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The Worst Episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members...
  1. Background image for Truth Embargo
    4.4/10(981 votes)

    #1 - Truth Embargo

    S25:E2

    As Benson teams up with the FBI on an unsolved case, Fin and Velasco investigate a flash mob robbery that lead to a sexual assault.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    4.7/10(2.2k votes)

    #2 - Intimidation Game

    S16:E14

    A female videogame developer is harassed and threatened by a group of misogynistic cyber terrorists.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    5.0/10(6 votes)

    #3 - True Believers

    S13:E6

    The SVU team works together to investigate the case of a promising music student who was brutally raped at gunpoint.

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    Director:Courtney Hunt
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    5.5/10(5 votes)

    #4 - Hooked

    S6:E15

    When the body of a teenager is found with her older cousin's I.D., Benson and Stabler investigate only to learn that that the teen had been part of a group who had 'hooked up' online. As their investigation intensified, they realised that the victim was the object of an older man's obsession, but before they can arrest him he also turns up dead.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    5.5/10(4 votes)

    #5 - Down Low in Hell's Kitchen

    S21:E3

    A serial predator targeting men in gay bars proves difficult to catch, until a celebrity comes forward with his story.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    5.7/10(3 votes)

    #6 - P.C.

    S11:E13

    Detectives Olivia Benson and Eliot Stabler find a woman bleeding from the neck and nearly dead. The woman dies before they reach the hospital, and soon the investigation leads them to the frontman of the death metal band Vampyre Sacrifyce. He bites girls, steals blood from the local blood bank and sings about violence to women all in the name of his strange, vampiric lifestyle. The singer claims he was nowhere near the scene of the crime, and soon a lesbian rights group led by Babs Duffy gets involved, claiming the victim's death was a result of police neglect. However, when more women from Babs's group are attacked, it becomes clear that the victim's case wasn't an isolated incident and that someone out there has a larger plan to bring the group down.

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  8. Background image for Spectacle
    5.7/10(6 votes)

    #7 - Spectacle

    S12:E16

    After the sexual assault of a young woman is videotaped and featured on a campus-wide intranet feed, detectives Elliot Stabler and Odafin "Fin" Tutuola go in search of the victim and her attacker. As they delve into the investigation, it becomes clear that the perpetrator created a spectacle to draw attention to his own issues.

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    Director:Peter Leto
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    5.8/10(6 votes)

    #8 - Bombshell

    S12:E19

    A grifter named Cassandra strikes swinging men who frequent sex clubs.

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    Director:Unknown
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    5.9/10(8 votes)

    #9 - Blood Brothers

    S13:E3

    A pregnant thirteen-year-old girl from Washington Heights claims that the son of an ambassador raped her, but the accused goes missing before SVU can question him.

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    5.9/10(1.0k votes)

    #10 - Guardians and Gladiators

    S22:E1

    When the squad tries to solve an assault in Central Park, they are hampered by their own blind spots and a community that is losing trust in the police.

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    Writer:Unknown
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    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Service

    S19:E18

    The SVU must break through military red tape when a soldier is suspected of sexual assault.

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    6.1/10(6 votes)

    #12 - Underbelly

    S8:E7

    After a third young teen is found dead, a paw print tattoo on her lower back, Stabler and Beck investigate the tattoo, which leads them to Broder House, a foster home for young girls. They learn that Chantal was one of a number of girls who had ended up working the streets for a man named Victor. Stabler warns Beck that she can't get emotionally involved in every case, but the two work together to bring down Victor, relying on one of his girls to get the evidence that they need.

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    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Beef
    6.1/10(4 votes)

    #13 - Beef

    S11:E20

    After a young woman is sexually assaulted and murdered, Detectives Olivia Benson and Eliot Stabler track down the woman's boyfriend - their first suspect - but learn that he is a devout vegan who wouldn't hurt a fly. They soon find that the victim had been deeply involved in the fight to expose questionable practices in the meat-packing industry, even going undercover at a large company to find out the truth. Benson goes undercover herself to retrace the woman's footsteps and to identify who the victim might have angered along the way.

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    Director:Peter Leto
    Writer:Unknown
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    6.1/10(1.1k votes)

    #14 - Part 33

    S20:E14

    As Stone prosecutes the case of a woman who killed her abusive husband, Benson and her squad wrestle with the duty of testifying against her.

