Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Season 12

What Season 12 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Season 12 Episodes

1. 

   12x01 Locum

   Sep 22, 2010 · 42 min · ★ 7.5

   Benson and Stabler are called to investigate when a little girl goes missing. They soon find out that the mother had another daughter who disappeared some years earlier and she becomes the focus of the investigation.

   Directing: Arthur W. Forney · Writing: Dawn DeNoon · Starring: Henry Ian Cusick, Joan Cusack, Peter Strauss, Linda Powell

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   12x02 Bullseye

   Sep 22, 2010 · 42 min · ★ 8.9

   The brutal rape of a ten-year-old girl leaves her unable to recall her own name. Unfortunately, once Fin assists with the ID, the detectives find that she's not the only one with memory impairment, and Dr. Huang is brought in to assess her home situation.

   Directing: Peter Leto · Writing: Daniel Truly · Starring: Henry Ian Cusick, Stephen Gregory, Anita Gillette, Francie Swift

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   12x03 Behave

   Sep 29, 2010 · 43 min · ★ 8.4

   A woman who has been raped multiple times is afraid to leave her house. The issue of unopened rape kits will see Detective Olivia Benson travel from New York City to Los Angeles.

   Directing: Helen Shaver · Writing: Jonathan Greene · Starring: Didi Conn, Francie Swift, Neal Bledsoe, Peter Hermann

4. 

   12x04 Merchandise

   Oct 6, 2010 · 42 min · ★ 7.7

   A teenage girl's death exposes a human trafficking ring and leads detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler to team up with an old friend at the U.S. Attorney's office.

   Directing: Peter Leto · Writing: Judith McCreary · Starring: Paul Schulze, Devon Gearhart, Fred Melamed, Michaela Annette

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   12x05 Wet

   Oct 13, 2010 · 42 min · ★ 7.7

   Detectives Benson and Stabler arrive on the scene where a woman is found dead in Bethesda Fountain. When her squeaky clean image doesn't match up with her promiscuous actions on the night of her murder, ADA Mikka Von encourages the cops to dig deeper into her past.

   Directing: Jonathan Kaplan · Writing: Speed Weed · Starring: Melissa Benoist, Amanda Fuller, Paula Patton, David Krumholtz

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   12x06 Branded

   Oct 20, 2010 · 43 min · ★ 7.1

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

   Directing: Peter Leto · Writing: Chris Brancato · Starring: Melissa Sagemiller, Joel de la Fuente, Lindsay Crouse, Anne James

7. 

   12x07 Trophy

   Nov 3, 2010 · 43 min · ★ 8.8

   A rape and murder investigation puts the detectives lives at risk.

   Directing: Donna Deitch · Writing: Ken Storer · Starring: Maria Bello, Alex Kingston, R. Lee Ermey, Joseph Sikora

8. 

   12x08 Penetration

   Nov 10, 2010 · 42 min · ★ 6.9

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

   Directing: Peter Leto · Writing: Dawn DeNoon, Christine M. Torres · Starring: Patricia Kalember, Charlie Tahan, Jeremy Davidson, Marcia Gay Harden

9. 

   12x09 Gray

   Nov 17, 2010 · 43 min · ★ 8.4

   Stabler's participation in a Take Back the Night rally at Kathleen's campus results in an extra case for him and Benson when a student claims she was raped. Unfortunately, the case turns out to be a "he said-she said" type with little evidence. Enter Sonya Paxton, and it can only get more complicated.

   Directing: Helen Shaver · Writing: George Huang · Starring: Keona Welch, Christine Lahti, Allison Siko, Dick Latessa

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    12x10 Rescue

    Dec 1, 2010 · 41 min · ★ 7.2

    With young Calvin in her care, Detective Benson continues the search for his drug-addict mother, Vivian, but Detective Stabler notices a strong bond forming between Benson and the boy. When Vivian's name comes up during a rape investigation, Captain Cragen assigns Detectives Fin and Munch to the case instead. However, it will take more than Cragen' s orders to keep Benson away.

