman who raised her.
- 12
Infected
A boy who hid while his mother was killed takes revenge on the philanthropist he blames, and his case becomes a fight over whether gun violence spreads like a disease.
- 13
Blast
A girl with undiagnosed leukemia is kidnapped for ransom, and the search leads back to her own family.
- 14
Taboo
A newborn abandoned in the trash leads detectives to a brilliant student who denies ever being pregnant, and to a secret she shares with her father.
- 15
Manipulated
The murder of a lawyer who secretly danced at a strip club points to her lover, until the detectives find his paralyzed wife pulling the strings.
- 16
Gone
A Canadian teenager disappears on a school trip to New York, and the case against three prep school boys rests on a gentle witness who then vanishes himself.
- 17
Class
A scholarship student found strangled on a prostitution stroll turns out to have been paying for college with poker winnings, and her killer is the friend who shared her secret.
- 18
Venom
Fin’s son is caught digging for a body on what he says was a stranger’s boast, and the DNA that clears him exposes a family secret and a killer close to home.
- 19
Fault
A released sex offender slaughters a family and flees with two children, and the manhunt forces Benson and Stabler to face what they would risk for each other.
- 20
Fat
Stabler and a hot-headed temporary partner hunt the teens who maimed a schoolgirl, and uncover the beating that started it.
- 21
Web
A young boy’s abuse leads detectives to his teenage brother’s child pornography website and the paying predators who help him disappear.
- 22
Influence
A teenager’s false rape claim and a fatal crash reveal that she quit her bipolar medication on the word of a rock star.