Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 9 Episode Guide
Plot summaries for the ninth season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which aired on NBC from September 2007 to May 2008, featuring Det. Elliot Stabler, Det. Olivia Benson, Sgt. John Munch, Det. Fin Tutuola, Det. Chester Lake, Capt. Donald Cragen, ADA Casey Novak, Dr. George Huang and Dr. Melinda Warner.
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Alternate
A woman with multiple personalities is suspected of harming the baby in her care, and her parents’ murder puts an insanity defense to the test.
- 2
Avatar
A young woman vanishes from her bed, and her avatar in an online virtual world leads the squad to an ex-convict reliving an old abduction.
- 3
Impulsive
A high school teacher and her 15-year-old student accuse each other of rape, and the boy’s lawyer argues that a sex addiction made him do it.
- 4
Savant
The only witness to a brutal attack is a girl with Williams syndrome, and her father, the obvious suspect, is protected by the FBI.
- 5
Harm
The murder of a teacher who was helping a torture survivor tell his story puts a psychiatrist who designed interrogations in Iraq on trial in New York.
- 6
Svengali
A copycat murder modeled on an imprisoned serial killer’s crimes exposes how far his admirers will go for him, and one of them targets Benson.
- 7
Blinded
A schizophrenic children’s author who abducts girls he mistakes for his sister blinds Stabler, and Benson and Novak each bend the rules over whether he should face execution.
- 8
Fight
The murder of a teenage girl leads from a cage fighter to two brothers raised in foster care, and Lake refuses to accept the confession that closes the case.
- 9
Paternity
A nanny’s murder exposes a marriage built on secrets and a boy whose father is not his biological parent, while Kathy Stabler’s baby arrives after a car crash.
- 10
Snitch
The murder of a 15-year-old Nigerian bride seems to be a drug dealer’s warning to a witness, until the investigation turns to her husband’s other wives.
- 11
Streetwise
The murder of a debutante in Central Park leads the detectives to a homeless “street family” whose self-appointed father punishes disrespect with death.
- 12
Signature
Benson and Lake team with an FBI profiler to hunt a serial sexual sadist, only to find he has already been executed, and that the shooter may be on their side.
- 13
Unorthodox
The rape of a young boy turns suspicion on his Hasidic community until the trail leads to a bullied 14-year-old whose lawyer blames a sex-saturated culture.
- 14
Inconceivable
The theft of 100 frozen embryos sends the squad through a fertility clinic’s most contentious clients, and the activists behind it set off a fatal act of revenge.
- 15
Undercover
A teenage girl’s rape points to a guard at the women’s prison where her mother is held, and Benson goes in undercover as an inmate to unmask him.
- 16
Closet
The murder of a gay man exposes his secret marriage to a star quarterback, who is outed, beaten and charged, while a press leak puts Benson under investigation.
- 17
Authority
A phone prankster who talks a manager into abusing a teenage employee is acquitted, becomes a folk hero, and then tests Stabler with Benson’s life.
- 18
Trade
A pregnant woman’s murder entangles a wealthy coffee trader, his son and the son’s lawyer in a web of money, jealousy and a bribed juror.
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Cold
In the season finale, Lake’s fatal shootout with a fellow officer exposes a decade-old rape and murder by police, and the case costs Novak and Lake dearly.