Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 7)

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This article contains a list of episodes for season 7 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.

Contents 1 Demons (9/20/05) 2 Design (9/27/05) 3 911 (10/4/05) 4 Ripped (10/11/05) 5 Strain (10/18/05) 6 Raw (11/1/05) 7 Name (11/8/05) 8 Starved (11/15/05) 9 Rockabye (11/22/05) 10 Storm (11/29/05) 11 Alien (12/6/05) 12 Infected (1/3/06) 13 Blast (1/10/06) 14 Taboo (1/17/06) 15 Manipulated (2/7/06) 16 Gone (2/28/06) 17 Class (3/21/06) 18 Venom (3/28/06) 19 Fault (4/4/06) 20 Fat (5/2/06) 21 Web (5/9/06) 22 Influence (5/16/06)

[edit] Demons (9/20/05)

Twenty years after being convicted of the rape of a teenage girl, Ray Schenkel is released, much to the dismay of retired detective William Dorsey. When a teenage girl is raped on the route Schenkel would have taken home, Stabler goes undercover as a recently paroled sex offender so that he can get into the same therapy group as Schenkel, and the same halfway house. Cragen worries that Stabler may be getting in over his head. Guest stars: Robert Patrick, Robert Walden.

[edit] Design (9/27/05)

Benson saves a woman named April Troost from committing suicide. Troost was a rape victim and was also pregnant with her rapist's baby. The detectives soon find the alleged rapist and prosecute him, until Troost, a crucial witness to the case, ends up seemingly murdered in a staged car accident. However, it isn't long before the detectives learn that Troost was not as innocent as she seemed and had in fact been making large sums of money off the alleged rape, including "selling" her future baby to multiple married couples and extorting money from the accused rapist. Soon they find that Troost's "rapist" was in fact targeted by Troost to stage a rape, and that she had drugged him and collected his semen through a method known as electroejaculation. Additionally, she has also targeted several other prominent, wealthy men, collecting their semen for her father's sperm center. The detectives go to question Troost's father and find that Troost has actually been alive all along. They arrest her, but she does not have the baby with her. She uses her knowledge of the baby's whereabouts as leverage for a plea bargain and receives no jail time in the end.

NOTE: There was an outtake from the final scene with Lynda Carter at the train station. Chris Meloni could not resist making a Wonder Woman reference. During Eliot's confrontation with her when he tells her that she'll make a mistake sooner or later he adds, "You may be strong and good at this but you're no Wonder Woman." This can be seen on the outtakes in the DVD for Season 7.

[edit] 911 (10/4/05)

Benson is about to go on a date when a 911 call comes in from a young Hispanic girl named Maria who says she's all alone. While trying to draw her out, Benson is drawn deeper into the little girl's life, and although the other officers begin to suspect the whole thing may be some sick joke, Olivia is convinced that she is the real deal. While talking to her, Benson realizes that the girl is a victim of one of the worst child pornographers in the country, but before they can trace her call, Maria's captor comes back and hangs up on them, and they are forced to find her on their own before it is too late.

[edit] Ripped (10/11/05)

When the teenage son of Stabler's old partner comes under suspicion for attacking a classmate, Stabler's inability to treat this like any other case gets him suspended. The son's issues with his father shed light on the relationship Stabler had with his father. Stabler's true anger problems are shown in this episode.Guest Star: Mary Stuart Masterson

[edit] Strain (10/18/05)

The discovery of the bodies of two young gay men who were both meth addicts as well as victims of a new strain of AIDS that can kill its victims in less than a year leads to an investigation. Tutuola learns that his son, Ken, is gay, and has difficulty accepting it, even though he and Benson end up going to Ken for help with infiltrating an anti-meth group. The group's leader, Gabriel, soon becomes their top suspect when the squad realizes that the two men died because they passed the disease on. Guest stars: CCH Pounder, Bill Smitrovich.

[edit] Raw (11/1/05)

After a six-year-old boy dies in a school shooting, detectives trace the gun used back to a white supremacist's gun shop. Munch and Tutuola both face hatred and prejudice from the major suspects in the case, but their investigation soon takes them from the man who pulled the trigger back to the gun shop owner, who makes no bones about his hatred of anyone who isn't white. When a horrifying scene during court takes place, and numerous people, including the judge, are killed, a federal agent is forced to disclose her identity. Stabler and Munch are shot, but survive and Casey Novak is briefly taken hostage. Guest star: Marcia Gay Harden, Cody Kasch.

[edit] Name (11/8/05)

After the bones of a boy who disappeared in 1978 are found at a playground, a recovering Stabler teams up with a CSU Tech whose father worked on one of the cases to determine the boy's identity, which leads them to a cold case involving four missing Puerto Rican boys that were never found. Guest star: Paula Garces.