    Directing: Constantine Makris, Peter Leto · Writing: Daniel Truly · Starring: Maria Bello, Joseph Sikora, Kat Foster, Charlie Tahan

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    12x11 Pop

    Jan 5, 2011 · 42 min · ★ 7.6

    A young boy is found dead on a park carousel after being dropped off by his uncle Joe Gilbert. When Detectives Benson and Stabler learn that the boy was beaten to death they suspect that it could be the result of a bully at school. The investigation leads to an unsettling gambling ring. Detectives suspect that Gilbert's acquaintance, Joe Roberts is beating his wife Sandra and the case takes a horrifying turn.

    Directing: Norberto Barba · Writing: Jonathan Greene · Starring: Drea de Matteo, Audrie Neenan, Peter McRobbie, Melissa Sagemiller

12. 

    12x12 Possessed

    Jan 5, 2011 · 43 min · ★ 7.2

    A young man finds that his girlfriend Larissa Welsh has been attacked in her apartment with evidence that points to her buried past. Detectives Benson and Stabler go in search of her attacker and discover that an elderly man, Orville Underwood, may have been involved in traumatic events of Welsh's past. For the detectives, solving the case comes down to who was in possession of the evidence.

    Directing: Constantine Makris · Writing: Brian Fagan · Starring: John Cullum, Stephen Gregory, Melissa Sagemiller, Taryn Manning

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    12x13 Mask

    Jan 12, 2011 · 42 min · ★ 7.4

    Debbie Shields comes home to find her partner Ann Jackson being raped by a man wearing a haunting mask. Shields contacts Ann's father to notify him of her critical condition. As detectives Benson and Stabler interrogate Ann's father, Captain Jackson, his sordid past is revealed filled with sexual and alcohol addiction. Jackson's new role as a sex therapist is hindering the detectives from getting the information they need to solve the case and if Jackson won't comply, the detectives are going to have to get creative.

    Directing: Donna Deitch · Writing: Speed Weed · Starring: Mariette Hartley, Melissa Sagemiller, Chandler Williams, Jennifer Roszell

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    12x14 Dirty

    Jan 19, 2011 · 41 min · ★ 7.6

    Detective Saliyah "Sunny" Qadri goes in search of Brooklyn District Attorney Page Ferguson, who she fears may be in danger. Qadri finds Ferguson just in time to witness her fall from the top of a parking garage. When Benson arrives, she discovers that the crime scene has been tampered with. Benson turns to an old friend, Assistant U.S. Attorney Christine Danielson for help. As the investigation progresses, Benson begins to question Ferguson's suspicious past and Qadri's involvement in the case.

    Directing: Helen Shaver · Writing: Judith McCreary · Starring: Joe Urla, Mason Pettit, Caren Browning, Neal Bledsoe

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    12x15 Flight

    Feb 2, 2011 · 41 min · ★ 7.5

    When it is discovered that a teenage girl is suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder due to sexual abuse, all leads point to billionaire Jordan Kress. As Detectives Benson and Stabler continue to investigate, Kress involves his lawyer, Dwight Stanitch, who throws the whole case awry.

    Directing: Alex Chapple · Writing: Dawn DeNoon, Christine M. Torres · Starring: Robert Klein, Zach Grenier, Melissa Sagemiller, Erin Moriarty

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    12x16 Spectacle

    Feb 9, 2011 · 41 min · ★ 6.2

    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.

    Directing: Peter Leto · Writing: Chris Brancato · Starring: Spencer Treat Clark, Melissa Sagemiller, Joel de la Fuente, Eric Feldman

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    12x17 Pursuit

    Feb 16, 2011 · 43 min · ★ 7.4

    The TV host of a show that spotlights predators receives threats to her safety, and this reawakens her hunt for her sister's abductor. An ADA with connections to the TV host then assists detectives in their investigation.

    Directing: Jonathan Kaplan · Writing: Judith McCreary · Starring: Debra Messing, Lauren Ashley Carter, Christine Lahti, Caren Browning

18. 

    12x18 Bully

    Feb 23, 2011 · 42 min · ★ 8.1

    An art patron finds a body, and when detectives question the murdered woman's good friend and associates, they uncover an antagonistic work environment filled with grown-up bullies.

