Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

In the season premiere, Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) search for an ex-con who is sexually assaulting prostitutes -- only to find their suspect murdered by one of his would-be victims (guest star Sharon Lawrence).

A child abuse interrogation turns into an incestuous homicide investigation.

An elderly woman with Alzheimer's is abused, triggering memories of similar crimes from her childhood, but the real crime is what's being done to the elderly today.

A public health doctor who tracked HIV cases is found dead in the park and the detectives try to link threatening phone calls to the crime.

A high-powered executive is raped, but the situation is complicated by her involvement with the Feds and the Russian mob.

A young boy suffocates while hiding in the luggage compartment of an airport bus and it leads the detectives into the investigation of a perverted child molestation ring.

Detectives try and solve the gruesome murder of a young girl, whose killer had an obsession with dolls.

The detectives investigate the rape of a woman who's been in a coma for a year, and after eliminating a huge pool of suspects, they make a startling discovery.

The rape and murder of a cancer patient selling marijuana leads the detectives to unlikely suspects - middle school aged boys.

A teenage girl tries to commit suicide after she is raped and it turns out her sexual abuse was at the hands of her family, with a father far sicker than anyone thought.

A triple homicide resulting from a robbery at a video store turns into a complicated investigation when it is discovered that the "accidental" murders were designed to silence a six-year-old who was sexually abused.

An infant ingests pure cocaine disguised as baby formula, uncovering a complicated narcotics ring with unlikely participants.

An inmate who was sodomized is found dead in his jail cell, and since it happened while in custody, the police are suspected.

The murder of a baby turns out to be a mercy killing because she had a rare, fatal, and horribly debilitating disease.

The murder of an undercover Federal informant trafficking internet porn turns into an international case of teenage prostitution, with ties to the Czech Republic.

The discovery of the body of a Tibetan torture survivor sends Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) digging through the victim's past in the belief that a former torturer might be the killer.

Investigating the apparent suicide of a 20-year-old woman who took a flying leap off the balcony owned by a prominent Manhattan family, Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) search for a motive and uncover the victim's personal relationship with the famous family's son.

When a young woman is found brutally murdered after a violent sexual assault, Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) rest their hopes on the only witness to the crime, the woman's young son.

A nine year old pageant princess is raped and murdered, but the case goes beyond the killer.

When an engagement celebration dinner ends in sexual assault and a gruesome quadruple homicide, Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) search for a violent killer looking for revenge through the domination of his victims.

A rape victim kills her attacker, but even though it looks like a cut and dried case of selfdefense, there's a twist.

A serial rapist who denies everything represents himself in court, and although the case seems to be going in his favor, in the end he gets his payback.

A college student working as a waitress is shot and killed, and even though the death is ruled a suicide, the detectives pursue her boss, who raped her.

When the body of a murdered 14-year-old girl is discovered in a back alley, Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) discover the victim was a missing Pennsylvania teenager believed to have been kidnapped eight months earlier.

When an alleged rape victim is kidnapped from a New York hospital and later murdered, Detectives Benson (Marishka Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) search for the girl's killer only to discover her attack to have been perpetrated by several bored young socialite club goers at a popular Manhattan nightspot.