Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Season 6

What Season 6 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Season 6 Episodes

1. 

   6x01 Birthright

   Sep 21, 2004 · 44 min · ★ 8.2

   The investigation into the attempted kidnapping of a six year old girl uncovers a fertility doctor's scheme to steal embryos, and prompts a custody battle between the child's biological and birth mothers.

   Directing: Arthur W. Forney · Writing: Jonathan Greene · Starring: Tamara Tunie, Lea Thompson, David Forsyth, Abigail Breslin

2. 

   6x02 Debt

   Sep 28, 2004 · 43 min · ★ 6.0

   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.

   Directed by: David Platt · Written by: Amanda Green · Starring: Kim Chan, Aaron Yoo, Ming-Na Wen, James Hong

3. 

   6x03 Obscene

   Oct 12, 2004 · 44 min · ★ 6.9

   With the encouragement of a radio host, who has a dirty mouth on him, one teenager is raped and another is imprisoned when they are thrown together by the manipulative adults in their lives whose sole motivations are celebrity and publicity for their own self-serving interests.

   Directing: Constantine Makris · Writing: Jose Molina · Starring: Raviv Ullman, Lewis Black, Dana Delany, Jason Antoon

4. 

   6x04 Scavenger

   Oct 19, 2004 · 43 min · ★ 8.5

   The entire squad races against the clock to solve the puzzles and uncover the clues scattered throughout the city by a serial killer who is taunting them to find him and the next victims on his list.

   Directed by: Daniel Sackheim · Written by: Lisa Marie Petersen, Dawn DeNoon · Starring: Tamara Tunie, Elizabeth Franz, Doug Hutchison, Remy Auberjonois

5. 

   6x05 Outcry

   Oct 26, 2004 · 44 min · ★ 7.1

   A missing teenager found beaten and tied up in a college dormitory under construction claims that she was raped by three students, but as the investigation proceeds and information obtained by the police and the press causes her story to unravel quickly, the girl recants. Since Benson remains convinced that a rape did occur, the focus of the investigation shifts to the girl's overly-protective stepfather who has resisted the investigation from its onset.

   Directed by: Constantine Makris · Written by: Patrick Harbinson · Starring: Cady McClain, Michael O'Keefe, John Bedford Lloyd, Joseph Lyle Taylor

6. 

   6x06 Conscience

   Nov 9, 2004 · 44 min · ★ 7.8

   The detectives and the district attorney get played first by the teenage murderer of a young boy, and then by the victim's father, who uses his professional expertise to escape punishment for avenging his son's death.

   Directing: David Platt · Writing: Roger Wolfson, Robert Nathan · Starring: Tamara Tunie, Peter Riegert, Bruce Kirkpatrick, Max Iles

7. 

   6x07 Charisma

   Nov 16, 2004 · 44 min · ★ 7.1

   A career con artist, forger and thief turns to murder and serial pedophilia to populate the cult he created and to get his hands on a multi-million dollar trust fund. The detectives have trouble getting any leads because no one in the cult is saying anything, not even their names.

   Directing: Arthur W. Forney · Writing: Michele Fazekas, Tara Butters · Starring: Tamara Tunie, Shannon Cochran, Holliston Coleman, Jeff Kober

8. 

   6x08 Doubt

   Nov 23, 2004 · 43 min · ★ 8.1

   When a college student claims rape and her professor claims it was consensual sex, Stabler and Benson find themselves in the middle of a he said, she said battle, trying to decide whether to believe the alleged victim, or the alleged perpetrator who claimed she liked it rough. Benson sides with Myra, the victim, whereas Stabler finds himself wondering if Polikoff is telling the truth about being innocent, especially after Myra falsely accuses Stabler of touching her inappropriately. After giving more thought to the situation, Benson and Stabler each wonder if the other is right. Stabler has bigger problems on his hands, though, as Myra's attorney reveals that Kathy has moved out and taken the children.

   Directed by: Ted Kotcheff · Written by: Marjorie David · Starring: Tamara Tunie, Jeffrey Carlson, Shannyn Sossamon, Maureen Flannigan

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   6x09 Weak

   Nov 30, 2004 · 44 min · ★ 7.4

   After arguing with Benson about their personal lives, Stabler enlists the help of a former cop turned psychiatrist in apprehending a serial rapist and murderer who attacks disabled women.

   Directed by: David Platt · Written by: Michele Fazekas, Tara Butters · Starring: Tamara Tunie, Dallas Roberts, Becki Newton, Mary Stuart Masterson

10. 

