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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Season 3

September 28, 200123 episodes8.0

Episode information and air dates for this season are listed below.

Season 3

Episodes

Select an episode for its synopsis, runtime, guest cast, crew, images, and available video extras.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Repression

Repression

September 28, 2001 43 min

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.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Wrath

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Wrath

October 5, 2001 43 min

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.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Stolen

Stolen

October 12, 2001 43 min

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.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Rooftop

Rooftop

October 19, 2001 44 min

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.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Tangled

Tangled

October 26, 2001 44 min

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.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Redemption

Redemption

November 2, 2001 44 min

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.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Sacrifice

Sacrifice

November 9, 2001 42 min

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.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Inheritance

Inheritance

November 16, 2001 43 min

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.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Care

Care

November 23, 2001 43 min

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?

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Ridicule

Ridicule

December 14, 2001 43 min

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.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Monogamy

Monogamy

January 4, 2002 44 min

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.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Protection

Protection

January 11, 2002 44 min

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.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Prodigy

Prodigy

January 18, 2002 43 min

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.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Counterfeit

Counterfeit

January 25, 2002 44 min

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.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Execution

Execution

February 1, 2002 42 min

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.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Popular

Popular

March 1, 2002 43 min

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.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Surveillance

Surveillance

March 8, 2002 43 min

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.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Guilt

Guilt

March 29, 2002 44 min

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.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Justice

Justice

April 5, 2002 43 min

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.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Greed

Greed

April 26, 2002 44 min

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

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Denial

Denial

May 3, 2002 44 min

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.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Competence

Competence

May 10, 2002 42 min

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?

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Silence

Silence

May 17, 2002 44 min

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.

Season Credits

Featured Cast

Mariska Hargitay

Mariska Hargitay

Olivia Benson

Ice-T

Ice-T

Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola

Christopher Meloni

Christopher Meloni

Elliot Stabler

Richard Belzer

Richard Belzer

John Munch

Dann Florek

Dann Florek

Donald Cragen

Stephanie March

Stephanie March

Alexandra Cabot

Frank Anello

Frank Anello

NYPD Officer (uncredited)

BD Wong

BD Wong

Dr. George Huang

Tamara Tunie

Tamara Tunie

Dr. Melinda Warner

Fernando López

Fernando López

Ramone Vargas

Joanna Merlin

Joanna Merlin

Lena Petrovsky

Judith Light

Judith Light

Elizabeth Donnelly

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