Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Season 18

While identifying a young boy left alone in Central Park, SVU uncovers a possible terrorist plot that leads to several casualties. The DA needs a slam-dunk conviction, but the defendant's history as an abuse victim complicates matters.

A man convicted of rape is exonerated and released 16 years later. However, on the night of his release, the daughter of the woman he was convicted of raping is also raped and murdered, and he is SVU's prime suspect.

SVU chooses to pursue a risky "rape by fraud" case involving a con artist who poses as a college admissions director to have sex with the mothers of prospective students.

An aspiring Olympic athlete claims she is a rape victim, but the publicity surrounding the case could threaten her Olympic future, and reveal some shocking details about her sordid personal life.

Olivia discovers that a young man facing rape charges is the son of her first police partner, who comes to her asking to cash in on an a favor that she owes him.

A rising hip-hop star is a suspect in a brutal transgender beating, but his alibi might be as shocking as the crime itself.

A woman is sexually assaulted by a masked man, but she believes the rapist is the same man who went to jail for stalking her. Meanwhile, Tucker contemplates retirement and a future with Benson.

SVU is on the lookout for a missing 6-year-old boy, but also discovers that the victim has a very dysfunctional home life and that the kidnappers may have actually had the boy's best interests in mind.

A bartender says she was raped after a birthday party for a notorious philandering businessman. The man's grandson soon claims that he had consensual sex with the woman, but the investigation later reveals a second familial match.

A teenage boy uses a rifle to save his mother from her attacker, only to learn the target was someone he knows.

SVU investigates the players of a youth hockey league after a locker room hazing incident.

Fin returns to his military roots when a fellow Army ranger attempts to recover from a sexual assault.

A suspect claims his genetics make him commit rape.

An investment banker accuses her client of rape.

The suspect in a rape and murder investigation threatens to reveal the secrets of those working the case.

Benson and Barba ask witnesses to risk their jobs when a news anchor makes a rape accusation against her boss on the air.

A congressman asks SVU for help when he's accused of soliciting underage girls, but the investigation uncovers a sex trafficking ring.

A spiritual healer is accused of using hypnosis to sexually assault a client.

Barba must argue that the First Amendment does not give a person the right to break the law when a woman is raped by a member of her church group.

The daughter of a Muslim family is killed in a hate crime against them; Barba is forced to drop charges against a suspect when a witness is deported; tensions rise between communities on both sides of the case.

Benson and Barba are caught between two families seeking justice for their loved ones in a hate crime; Benson takes desperate measures to make an arrest as public protests turn violent.