Episode
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Making a Rapist
Overview
Newly tested DNA evidence leads to the exoneration of a prisoner who served 16 years for a rape conviction. However, he's investigated again one day later in the wake of a shocking new crime.
Details
- Series
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
- Season
- Season 18
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 2016-09-28
- Runtime
- 43 min
Episode context
Making a Rapist is Episode 2 in Season 18 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It aired on 2016-09-28. The runtime is 43 min.
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Episode 1: Terrorized
A young boy is found wandering alone in Central Park and the search for his parents leads to startling evidence of a planned mass casualty event in the city. As the SVU works with the joint-terrorism task force to find the suspects and the motive, Lt. Benson must also convince Barba to address allegations of rape and torture the boy's mother discloses.
Episode 3: Imposter
When a man uses a false identity to lure a vulnerable married woman to bed, Barba thinks the evidence amounts to rape.
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Episode 4: Heightened Emotions
A sexually assaulted athlete's double life could destroy her Olympic career and ruin the case against her attacker; Rollins sister is released from prison on parole.
Episode 5: Rape Interrupted
A sergeant makes Benson choose between loyalty and duty when his son is accused of rape.
Episode 6: Broken Rhymes
A record label CEO and his protégé are questioned for their involvement in the assault of a transgender student.
Episode 7: Next Chapter
The SVU team investigates a woman has been sexually assaulted by a masked man, but she believes the rapist is the same man who went to jail for stalking her. Meanwhile, Tucker contemplates retirement and a future with Benson.
Episode 8: Chasing Theo
A 6 year-old boy disappears from his bed in the midst of a wild, drug-fueled party thrown by his mother. With a child's life on the line, the case causes Benson to scrutinize her own role as a mother.
Episode 9: Decline and Fall
The powerful family of a retail empire closes ranks when a bartender accuses one of their own of rape.
Episode 10: Motherly Love
A teenaged boy uses a rifle to stop an assault on his mother, but soon learns the target was someone he knows.
Episode 11: Great Expectations
The SVU investigates the players of a top youth hockey team after a vicious locker room hazing.
Episode 12: No Surrender
Fin revisits his military roots when a fellow Army Ranger struggles to recover from a sexual assault.
Episode 13: Genes
An investigation hits a nerve with Benson when a suspect claims his genetics causes him to commit rape.