Date Rape & Consent 64 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes
Assaults by acquaintances and dates, where the case turns on consent and credibility.
- Season 1 · Episode 6
Sophomore Jinx
A college sophomore is found dead after a party for her school’s basketball team, and the detectives push past a university protecting its players to find out what happened to her.
- Season 1 · Episode 8
Stalked
When a prosecutor is raped and killed in Central Park, the detectives focus on a realtor she once took to court, who then fixes his attention on Benson.
- Season 2 · Episode 10
Consent
A college student is drugged and raped after a fraternity party, and the detectives uncover a revenge plot by her sorority sisters while struggling to prove anyone knew she could not consent.
- Season 3 · Episode 22
Competence
A pregnant woman with Down syndrome cannot say how it happened, and the search for her rapist runs into a guardianship fight over whether she can decide to keep the baby.
- Season 4 · Episode 8
Waste
A woman in a long-term coma is found to be pregnant, and the search for her rapist uncovers a doctor’s secret stem cell experiment paid for by a dying billionaire.
- Season 8 · Episode 2
Clock
A 17-year-old who looks like a child disappears from a school trip, and Stabler finds she has run off with a 30-year-old man the law cannot touch.
- Season 10 · Episode 10
Smut
A woman raped under a memory-erasing drug cannot say what happened, so SVU hunts for other victims of a man who films his attacks.
- Season 12 · Episode 9
Gray
A college student accused of raping a drunk classmate is found to have secretly used an abortion-inducing drug on his pregnant girlfriend.
- Season 12 · Episode 24
Smoked
A rape victim is shot dead before her attacker’s trial, and the trail leads to a hired stalker who is also a federal informant.
- Season 13 · Episode 11
Theatre Tricks
An actress’s rape during an interactive play goes unnoticed by the audience, and the trail runs through a stalker, a theater critic, a judge with a fantasy and her director.
- Season 13 · Episode 13
Father's Shadow
A reality TV producer who drugs and assaults young performers is jailed, and his devoted son takes hostages to force his release, leaving Benson to talk him down.
- Season 14 · Episode 3
Twenty-Five Acts
The credited author of a bestselling erotic novel accuses a talk-show host of rape, and the case turns on whether a jury will believe her once her secret comes out.
- Season 14 · Episode 18
Legitimate Rape
A sports reporter raped and stalked by her cameraman becomes pregnant, and the man she accuses turns the trial and then family court against her.
- Season 14 · Episode 20
Girl Dishonored
A freshman’s gang rape at a fraternity leads SVU to a string of victims and a university that protects its students’ attackers.
- Season 15 · Episode 5
Wonderland Story
A woman who was raped two years earlier is drugged and assaulted again after an underground party, as the squad sends Munch into retirement.
- Season 15 · Episode 9
Rapist Anonymous
A woman from Rollins’s recovery circle says a fellow member raped her; when he falls from her roof, Rollins’s loyalty and private life end up on trial.
- Season 15 · Episode 15
Comic Perversion
A comedian who builds his act on rape jokes is accused of raping a college student, and SVU’s case against him becomes a fight over free speech.
- Season 16 · Episode 2
American Disgrace
A press rep accuses a beloved retired basketball star of drugging and raping her, and two more women come forward, each paid by the same sponsor.
- Season 16 · Episode 5
Pornstar's Requiem
A Hudson freshman who made porn videos to pay her tuition is raped by two classmates, and her past is put on trial alongside them.
- Season 16 · Episode 10
Forgiving Rollins
A visiting Atlanta detective says her deputy chief raped her during a New York conference, and the case forces Rollins to reveal what he did to her.
- Season 16 · Episode 16
December Solstice
A novelist’s daughters accuse his much younger wife of secretly drugging him for sex, and his death after she pulls him from the hospital leads to a manslaughter charge.
- Season 16 · Episode 17
Parole Violations
Carisi’s sister’s fiancé, a parolee, accuses his female parole officer of raping him at gunpoint, and Barba must persuade jurors that a man can be raped by a woman.
- Season 16 · Episode 18
Devastating Story
A TV newsmagazine’s story of a fraternity gang rape goes viral, and SVU’s case unravels as the student’s account changes and the reporting proves unchecked.
- Season 17 · Episode 6
Maternal Instincts
A celebrated flautist accused of rape blames an escort he says drugged him, and Rollins recognizes the escort as her fugitive sister.
- Season 17 · Episode 12
A Misunderstanding
A 15-year-old says a senior assaulted her in a school darkroom, and SVU must prove a case built on what neither teenager said aloud.
- Season 17 · Episode 21
Assaulting Reality
A reality-show contestant sees on live television that she was sexually assaulted while unconscious, and SVU finds the producers hid who did it to protect their storyline.
- Season 18 · Episode 3
Imposter
A security guard who poses as a college admissions director to seduce anxious mothers is charged with rape, testing whether sex obtained by fraud is a crime in New York.
- Season 18 · Episode 5
Rape Interrupted
Benson’s first partner pressures her to drop the case against his son, who was found on top of an unconscious woman in a park.
- Season 18 · Episode 9
Decline & Fall
A bartender who remembers nothing after a retail billionaire’s birthday party learns that two generations of his family had sex with her, and the patriarch claims he is too impaired to stand trial.
- Season 18 · Episode 18
Spellbound
A publicist says a celebrity healer raped her at his ayahuasca retreat although she took no drugs, and SVU sets out to prove he hypnotized her.
