Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 3)
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This article contains a list of episodes for season 3 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
[edit] "Repression" (9/28/01)
When a therapist helps an 18 years old Meghan Ramsey recall her childhood molestation by her father, she reports the incest to detectives Benson and Stabler hoping it would spare her younger sisters from suffering the same fate. At first her mother does not believe her, but eventually her entire family turns on the father ignoring his protests that are assisted by the discovery of tainted evidence. The whole fragile family later becomes a suspect when the father is punished outside the legal system.
[edit] "Wrath" (10/5/01)
3 unrelated people, who are connected to Detective Benson's past cases, are found ritualistically killed. The evidences point out to Benson as the real target of the violence. Though feeling guilty over the murders and warned by the FBI about the danger she is facing, she still tries to find the murderer. The list of suspects of people who may want to avenge her seems endless. But eventually an innocent man is found who may hold the anwer to the horrific murders.
[edit] "Stolen" (10/12/01)
A baby is stolen from her mother in a grocery store. Detectives Benson and Stabler soon learn it was just the tip of the iceberg in a baby kidnapping and selling operation. The detectives find Mark Sanford, a private adoption lawyer, who ten years ago had brokered an adoption of a child kidnapped from his murdered mother. Captain Cragen opens old wounds with the parents of the murdered woman and creating new wounds with the adoptive family and biological father of the child who was stolen long ago, when he renews his pursuit in this case. Cragen and ADA Cabot argue over best interests of the child while trying to bring justice.
[edit] "Rooftop" (10/19/01)
A series of rapes, one more violent that the other, takes place in a community of African-Americans. Detectives Benson and Stabler promptly suspect a known sex-offender who was just recently released from jail. As they find nothing, Detective Tutuola takes it personally as his childhood friends' daughter is attacked, and her angry brother Rodney Thompson accuses the police of limiting the budget put on this case. Only when a fifth victim is killed, her final moments alongside Thompson's persistence give them what they need to find the killer.
[edit] "Tangled" (10/26/01)
A known doctor is killed and his wife is raped. Detectives Benson and Stablerfind question the doctor's estranged and troubled son from the doctor's previous marriage. They also locate a former patient who holdes a grudge against the doctor. When the rapist then attacks the doctor's former mistress, they realize both the wife and mistress know more than it seems.
[edit] "Redemption" (11/2/01)
Detective Stabler is paired with John "Hawk" Hawkins, a rough opinionated cop, who damages both his job and his personal life. They try to catch a serial rapist and murderer. Their suspect is a recently released prisoner, who was put in jail years ago due to Hawk. Alas, they come to deduct that not only is the predator someone else, but that the former prisoner is innocent of his past crimes too, which means Hawk was responsible for putting an innocent man behind bars.
[edit] "Sacrifice" (11/9/01)
An unidentified man is found shot and sexually molested in an alley outside of a gay bar. Detectives Benson and Stabler try to come up with possible motives and suspects. They learn the victim came from a small town in Arkansas. They then enter deeply inside the porn industry, only to realize the motive was more unique than what they thought. The lead witness, who is a recovering drug addict, angers Fin who then has to re-think his police role.
[edit] "Inheritance" (11/16/01)
A young Asian woman is severly beaten and raped at a burglary site. Detectives Benson and Stabler suspect the two rival Asian gangs, who are deep a sibling dispute over the woman's loyalty. Alas, another Asian victim is found, which leads to a horrifying serial rapist, whose father may have done similar crimes in his own past.
[edit] "Care" (11/23/01)
A beaten up body of a foster care's 5 years old girl in found. Detectives Benson and Stabler investigate her complicated family ties. They learn the girl's birth mother always tried to regain back her daughter from the foster mother and grandmother, who was responsible for the girl before she died. They then investigate her foster brother. Captain Cragen manages to reach him with the help of a video game.
[edit] "Ridicule" (12/14/01)
A young wife's body is found after what seems to be an erotic asphyxiation accident. Detectives Benson and Stabler investigate a male stripper who mentions she and a her two female lawyer friends, Amelia Chase and Pam Adler, had recently gang raped the male stripper (after handcuffing him to a bed during a bachelorette party). ADA Cabot takes the rape case to court to prove rape also applies to non statutory female on male rape. The investigation of one of the women, Pam Adler, then reveals the suicide was in fact a murder.
[edit] "Monogamy" (1/4/02)
A pregnant woman is attacked and has her fetus ripped apart from her womb. Detectives Benson and Stabler quickly look for the baby hoping he's still alive. The woman's husband seems shocked, but it is soon learned she may have had an affair with a construction worker. Thus both men become suspects.
