The 3rd season of the television series, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit premiered Friday, September 28, 2001 and ended Friday, May 17, 2002 on NBC. It occupied the Friday 10:00 p.m. timeselot once again.
| Name | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 3 |
|---|---|
| Air Date | September 28th, 2001 |
| Genres | Crime, Drama |
| Network | NBC |
| Production Companies | Wolf Films, Universal Television, USA Network |
| Number of Episodes | 23 Episodes |
| Plot Keywords | new york city, police, lawyer, police detective, criminal investigation, sex crime |
Episodes List
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 3 Episode 1 : Repression
September 28th, 2001After therapy uncovers repressed memories of abuse and fearing her seven-year-old sister is currently being molested, an eighteen-year-old girl brings...
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 3 Episode 2 : Wrath
October 5th, 2001The detectives investigate three murders that seemingly have with no connection to each other, but each one has ties to Benson's previous cases and th...
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 3 Episode 3 : Stolen
October 12th, 2001The kidnapping of an infant at a grocery store leads to a scheme of snatching and selling babies for adoption which brings back a case from twelve yea...
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 3 Episode 4 : Rooftop
October 19th, 2001When 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 detective...
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 3 Episode 5 : Tangled
October 26th, 2001When arriving party guests find a prominent doctor murdered and his wife raped, the investigation starts with his estranged son and a former patient, ...
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 3 Episode 6 : Redemption
November 2nd, 2001Stabler is teamed up with John 'Hawk' Hawkins to capture a serial rapist/murderer whom Hawk originally convicted years earlier. The more investigatio...
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 3 Episode 7 : Sacrifice
November 9th, 2001A shooting outside of a gay bar leads the detectives to the victim's family, which includes a bitter feud with his parents, and his wife's involvement...
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 3 Episode 8 : Inheritance
November 16th, 2001The search for a serial rapist leads to a suspect who was himself a product of rape, and whose father was convicted of that crime. The young man's att...
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 3 Episode 9 : Care
November 23rd, 2001The battered body of a five-year-old girl in foster care is discovered, and suspicion soon turns to the girl's foster brother, who is into violent vid...
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 3 Episode 10 : Ridicule
December 14th, 2001What appears as an accidental death leads to a case involving a male stripper who claims that the deceased was one of three women who raped him at a b...
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 3 Episode 11 : Monogamy
January 4th, 2002The wife of a psychiatrist, seven months pregnant, is found unconscious and bleeding in a parking garage with her fetus missing. The attending parame...
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 3 Episode 12 : Protection
January 11th, 2002A 6-year-old boy wounded in a shooting is brought to the hospital ER but abandonded by the brother who reported it and their mother. The case leads t...
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 3 Episode 13 : Prodigy
January 18th, 2002When an animal rights activist is found decapitated in the park, Benson and Stabler must determine which of their two main suspects -- a sociopathic t...
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 3 Episode 14 : Counterfeit
January 25th, 2002A woman is found raped and killed by her car. Benson and Tutuola try to figure out why there were drugs in the victim's trunk but then find that a si...
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 3 Episode 15 : Execution
February 1st, 2002As an inmate gets closer and closer to his death penalty sentence, Stabler struggles to find out whether that man was the perpetrator of a different c...
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 3 Episode 16 : Popular
March 1st, 2002Stabler's wife tells him that her friend (a nurse) treated a young girl for rape by a teacher. Despite being advised not to find out further details,...
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 3 Episode 17 : Surveillance
March 8th, 2002The sexual assault of a cellist leads the detectives to a stalking case where the suspect uses surveillance equipment....
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 3 Episode 18 : Guilt
March 29th, 2002When A.D.A. Cabot is faced with a reluctant witness in a child molestation case, she goes above and beyond the normal scope of duty in her search for ...
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 3 Episode 19 : Justice
April 5th, 2002In investigating the sexual assault of a 16-year-old, it's discovered that the victim is the rebellious stepdaughter of a judge....
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 3 Episode 20 : Greed
April 26th, 2002Investigating the assault of the wife of a restaurateur during a robbery, leads the detectives to a similar assault, and to a locksmith....
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 3 Episode 21 : Denial
May 3rd, 2002When a heroin junkie is found raped, Tutuola takes an interest in Claire, but he's not the only one. When they find a finger in her purse, it opens a ...
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 3 Episode 22 : Competence
May 10th, 2002The investigation into the rape and impregnation of a young girl with Down's Syndrome uncovers a serial rapist who preys on handicapped young girls un...
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 3 Episode 23 : Silence
May 17th, 2002A murder in a church leads Benson and Stabler to an alleged cover-up involving sexual abuse by a priest....
