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Season 12

Air Date:September 20, 2010
Episodes:24

Episodes

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S12E1 - Locum
Episode 1September 21, 2010

Locum

42m

Benson and Stabler are called to investigate when a little girl goes missing. They soon find out that the mother had another daughter who disappeared some years earlier and she becomes the focus of the investigation.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S12E2 - Bullseye
Episode 2September 21, 2010

Bullseye

42m

The brutal rape of a ten-year-old girl leaves her unable to recall her own name. Unfortunately, once Fin assists with the ID, the detectives find that she’s not the only one with memory impairment, and Dr. Huang is brought in to assess her home situation.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S12E3 - Behave
Episode 3September 28, 2010

Behave

43m

A woman who has been raped multiple times is afraid to leave her house. The issue of unopened rape kits will see Detective Olivia Benson travel from New York City to Los Angeles.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S12E4 - Merchandise
Episode 4October 5, 2010

Merchandise

42m

A teenage girl’s death exposes a human trafficking ring and leads detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler to team up with an old friend at the U.S. Attorney’s office.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S12E5 - Wet
Episode 5October 12, 2010

Wet

42m

Detectives Benson and Stabler arrive on the scene where a woman is found dead in Bethesda Fountain. When her squeaky clean image doesn’t match up with her promiscuous actions on the night of her murder, ADA Mikka Von encourages the cops to dig deeper into her past.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S12E6 - Branded
Episode 6October 19, 2010

Branded

43m

Two men have been branded and sodomised by someone. Is there a connection between these men, and what nut case is on the loose?

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S12E7 - Trophy
Episode 7November 2, 2010

Trophy

43m

A rape and murder investigation puts the detectives lives at risk.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S12E8 - Penetration
Episode 8November 9, 2010

Penetration

42m

Undercover FBI agent Dana Lewis returns to help the detectives with a case.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S12E9 - Gray
Episode 9November 16, 2010

Gray

43m

Stabler's participation in a Take Back the Night rally at Kathleen's campus results in an extra case for him and Benson when a student claims she was raped. Unfortunately, the case turns out to be a "he said-she said" type with little evidence. Enter Sonya Paxton, and it can only get more complicated.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S12E10 - Rescue
Episode 10November 30, 2010

Rescue

41m

With young Calvin in her care, Detective Benson continues the search for his drug-addict mother, Vivian, but Detective Stabler notices a strong bond forming between Benson and the boy. When Vivian’s name comes up during a rape investigation, Captain Cragen assigns Detectives Fin and Munch to the case instead. However, it will take more than Cragen’ s orders to keep Benson away.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S12E11 - Pop
Episode 11January 4, 2011

Pop

42m

A young boy is found dead on a park carousel after being dropped off by his uncle Joe Gilbert. When Detectives Benson and Stabler learn that the boy was beaten to death they suspect that it could be the result of a bully at school. The investigation leads to an unsettling gambling ring. Detectives suspect that Gilbert's acquaintance, Joe Roberts is beating his wife Sandra and the case takes a horrifying turn.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S12E12 - Possessed
Episode 12January 4, 2011

Possessed

43m

A young man finds that his girlfriend Larissa Welsh has been attacked in her apartment with evidence that points to her buried past. Detectives Benson and Stabler go in search of her attacker and discover that an elderly man, Orville Underwood, may have been involved in traumatic events of Welsh’s past. For the detectives, solving the case comes down to who was in possession of the evidence.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S12E13 - Mask
Episode 13January 11, 2011

Mask

42m

Debbie Shields comes home to find her partner Ann Jackson being raped by a man wearing a haunting mask. Shields contacts Ann's father to notify him of her critical condition. As detectives Benson and Stabler interrogate Ann's father, Captain Jackson, his sordid past is revealed filled with sexual and alcohol addiction. Jackson's new role as a sex therapist is hindering the detectives from getting the information they need to solve the case and if Jackson won't comply, the detectives are going to have to get creative.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S12E14 - Dirty
Episode 14January 18, 2011