    6x10 Haunted

    Dec 7, 2004 · 42 min · ★ 7.3

    Fin is reunited with his own son as he risks his life to save two small children, one caught in the middle of a bodega robbery and the other from the junkie who set the child's mother up for murder and then stole him to use as a front in her scheme to boost materials for her meth lab.

    Directing: Juan José Campanella · Writing: Amanda Green · Starring: Tamara Tunie, Jeannetta Arnette, Nicholas Gonzalez, Daryl Wein

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    6x11 Contagious

    Jan 11, 2005 · 43 min · ★ 7.8

    After a car accident a nine-year-old girl is examined and it's found she's been sexually abused. Out of fear and desperation, the girl blames her soccer coach for molesting her. Soon a slew of other girls claim they also have been raped by the same coach. During the investigation, Benson has to try keeping Stabler from falling apart as his wife has left him.

    Directing: Aaron Lipstadt · Writing: Jonathan Greene · Starring: Zach Gilford, Mary Stuart Masterson, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Rebecca Lowman

12. 

    6x12 Identity

    Jan 18, 2005 · 43 min · ★ 8.1

    Complications ensue in the investigation of a Stone Cold Assassins gangbanger who fell off a building after the victim that he tried to rape bit him in self-defense when the vic's twin sister cops to the crime, seemingly impossible due to the evidence until the secrets regarding the sister's true genetic identity are revealed.

    Directing: Rick Wallace · Writing: Lisa Marie Petersen, Dawn DeNoon · Starring: Tamara Tunie, Peter Firth, Mary Stuart Masterson, Hillary B. Smith

13. 

    6x13 Quarry

    Jan 25, 2005 · 44 min · ★ 6.8

    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.

    Directing: Constantine Makris · Writing: Jose Molina · Starring: Tamara Tunie, John Savage, Julie Lund, Bill Buell

14. 

    6x14 Game

    Feb 8, 2005 · 44 min · ★ 7.4

    The squad is at a loss on what to do with a violent homicide when Stabler's son points out that the event is straight out of a video game. Interviewing the game's creators leads them to a former employee, who then leads them (with a few other steps along the way) to a teenage couple who claim to be unable to distinguish fantasy from reality.

    Directed by: David Platt · Written by: Patrick Harbinson · Starring: Tamara Tunie, Barry Bostwick, Seth Gabel, Geoffrey Arend

15. 

    6x15 Hooked

    Feb 15, 2005 · 43 min · ★ 5.3

    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.

    Directing: Jean de Segonzac · Writing: Joshua Kotcheff · Starring: Tamara Tunie, Aaron Staton, Hayden Panettiere, Jessica Dunphy

16. 

    6x16 Ghost

    Feb 22, 2005 · 43 min · ★ 8.9

    When a wealthy couple is found dead in their home, Benson and Stabler soon realise that their deaths are connected to a drug smuggling ring. Eventually the road leads back to the same drug dealers who forced a former assistant district attorney into hiding, and Alex Cabot comes home to face her enemies.

    Directing: David Platt · Writing: Amanda Green · Starring: Stephanie March, Brían F. O'Byrne, Nicholas Gonzalez, Natascia Diaz

17. 

    6x17 Rage

    Mar 1, 2005 · 43 min · ★ 7.6

    Fourteen years ago, Stabler had a chance to nail Gordon Rickett for the abduction, rape and murder of Dana MacNamara, but Rickett managed to get off. With the recent discovery of the body of Kerry Lynn Palmer, Stabler has another chance at cracking the case. They can only hold Rickett for twenty-four hours, but are able to glean enough information during that time period to at least have a place to start. Cragen and Benson both worry that Stabler will let his hatred for the suspected child molester interfere with his ability to do his job.

    Directed by: Juan José Campanella · Written by: Michele Fazekas, Tara Butters · Starring: Matthew Modine, Caren Browning, Anne Pitoniak, Michele Santopietro

18. 

    6x18 Pure

    Mar 8, 2005 · 43 min · ★ 8.1

    After an 18-year-old girl is kidnapped, psychic Sebastian Ballentine comes forward claiming to have information on the killings. Stabler refuses to believe that Ballentine is a real psychic, and is convinced that the hints he is dropping about the case indicate he is somehow involved.

    Directing: Aaron Lipstadt · Writing: Dawn DeNoon · Starring: Martin Short, Mary Mara, Marianne Hagan, Taylor Spreitler

19. 

