Episode
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Rooftop
Overview
When an HIV-positive male, with a record of assaulting underage girls, is discovered in a sexual clincher with a young woman on a rooftop, the detectives are determined to put him back inside. After a series of rapes and murders of young African-American women cannot be traced to him though, they begin to wonder if they've been looking at the wrong suspect.
Details
- Series
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 4
- Air date
- 2001-10-19
- Runtime
- 44 min
Episode context
Rooftop is Episode 4 in Season 3 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It aired on 2001-10-19. The runtime is 44 min.
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Episode 3: Stolen
The kidnapping of an infant at a grocery store leads to an illegal adoption ring and the long lost closure of a case from 12 years prior of a murdered mother and missing baby which involved Capt. Cragen and his partner, the late Max Greevey.
Episode 5: Tangled
When arriving party guests find a prominent doctor beaten to death and his wife raped, the detectives have a parade of suspects and the realization that the wife was the intended victim.
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