Episode
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Game
Overview
The squad is at a loss on what to do with a violent homicide when Stabler's son points out that the event is straight out of a video game. Interviewing the game's creators leads them to a former employee, who then leads them (with a few other steps along the way) to a teenage couple who claim to be unable to distinguish fantasy from reality.
Details
- Series
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
- Season
- Season 6
- Episode
- Episode 14
- Air date
- 2005-02-08
- Runtime
- 44 min
Episode context
Game is Episode 14 in Season 6 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It aired on 2005-02-08. The runtime is 44 min.
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Episode 13: Quarry
When the body of a seven-year-old child is found, the squad again begins to investigate convicted serial killer Lucas Biggs, believing that he molested and murdered the boy. While Biggs can detail every child he ever molested, he swears that he has no memory of this one. Further investigations show that there is another suspect, but before he can be picked up, someone picks him off.
Episode 15: Hooked
When the body of a teenager is found with her older cousin's I.D., Benson and Stabler investigate only to learn that that the teen had been part of a group who had 'hooked up' online. As their investigation intensified, they realised that the victim was the object of an older man's obsession, but before they can arrest him he also turns up dead.
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Episode 17: Rage
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Episode 10: Haunted
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Episode 19: Intoxicated
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