Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 6)

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This article contains a list of episodes for season 6 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Contents 1 Birthright (9/21/04) 2 Debt (9/28/04) 3 Obscene (10/12/04) 4 Scavenger (10/19/04) 5 Outcry (10/26/04) 6 Conscience (11/9/04) 7 Charisma (11/16/04) 8 Doubt (11/23/04) 9 Weak (11/30/04) 10 Haunted (12/7/04) 11 Contagious (1/11/05) 12 Identity (1/18/05) 13 Quarry (1/25/05) 14 Game (2/8/05) 15 Hooked (2/15/05) 16 Ghost (2/22/05) 17 Rage (3/1/05) 18 Pure (3/8/05) 19 Intoxicated (3/29/05) 20 Night (5/3/05) 21 Blood (5/10/05) 22 Parts (5/17/05) 23 Goliath (5/24/05)

[edit] Birthright (9/21/04)

The investigation into the attempted kidnapping of a six-year-old girl uncovers a fertility doctor's scheme to steal embryos, and prompts a custody battle between the child's biological and birth mothers. Guest star: Lea Thompson.

[edit] Debt (9/28/04)

As Benson and Stabler investigate the disappearance of a mother and her teenaged daughter, they uncover a conspiracy between a corrupt immigration attorney and gangsters running a prostitution ring that is staffed by women they have smuggled into the country and imprisoned as sex slaves. Guest star: Ming-Na.

[edit] Obscene (10/12/04)

One teenager is raped and another is imprisoned when they are thrown together by the manipulative adults in their lives whose sole motivations are celebrity and publicity for their own self-serving interests. Guest stars: Lewis Black, Maggie Grace, Nestor Serrano, Dana Delany, Judith Light and Ricky Ullman.

[edit] Scavenger (10/19/04)

The entire squad races against the clock to solve the puzzles and uncover the clues scattered throughout the city by a serial killer who is taunting them to find him and the next victims on his list. Based on the BTK serial killings in Kansas during the 1970s. Guest star: Anne Meara, Steve Whitmore.

[edit] Outcry (10/26/04)

A missing teenager found beaten and tied up in a college dormitory under construction claims that she was raped by three students, but as the investigation proceeds and information obtained by the police and the press causes her story to unravel quickly, the girl recants. Since Benson remains convinced that a rape did occur, the focus of the investigation shifts to the girl's overly-protective stepfather who has resisted the investigation from its onset. When the girl finally tells the truth about the attack, it becomes apparent that her lies were calculated to protect her innocent stepfather from physical and financial ruin, as another victim of her attacker comes forward. Guest star: Amanda Seyfried.

[edit] Conscience (11/9/04)

The detectives and the district attorney are manipulated first by a teenaged sociopath killer of a young boy, and then by the victim's father, who uses his professional expertise as a pyschologist to escape punishment for avenging his son's death. Guest stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Judith Light.

[edit] Charisma (11/16/04)

A career con artist, forger and thief turns to murder and serial pedophilia to populate the cult he created and get his hands on a multi-million dollar trust fund. Guest stars: Jeff Kober, Holliston Coleman.

[edit] Doubt (11/23/04)

When a college student claims rape and her professor claims it was consensual sex, Stabler and Benson find themselves in the middle of a he said, she said battle, trying to decide whether to believe the alleged victim, or the alleged perpetrator who claimed she liked it rough. Benson sides with the victim, whereas Stabler finds himself wondering if the accused professor is telling the truth about being innocent, especially after the woman falsely accuses Stabler of touching her inappropriately. Stabler has bigger problems on his hands; his wife, Kathy, has moved out and taken their children. At the end of the episode, the audience is left to decide who is guilty. Guest stars: Billy Campbell, Shannyn Sossamon, Patricia Kalember, Mariette Hartley, Judith Light.

[edit] Weak (11/30/04)

Benson enlists the help of a former cop turned psychiatrist in apprehending a serial rapist and murderer who attacks disabled women. Guest stars: Mary Stuart Masterson, Amanda Plummer.

[edit] Haunted (12/7/04)

Tutuola is reunited with his son as he risks his life to save two small children, one caught in the middle of a bodega robbery and the other from the junkie who set the child's mother up for murder and then stole him to use as a front in her scheme to boost materials for her meth lab; the childs mother is a woman he knew when he worked undercover with Narcotics and hopes to bring the child back to the grandmother who holds him responsible for her daughters death. Guest star: Nicholas Gonzalez.

[edit] Contagious (1/11/05)

After a car accident a nine-year-old girl is examined and it's found she's been sexually abused. Out of fear and desperation, the girl blames her soccer coach for molesting her. Soon a slew of other girls claim they also have been raped by the same coach. During the investigation, Benson has to try keeping Stabler from falling apart. Guest star: Mary Stuart Masterson, Peter Hermann.

[edit] Identity (1/18/05)

Complications ensue in the investigation of a gang member who fell off a building after the victim that he tried to rape bit him in self-defense. His twin sister confesses to the crime, seemingly impossible due to the evidence until the secrets regarding the sister's true genetic identity are revealed. Guest star: Mary Stuart Masterson.

[edit] Quarry (1/25/05)

When the body of a seven-year-old child is found, the squad again begins to investigate convicted serial killer Lucas Biggs, believing that he molested and murdered the boy. While Biggs can detail every child he ever molested, he swears that he has no memory of this one. Further investigations show that there is another suspect, but before he can be picked up, someone picks him off. Guest star: John Savage.