    6x19 Intoxicated

    Mar 29, 2005 · 43 min · ★ 8.4

    When Denise Eldridge finds her fifteen-year-old daughter Carrie in bed with twenty-one-year-old Justin, she immediately calls police to have Justin charged with statuatory rape. Benson intercedes on behalf of Carrie, calling a children's rights lawyer to assist her, but when Denise turns up dead, Carrie and Justin both end up on the suspect list. Benson tries to get some help from Simone Bryce, but Bryce is obligated to protect her client.

    Directing: Marita Grabiak · Writing: Jonathan Greene · Starring: Tamara Tunie, Danielle Panabaker, Jon Foster, Cathy Moriarty

20. 

    6x20 Night (I)

    May 3, 2005 · 44 min · ★ 8.2

    After a young woman is found raped and murdered near a nightclub with five hundred dollars stuffed into her mouth, Benson and Stabler follow the fingerprint trail on the money to Attorney Jason Whitaker, whose sole responsibility seems to be handling the trust for the Duvall family. Soon detectives are convinced that Gabriel Duvall is their rapist, but don't have quite enough evidence to put him away. ADA Novak is working on both the case and a terrified former victim when she is brutally attacked in her office late at night. The crossover continues on Law & Order: Trial by Jury S01:E11 Day (II).

    Directing: Juan José Campanella, Arthur W. Forney · Writing: Amanda Green · Starring: Tamara Tunie, Rita Moreno, Alfred Molina, Fred Thompson

21. 

    6x21 Blood

    May 10, 2005 · 44 min · ★ 8.7

    After a young woman's baby is tossed out of a car, Benson and Stabler investigate to find out what happened, and after learning the young woman is addicted to prescription pain killers, their investigation leads them to an elderly woman named Jenny Rogers, who lives with her son Kevin and daughter-in-law Carol. The young woman finally identifies Carol Rogers as the person who solds her the drugs, but when detectives go to confront Carol they find her body, and are left trying to uncover who really killed Carol.

    Directing: Félix Alcalá · Writing: Patrick Harbinson · Starring: Melinda Dillon, Christine Elise, Matt Schulze, Lauren Hodges

22. 

    6x22 Parts

    May 17, 2005 · 43 min · ★ 7.7

    After a woman's head is found in a car junkyard, the detectives track it down to the black market.

    Directing: Matt Earl Beesley · Writing: David Foster · Starring: Tamara Tunie, Marlee Matlin, Glenn Kessler, Marc Grapey

23. 

    6x23 Goliath Season Finale

    May 24, 2005 · 43 min · ★ 7.6

    After the wife of a police officer claims her husband raped her, Benson and Stabler arrest the man and come close to believing his version of events when he attacks his captain. When another officer murders his wife and attempts to kill himself that same night, the whole force gets involved and soon realises that the two men both recently returned home from Afghanistan, where they were given the drug Quinium, an anti-malarial. With the reluctant help of reporter Sherm Hempell and a base doctor with an attack of conscience, Novak takes on the U.S. army. Stabler has trouble with the case because of his history in the marines.

    Directing: Peter Leto · Writing: Michele Fazekas, Tara Butters · Starring: Tamara Tunie, Gina Tognoni, Jon Bernthal, Fred Thompson

Season 6 Cast

Mariska HargitayOlivia Benson23 episodes

Ice-TOdafin 'Fin' Tutuola23 episodes

Christopher MeloniElliot Stabler23 episodes

Richard BelzerJohn Munch23 episodes

Dann FlorekDonald Cragen23 episodes

Diane NealCasey Novak23 episodes

BD WongGeorge Huang23 episodes

Tamara TunieMelinda Warner15 episodes

Mike DoyleRyan O'Halloran11 episodes

Joel de la FuenteRuben Morales8 episodes

Caren BrowningJudith Siper5 episodes

Peter HermannTrevor Langan5 episodes

Joanna MerlinLena Petrovsky4 episodes

Joselin ReyesMartinez4 episodes

Mary Stuart MastersonRebecca Hendrix3 episodes

Ned EisenbergRoger Kressler3 episodes

Allison SikoKathleen Stabler3 episodes

Jeffrey ScaperrottaDickie Stabler3 episodes

Judith LightElizabeth Donnelly3 episodes

Elizabeth FlaxCarey Hutchins3 episodes

Joseph E. MurrayParamedic Olson3 episodes

Kent CassellaUniform Officer3 episodes

Fred ThompsonArthur Branch2 episodes

Nicholas GonzalezMike Sandoval2 episodes

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