Eyewitness Identification 21 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes
Lineups, photo arrays and memory, and what happens when a witness picks the wrong person.
- Season 1 · Episode 19
Contact
A box-cutter rapist preys on women riding the subway, and when tainted lineup identifications sink the case, the squad turns to a pregnant victim who never reported her attack.
- Season 8 · Episode 3
Recall
A prominent lawyer charged with rape is cleared in one case by DNA, and Stabler’s new partner finds the woman he attacked as a teenager.
- Season 11 · Episode 1
Unstable
A volatile detective helps SVU with a rape victim who trusts only him, and the case suggests Stabler sent the wrong man to prison ten years earlier.
- Season 11 · Episode 14
Savior
SVU hunts a religious zealot who strangles prostitutes, and the case depends on a pregnant survivor whose premature baby leaves Benson facing a hard decision.
- Season 13 · Episode 6
True Believers
A piano student raped at gunpoint watches her case unravel when a civil-rights defense lawyer attacks the police work and her own credibility.
- Season 15 · Episode 3
American Tragedy
A celebrity chef shoots an unarmed black teenager she mistakes for a serial rapist, and her manslaughter trial turns on race, fear and self-defense.
- Season 17 · Episode 5
Community Policing
Hunting a pattern rapist, three detectives shoot and kill an unarmed young man, and Barba asks a grand jury to indict them while Benson defends the officers.
- Season 17 · Episode 13
Forty-One Witnesses
A woman is assaulted in her building’s courtyard in view of many neighbors, none of whom called for help, and SVU needs one of them to testify.
- Season 18 · Episode 2
Making a Rapist
A man freed after 16 years by a retested rape kit becomes the prime suspect when the daughter of the woman who misidentified him is raped and killed.
- Season 18 · Episode 12
No Surrender
An Army Ranger chosen as the face of a recruiting tour is beaten and raped after a night of underground fighting, and the man she identifies has an alibi.
- Season 18 · Episode 20
American Dream
SVU hunts the masked men who raped two Muslim sisters and killed one of them and their father, but the only eyewitness is deported before he can testify.
- Season 19 · Episode 12
Info Wars
When a far-right pundit is sexually assaulted during a campus riot, SVU must decide whether an antifa protester or one of her own fans attacked her.
- Season 21 · Episode 5
At Midnight in Manhattan
Over one weekend, the short-staffed squad and Carisi juggle three new cases: a battered wife, a woman attacked after a ride-hail pickup and a transgender sex worker assaulted by a wealthy client.
- Season 22 · Episode 7
Hunt, Trap, Rape & Release
A serial rapist case that crosses from the Bronx into Manhattan forces SVU to work with Bronx SVU’s new commander, Carolyn Barek, and her veteran sergeant.
- Season 24 · Episode 13
Intersection
A man posing as an EMT rigs traffic lights to cause crashes and rapes injured women at the scene, until a third crash turns deadly.
- Season 24 · Episode 14
Dutch Tears
A man Fin arrested as a teenager 23 years ago confronts him at gunpoint and demands justice for his rape in a city holding cell.
- Season 24 · Episode 15
King of the Moon
A neurologist with dementia confesses to raping and killing his wife of 40 years, but Carisi and Benson set out to prove he did not do it.
- Season 25 · Episode 2
Truth Embargo
A teenager in a looting crowd rapes a woman in a boutique dressing room, and she hesitates to identify him in court because of how the justice system treated her brother.
- Season 25 · Episode 8
Third Man Syndrome
Three young men from New Jersey beat a Colombian visitor they take for gay, and the only person who saw them clearly has not left her apartment in years.
- Season 25 · Episode 13
Duty to Hope
When the wrong man is charged in a string of gunpoint rapes, the real attacker strikes again and SVU races to free one man and catch another.
- Season 26 · Episode 13
Extinguished
When a teenage girl is raped in a Washington Heights park near Velasco’s home, he has to win over neighbors who distrust the police, starting with the vigilante upstairs.