[edit] Starved (11/15/05)

After a dating service is linked to three rapes, Benson goes undercover to ferret out the rapist and meets a surgeon who enjoys controlling the women in his life. The detectives are soon led to his girlfriend, but shortly after testifying in the grand jury hearing she marries the suspect. After she attempts suicide, the suspect fights her mother to unplug her feeding tube. Guest stars: Dean Cain, Teri Garr, Judith Light.

[edit] Rockabye (11/22/05)

After a 16-year-old loses her unborn child from to a severe abdominal beating, her father's insistence that she was raped leads detectives to the baby's father. It isn't long before the detectives realize that she was an active party in her own beating with her boyfriend, however, and the two teens had found it necessary to take the steps they did because the abortion clinic kept putting off her request for an appointment. Novak faces a tough opponent in her own office when she and Branch disagree over the appropriate action to be taken against the young girl's boyfriend. Guest stars: Annie Potts, Judith Light, Fred Dalton Thompson, Keri Lynn Pratt, John Patrick Amedori.

[edit] Storm (11/29/05)

When a teenager and her younger sister end up in the hospital after a day at the park, detectives learn that both girls were abducted from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina along with a third sister who is still missing. Despite the interference of a local reporter detectives are able to catch the kidnapper, a known pedophile, and recover the girl, but when the pedophile dies and the autopsy determines it was anthrax, Benson puts everything, including her freedom, on the line so that she can get to the truth.

[edit] Alien (12/6/05)

After a young boy is stabbed in the back at the schoolyard, detectives are led to an older boy who had previously gotten into trouble for bullying, but it isn't long before their attention turns to his half-sister. The stabbed boy had been torturing the little girl for months because her parents were a lesbian couple. After getting a nice deal for the girl's side, Benson and Stabler are thrown for a loop when her biological grandparents accuse the girl's mother's partner (who had never legally adopted the girl) of molesting her, and evidence seems to support their claims.

[edit] Infected (1/3/06)

A woman is found dead in her apartment, her son hiding in the closet behind her body. Detectives soon link the woman's death to a philanthropist who runs an organization dedicated to helping people get off the streets. Benson is certain that he is the killer, but a shaky ID from the boy puts him back on the street. After the boy kills the murderer himself, his lawyer argues that the boy committed the murder because he saw the man shoot his mother -- something the gun manufacturers don't like.

[edit] Blast (1/10/06)

The detectives investigates after a young girl disappears while walking home from school one day. While processing evidence found at the scene, M.E. Warner realizes that the little girl has leukemia, and they need to get her home as soon as possible to begin treatment. Despite the ransom drop going wrong, the detectives are able to find the little girl thanks to evidence found at the scene, but as she tells her story to Stabler and her mother, it soon becomes clear that her kidnapper is someone very close to home. Stabler and Warner end up becoming hostages of the little girls kidnapper, her own brother, and when a father is shot, Warner is put to good use. Guest star: Tom Verica.

[edit] Taboo (1/17/06)

A college co-ed's tale of rape and an unknown pregnancy is suspect after detectives learn that she's been linked to two abandoned newborns. After delving deeper into the co-ed's family history, a shocking discovery of the second abandoned child is revealed: the child and his mother share the same father. The child and her father complicate things farther by claiming love and consensual sex. After finding that the first newborn was not a stillborn, Benson files a case of murder, giving the case an extra twist. Guest star: Schuyler Fisk

[edit] Manipulated (2/7/06)

After a woman's body is found, Benson and Stabler delve into her private life and finally learn that in addition to being a respected lawyer, she was also a stripper. A surveillance photo leads them to her boss' husband, who was also having an affair with her. There isn't enough evidence to prove he murdered the woman, but when her co-worker at the club is also found murdered, DNA proves that it was his semen found in her body, despite his disabled wife's conviction that he would never murder anyone. Suspicion turns on the wife herself once the detectives interview the only man who seems capable of having committed the murders. Guest star: Rebecca DeMornay, Chris Potter.

[edit] Gone (2/28/06)

Doug Waverly and Nick Pratt are charged with rape and murder in the disappearance of Canadian student Jennifer Durning after Nick's cousin, Jason King, claims that while he had consensual sex with her that night the other two raped her. A stray pubic hair leads Novak to Keith Willis, a drunk who was paid off by the boys to get Jennifer out of the hotel and who later saw the boys kidnap her, but Willis is not exactly fit to be a witness as his mind has gone after years of alcohol abuse (he believes that the year is 1989 and he is the ambassador from Bulgaria). Jason King disappears. Although they are able to find a bug in Donnelly's office, they are not able to prove that it was placed there by Pratt or Waverly. Judge Donnelly is forced to dismiss the case against the two boys since there is no case without Jason's testimony. Guest stars: Barry Bostwick, Michael Boatman, Susan Saint James, Fred Dalton Thompson, Judith Light.

