Also, a supicious car accident puts Benson's life in danger. Meanwhile, Detective Joe Velasco (Octavio Piscano) joins the SVU squad when he is assigned to the case by Chief McGrath ( Terry Serpico). Benson faces a major dilemma when her loyalty to Garland is tested over the backfired Javon Brown case. When a powerful congressman ( Ben Rappaport) is using his political instincts to traffic girls, Benson and the Special Victims Unit race against the clock to put him away for life but the case may be harder that they thought. Warren Leight & Julie Martin & Bryan Goluboff See also: List of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episodes Law & Order: Special Victims Unit season 23 episodes No. Peter Hermann as Defense Attorney Trevor Langan.Eddie Hargitay as Officer Eddie Montero.Adrian Alvarado as Detective Ray Fernandez.Jeffrey Schecter as Counselor Art Blumfeld.Aime Donna Kelly as IAB Captain Renee Curry.Ben Rappaport as Congressman George Howard.Dylan McDermott as Richard Wheatley (crossing over with Law & Order: Organized Crime).Ainsley Seiger as Jet Slootmaekers (crossing over with Law & Order: Organized Crime).Danielle Moné Truitt as Sergeant Ayanna Bell (crossing over with Law & Order: Organized Crime).Christopher Meloni as Detective 1st Grade Elliot Stabler (crossing over with Law & Order: Organized Crime).Raúl Esparza as Defense Attorney (former ADA) Rafael Barba.Dann Florek as Former Captain Donald Cragen.Danny Pino as Former Detective Nick Amaro.Octavio Pisano as Detective 3rd Grade Joe Velasco (episodes 7–present guest star: episodes 1–2, 4).Demore Barnes as Deputy Chief Christian Garland (episodes 1–2).Jamie Gray Hyder as Detective 3rd Grade Katriona "Kat" Tamin (episodes 1–2).Peter Scanavino as ADA Dominick "Sonny" Carisi, Jr.Kelli Giddish as Detective 2nd Grade Amanda Rollins.Mariska Hargitay as Captain Olivia Benson.Teleplay by : Robert F.See also: List of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit characters Main
Main article: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 3) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit season 3 episodes No. Teleplay by : Dawn DeNoon & Lisa Marie Petersen Parker, Lisa Marie Petersen, & Dawn DeNoon Story by : Clifton Campbell, Jeff Eckerle, & Tracey Stern Teleplay by : Wendy West, Judith McCreary, & David J. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit season 2 episodes No. Neal Baer begins taking over as executive producer.Michelle Hurd ( Monique Jeffries) leaves the cast after the episode "Runaway".Stephanie March ( Alexandra Cabot) and Ice-T ( Fin Tutuola) join the cast.Main article: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 2) Story by : Dick Wolf, René Balcer, & Robert Palm Law & Order: Special Victims Unit season 1 episodes No. She is then added to the main cast starting with the 14th episode.
Most episode titles of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit between seasons one and twelve are a single word or initialism.
The series premiered on NBC on September 20, 1999, and its twenty-third season premiered on September 23, 2021. Such episodes take a real crime and fictionalize it by changing the details. The series frequently uses stories that are "ripped from the headlines" or based on real crimes. While the victim is often murdered, this is not always the case, and victims often play prominent roles in episodes. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the first spinoff of Law & Order, is an American police procedural television series that focuses on crimes of sexual nature.