Season 10

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Season 10

Sep 22, 2008 22 episodes

Stabler confronts his own demons when his daughter is caught with drugs, and Benson follows connections between an abused child and an attack on a woman.

Episodes

Trials

Episode 1

Trials

7.5
Sep 22, 2008 43 min

After a young boy, Christopher Ryan, is caught driving a runaway van, Detective Elliot Stabler and Detective Benson take the seven year-old into questioning. When Christopher claims his foster parents, Gwen and Noah Sibert, bribe him in exchange for abusive medical testing, the detectives investigate his allegations.

Confession

Episode 2

Confession

6.7
Sep 30, 2008 44 min

Teenage boy Eric Byers admits himself into the squad room, and warns the team about an unnatural desire towards his younger stepbrother, Cory Kelly. Detective Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson’s suspicions arise, and Eric admits to also looking at a website to try to curb his pedophilic urge. With no crime committed, the detectives decide to investigate this β€œself-help” website for pedophiles leading them to it’s creator, Jake Berlin. Eric’s rage induced stepfather is also questioned, and shortly after Eric is found missing. The detectives must race to place the clues together to find and stop Eric before any crime is committed.

Swing

Episode 3

Swing

8.6
Oct 14, 2008 43 min

Stabler is shocked when his daughter, Kathleen, becomes the suspect in an investigation to catch a trespasser. He seeks his estranged mother's help in dealing with his daughter's case.

Lunacy

Episode 4

Lunacy

6.6
Oct 21, 2008 43 min

The investigation of a famous dead astronaut found in Battery Park has hit a dead end, causing Stabler to ask for assistance from his old mentor, Dick Finley, a former colleague of the victim and an astronaut himself.

Retro

Episode 5

Retro

8.1
Oct 28, 2008 42 min

A baby with AIDS has Benson and Stabler asking for assistance from Warner as they investigate the case. They are pointed in the direction of a homeopathic doctor who has an questionable ethical past and who had prescribed the baby ineffective vitamins.

Babes

Episode 6

Babes

8.0
Nov 11, 2008 43 min

Stabler and Munch uncover a chastity club and a group of girls with a pregnancy pact at a high school where they came to investigate the death of a student.

Wildlife

Episode 7

Wildlife

7.6
Nov 18, 2008 41 min

Stabler goes undercover to infiltrate a rare animal smuggling operation.

Persona

Episode 8

Persona

8.4
Nov 25, 2008 42 min

Benson finds herself going the extra mile to protect a woman abused by her spouse. The investigation turns up information regarding a long-forgotten case of 2nd degree murder and escape.

PTSD

Episode 9

PTSD

8.4
Dec 02, 2008 42 min

The death of a marine who was pregnant by a rapist puts the unit at odds with the Pentagon when they fight to keep the case, and Benson's flashbacks of her own assault may further impede the investigation.

Smut

Episode 10

Smut

7.7
Dec 09, 2008 42 min

A beaten and raped woman who has no memory of what happened to her puts Benson and Stabler on the trail of a serial rapist, but when women refuse to testify Olivia will have to face how her assault has affected her job performance.

Stranger

Episode 11

Stranger

7.5
Jan 06, 2009 42 min

When a girl who vanished four years ago reappears, she claims to have been imprisoned and sexually abused. Benson and Stabler look into the case and find themselves having to sort through what was fact and what the girl made up.

Hothouse

Episode 12

Hothouse

8.3
Jan 13, 2009 43 min

When a teenager's body is uncovered in the Hudson River, the detectives search for the victim's identity which leads Benson to go undercover as a madam.

Snatched

Episode 13

Snatched

7.5
Feb 03, 2009 42 min

The mother of a kidnapped young girl points the detectives towards her father, an ex-con, but it is soon discovered that the grandfather is a master thief and has many enemies. However, because of Alzheimer's, the grandfather can't remember much of his past.

Transitions

Episode 14

Transitions

8.0
Feb 17, 2009 43 min

The detectives have very little to work with after a man is found badly-beaten in a strip club's parking lot. Their questioning begins with the dancers until the victim's ex-wife and 13-year old transgender daughter become suspects.

Lead

Episode 15

Lead

7.9
Mar 10, 2009 42 min

When a pediatrician convicted of abusing patients is found dead, Stabler and Benson investigate and soon find ADA Cabot has a reason for becoming involved in the case.

Ballerina

Episode 16

Ballerina

8.0
Mar 17, 2009 42 min

A single murder suddenly turns into a scene with three bodies, leaving Benson and Stabler to work with a strip club owner to find a murderer whose motive may be more about righteousness than perversity.

Hell

Episode 17

Hell

7.6
Mar 31, 2009 42 min

Detective Munch investigates the brutal rape and beating of a young mute girl, but things become tricky when her drawing of the devil who attacked her resembles a local priest who may not be practicing his beliefs according to Canon.

Baggage

Episode 18

Baggage

7.4
Apr 07, 2009 42 min

A turf war ensues when Stabler and Tutuola link an artist's murder to a serial killer, and the detective assigned to that case focuses more on their involvement in an investigation he believes belongs solely to him than on identifying the killer.

Selfish

Episode 19

Selfish

7.9
Apr 28, 2009 42 min

A grandmother reports that her 2 year old granddaughter has disappeared, but the Amber Alert fails to yield progress. The detectives then move their attention over to her young irresponsible mother as their prime suspect.

Crush

Episode 20

Crush

8.0
May 05, 2009 42 min

A teenage girl who sent text messages containing nude pictures of herself is found beaten up. She next faces a harsh sentence from a judge after being arrested for producing and distributing child pornography.

Liberties

Episode 21

Liberties

8.1
May 19, 2009 43 min

A favor for a judge who is hearing a harassment case sends Stabler and Benson to interview a death-row serial killer in order to determine the fate of his son.

Zebras

Episode 22

Zebras

8.1
Jun 02, 2009 42 min

A murder in Central Park that involves a tourist puts the SVU on high alert, but when the suspect they've brought in for questioning escapes, Munch has to reach out to an ex-wife in an effort to prevent another killing that's closer to home.