Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 3

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - Season 3

2001 • 23 episodes

8.0
23 episodes
Sep 28, 2001

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Episodes

Seasons & Episodes

23 episodes
Repression
Episode 1

Repression

Episode 1 • Sep 28, 2001

An 18-year-old girl is aided by her therapist in recalling repressed memories of childhood molestation by her father and reports the incest to Benson and Stabler in hopes of sparing her younger sisters the same fate. She brings charges of rape against her father who winds up murdered when those charges are dismissed.

7.8
43m
Wrath
Episode 2

Wrath

Episode 2 • Oct 05, 2001

The detectives investigate three murders that seemingly have no connection to each other, but each murder has ties to Benson's previous cases. As they join with the FBI to investigate, the detectives worry that Benson is the intended target.

7.6
43m
Stolen
Episode 3

Stolen

Episode 3 • Oct 12, 2001

The kidnapping of an infant at a grocery store leads to an illegal adoption ring and the long lost closure of a case from 12 years prior of a murdered mother and missing baby which involved Capt. Cragen and his partner, the late Max Greevey.

8.2
43m
Rooftop
Episode 4

Rooftop

Episode 4 • Oct 19, 2001

When an HIV-positive male, with a record of assaulting underage girls, is discovered in a sexual clincher with a young woman on a rooftop, the detectives are determined to put him back inside. After a series of rapes and murders of young African-American women cannot be traced to him though, they begin to wonder if they've been looking at the wrong suspect.

8.8
44m
Tangled
Episode 5

Tangled

Episode 5 • Oct 26, 2001

When arriving party guests find a prominent doctor beaten to death and his wife raped, the detectives have a parade of suspects and the realization that the wife was the intended victim.

6.7
44m
Redemption
Episode 6

Redemption

Episode 6 • Nov 02, 2001

A string of murders leads detectives to question an initial suspect, the Soho Strangler, but they realize he might have been the wrong person all along.

8.4
44m
Sacrifice
Episode 7

Sacrifice

Episode 7 • Nov 09, 2001

A man, who is shot and raped outside a gay bar, initially doesn't want to cooperate to find his shooter. When he finally does, the investigation leads to his family and turns his life upside down.

8.6
42m
Inheritance
Episode 8

Inheritance

Episode 8 • Nov 16, 2001

A series of brutal rapes and attacks on Asian women lead the police to a suspect who was himself a product of rape - his father being a rapist who was convicted. The question is brought to court of whether his genetic make-up was responsible for the crimes.

8.0
43m
Care
Episode 9

Care

Episode 9 • Nov 23, 2001

The battered body of a five-year-old girl in foster care is discovered and suspicion soon turns to members of the girl's foster family as well as to the girl's biological mother; who is the real guilty party and who is only a red herring?

8.3
43m
Ridicule
Episode 10

Ridicule

Episode 10 • Dec 14, 2001

What appears as a bizarre accidental death leads to a case involving a male stripper who claims that the deceased was one of three powerful women who raped him at a bachelorette party.

8.2
43m
Monogamy
Episode 11

Monogamy

Episode 11 • Jan 04, 2002

The pregnant wife of a psychiatrist is found in a parking garage, unconscious and bleeding from a gaping abdominal wound with her fetus missing. The investigation leads to infedility and uncertainty as to the paternity, adding fuel to the fire of an already agitated Stabler.

8.4
44m
Protection
Episode 12

Protection

Episode 12 • Jan 11, 2002

A 6-year-old boy wounded in a shooting is brought to the ER but abandoned by his brother, who reported it, and their mother, who fears for her own life. The case leads the detectives to a woman who is on the run from an abusive drug-dealer boyfriend.

7.8
44m
Prodigy
Episode 13

Prodigy

Episode 13 • Jan 18, 2002

Two people are found murdered in the park, including an animal rights activist who has been raped and then decapitated. Benson and Stabler must determine which of their two main suspects -- a sociopathic teenager and a recently paroled rapist -- is responsible for the murder.

8.8
43m
Counterfeit
Episode 14

Counterfeit

Episode 14 • Jan 25, 2002

A woman is found raped and killed by her car. Then, a similar rape is committed and the victim says that a police officer raped her after pulling her over for a supposed driving violation. This leads police to look at one of their own, until they realize the suspect is not who they think he is.

7.6
44m
Execution
Episode 15

Execution

Episode 15 • Feb 01, 2002

Detective Stabler and Dr. Huang question a convicted serial killer on death row, hours before his execution, with the hope of solving an old murder case for the sake of the victim's parents. The investigation goes haywire with mixed results.

7.0
42m
Popular
Episode 16

Popular

Episode 16 • Mar 01, 2002

Stabler's wife tells him that her friend, a high school nurse, treated a young girl for rape. Despite being advised not to find out further details, Stabler, with help from Benson, crack open the case to disturbing details.

7.7
43m
Surveillance
Episode 17

Surveillance

Episode 17 • Mar 08, 2002

An accomplished cellist is raped in her own apartment and the detectives are lead to a stalker who uses surveillance equipment and has been watching her every move.

8.2
43m
Guilt
Episode 18

Guilt

Episode 18 • Mar 29, 2002

When A.D.A. Cabot is faced with a reluctant teenage witness in a child molestation case, she goes above and beyond the normal scope of duty in her search for evidence to convict the serial abuser. But her passion supercedes her compliance with the law, jeopardizing not only her case, but the careers of all involved.

7.4
44m
Justice
Episode 19

Justice

Episode 19 • Apr 05, 2002

A rebellious 16-year-old teenager is raped and murdered; the case becomes complex when they learn that her stepfather is a judge with whom she has had major problems.

8.0
43m
Greed
Episode 20

Greed

Episode 20 • Apr 26, 2002

Investigating the rape of the wife of a restaurateur during a robbery, leads the detectives to a similar assault, and to a locksmith.

7.8
44m
Denial
Episode 21

Denial

Episode 21 • May 03, 2002

When a heroin junkie is found raped, Tutuola takes an interest in her, but he's not the only one. The case turns into a bizarre murder investigation when the finger of a small child is found in the victim's purse opening a can of worms that spans back thirteen years.

7.2
44m
Competence
Episode 22

Competence

Episode 22 • May 10, 2002

A mentally challenged girl with Down's Syndrome is pregnant, and the question is, was she raped or did she consent and is she competent enough to keep her child?

9.1
42m
Silence
Episode 23

Silence

Episode 23 • May 17, 2002

A murder in a church of a young cross-dresser leads Benson and Stabler to an alleged cover-up involving sexual child abuse by a priest.

8.2
44m