Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 4)

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This article contains a list of episodes for season 4 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Contents 1 Chameleon (9/27/02) 2 Deception (10/4/02) 3 Vulnerable (10/11/02) 4 Lust (10/18/02) 5 Disappearing Acts (10/25/02) 6 Angels (11/1/02) 7 Dolls (11/8/02) 8 Waste (11/15/02) 9 Juvenile (11/22/02) 10 Resilience (12/6/02) 11 Damaged (1/10/03) 12 Risk (1/17/03) 13 Rotten (1/24/03) 14 Mercy (1/31/03) 15 Pandora (2/7/03) 16 Tortured (2/14/03) 17 Privilege (2/21/03) 18 Desperate (3/14/03) 19 Appearances (3/28/03) 20 Dominance (4/4/03) 21 Fallacy (4/18/03) 22 Futility (4/25/03) 23 Grief (5/2/03) 24 Perfect (5/9/03) 25 Soulless (5/16/03)

[edit] Chameleon (9/27/02)

The detectives go on the trail of a recently paroled rapist responsible for the murder of a prostitute during a raid at a men's club and are called to the scene where he was shot in self defense. However, the murder weapon was also used in another crime while he was still in prison, leading the detectives to investigate the victim through a trail of previously unsolved cases, a spending spree and another victim. The detectives find that maybe the victim was not who it seemed. Guest star: Sharon Lawrence.

[edit] Deception (10/4/02)

A family portrait painted by a kindergartener leads the detectives to investigate her mother for the sexual abuse of her teenage stepson. When the boy's father is found murdered, the focus of the investigation shifts to the boy -- and his stepmother goes to great lengths to protect him and prevent the detectives from learning the truth. Guest star: Sherilyn Fenn, Brandon Routh.

[edit] Vulnerable (10/11/02)

When an elderly woman breaks into an apartment, the detectives discover she had been mistreated but have to investigate with no credible information from the victim, who has Alzheimer's. They discover that she had been released from a nursing home to the custody of her financially scheming son who becomes the prime suspect. However, they go back to the nursing home to find a pair of suspects, including the director who details the dangers faced by both patients and staff with her own heroics precariously standing out. Guest stars: Jane Powell, Mary Kay Place, Jay Thomas.

[edit] Lust (10/18/02)

The wife of a retired attorney, a public-health doctor, is found murdered and raped in Central Park. Her work involved contacting sexual partners of HIV patients which gives the detectives a long list of suspects. The discovery of a second body in Central Park with the same signature shifts the focus to a serial killer; however, the trail leads to a man who has no knowledge of the crimes but has a distant connection to the doctor and her husband.

[edit] Disappearing Acts (10/25/02)

The detectives respond to a brutal rape only to have the victim taken into custody by federal agents on racketeering charges. The investigation leads them to a father and son who are in the federal witness protection program and an agent who appears bound and determined to protect them, regardless of consequence, so they can testify against the Russian mob. Guest star: John Heard.

[edit] Angels (11/1/02)

The battered body of a young boy found in a luggage compartment of an airport shuttle bus sends the detectives to his guardian, who was discovered to be a pedophile and dead in his bed with his genitals removed. The subsequent investigation leads them to a travel agency specializing in exotic trips for sexual predators.

[edit] Dolls (11/8/02)

When the decomposing body of a sexually molested five-year-old girl is discovered, Benson and Stabler's investigation leads them on the trail of a serial pedophile as they race to save his latest victim. As the mother of the missing girl frantically awaits news of her daughter's whereabouts, she must reconcile the fact that her own recent bout with addiction may have played a part in her daughter's fate. Guest star: Gloria Reuben.

[edit] Waste (11/15/02)

The investigation into the rape of a comatose woman leads to a doctor whose stem cell research is funded by a billionaire with Parkinson's disease who is desperate for a cure. Guest star: Bruce Davison, JoBeth Williams, Phillip Bosco.

[edit] Juvenile (11/22/02)

A cancer patient who was growing marijuana in her apartment is found raped and murdered, sending the detectives on a hunt for two junior-high students, each blaming the other. The prosecution team is faced with the dilemma of trying the older boy as an adult, despite evidence that he was not mentally capable of being able to carry out the crimes. Guest star: Ileana Douglas.

[edit] Resilience (12/6/02)

The attempted suicide of a 14-year-old girl leads to a false story about how her ex-boyfriend raped her. More investigation into the case suggests that maybe the parents could have something to do with the rape, and finally the girl admits that she was raped, beaten, and injected with a needle containing sperm of two men her mother had sex with, by her father. The girl suffers a mental break down, and when all else fails, Stabler steps in as a father figure, and he and the girl share a heartbreaking moment. The young girl testifies against her father, and is set free to live her life. Guest star: Rachael Bella.

[edit] Damaged (1/10/03)

A six-year-old girl killed in an apparent robbery gone bad tests positive for gonorrhea, putting the detectives on the trail of the family, then the store clerk, the son of a prominent attorney, who had appeared to foil the crime. When evidence turns up that the little girl's older sister was dating the alleged sexual predator, Cabot has to work some legal magic to eradicate the deal made with the older sister for testimony. Guest star: Dan Lauria.

