Parents & Children 33 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes
Cases shaped by the bond between a parent and a child, and how far a parent will go to protect one.
- 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 8
Abomination
The murder of a former poster model for an ex-gay ministry leads detectives through anti-gay activists and academic rivals to a reparative therapist and his closeted son.
- Season 5 · Episode 9
Control
A man found castrated in a subway station proves to be a serial kidnapper who kept women as “brides” in a hidden dungeon, and one of his victims is a woman Benson once failed to believe.
- Season 5 · Episode 16
Home
A boy found scavenging for food leads detectives to a homeschooling mother whose fear of the outside world ends with one of her sons shot dead.
- Season 5 · Episode 23
Bound
The strangling of a wealthy, terminally ill widow links two older murders to a home-nursing company run by a doctor and his sister.
- Season 6 · Episode 4
Scavenger
A copycat reviving a 1970s serial killer’s riddles and methods sends the squad on a race across the city to save his next victims.
- Season 7 · Episode 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.
- Season 7 · Episode 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.
- 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 8 · Episode 14
Dependent
A mob lawyer’s wife is murdered at home, the evidence points to their drug-using daughter, and a death during an arrest puts Stabler’s career on the line.
- Season 8 · Episode 18
Responsible
A girl’s death at a teen drinking party leads detectives to a mother who supplies alcohol to her daughter’s friends and sleeps with one of them.
- Season 9 · Episode 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.
- Season 10 · Episode 3
Swing
When Stabler’s daughter is arrested after breaking into a stranger’s home, a bipolar diagnosis forces him to turn to the mother he has kept out of his life.
- Season 10 · Episode 14
Transitions
The beating of a repo man outside a strip club draws the squad into his family’s fight over his transgender daughter’s medical care.
- Season 11 · Episode 2
Sugar
The murder of a young woman found in a suitcase draws SVU into the world of paid “sugar” dating and the family of the website’s owner.
- Season 11 · Episode 8
Turmoil
A missing teenager pulls Stabler’s son into danger while a leaked photo and a state bar inquiry threaten Cabot’s rape case against a high school football star.
- Season 12 · Episode 20
Totem
A psychiatrist filling in for Huang convinces Benson and Stabler that a ten-year-old’s rape and murder was committed by a woman, and the trail leads to a family of abused daughters.
- Season 13 · Episode 5
Missing Pieces
A Buffalo couple report their baby stolen with their car on Halloween, and SVU works to learn what really happened to him on the drive to New York.
- 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 5
Manhattan Vigil
The kidnapping of a real estate heir’s young son leads Benson back to a boy who vanished from the same neighborhood 13 years earlier.
- Season 14 · Episode 8
Lessons Learned
A retired teacher’s suicide leads the squad to decades of sexual abuse at an elite boys’ school, and to a board determined to protect the institution.
- Season 14 · Episode 9
Dreams Deferred
When a gunman goes on a killing spree, the squad turns to the aging prostitute he has visited for 25 years and tries to pull her off the street once he is stopped.
- Season 16 · Episode 12
Padre Sandunguero
When Amaro’s estranged father is accused of fracturing his young fiancée’s skull the night before their wedding, Nick becomes the key witness to what she first said.
- Season 16 · Episode 22
Parents' Nightmare
When an eight-year-old is taken from school and held for ransom, SVU has to work out which of his divorced parents set up the abduction.
- 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 23
Heartfelt Passages
Benson and Sgt. Dodds help the wife of an accused corrections officer leave him, and the visit becomes a hostage standoff that costs Dodds his life.
- 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 8
Chasing Theo
A six-year-old disappears from his bed during his mother’s late-night party, and the hunt runs through her ex-wife, her violent ex-boyfriend and finally the nanny who raised him.
- Season 20 · Episode 1
Man Up
A 15-year-old boy refuses to name the man who raped him after a family hunting trip, and the squad comes to suspect his own father.
- Season 20 · Episode 2
Man Down
After his father is acquitted of raping him, a teenager opens fire at his school, and Stone sets out to hold the father responsible.
- Season 20 · Episode 12
Dear Ben
A copycat revives the case of a 1980s serial rapist who taunted Stone’s father, and the search for the real attacker leads to a genealogy website.
- 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 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.