Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Year 8

When a particularly brutalized rape victim resists all efforts to help her, Olivia takes her as a cause and turns up an old acquaintance during the investigation.

A 17-year-old with the features of a little girl is kidnapped. Stabler sees parallels with his own daughter, and must deal with a new partner.

Stabler and his new partner go after a possible serial rapist with the help of an unlikely victim from 30 years earlier.

A homeless man is suspected of murder. As the case unfolds, so do Munch's family secrets.

Stabler and Beck track down a serial rapist who repeatedly attacks his victims based on their ovulation cycles so that he can impregnate them.

The environmental group Olivia is infiltrating for the FBI is accused of murdering the CEO of a pharmaceutical company. But when she discovers that the crime may be sexual in nature, she conducts her own independent investigation.

Three teenage homicide victims with matching tattoos lead Detectives Stabler and Beck to an underage prostitution ring.

SVU investigates a shady private adoption agency after two undocumented children are found deserted near an automobile accident.

A model is poisoned to death, and it could be connected to a love triangle between her manipulative choreographer husband, his mistress, and the mistress' jealous husband.

A dying man's confessions to Benson and Stabler reveal secrets about the true identity of his estranged daughter and other, more disturbing secrets.

A bitter estrangement pits divorcing couple Miles and Valerie Sennet against one another with tragic consequences.

Fin reluctantly works with a Brooklyn detective who thinks that Fin's rape cases are connected to his unsolved murder cases.

An investigation into a potential child pornography case actually uncovers a chemical company testing possibly toxic products on a group of building tenants.

A woman is murdered and her husband attacked, with their 6 year old son a witness to the attack. The man awakens in the hospital and remembers seeing his teenage daughter at the scene.

A woman accused of killing her baby commits suicide after being interrogated by an overzealous television reporter. It later turns out that the baby was kidnapped, perhaps by the baby's biological father.

Olivia finds her biological brother in New Jersey, but discovers that he is under investigation by local police for sexual crimes. But her obsession with finding him puts another investigation in jeopardy as well as her partnership with Elliot.

A gay male sex worker is murdered, and the investigation reveals that a pastor who preaches extreme intolerance toward homosexuals may have had a relationship with him.

The mother of a high school girl is caught having a sexual relationship with one of her daughter's classmates, and she may have supplied alcohol for a high school party where another student died.

Benson (Mariska Hargitay) hears from her half-brother (Michael Weston), who is on the run because of sexual assault charges. He continues to claim his innocence, though because evidence continues to pile up against him, Benson reluctantly agrees to help in the investigation.

The investigation of a bride-to-be's murder uncovers a man's double life; a turn in the case rattles Stabler, who turns to his wife and children for comfort.

The investigation into an extreme fighting death leads to the discovery of a 28-year-old woman posing as a 16-year-old high school student.

Fin's nephew, Darius, goes to trial and seems determined to take the unit down with him.