- Season 18 · Episode 19
Conversion
A young woman on a church trip is raped by a friend who says he did it to cure her of being gay, and the case leads SVU to the pastor who taught him.
- Season 19 · Episode 4
No Good Reason
A sophomore disappears after a degrading photo from a party goes around her school, and her report of rape makes her the target of more bullying.
- Season 19 · Episode 8
Intent
A social media star is raped by a fighter who believes she asked him to force her, and SVU traces both sides of their messages to a lonely woman in West Virginia.
- Season 19 · Episode 15
In Loco Parentis
Carisi’s niece recants a campus rape claim to him, then says the student she accused raped her in revenge, putting Carisi’s honesty on trial.
- Season 20 · Episode 6
Exile
A woman found beaten and assaulted in an alley turns out to be a missing college student living on the street with no memory of who she was.
- Season 20 · Episode 8
Hell's Kitchen
A waitress who refuses to call her assault rape leads SVU to her celebrity chef boss, his uncharged Brooklyn cases and the prosecutor who passed on them.
- Season 20 · Episode 11
Plastic
A young woman’s rape complaint against a celebrity plastic surgeon and his girlfriend leads SVU to a teenager who disappeared 14 years earlier and a body hidden in a wall.
- Season 20 · Episode 18
Blackout
After a police gala ends with defense attorney Nikki Staines drugged and raped, SVU’s inquiry leads to a well-connected lawyer with leverage over a judge and the department.
- Season 21 · Episode 19
Solving for the Unknowns
A baker arrested for drunk driving realizes a man she met on a dating app drugged and raped her, and SVU finds a bartender who mixes custom sedatives for several men.
- Season 22 · Episode 5
Turn Me on Take Me Private
A webcam performer is sexually assaulted during a live role-play by a fan who believes they are in love, and he acts as his own lawyer at trial.
- Season 22 · Episode 6
The Long Arm of the Witness
After a judge throws out a rape case and launches a campaign for attorney general, the squad uncovers a history of sexual assaults dating to his college years.
- Season 22 · Episode 8
The Only Way Out Is Through
Twenty years after their attack, two sisters seek answers from the man who assaulted them, while Fin tries to keep a manipulative rapist from winning parole.
- Season 22 · Episode 13
Trick-Rolled at the Moulin
Three women drug and rob wealthy men with a lethal batch of counterfeit pills, and the case leads back to the death of Benson’s brother Simon.
- Season 23 · Episode 1
And the Empire Strikes Back
SVU builds a sex-trafficking case against a congressman who used a nonprofit’s housing program to prey on homeless mothers and teenage girls.
- Season 23 · Episode 15
Promising Young Gentlemen
After a freshman is raped at an exclusive college club, SVU charges every member with conspiracy and Carisi seeks a gender-based hate crime charge.
- Season 23 · Episode 16
Sorry If It Got Weird for You
A woman who panics on a date with Velasco reveals that the founder of the dating app she works for raped her.
- Season 23 · Episode 21
Confess Your Sins to Be Free
A rapist strikes women who confessed their affairs to a priest, and Carisi’s childhood friend in the clergy will not say why he was caught at the scene of a trap.
- Season 24 · Episode 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.
- Season 24 · Episode 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.
- Season 24 · Episode 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.
- Season 24 · Episode 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.
- Season 24 · Episode 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.
- Season 25 · Episode 3
The Punch List
An escort reports that two men forced her at gunpoint to have sex with a drugged stranger, but the man, a married dermatologist, says he does not remember.
- Season 25 · Episode 4
Duty to Report
When Chief McGrath’s 15-year-old daughter says she was assaulted at a party she threw, Benson takes the case and must report McGrath’s threat against a suspect.
- Season 25 · Episode 6
Carousel
Three college friends compete to seduce foreign women at New York hostels, and SVU must learn which of them raped a tourist from Singapore before she flies home.
- Season 26 · Episode 1
Fractured
After a pre-law student is beaten to death and two roommates are attacked in their off-campus apartment, a hidden camera in her bedroom leads SVU to her study partner.
- Season 26 · Episode 4
Constricted
When a 16-year-old is concussed and choked during her first sexual encounter, SVU traces the choking to pornography that her boyfriend’s father shared.
- Season 26 · Episode 9
First Light
A video of a professor’s wife in bed with a stranger she cannot remember leads SVU to an online forum and to the man who arranged the encounter.
- Season 26 · Episode 14
The Grid Plan
A Midwestern tourist raped near Times Square refuses to wait for the police, and her secret diagnosis becomes the defense’s weapon at trial.
- Season 26 · Episode 15
Undertow
A New Jersey teacher who had sex with a 16-year-old at a hotel pool says she was drugged, leaving Carisi to prosecute a case with two possible victims.
- Season 27 · Episode 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.
- Season 27 · Episode 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.
- Season 27 · Episode 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.
- Season 27 · Episode 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.
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- Blackmail & Extortion
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- Gang Rape
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- Hate Crimes
- Hostage Standoffs
- Human Trafficking
- Incest
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- Male Victims
- Murder for Hire
- Online Predators
- Prison Rape
- Prostitution & Sex Work
- Serial Killers
- Serial Rapists
- Stalking & Voyeurism
- Statutory Rape
- Vigilantes & Revenge
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