Jurisdiction & Immunity 24 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes
Suspects shielded by diplomatic status, borders or federal agencies, and the fight to try them.
- Season 2 · Episode 2
Honor
When a young Afghan woman is found raped, stabbed and stoned in a park, suspicion moves from her secret fiancé to her diplomat father and her brother.
- Season 2 · Episode 18
Manhunt
A diner waitress’s abduction revives Munch’s unsolved serial-killer case and sends him and Fin upstate and on to the Canadian border after the killer and his accomplice.
- Season 2 · Episode 19
Parasites
Bones found under a Manhattan backyard are identified as a Romanian mail-order bride, until dental records reveal the dead woman is her twin and the case leads to a sex-trafficking ring protected by a diplomat.
- Season 3 · Episode 15
Execution
With a serial killer days from execution, Stabler races to prove he also murdered a schoolgirl whose case went cold a decade earlier.
- Season 4 · Episode 5
Disappearing Acts
A rape victim is whisked into federal custody, and the hunt for her attacker runs into a federal prosecutor protecting a key witness against the Russian mob and his family.
- Season 5 · Episode 4
Loss
The murder of a supposed call girl exposes an undercover police officer inside a Colombian cartel, and prosecuting her killer puts Cabot in the cartel’s sights.
- Season 8 · Episode 12
Outsider
A string of rapes by a man who craves praise draws Fin into an uneasy partnership with a Brooklyn detective who links them to three murders.
- Season 10 · Episode 9
PTSD
When a pregnant Marine who reported a rape in Iraq is killed in New York, SVU clashes with the military, while Benson struggles with the aftermath of her own assault.
- Season 12 · Episode 4
Merchandise
A girl killed fleeing a farmers’ market leads the squad to a ring that buys poor American children, works them on a Long Island farm and sells them for sex.
- 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 1
Scorched Earth
A hotel maid accuses a powerful Italian politician of sexual assault, and the case turns on her credibility as Rollins arrives and Stabler leaves the force.
- Season 14 · Episode 4
Acceptable Loss
A car crash reveals a ring of trafficked girls branded with bar codes, but a federal terrorism investigation orders SVU to leave the traffickers alone.
- Season 15 · Episode 14
Wednesday's Child
A mother secretly gives away her troubled adopted son through an online broker, and SVU races to find him before his insulin runs out.
- Season 15 · Episode 17
Gambler's Fallacy
Caught gambling in an illegal club, Rollins is pressured into favors for its managers, and one of them helps clear the way for a diplomat’s wife’s rape.
- Season 16 · Episode 7
Chicago Crossover
Chicago P.D.’s Voight, Lindsay and Halstead team up with SVU to stop a ring streaming child abuse online, a case tied to Lindsay’s runaway half brother.
- Season 16 · Episode 9
Pattern Seventeen
A serial rapist who hums hymns and chokes his victims strikes in New York, and Rollins links him to Atlanta cases whose rape kits were never tested.
- Season 17 · Episode 14
Nationwide Manhunt
When Greg Yates and Carl Rudnick escape from prison, SVU and Chicago detectives join a manhunt across upstate New York.
- Season 19 · Episode 1
Gone Fishin'
Fin brings a fugitive serial rapist back from Cuba, and his unorthodox arrest turns the prosecution into an international dispute.
- Season 20 · Episode 3
Zero Tolerance
A nine-year-old Guatemalan girl separated from her mother by border agents turns up in a New York sex trafficker’s apartment, and Benson goes after the federal officer who separated them.
- Season 21 · Episode 4
The Burden of Our Choices
A pregnant 13-year-old flees Ohio to get an abortion in New York, and her fight to end the pregnancy exposes years of abuse at home and sets off a legal battle with Ohio prosecutors.
- Season 21 · Episode 7
Counselor, It's Chinatown
A raid on a Chinatown massage parlor uncovers trafficked women working off smuggling debts, and the squad follows the money from the parlor’s manager to its powerful owners.
- 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 23 · Episode 3
I Thought You Were on My Side
A club singer accuses a mob-connected nightclub owner of rape and attempted murder, but federal agents and Stabler’s unit want him as an informant.
- Season 27 · Episode 1
In the Wind
After Donald Cragen’s memorial, Benson tries to keep the only eyewitness in a rape case out of ICE custody, while Fin hides the theft of his gun and a new chief of detectives takes an interest in the squad.