[edit] Class (3/21/06)

After a woman's body is dumped in an area frequented by prostitutes, Stabler and Tutuola soon realize she had far more money than a student on financial aid should have had, and learn that she was deeply involved in the worlds of online gambling and high stakes poker. Suspects include a roommate who ended up with the very expensive ring that she stole from a star athlete, and the murdered girl's childhood best friend and grifting partner. Stabler makes a special plea for the young man because both were poor boys among rich boys who treated them like dirt. Guest star: Will Estes.

[edit] Venom (3/28/06)

Ken Randall calls Benson for help after he's picked up in an alley late at night. He claims that he was looking for a body after overhearing a man talk about murdering a woman and dumping her body while he was at the bar that night. Tutuola is upset that no one informed him, and determined to clear his son's name even though Ken immediately gets his own lawyer. Tutuola turns his eye on Ken's cousin, Darius Parker, who was with Ken that night and has been in and out of trouble for years, and after Ken voluntarily submits his DNA to clear his name, a shocking family connection between Darius and Ken is revealed. Ken and Darius are cousins. Darius confesses to having murdered the woman and her baby, but his confession is out because no one had contacted his lawyer. Guest star: Ludacris.

[edit] Fault (4/4/06)

A manhunt ensues when a recently released sex offender kidnaps two children after murdering their parents. As he escapes he wounds Benson in the neck. She survives but Stabler worries about her while the boy is recaptured and later killed. When Benson and Stabler find the killer, he points a shotgun to the back of Stabler's head, and Benson has to choose whether to shoot the killer and risk him killing Stabler or risk him getting away. After a long hesitation the police squad shoots and kills Stabler's would-be murderer. The two eventually successfully rescue the girl immediately following the standoff. At the very end of this episode, Benson requests that Cragen re-assign her with a new partner; The two detectives apparently realize that they let their emotions and deep relationship get in the way of their duties as police officers. Guest star: Lou Diamond Phillips.

[edit] Fat (5/2/06)

A girl is found badly beaten without a finger under a bypass and Elliot's suspect is a 341 pound male going through puberty. Elliot also gets a new partner, Det. Blane. Olivia transfers to Computer Crimes for a while. It is soon found out that the 341 pound male and his sister who beat the girl did it because the girl and a friend beat up their older overweight brother. When the girl and her friend get away because of their lawyers, the older brother kills the friend. After he was arrested and in trial, the SVU unit with the help of Olivia find out that the girl did help beat him up because she was once fat and has a hatred of them. When the verdict came back, the kid is found guilty; however, he wasn't in the courtroom at the time, but was in the hospital due to his diabetes. Guest Star: Anthony Anderson, Natalie Cole.

[edit] Web (5/9/06)

In a story loosely based on the case of Justin Berry, a mother believes that her youngest son has been molested by his father, who was already known to have molested her oldest son. Tutuola and Stabler go in search of answers only to find out that the father wasn't the one to hurt the child, but in fact it was the older child. The oldest, a pedophile, used his younger brother for his website which sells child porn. When he is arrested, he refuses to give up his buyers' names. Stabler allows the child to go home until the federal government chose to take over the case. When Stabler goes to retrieve the child, he apparently runs away. However, Tutuola and Stabler later find out that the child had actually been kidnapped. They then turn to their former partner, Benson, for help. Still in the computer crimes unit, Benson helps Tutola and Stabler find the people who kidnapped the boy through the predators internet transactions. The boy is soon found and is willing to give up his buyers' names. Benson then returns as Stabler's partner. Guest Star: Kate Mulgrew.

[edit] Influence (5/16/06)

Season 7 finale. A high school student, Jamie Hoskins (Brittany Snow), is found half-naked in a boys' bathroom stall after having sexual intercourse with two teenage boys. After she is taken to the hospital, she tells Benson a gruesome story about being raped. However, she eventually confesses that the sex was consensual and that she was just trying to get a boy to like her. Once she is released, she attempts to kill herself but ends up committing vehicular manslaughter, injuring six people and killing a fourteen-year-old girl. Benson finds out that Jamie is bipolar and has not been taking her medication. Jamie later tells Benson that her rock star idol, Derek Lord (Norman Reedus), said that taking medicine to treat psychiatric disorders was like putting poison into your body, thus causing her to stop.

Starting on the premiere of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (Season 8), Detective Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) will be on maternity leave for 6 episodes, being replaced by Connie Nielsen (playing Det. Dani Beck).