Joanna Merlin

Lockhart/Gardner defends a patient in a liver transplant case against rival attorney Patti Nyholm; however, the case takes a turn when Patti is fired from her law firm and asks…

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…

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…

Stabler is torn between a troubling rape case which victim has had pictures posted on the net and his son, whose friend’s actions may endanger a life and both of…

When Lily Milton (guest star Deborah Ann Woll) is reported missing, her boyfriend, Parker Hubbard (guest star Bobby Campo), points Detectives Benson and Stabler in the direction of Callum Donovan…

A turf war ensues when Stabler and Tutuola link an artist’s murder to a serial killer, and the detective assigned to that case focuses more on their involvement in an…

When a pediatrician convicted of abusing patients is found dead, Stabler and Benson investigate and soon find ADA Cabot has a reason for becoming involved in the case.

The death of a marine who was pregnant by a rapist puts the unit at odds with the Pentagon when they fight to keep the case, and Benson’s flashbacks of…

The squad is left at ends when Lake is caught in a gunfight and later takes a witness hostage.

An engineer plays a series of mind games with Benson and Stabler.

The robbery of fertilized embryos from a sperm bank call for Benson and Stabler to track down the thief. Clues from the clinic’s security tape lead them to a long…

A Park Avenue socialite’s body is found in NYC’S Central Park, and Detectives Benson and Stabler initially suspect her wealthy boyfriend.

The only witness to a young woman’s horrific beating is her mentally challenged daughter.

A teacher claims that a student pursued her after she’s charged with raping him.

Tutuola reluctantly works on a case involving the rape of a coed after his son Ken feels responsible for catching the rapist. Tutuola trying to solve the case with the…

Stabler and Benson find themselves on opposite sides when Valerie Sennet accuses her estranged husband, Miles Sennet, of breaking into her home and raping her. Because Miles has no history…

Stabler and his new partner, Dani Beck, investigate the rape of a young woman named Nikki, who soon identifies a prominent lawyer, Martin Trenway, as her rapist. The squad has…

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…

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…

After sixteen-year-old Lauren Westley loses her unborn child due to a severe abdominal beating, her father’s insistance that Lauren was raped leads detectives to the baby’s father, but it isn’t…

The discovery of the bodies of two young gay men who were both meth addicts as well as victims of a new strain of AIDS that can kill its victims…

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…

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,…

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…

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.

A nurse, whose brother owns the home-nursing company she works for, takes her childhood abandonment frustrations of her mother out on the rich elderly women the company cares for, leaving…

When it becomes obvious that a forensics expert raped and murdered a student, the investigation focuses on a criminology professor Cragen arrested decades earlier for similar crimes, and it’s up…

The conviction of a group of sociopathic high school bullies who turned one of their own from a victimiser into a torture murder victim escalates the systematic peer abuse at…

The mutilation of a subway commuter leads the detectives to discover their ”victim” may be the perpretator in abducting women and forcing them to live in his dungeon for several…

Investing the brutal rape and murder of an undercover federal agent and forced to use discretion in order to protect the identities of those agents in the field, the detectives…

A murdered 14-year-old girl leads the detectives to a prominent physician who specialises in reproduction therapy.

When a six-year-old girl who was critically in an apparent robbery gone bad later dies and is found to have tested positive for a sexually transmitted disease, detectives investigate the…

The wife of a retired attorney, a public-health doctor, is found murdered and raped in Central Park. Her work involved contacting sexual partners of HIV patients which gives the detectives…

When a heroin junkie is found raped, Tutuola takes an interest in Claire, but he’s not the only one. When they find a finger in her purse, it opens a…

Investigating the assault of the wife of a restaurateur during a robbery, leads the detectives to a similar assault, and to a locksmith.

When A.D.A. Cabot is faced with a reluctant witness in a child molestation case, she goes above and beyond the normal scope of duty in her search for evidence to…

When an animal rights activist is found decapitated in the park, Benson and Stabler must determine which of their two main suspects — a sociopathic teenager and a recently paroled…

What appears as an accidental death leads to a case involving a male stripper who claims that the deceased was one of three women who raped him at a bachelorette…

After therapy uncovers repressed memories of abuse and fearing her seven-year-old sister is currently being molested, an eighteen-year-old girl brings charges of rape against her father who winds up murdered…

The team searches for a serial killer who justifies his crimes with paranoid religious motivation set on by a rapidly deteriorating medical condition.

The detectives become a little edgy after working around the clock to find an abducted girl when clues point to a serial murderer and rapist who kills his victims on…

A case involving the rape and murder of a teacher hits a snag after the woman’s illicit sexual history is exposed.

The truth behind the alleged rape of a woman by her police officer husband comes to light when a history of domestic abuse is uncovered.

An abused 7-year-old girl lays comatose as the detectives investigate members of her dysfunctional family to determine the source of the abuse, in a case that hits close to home…

The shooting of two people in a restaurant restroom takes some abrupt turns as they try to discover who exactly the intended victim was, and the prosecutors have to deal…

The investigation into the murder of a model with a passion for cocaine and partying focuses on the men in her life — a nightclub owner, a basketball player, a…

McCoy uses a charge of ””larceny by extortion”” against a councilman, whose former colleague claims he demanded sex in exchange for a law-firm partnership.

While investigating several deaths at a diabetes clinic, Briscoe and Logan discover that teenage computer hackers may have tampered with the clinic’s medical database.

A politician opposes the prosecution of his son’s murderer because it might mean revealing that his late son was gay.