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The Worst Episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

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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 A Waiver of Consent
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #1 - A Waiver of Consent

    S27:E2

    When a member of an elite social club is assaulted, Carisi must convince witnesses to come forward despite the club's strict confidentiality rules. Chief Tynan offers Benson some extra help. Velasco is confronted with a surprising opportunity.

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  2. Background image for Truth Embargo
    4.4/10(1.0k votes)

    #2 - 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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  3. Background image for Intimidation Game
    4.7/10(2.2k votes)

    #3 - Intimidation Game

    S16:E14

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

    Writer:Unknown
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  4. Background image for Bombshell
    5.8/10(6 votes)

    #4 - Bombshell

    S12:E19

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

    Director:Unknown
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  5. Background image for Chasing Theo
    5.8/10(5 votes)

    #5 - Chasing Theo

    S18:E8

    A 6 year-old boy disappears from his bed in the midst of a wild, drug-fueled party thrown by his mother. With a child's life on the line, the case causes Benson to scrutinize her own role as a mother.

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  6. Background image for Heightened Emotions
    5.9/10(5 votes)

    #6 - Heightened Emotions

    S18:E4

    A sexually assaulted athlete's double life could destroy her Olympic career and ruin the case against her attacker; Rollins sister is released from prison on parole.

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    6.0/10(7 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.

    Director:Peter Leto
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  9. Background image for Hooked
    6.1/10(6 votes)

    #8 - 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.

    Writer:Unknown
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  10. Background image for Part 33
    6.1/10(1.2k votes)

    #9 - 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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  11. Background image for Info Wars
    6.3/10(1.3k votes)

    #10 - Info Wars

    S19:E12

    After a female pundit is assaulted during a protest, Benson and Barba struggle to put their political beliefs aside in order to help bring the attacker to justice.

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  12. Background image for Head
    6.4/10(8 votes)

    #11 - Head

    S5:E25

    A boy is accused of being molested after his soccer game, but he doesn't admit to it. His principal and his soccer coach are the prime suspects.

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  13. Background image for Class
    6.5/10(4 votes)

    #12 - 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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  14. Background image for Terrorized
    6.6/10(12 votes)

    #13 - Terrorized

    S18:E1

    A young boy is found wandering alone in Central Park and the search for his parents leads to startling evidence of a planned mass casualty event in the city. As the SVU works with the joint-terrorism task force to find the suspects and the motive, Lt. Benson must also convince Barba to address allegations of rape and torture the boy's mother discloses.

    Director:Alik Sakharov
    Writer:Rick Eid
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  15. Background image for Tangled
    6.7/10(8 votes)

    #14 - Tangled

    S3:E5

    When arriving party guests find a prominent doctor beaten to death and his wife raped, the detectives have a parade of suspects and the realization that the wife was the intended victim.

    Writer:Unknown
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    6.7/10(10 votes)

    #15 - Confession

    S10:E2

    Teenage boy Eric Byers admits himself into the squad room, and warns the team about an unnatural desire towards his younger stepbrother, Cory Kelly. Detective Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson’s suspicions arise, and Eric admits to also looking at a website to try to curb his pedophilic urge. With no crime committed, the detectives decide to investigate this “self-help” website for pedophiles leading them to it’s creator, Jake Berlin. Eric’s rage induced stepfather is also questioned, and shortly after Eric is found missing. The detectives must race to place the clues together to find and stop Eric before any crime is committed.

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    6.7/10(5 votes)

    #16 - Branded

    S12:E6

    Two men have been branded and sodomised by someone. Is there a connection between these men, and what nut case is on the loose?

    Director:Peter Leto
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  18. Background image for Criminal Hatred
    6.7/10(5 votes)

    #17 - Criminal Hatred

    S14:E12

    The detectives go under cover to arrest a man who brutally attacks other men; a deceptively tough defense attorney complicates ADA Barba's case.

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  19. Background image for Devastating Story
    6.7/10(1.0k votes)

    #18 - Devastating Story

    S16:E18

    SVU investigates after a news story reveals that an unidentified Hudson University coed was gang raped by a four fraternity brothers. But once the accuser finally steps forward and tells her story, everything begins to unravel.

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  20. Background image for The Only Way Out Is Through
    6.7/10(3 votes)

    #19 - The Only Way Out Is Through

    S22:E8

    Benson helps two sisters get closure from a harrowing childhood assault. Kat's cousin reaches out for help.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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  21. Background image for Escape
    6.8/10(9 votes)

    #20 - Escape

    S5:E11

    When a convicted pedophile, desperate to prove his innocence before his terminally ill mother dies, escapes from a Virginia Correctional Facility and kidnaps his accuser to force him to recant his story, a Deputy Marshall teams up with Benson to track them down. Benson eventually finds herself in the middle of a hostage situation beginning to believe his story.

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  22. Background image for Debt
    6.8/10(8 votes)

    #21 - Debt

    S6:E2

    As Benson and Stabler investigate the disappearance of a mother and her teenaged daughter, they uncover a conspiracy between a corrupt immigration attorney and gangsters running a prostitution ring that is staffed by women they have smuggled into the country and imprisoned as sex slaves.

    Director:David Platt
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  23. Background image for Quarry
    6.8/10(4 votes)

    #22 - Quarry

    S6:E13

    When the body of a seven-year-old child is found, the squad again begins to investigate convicted serial killer Lucas Biggs, believing that he molested and murdered the boy. While Biggs can detail every child he ever molested, he swears that he has no memory of this one. Further investigations show that there is another suspect, but before he can be picked up, someone picks him off.

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  24. Background image for Manipulated
    6.8/10(7 votes)

    #23 - Manipulated

    S7:E15

    After the body of Vicky Riggs is found, Benson and Stabler delve into her private life and finally learn that in addition to being a respected lawyer, she was also a stripper. A surveillance photo leads them to Linus McKellen, her boss' husband, who was also having an affair with her. There isn't enough evidence to prove he murdered Vicky, but when Vicky's co-worker at the club, Josie Post, is also found murdered, DNA proves that McKellen's semen was found in her body, despite his disabled wife Tessa's conviction that he would never murder anyone. Suspicion turns on Tessa herself once the detectives interview the only man who seems capable of having committed the murders.

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  25. Background image for Influence
    6.8/10(6 votes)

    #24 - Influence

    S7:E22

    After Jamie Hoskins falsely accuses two classmates of rape after a consensual act then hits nine pedestrians during an attempted suicide, medical tests reveal she has been taking medication for bipolar disorder and stopped her pills a week earlier. Jamie is charged with murder and released on her own recognizance after she agrees to take her medication, but after rock star Derek Lord, who is well known for his negative views on psychiatry, gets involved and begins spearheading her defense, Jamie again stops taking her medication. Novak is sympathetic to Jamie, but Jamie's insistence on following Derek Lord's advice leaves Novak with no choice but to take the case to trial.

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  26. Background image for Penetration
    6.8/10(6 votes)

    #25 - Penetration

    S12:E8

    Undercover FBI agent Dana Lewis returns to help the detectives with a case.

    Director:Peter Leto
    Writer:Unknown
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Worst Episodes Summary

"A Waiver of Consent" is the worst rated episode of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Juan José Campanella and written by Kevin J. Hynes, it aired on 10/2/2025. This episode scored 4.4 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Truth Embargo".