    Directing: Helen Shaver · Writing: Ken Storer · Starring: Shane McRae, Bill Kocis, Kate Burton, David Costabile

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    12x19 Bombshell

    Mar 23, 2011 · 42 min · ★ 5.4

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

    Directing: Patrick Creadon · Writing: Daniel Truly · Starring: Ryan Hurst, Melissa Sagemiller, Kathleen McNenny, Michael Boatman

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    12x20 Totem

    Mar 30, 2011 · 43 min · ★ 7.1

    When a young girl is found dead with a doll that is believed to have been left as a totem, detectives Benson and Stabler team up with Captain Jackson, a psychologist who assisted them with a recent case, to investigate her murder. Jackson joins the detectives as they retrace the girl's last steps and go to meet with her piano teacher June Frye. Jackson's skills prove to be invaluable in deciphering the meaning of the totem and ultimately finding her killer.

    Directing: Jonathan Kaplan · Writing: Jonathan Greene · Starring: Jeremy Irons, Lisa Banes, Heidi Armbruster, Doug Wert

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    12x21 Reparations

    Apr 6, 2011 · 42 min · ★ 8.2

    Two high-powered attorneys face each other across the aisle when Casey Novak returns to the team, and Joe Dekker takes a leave of absence from his Los Angeles duties after his cousin is charged with rape. Dekker's unwavering belief in his cousin's innocence, and a court disturbance make Novak and Benson take another look at the evidence, which leads them to someone playing a very long game in the name of hatred.

    Directing: Constantine Makris · Writing: Christine M. Torres · Starring: Diane Neal, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Robert Hogan, Virginia Kull

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    12x22 Bang

    May 4, 2011 · 41 min · ★ 7.3

    When an abandoned baby is found on playground, Detectives Benson and Stabler go in search of the child's caregiver. Upon meeting the nanny and her boyfriend, Ken Turner, they soon realize that he is also engaged to the baby's adoptive mother, Dede Aston. As the detectives dig deeper into Turner's malevolent past, they realize that the law may be on his side.

    Directing: Peter Leto · Writing: Speed Weed · Starring: John Stamos, Lori Singer, Marta Milans, Jordan Dean

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    12x23 Delinquent

    May 11, 2011 · 42 min · ★ 8.1

    When a young woman finds a teenage boy asleep and naked in her bedroom, his mother, Bree Walsh, is quick to defend him. While Detective Benson and Detective Stabler try to figure out what truly happened, they also have to manage the sneaky teenager and his naive mother. As the detectives dig deeper, they discover how deceptive appearances can be.

    Directing: Holly Dale · Writing: Dawn DeNoon · Starring: Sterling Beaumon, Francie Swift, Sean Patrick Folster, Larry Joshua

24. 

    12x24 Smoked Season Finale

    May 18, 2011 · 41 min · ★ 8.2

    When a woman is murdered during an afternoon shopping trip with her daughter, Detectives Benson and Stabler are called in because she was scheduled to testify in their high-profile rape case. As the detectives continue to investigate the correlation between the murder and their case, they discover unlikely friendships that will lead them to the truth.

    Directing: Helen Shaver · Writing: Daniel Truly, Jonathan Greene · Starring: Francie Swift, Joe Grifasi, Michael Raymond-James, Andrew Howard

Season 12 Cast

Mariska HargitayOlivia Benson24 episodes

Ice-TOdafin 'Fin' Tutuola24 episodes

Christopher MeloniElliot Stabler24 episodes

Richard BelzerJohn Munch24 episodes

Dann FlorekDonald Cragen24 episodes

Tamara TunieMelinda Warner24 episodes

BD WongGeorge Huang24 episodes

Melissa SagemillerGillian Hardwicke10 episodes

James ChenAdrian Sung6 episodes

Francie SwiftSherri West4 episodes

Joel de la FuenteRuben Morales4 episodes

Jamie Lynn ConcepcionOfficer Delgado4 episodes

Charlie TahanCalvin Arliss3 episodes

Caren BrowningJudith Siper3 episodes

Neal BledsoeClifton Montgomery3 episodes

Joe GrifasiHashi Horowitz3 episodes

Isabel GilliesKathy Stabler3 episodes

Anne JamesDr. Jane Larom3 episodes

Henry Ian CusickErik Weber2 episodes

Maria BelloVivian Arliss2 episodes

Stephen GregoryKyle Beresford2 episodes

Joseph SikoraJason Gambel2 episodes

Kat FosterSarah Hoyt2 episodes

Christine LahtiSonya Paxton2 episodes

Where to Watch Season 12 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit