Episode
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Pretend
Overview
The team investigates the death of a partially clothed teenage boy wearing a leather mask. The detectives discover that the victim's best friend is the killer and has a video, showing that the boy's death was the result of a backyard wrestling match gone wrong.
Details
- Series
- Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
- Season
- Season 8
- Episode
- Episode 21
- Air date
- 2007-05-15
- Runtime
- 42 min
Episode context
Pretend is Episode 21 in Season 8 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It aired on 2007-05-15. The runtime is 42 min.
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Episode 20: Annihilated
A woman's murder appears to be the result of a professional hit, when her fiancé receives death threats, apparently resulting from his CIA career. Elliot, investigating this, finds that the man may not be all that he seems.
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Darius Parker, goes on trial for the rape and murder of a woman and her 14-month old child. The case brings Fin under fire from the media and even has Munch and Stabler at odds. Novak prosecutes the trial that brings Stabler and Tutuola, among others, to the stand. Many previous stories are brought into the trial.
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