Undercover Operations 42 Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes
Detectives who take on a false identity to get close to a suspect, and the risks of going under.
- Season 4 · Episode 12
Risk
A baby’s fatal overdose exposes cocaine smuggled in infant-formula cans, and Stabler goes undercover against a decorated detective who protects the ring.
- Season 6 · Episode 10
Haunted
After a shooting makes him a hero, Fin is confronted by a mother whose daughter he abandoned while undercover, and sets out to find the grandson she never knew she had.
- Season 8 · Episode 1
Informed
A rape victim who refuses all help turns out to be an FBI informant inside an eco-terror cell, and the case ends with Benson pulled into the bureau’s undercover work.
- Season 8 · Episode 6
Infiltrated
While undercover with environmental activists in Oregon, Benson investigates the murder of a pharmaceutical worker and uncovers his secret, as Novak’s rape case in New York stalls without her testimony.
- Season 9 · Episode 15
Undercover
A teenage girl’s rape points to a guard at the women’s prison where her mother is held, and Benson goes in undercover as an inmate to unmask him.
- Season 10 · Episode 7
Wildlife
A would-be model killed by a tiger leads Stabler undercover into a ring that smuggles endangered animals, a job that strains his marriage and nearly costs him his life.
- Season 11 · Episode 5
Hardwired
A boy’s sexual abuse leads SVU from his wrestling coach to his stepfather and then to the leader of a group that campaigns for pedophiles’ “rights.”
- Season 11 · Episode 12
Shadow
SVU teams with a Special Frauds detective to prove that a socialite who embezzled from a charity also murdered her wealthy parents.
- Season 11 · Episode 20
Beef
An animal-rights activist working undercover at a meat-packing plant is murdered, and the evidence left at the scene has been planted to frame a co-worker.
- Season 12 · Episode 8
Penetration
An undercover FBI agent who was raped hides the attack to protect her militia case, then turns her pursuit of the rapist into a personal hunt.
- Season 12 · Episode 13
Mask
A masked serial rapist who claims to redeem his victims is traced to a sex-addiction clinic run by the estranged father of one of them.
- Season 12 · Episode 19
Bombshell
The stabbing of a seemingly ordinary executive leads Benson and Stabler undercover at a sex club, where a pair of grifters prey on lonely married men.
- Season 13 · Episode 7
Russian Brides
A woman found mutilated beyond recognition leads SVU to a Russian mobster who uses a mail-order bride site to fleece lonely men, and Cragen goes undercover to catch him.
- Season 13 · Episode 23
Rhodium Nights
The death of an underage escort at the police commissioner’s son’s bachelor party draws SVU into a war between two escort bosses with powerful clients.
- Season 14 · Episode 1
Lost Reputation
Captain Cragen wakes beside a murdered escort and is charged with killing her, while an outside prosecutor and an interim captain order SVU to stay away from the case.
- Season 14 · Episode 2
Above Suspicion
After an undercover officer is shot by a fellow cop, SVU unravels the plot behind it and finds who in the DA’s office has been protecting a powerful madam.
- 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 4
Internal Affairs
IAB enlists SVU and an undercover Cassidy to expose two patrol officers suspected of raping drunk women and burying the complaints.
- 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 15 · Episode 23
Thought Criminal
An online sting leads SVU to a respected photographer who fantasizes about torturing boys and has built a chamber to do it, but the case has no victim.
- Season 16 · Episode 1
Girls Disappeared
A teenage witness to the murder of Noah’s mother leads SVU into a Mexican trafficking ring that starts killing anyone who might talk.
- Season 16 · Episode 15
Undercover Mother
SVU teams up with a mother who has spent three years posing as a madam to find her trafficked daughter, and runs into Declan Murphy working undercover in the same trade.
- Season 17 · Episode 15
Collateral Damages
A sting on a celebrity boxer leads SVU to a child pornography ring and to the NYPD’s own deputy commissioner for public information.
- Season 17 · Episode 16
Star-Struck Victims
When a vlogger says a TV star and his friend assaulted her at his club and the DA declines to charge, Rollins goes undercover to catch the pair in the act.
- Season 18 · Episode 14
Net Worth
A junior investment banker accuses her firm’s billionaire client of rape, and his allies use emails, tabloid photos and a lucrative job offer to make the case go away.
- Season 21 · Episode 1
I'm Going to Make You a Star
A powerful media mogul is accused of sexually assaulting a young actress during a late-night audition, and his connections reach into the DA’s office.
- Season 21 · Episode 14
I Deserve Some Loving Too
A subway groper gives up his boss at the immigration service, who demands sex from women seeking green cards, and Rollins goes undercover as a bride to catch him.
- Season 21 · Episode 16
Eternal Relief from Pain
Rollins’s estranged sister, Kim, facing a parole violation, reports that her doctor demanded sex for painkillers, and the squad’s undercover work leads to a drug company that uses sex to win prescriptions.
- Season 22 · Episode 11
Our Words Will Not Be Heard
A white supremacist crew kidnaps the sister of an activist for missing Black women and auctions her fate online, while Benson weighs how to push the NYPD toward reform.
- 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 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 23 · Episode 14
Video Killed the Radio Star
When a radio host is accused of raping a sponsor’s wife, Rollins goes undercover and uncovers his claim to a decade-old killing.
- Season 23 · Episode 17
Once Upon a Time in El Barrio
When three girls from Velasco’s old parish in Juárez disappear in New York, SVU tracks a trafficking ring protected by a police captain.
- Season 24 · Episode 1
Gimme Shelter – Part Two
SVU, Organized Crime and Law & Order detectives hunt Mark Sirenko, a trafficker linked to a girl’s murder who has built a large bomb and vanished with it.
- 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 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 11
Prima Nocta
A bride is raped the night before her wedding, and Rollins, between jobs, helps Benson track a man who targets brides-to-be.
- Season 26 · Episode 5
Economics of Shame
After a TV reporter is sextorted by a man she met online, SVU works its way up through a ring that uses bait, middlemen and hidden cameras to blackmail its victims.
- Season 26 · Episode 12
Calculated
What looks like a minor case of a teenager with a classmate’s nude photo grows into a sting on dozens of predators, and Silva fears one of them is innocent.
- 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 3
A Vicious Circle
A bomb at a fertility clinic destroys a rape suspect’s DNA sample, and the murder of the clinic’s owner leads the squad from antinatalist protesters to her own divorce lawyer.
- Season 27 · Episode 17
Deep Under
Former SVU detective Joe Velasco, now undercover for the DEA inside a cartel crew, secretly helps the squad find women being trafficked through New York.