[edit] Risk (1/17/03)

An infant overdoses on cocaine mixed in the baby food and the detectives arrest a suspect. Upon receiving resistance from Internal Affairs, the entire squad goes undercover to flush out a drug ring run by dirty cops.

[edit] Rotten (1/24/03)

In their investigation of a prisoner's death, Benson and Tutuola learn that he was assaulted before being incarcerated. This leads them to two cops who are discovered to have been killing drug dealers - one for revenge, the other for money.

[edit] Mercy (1/31/03)

When the body of a baby girl is found inside a cooler, the detectives need to investigate just who she is and how she got there. They soon learn that the little girl had a genetic disorder known as Tay-Sachs disease, and that her name was Sarah Brown, and she was the only daughter of Andrea and Daniel Brown. When Andrea admits that she had killed her daughter, Cabot has to put aside her own feelings of sympathy to prosecute the woman for the murder of her daughter. Guest stars: Judd Hirsch, Paul Adelstein.

[edit] Pandora (2/7/03)

The brutal rape, and subsequent death, of a female motorist turns out to be an informant for the FBI acting as a cyber-vigilante for catching on-line pedophiles to capture the predators. Stabler, along with the homicide detective who found the victim's husband murdered, follow the trail of evidence for the latest victim she had been tracking, leading them to the US Attorney's Office and a trip to Prague for Stabler to assist the Czech authorities when they find the kidnapped girl. Guest stars: Pam Grier, Dagmara Dominczyk, Alexis Dziena.

[edit] Tortured (2/14/03)

A Tibetan woman who was tortured in her home country is found murdered, with her foot missing, and after an exhaustive search of potential suspects, the killer is a victim of torture himself.

[edit] Privilege (2/21/03)

Benson and Stabler are called to a crime scene – a young woman dressed in a maid's uniform has apparently committed suicide. But there's lots of sexual bruising on her body, so they question whether she was pushed and if she was raped. At first, Benson and Stabler identified the victim as a maid but later discovers that her real identity was a film student from Brazil and had a boyfriend whose name was Drew Limery. Drew had a good alibi and passed a lie detector test. Just when they were starting to believe that her death might have been a suicide, the detectives are given strong evidence by George Huang. He revealed to them that the dead victim was given "lateral propostion" (pushed) by the killer. A scientist at the forensics lab comfirmed on her lost high heel and that there was a piece of exotic fabric stuck on her shoe. Benson and Stabler got the warrant, searched Drew's bedroom and found the jacket that was made of the same fabric as the one found on the heel of the victim's shoe. The episode ends with Drew in the courtroom, and his grandmother committing perjury for him. Guest stars: Erik von Detten, Sarah Wayne Callies, Michael Learned.

[edit] Desperate (3/14/03)

After a young boy witnesses the brutal sexual assault and murder of his stepmother, his father blocks the efforts of the detectives to question him, until the boy's biological mother comes out of hiding. Guest star: Rob Estes.

[edit] Appearances (3/28/03)

The body of an eight-year-old beauty pageant contestant is found on a bus, leading the detectives to a paroled sex offender convicted in Florida who played out the crime on a virtual-pornography website, which results in Cabot putting the owner of the web hosting company on trial for facilitation of murder. Guest star: John Cullum, Brian Kirwin.

[edit] Dominance (4/4/03)

A quadruple homicide with sexual overtones is just the start of an intense rampage of killings that brings a homicide detective into the mix. As the entire squad races against time to prevent further victims, the evidence leads Tutuola and a young detective to a building superintendent, his two sons and a cross to bear. Guest stars: Frank Langella, Ian Somerhalder, Jason Ritter.

[edit] Fallacy (4/18/03)

Benson and Stabler try to prove self-defense when a rape victim kills her attacker. Events take an unusual turn when they find out that the victim is a pre-operative transsexual. Guest star: Katherine Moennig.

[edit] Futility (4/25/03)

After arresting a man accused of raping several neighborhood women, Benson and Stabler attempt to obtain an indictment for their suspect with the help of a key eyewitness - his last victim. However, the suspect's decision to handle his own defense casts some doubt over the trial's outcome as he proves to be a formidable opponent for Cabot. Guest star: Fred Savage.

[edit] Grief (5/2/03)

A dead girl is found outside a bar. The death, however, is ruled a suicide after it was revealed that the victim's boyfriend continually raped her. The victim's father snaps, however, and vows revenge against his daughter's rapist. Guest star: Joe Morton.

[edit] Perfect (5/9/03)

The murder of a 14-year-old girl leads the detectives to a prominent physician who specializes in reproduction therapy by use of cloning.

[edit] Soulless (5/16/03)

After a rape victim is abducted from the hospital and later found murdered, the detectives discover that one of the multiple suspects is a sociopath with a juvenile conviction for rape, torture and murder.