Episode
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Merchandise
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
- Season
- Season 12
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 2010-10-06
- Runtime
- 42 min
Episode context
Merchandise is Episode 4 in Season 12 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It aired on 2010-10-06. The runtime is 42 min.
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Episode 3: Behave
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.
Episode 5: Wet
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.
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