Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 3

TV-14
2001
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In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate... More

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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 3 episodes

Episode 3.1

Repression

An 18-year-old girl is aided by her therapist in recalling... More repressed memories of childhood molestation by her father and reports the incest to Benson and Stabler in hopes of sparing her younger sisters the same fate. She brings charges of rape against her father who winds up murdered when those charges are dismissed.

Episode 3.2

Wrath

The detectives investigate three murders that seemingly have no connection... More to each other, but each murder has ties to Benson's previous cases. As they join with the FBI to investigate, the detectives worry that Benson is the intended target.

Episode 3.3

Stolen

The kidnapping of an infant at a grocery store leads... More to an illegal adoption ring and the long lost closure of a case from 12 years prior of a murdered mother and missing baby which involved Capt. Cragen and his partner, the late Max Greevey.

Episode 3.4

Rooftop

When an HIV-positive male, with a record of assaulting underage... More girls, is discovered in a sexual clincher with a young woman on a rooftop, the detectives are determined to put him back inside. After a series of rapes and murders of young African-American women cannot be traced to him though, they begin to wonder if they've been looking at the wrong suspect.

EPISODE 3.5

Tangled

When arriving party guests find a prominent doctor beaten to... More death and his wife raped, the detectives have a parade of suspects and the realization that the wife was the intended victim.

EPISODE 3.6

Redemption

A string of murders leads detectives to question an initial... More suspect, the Soho Strangler, but they realize he might have been the wrong person all along.

EPISODE 3.7

Sacrifice

A man, who is shot and raped outside a gay... More bar, initially doesn't want to cooperate to find his shooter. When he finally does, the investigation leads to his family and turns his life upside down.

EPISODE 3.8

Inheritance

A series of brutal rapes and attacks on Asian women... More lead the police to a suspect who was himself a product of rape - his father being a rapist who was convicted. The question is brought to court of whether his genetic make-up was responsible for the crimes.

EPISODE 3.9

Care

The battered body of a five-year-old girl in foster care... More is discovered and suspicion soon turns to members of the girl's foster family as well as to the girl's biological mother; who is the real guilty party and who is only a red herring?

EPISODE 3.10

Ridicule

What appears as a bizarre accidental death leads to a... More case involving a male stripper who claims that the deceased was one of three powerful women who raped him at a bachelorette party.

EPISODE 3.11

Monogamy

The pregnant wife of a psychiatrist is found in a... More parking garage, unconscious and bleeding from a gaping abdominal wound with her fetus missing. The investigation leads to infedility and uncertainty as to the paternity, adding fuel to the fire of an already agitated Stabler.

EPISODE 3.12

Protection

A 6-year-old boy wounded in a shooting is brought to... More the ER but abandoned by his brother, who reported it, and their mother, who fears for her own life. The case leads the detectives to a woman who is on the run from an abusive drug-dealer boyfriend.

EPISODE 3.13

Prodigy

Two people are found murdered in the park, including an... More animal rights activist who has been raped and then decapitated. Benson and Stabler must determine which of their two main suspects -- a sociopathic teenager and a recently paroled rapist -- is responsible for the murder.

EPISODE 3.14

Counterfeit

A woman is found raped and killed by her car.... More Then, a similar rape is committed and the victim says that a police officer raped her after pulling her over for a supposed driving violation. This leads police to look at one of their own, until they realize the suspect is not who they think he is.

EPISODE 3.15

Execution

Detective Stabler and Dr. Huang question a convicted serial killer... More on death row, hours before his execution, with the hope of solving an old murder case for the sake of the victim's parents. The investigation goes haywire with mixed results.

EPISODE 3.16

Popular

Stabler's wife tells him that her friend, a high school... More nurse, treated a young girl for rape. Despite being advised not to find out further details, Stabler, with help from Benson, crack open the case to disturbing details.

EPISODE 3.17

Surveillance

An accomplished cellist is raped in her own apartment and... More the detectives are lead to a stalker who uses surveillance equipment and has been watching her every move.

EPISODE 3.18

Guilt

When A.D.A. Cabot is faced with a reluctant teenage witness... More in a child molestation case, she goes above and beyond the normal scope of duty in her search for evidence to convict the serial abuser. But her passion supercedes her compliance with the law, jeopardizing not only her case, but the careers of all involved.

EPISODE 3.19

Justice

A rebellious 16-year-old teenager is raped and murdered; the case... More becomes complex when they learn that her stepfather is a judge with whom she has had major problems.

EPISODE 3.20

Greed

Investigating the rape of the wife of a restaurateur during... More a robbery, leads the detectives to a similar assault, and to a locksmith.

EPISODE 3.21

Denial

When a heroin junkie is found raped, Tutuola takes an... More interest in her, but he's not the only one. The case turns into a bizarre murder investigation when the finger of a small child is found in the victim's purse opening a can of worms that spans back thirteen years.

EPISODE 3.22

Competence

A mentally challenged girl with Down's Syndrome is pregnant, and... More the question is, was she raped or did she consent and is she competent enough to keep her child?

EPISODE 3.23

Silence

A murder in a church of a young cross-dresser leads... More Benson and Stabler to an alleged cover-up involving sexual child abuse by a priest.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 3 | Details

Rating
TV-14,
Genre
Drama
Country of origin
USA