Episode
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Assaulting Reality
Overview
The producers of a reality TV dating series make Benson and the SVU team part of the show when they investigate a contestant's claim that she was raped.
Details
- Series
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
- Season
- Season 17
- Episode
- Episode 21
- Air date
- 2016-05-11
- Runtime
- 43 min
Episode context
Assaulting Reality is Episode 21 in Season 17 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It aired on 2016-05-11. The runtime is 43 min.
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Episode 20: Fashionable Crimes
A young model is raped by a renowned fashion house photographer, who looks to his successful brother to make the charges disappear.
Episode 22: Intersecting Lives (1)
A corrections officer is arrested for sexually assaulting female inmates in and out of prison, and the union that supports him targets Barba and the SVU.
More episodes from this season
Episode 19: Sheltered Outcasts
Detective Carisi lives undercover at a homeless shelter to determine if one of its sex offender residents is the suspect in a string of neighborhood rapes.
Episode 23: Heartfelt Passages (2)
When the investigation of Corrections Officer Gary Munson deepens, he and his union take drastic actions that threaten the lives of ADA Barba and the SVU squad.
Episode 18: Unholiest Alliance
When one of their own is implicated in a cover-up, the SVU struggles to unravel a sex trafficking operation deeply-rooted in government offices, the police department, and the Catholic Church.
Episode 17: Manhattan Transfer
A sexual exploitation case involving Catholic schoolgirls results in surprising charges against people in esteemed leadership positions, including judges, lawmakers, lawyers and cops.
Episode 16: Star-Struck Victims
When a lack of evidence leads Barba to drop rape charges against a popular actor; Rollins takes matters into her own hands.
Episode 15: Collateral Damages
Two high-profile suspects are arrested in the takedown of an online pedophile ring following a sting operation.
Episode 14: Nationwide Manhunt (I)
Chicago P.D. detectives Lindsay and Dawson join the SVU in the hunt for two escaped murderers they helped to convict.
The crossover continues on Chicago P.D. S03E14 The Song of Gregory Williams Yates (II).
Episode 13: Forty-One Witnesses
A woman is followed home and raped outside her building, where several neighbors witness the crime but fail to call for help.
Episode 12: A Misunderstanding
A murky he-said, she-said date rape case ruins the futures of two high school students.
Episode 11: Townhouse Incident
Benson is taken hostage when she tries to stop a home invasion.