Stalking & Voyeurism 30 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes
Victims who are watched, followed or secretly recorded, and the obsessions behind it.
- 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 3
Closure: Part 2
A new rape matching Kenneth Cleary’s method reunites the detectives with his first known victim, who has been following him herself.
- Season 2 · Episode 12
Secrets
The rape and murder of a dedicated teacher exposes her secret sex addiction, and the search for her killer runs through her students, her lovers and the sex clubs she visited.
- Season 3 · Episode 2
Wrath
Three murder victims tied to Benson’s old cases are found posed at a research site, and the trail leads to a man she once helped convict before DNA proved him innocent.
- Season 3 · Episode 17
Surveillance
Hidden cameras in a young cellist’s apartment lead detectives from her controlling conductor to an obsessed fan, while the real threat stays out of view.
- Season 4 · Episode 22
Futility
An accused serial rapist acts as his own lawyer, using the trial to confront his victim and to challenge the confidentiality of her rape counseling.
- Season 5 · Episode 25
Head
A restroom voyeur’s hidden camera captures a sixth grader being sexually assaulted, and the trail leads to his school principal and a tumor in her brain.
- Season 10 · Episode 4
Lunacy
The strangled body of a European astronaut turns up in the river, and Stabler’s childhood hero, a famous astronaut, helps steer the investigation.
- Season 10 · Episode 21
Liberties
A stalker uses a fantasy rape website to set up his former girlfriend, while the judge hearing his case pursues the truth about the son he lost three decades ago.
- Season 12 · Episode 3
Behave
A recluse who says one man has raped her across the country for 15 years helps Benson pursue him, but his crimes are buried in untested evidence.
- Season 12 · Episode 17
Pursuit
A TV host who exposes predators is stalked by a man the squad comes to believe killed her sister 25 years earlier, and the hunt costs Executive ADA Sonya Paxton her life.
- 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 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 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 7
Next Chapter
A woman raped in her apartment blames the man who once stalked her, but the evidence against him was planted by the retired sergeant who rescued her years before.
- Season 18 · Episode 15
Know It All
A data-mining executive suspected of disguising his girlfriend’s murder as a serial killer’s work uses hacked secrets to blackmail a forensic expert and Barba.
- Season 20 · Episode 19
Dearly Beloved
A woman accuses a therapist of rape at his own wedding, but her history of harassing him and others makes SVU doubt her story.
- Season 20 · Episode 22
Diss
When a pop star is beaten in her home, suspicion falls on her rapper husband, Fin’s childhood friend, and the trail leads back to an old Harlem killing.
- Season 21 · Episode 17
Dance Lies & Video Tape
When a ballerina’s secretly filmed sex video turns up on a porn site, SVU uncovers a ballet company where male dancers trade such videos and the leadership uses them to coerce women.
- 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 14
Post-Graduate Psychopath
Henry Mesner, the boy who shot Amaro, is released from a psychiatric facility at 18 and starts a killing spree that reaches Rollins’s family.
- 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 9
And a Trauma in a Pear Tree
Benson’s Christmas trip to introduce Noah to his half-brother turns into an off-duty hunt for the men filming guests at her motel, as Rollins prepares to leave SVU.
- Season 24 · Episode 21
Bad Things
A string of stranger rapes in which the attacker knows each woman’s name points to men paying for revenge, while Muncy pursues a captor who starves his victim in a cage.
- Season 25 · Episode 5
Zone Rouge
A message on a train ticket revives the search for Maddie Flynn, and Benson teams with an FBI agent to follow her abductor along the railway.
- 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 21
Aperture
A witness sees a gunpoint assault through a telescope, and the squad finds the victims are wealthy stepsiblings who were forced into sex on camera and are hiding what happened.
- Season 27 · Episode 8
Showdown
A con man’s report that his girlfriend was raped and kidnapped sends SVU after the wrong suspect, and the mistakes follow the squad into court.
- 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.
More themes: Crimes
- Blackmail & Extortion
- Child Abuse & Neglect
- Child Murders
- Child Sexual Abuse
- Con Artists
- Cults
- Date Rape & Consent
- Domestic Violence
- Gang Rape
- Grooming
- Gun Violence
- Hate Crimes
- Hostage Standoffs
- Human Trafficking
- Incest
- Kidnapping & Abduction
- Male Victims
- Murder for Hire
- Online Predators
- Prison Rape
- Prostitution & Sex Work
- Serial Killers
- Serial Rapists
- Statutory Rape
- Vigilantes & Revenge
- War Crimes