Episode
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Resilience
Overview
A 14-year-old girl tries to commit suicide by jumping in front of a train after she is raped. She falsely accuses an ex-boyfriend but when the search turns to her dysfunctional family, surprise discoveries are made and SVU discovers that the family is even worse off than they thought.
Details
- Series
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 10
- Air date
- 2002-12-06
- Runtime
- 43 min
Episode context
Resilience is Episode 10 in Season 4 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It aired on 2002-12-06. The runtime is 43 min.
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Episode 9: Juvenile
A cancer patient, who was growing marijuana in her apartment and selling it, is found raped and murdered, sending the detectives on a hunt for two middle school students, each blaming the other.
Episode 11: Damaged
A six-year-old girl is critically injured in an apparent robbery-gone-bad and later dies. The investigation gets complicated when it is discovered that the murders were designed to silence the young girl, who was sexually abused.
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Episode 7: Dolls
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Episode 13: Rotten
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Episode 6: Angels
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Episode 14: Mercy
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Episode 5: Disappearing Acts
A high-powered executive is raped, but the situation is complicated by her involvement with the Feds and the Russian mob - as well as a father-son duo who are in the federal witness protection program and an agent who appears bound and determined to protect them, regardless of consequence.
Episode 15: Pandora
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Episode 4: Lust
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Episode 16: Tortured
A Tibetan woman who was tortured in her home country is found murdered, with her foot missing, and after an exhaustive search of potential suspects, the killer is a victim of torture himself.