Episode
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Excavation
Overview
Devastating repressed memories come back to a woman when she finds an old notebook in her family home. Bringing charges in a decades-old crime proves even more difficult for Carisi when a powerful judge stalls the case.
Details
- Series
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
- Season
- Season 26
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 2024-10-10
- Runtime
- 43 min
Episode context
Excavation is Episode 2 in Season 26 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It aired on 2024-10-10. The runtime is 43 min.
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Episode 1: Fractured
The SVU investigates a brutal attack on a group of law students. Benson hopes the discovery of a hidden camera will crack the case open. Carisi's best chance at conviction is catching the defendant in a lie.
Episode 3: Divide & Conquer
A couple's dinner party ends with a violent home invasion and assault by masked men. Sgt. Rollins suspects the crime is linked to her Intelligence investigation of an international gang of thieves.
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Episode 4: Constricted
A romantic date ends with a teenager fighting for her life in the hospital. Carisi can't help bringing the case home with him as he envisions the dangers ahead for his growing daughters.
Episode 5: Economics of Shame
When a TV reporter becomes the victim of sextortion that could ruin her career, Benson helps her take back control while Velasco goes undercover as a potential rich target.
Episode 6: Rorschach
Agent Clay consults with Benson when a woman is found gravely injured at a remote campground and the suspect could be anywhere along the Eastern Seaboard. Bruno and Silva take a chance on an odd hunch to see if it becomes a lead.
Episode 7: Tenfold
Bruno must get to the center of a victim's incomplete story to track down a serial rapist. Carisi is helpless to stop a crime he suspects is about to be committed.
Episode 8: Cornered
Carisi tries to protect two women taken hostage in a tense standoff between police and a violent thief. Benson and Rollins devise a risky plan to get everyone to safety.
Episode 9: First Light
An abhorrent web of lies and betrayal is uncovered when a woman is confronted with video of a night she can't remember. Carisi struggles to move on from his ordeal when the suspect changes his plea.
Episode 10: Master Key
When a teen from a group home goes missing, the squad has only minutes to determine if he ran away or was abducted. Velasco suspects the system at large is to blame for letting children slip through the cracks.
Episode 11: Deductible
A young boy seeks help when his sister doesn't come home from work. Benson and Carisi suspect a woman's assault was prearranged by a third party.
Episode 12: Calculated
When a high school principal busts a student for sexting, the SVU uncovers a sinister case of distribution concerning hundreds of underage students. Silva pleads for leniency for a suspect she believes is innocent.
Episode 13: Extinguished
Velasco teams up with a community security guard eager to prove his mettle to find a suspect in the assault of two teens.