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    6.2/10(6 votes)

    #15 - Strange Beauty

    S13:E22

    The investigation of the homicide of a young woman who recently had her leg amputated sends SVU into the strange culture of body modification.

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    6.3/10(8 votes)

    #16 - Uncle

    S8:E4

    After a mother and her ten-year-old daughter are found raped and butchered in their apartment, Stabler and Beck take in a homeless man who turns out to be Munch's uncle, Andrew. Initially he's their main suspect until they find their way to a new suspect. Unfortunately, when their only evidence against Brent Allen Banks is thrown out in court, Andrew, suffering from mental illness, goes too far trying to do what he is convinced is the right thing.

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    Director:David Platt
    Writer:Unknown
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    6.3/10(7 votes)

    #17 - Cage

    S8:E8

    After a van containing two young children ends up in the river, Beck finds herself drawn to the young girl, Eden, and the investigation into a tape found in the vehicle turns up a mysterious death involving a controversial attachment therapy technique. Beck tries to do the right thing by saving Eden, only to find herself torn when it seems as though there is nothing she can do to help. The investigation into the rebirthing turns up a foster family who abuses the children in their care, but not all of the children agree that it was abuse.

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    6.4/10(6 votes)

    #18 - Confrontation

    S8:E5

    Stabler and Beck disagree on how to handle a case involving a rapist who seems to be escalating his attacks. Beck is getting too personally involved in the case and with the victims, which Stabler warns her against. The key witness in the case is a pregnant woman who denies having been raped more than once by the man, whose goal appears to have been to impregnate the women.

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    6.5/10(4 votes)

    #19 - Class

    S7:E17

    After Carolyn Pereira's body is dumped in an area frequented by prostitutes, Stabler and Tutuola soon realise she had far more money than a student on financial aid should have had, and learn that she was deeply involved in the worlds of online gambling and high stakes poker. Suspects include the Gloria Culhane, the roommate who ended up with the very expensive ring that Caroline stole from a star athlete, Roddy Franklin, the star athlete who had his ring taken by Caroline, and Adam Halder, Caroline's best friend from childhood who turned out to be her backup during her online gambling forays. Stabler makes a special plea for Halder, feeling like he and the young man have something in common because both were boys from the wrong side of the tracks dealing with rich kids who treated them like dirt.

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    6.5/10(7 votes)

    #20 - Shattered

    S11:E24

    The detectives end up in a dangerous situation while investigating the whereabouts of a kidnapped eight-year-old boy.

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    Director:Peter Leto
  22. Background image for Can't Be Held Accountable
    6.5/10(4 votes)

    #21 - Can't Be Held Accountable

    S21:E9

    A fellow detective asks the SVU for help when he suspects his two daughters are being groomed by a serial predator. Kat disobeys the Captain's orders.

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    Writer:Unknown
  23. Background image for Solving for the Unknowns
    6.5/10(2 votes)

    #22 - Solving for the Unknowns

    S21:E19

    The SVU struggles to find a serial predator who uses a date rape drug that leaves no evidence behind. Rollins receives some good news.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  24. Background image for Consent
    6.6/10(9 votes)

    #23 - Consent

    S2:E10

    A college co-ed is found raped and dazed after a frat party, but can't remember anything that happened. The detectives then find that she had a date rape drug in her system, leaving them with many suspects and accomplices, tho the victim is reluctant to press charges.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
  25. Background image for Sugar
    6.6/10(7 votes)

    #24 - Sugar

    S11:E2

    A young woman's body is found stuffed inside a suitcase, and police believe that Mindy Keefe, the victim, was a train passenger on her way to Tampa when she was murdered. Detectives Benson and Stabler turn to Keefe's financier boyfriend, Owen Cassidy's yacht to investigate. However, Cassidy claims he was on his boat during the time of the murder. After further searching, the detectives discover Keefe belonged to an online dating website. But when the CEO of the dating website, Vance Shepard, refuses to comment on the case, the detectives turn to ADA Sonya Paxton for help.

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    Director:Peter Leto
  26. Background image for Street Revenge
    6.6/10(5 votes)

    #25 - Street Revenge

    S13:E19

    The task of find a serial rapist becomes more difficult when a team of neighborhood vigilante "superheroes" starts trying to avenge the crimes.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Truth Embargo" is the worst rated episode of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit". It scored 4.4/10 based on 981 votes. Directed by Jean de Segonzac and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/25/2024. This episode scored 0.3 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Intimidation Game".