Episode
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: First Light
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
- Season
- Season 26
- Episode
- Episode 9
- Air date
- 2025-01-16
- Runtime
- 42 min
Episode context
First Light is Episode 9 in Season 26 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It aired on 2025-01-16. The runtime is 42 min.
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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 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.
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Episode 12: Calculated
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Episode 5: Economics of Shame
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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.
Episode 4: Constricted
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Episode 14: The Grid Plan
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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.
Episode 15: Undertow
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