[edit] "Protection" (1/11/02)
A troubled 6 years old kid is shot and then abandoned by his angry mother in an emergency room. Detectives Benson and Stabler look for his missing family members in order to find his shooter. But when he is attacked again, another reason is added for finding his mother - to warn her she might be the next victim.
[edit] "Prodigy" (1/18/02)
A man and a woman are stabbed during a supposedly romantic park encounter. The woman's head as well as her hands are missing, which makes it difficult for detectives Benson and Stabler to identify the victims. They soon learn the crime scene was staged and that the woman was an officer of the Manhattan Federation for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. This leads them to various people from her organization as well as its opposers.
[edit] "Counterfeit" (1/25/02)
A woman's body is found near her car after she was raped. Detectives Benson and "Fin" are paired to discover what was the motive as well as why was her car's trunk full of forged drugs. When another woman, Francesca Jesner, is raped, she claims the rapist was a cop who captured her by using a routine traffic stop. Their need to catch the cop is even greater as Jesner is captured again by the rapist.
[edit] "Execution" (2/1/02)
In three days, the serial killer Matthew Brodus is to be executed. Detective Stabler, his former partner and the sympathetic Dr. Huang race against time to figure out if the serial killer also killed and raped another woman, the confirmation of which will provide closure for her father and mother.
[edit] "Popular" (3/1/02)
Detective Stabler's wife tells him that her nurse friend at a local hospital treated a 14 years old rape victim, Cynthia, who refused to report the crime to the police or her family. Stabler decides to investigate her unofficially with the help of detective Benson. They find out her classmates and her were involved with drugs and alcohol, a fact which troubles her family.
[edit] "Surveillance" (3/8/02)
A young cellist, Cassie Germaine is attacked in her apartment. Detectives Benson and Stabler investigate her orchestra conductor, Robert Prescott. They learn he was involved with amateur erotic filmmaking and that her apartment is surrounded with hidden cameras. Alas, they discover it was the work of a mad stalker.
[edit] "Guilt" (3/29/02)
ADA Cabot faces a reluctant witness in a case of child molestation. She goes way beyond the her duty to find evidence against the serial abuser. She even sends detectives Benson and Stabler to illegally search the boy's home and almost ruins the case and all of their careers. SVU Bureau Chief Elizabeth Donnelly tries to bring back order to the Special Victims Unit.
[edit] "Justice" (4/5/02)
The step daughter of a judge is raped and killed. The judge is known for throwing hard sentences on sex offenders. However, his step daughter also had a troubled past that no less involved relationships both with her father's court's sex offenders and within her own family.
[edit] "Greed" (4/26/02)
A business man's wife is found raped and bludgeoned on their kitchen floor. Detectives Benson and Stabler suspect it was a serial rapist. When another attack takes place, they re-focus their attention on both sets of grieving husbands and their recovering wives.
[edit] "Denial" (5/3/02)
A heroin drug addict is sexually attacked. In her purse, detectives Benson and Stabler find a decomposing baby's finger. When looking for both her attacker and the baby, they suspect she might be withholding information to protect her stone cold mother or protective grandmother. The former narcotics detective Tutuola tries to help by getting her clean.
[edit] "Competence" (5/10/02)
Rebecca Tolliver reports her 22 years old daughter with a Down Syndrome, Katie, is pregnant after being raped by her boyfriend. Detectives Benson and Stabler have to make sure it's not just her mother being over protective and in denial of her daughter's sex life. They learn even more people could have used her innocense about sex to abuse her. ADA Cabot then has to interfere and take on her superior, in order to settle the mother-daughter dispute on whether the daughter should have an abortion or not.
[edit] "Silence" (5/17/02)
A murder takes place in a church. Detectives Benson and Stabler learn that the murderer, Bobby Douglas, had been paid off by the church to stop him from reporting how he was sexually abused by a priest as a child. He blames the church for taking away his innocence. More specifically, he accuses of child molestation a priest from his youth, Father Michael, with whom he is still in contact.
| Characters |
| Elliot Stabler | Olivia Benson | John Munch | Donald Cragen | Brian Cassidy | Monique Jeffries | Alexandra Cabot | Odafin Tutuola | George Huang | Casey Novak | Melinda Warner | Dani Beck | Elizabeth Donnelly | Rebecca Hendrix |
| Cast |
| Christopher Meloni | Mariska Hargitay | Richard Belzer | Dann Florek | Dean Winters | Michelle Hurd | Stephanie March | Ice T | B.D. Wong | Diane Neal | Tamara Tunie | Connie Nielsen | Judith Light | Mary Stuart Masterson |
| Episodes |
| Season 1 | Season 2 | Season 3 | Season 4 | Season 5 | Season 6 | Season 7 | Season 8 |