Dirty

41m

Detective Saliyah "Sunny" Qadri goes in search of Brooklyn District Attorney Page Ferguson, who she fears may be in danger. Qadri finds Ferguson just in time to witness her fall from the top of a parking garage. When Benson arrives, she discovers that the crime scene has been tampered with. Benson turns to an old friend, Assistant U.S. Attorney Christine Danielson for help. As the investigation progresses, Benson begins to question Ferguson’s suspicious past and Qadri’s involvement in the case.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S12E15 - Flight
Episode 15February 1, 2011

Flight

41m

When it is discovered that a teenage girl is suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder due to sexual abuse, all leads point to billionaire Jordan Kress. As Detectives Benson and Stabler continue to investigate, Kress involves his lawyer, Dwight Stanitch, who throws the whole case awry.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S12E16 - Spectacle
Episode 16February 8, 2011

Spectacle

41m

After the sexual assault of a young woman is videotaped and featured on a campus-wide intranet feed, detectives Elliot Stabler and Odafin "Fin" Tutuola go in search of the victim and her attacker. As they delve into the investigation, it becomes clear that the perpetrator created a spectacle to draw attention to his own issues.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S12E17 - Pursuit
Episode 17February 15, 2011

Pursuit

43m

The TV host of a show that spotlights predators receives threats to her safety, and this reawakens her hunt for her sister's abductor. An ADA with connections to the TV host then assists detectives in their investigation.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S12E18 - Bully
Episode 18February 22, 2011

Bully

42m

An art patron finds a body, and when detectives question the murdered woman's good friend and associates, they uncover an antagonistic work environment filled with grown-up bullies.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S12E19 - Bombshell
Episode 19March 22, 2011

Bombshell

42m

A grifter named Cassandra strikes swinging men who frequent sex clubs.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S12E20 - Totem
Episode 20March 29, 2011

Totem

43m

When a young girl is found dead with a doll that is believed to have been left as a totem, detectives Benson and Stabler team up with Captain Jackson, a psychologist who assisted them with a recent case, to investigate her murder. Jackson joins the detectives as they retrace the girl’s last steps and go to meet with her piano teacher June Frye. Jackson’s skills prove to be invaluable in deciphering the meaning of the totem and ultimately finding her killer.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S12E21 - Reparations
Episode 21April 5, 2011

Reparations

42m

Two high-powered attorneys face each other across the aisle when Casey Novak returns to the team, and Joe Dekker takes a leave of absence from his Los Angeles duties after his cousin is charged with rape. Dekker's unwavering belief in his cousin's innocence, and a court disturbance make Novak and Benson take another look at the evidence, which leads them to someone playing a very long game in the name of hatred.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S12E22 - Bang
Episode 22May 3, 2011

Bang

41m

When an abandoned baby is found on playground, Detectives Benson and Stabler go in search of the child’s caregiver. Upon meeting the nanny and her boyfriend, Ken Turner, they soon realize that he is also engaged to the baby’s adoptive mother, Dede Aston. As the detectives dig deeper into Turner’s malevolent past, they realize that the law may be on his side.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S12E23 - Delinquent
Episode 23May 10, 2011

Delinquent

42m

When a young woman finds a teenage boy asleep and naked in her bedroom, his mother, Bree Walsh, is quick to defend him. While Detective Benson and Detective Stabler try to figure out what truly happened, they also have to manage the sneaky teenager and his naive mother. As the detectives dig deeper, they discover how deceptive appearances can be.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S12E24 - Smoked
Episode 24May 17, 2011

Smoked

41m

When a woman is murdered during an afternoon shopping trip with her daughter, Detectives Benson and Stabler are called in because she was scheduled to testify in their high-profile rape case. As the detectives continue to investigate the correlation between the murder and their case, they discover unlikely friendships that will lead them to the truth.