Episode
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Limitations
Overview
At the request of a victim, the police commissioner comes to Cragen with a special request -- close the five-year-old case of a serial rapist before the statute of limitations expires. The detectives finally get a lead but the investigation is hindered by one of the victims.
Details
- Series
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 14
- Air date
- 2000-02-11
- Runtime
- 44 min
Episode context
Limitations is Episode 14 in Season 1 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It aired on 2000-02-11. The runtime is 44 min.
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Episode 13: Disrobed
A judge who fought for the rights of abused women is found shot in his car under sordid circumstances, and the detectives uncover a case of corruption that leads to the state parole board. The team soon turns their eye to a battered wife with a secret.
Episode 15: Entitled (I)
After a salesman is murdered, the detectives turn their attention to the youngest daughter of a well-known family with some deep connections. But as they join forces with the officers from the two-seven, they realize that their case is connected with a long-unsolved case that Briscoe once handled years ago with his former partner Mike Logan.
The crossover continues in Law & Order S10E14 Entitled (II).
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