[edit] Game (2/8/05)

The squad is at a loss on what to do with a violent homicide when Stabler's son points out that the event is straight out of a video game. Interviewing the game's creators leads them to a former employee, who then leads them (with a few other steps along the way) to a teenage couple who claim to be unable to distinguish fantasy from reality. Guest star: Barry Bostwick.

[edit] Hooked (2/15/05)

When the body of a teenage girl is found with her older cousin's I.D., Benson and Stabler investigate only to learn that that the teen had been part of a group who had 'hooked up' online. As their investigation intensified, they realised that the victim was the object of an older man's obsession, but before they can arrest him he also turns up dead. Detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler find that sex was the real addiction in this case, overpowering the minds of two young teenage girls. The investigation continues to show that the case was much deeper than they had expected, taking them through a legal porn productions office. The episode concludes to show that the game was buying sex, but danger overshadowed when a group of pornstars were found to be exposed to AIDS. Guest stars Hayden Panettiere

[edit] Ghost (2/22/05)

When a wealthy couple is found dead in their home, Benson and Stabler soon realise that their deaths are connected to a drug smuggling ring. Eventually the road leads back to the same drug dealers who forced a former assistant district attorney into hiding, and Alex Cabot comes home to face her enemies. Guest stars: Stephanie March, Nicholas Gonzalez.

[edit] Rage (3/1/05)

Fourteen years ago, Stabler had a chance to arrest a man for kidnapping, rape and murder, but the man managed to get off. With the recent discovery of a murdered child, Stabler has another chance at cracking the case. They can only hold the man for 24 hours, but are able to glean enough information during that time period to at least have a place to start. Cragen and Benson both worry that Stabler will let his hatred for the suspected child molester interfere with his ability to do his job. The episode consists of work in interrogation offices, but the case is put to jeopardy when Stabler's anger and hatred of the suspect almost get the better of him. Guest star: Matthew Modine.

[edit] Pure (3/8/05)

After an 18-year-old girl is kidnapped, Sebastian Ballentine comes forward claiming to have information on the killings. Stabler refuses to believe that Ballentine is a real psychic, and while subconsciously listening to Ballentine's claims, is finally convinced that Ballentine is involved somehow when he is able to tell the detectives exactly where the girl is, and how she was killed. The plot does not make sense as Ballentine claims that he raped virgin girls because his wife lied to him about her virginity before they got married and he found out that his wife was not a virgin and this has been very upsetting for him. However, Ballentine's wife told detective Benson that she never had sex with her husband. So how did Ballentine know his wife was not a virgin if he never had sex with his wife?? Guest star: Martin Short.

[edit] Intoxicated (3/29/05)

When a woman finds her fifteen-year-old daughter Carrie in bed with her 21-year-old boyfriend, she immediately calls police to have him charged with statutory rape. Benson intercedes on the girl's behalf, calling a children's rights lawyer to assist her, but when the mother turns up dead, the lovers both end up on the suspect list. Benson tries to get some help from the girl's lawyer, but she is obligated to protect her client. The very emotional episode ends when Benson reveals her past to Casey Novak, revealing how similar her experience was with her mother to Carrie's. Guest stars: Cathy Moriarty, Glenne Headly, Danielle Panabaker, Jon Foster.

[edit] Night (5/3/05)

After a young woman is found raped and murdered near a nightclub with five hundred dollars stuffed into her mouth, Benson and Stabler follow the fingerprint trail on the money to attorney Jason Whitaker, whose sole responsibility seems to be handling the trust for the wealthy Duvall family. Soon detectives are convinced that Gabriel Duvall is their rapist, but don't have quite enough evidence to put him away. Novak is working on both the case and a terrified former victim when she is brutally attacked in her office late at night. Guest stars: Angela Lansbury, Alfred Molina, Fred Dalton Thompson, Bebe Neuwirth (cross-over episode with Law & Order: Trial by Jury).

[edit] Blood (5/10/05)

After a young woman's baby is tossed out of a car, Benson and Stabler investigate to find out what happened. After learning the young woman is addicted to prescription pain killers, eventually killing her nine-month year old baby, their investigation leads them to an elderly woman who lives with her son and daughter-in-law. The young woman finally identifies the daughter-in-law as the person who sold her the drugs, but when detectives go to confront her they find her body, and are left trying to uncover who really killed her. Guest Stars: Melinda Dillon, Christine Elise.

[edit] Parts (5/17/05)

After a woman's head is found in a car junkyard, the detectives track it down to the black market. Guest star: Marlee Matlin.

[edit] Goliath (5/24/05)

After the wife of a police officer claims her husband raped her, Benson and Stabler arrest the man and come close to believing his version of events when he attacks his captain. When another officer murders his wife and attempts to kill himself that same night, the whole force gets involved and soon realises that the two men both recently returned home from Afghanistan, where they were given the drug Quinium (an allusion to Mefloquine (Lariam)), an anti-malarial drug. With the reluctant help of reporter Sherm Hempell and a base doctor with an attack of conscience, Novak takes on the U.S. army. Stabler has emotional issues with the case because of his history in the Marines. Stabler almost lets his emotions take the better of him when he uncovers a very disturbing twist to the case.