Law and order

Law and order

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit As the series progressed, additional supporting characters were added as allies of the detectives in the New York County Manhattan District Attorney's Office (known as advisors to the Sex Crimes Bureau). and the medical examiner's office. Certain episodes will go into detail about the detectives' personal lives and how they may or may not tie into the crimes covered during the show. Typical episodes follow the detectives and their colleagues as they investigate and prosecute sexually-based crimes, child abuse, and crimes against the elderly. The show originally starred Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson and Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler, during its first twelve seasons, until the latter left the series, unable to reach an agreement on his contract.

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During the first season, the series follows the detectives of the Special Victims Unit of the New York Police Department (NYPD), based in the 16th precinct, as they investigate crimes of a sexual nature. Originally the show focuses on senior detectives Elliot Stabler and John Munch and their partners, Olivia Benson and Brian Cassidy, however starting in the second season the series focuses more on the relationship between detective Elliot Stabler and his partner detective Olivia Benson, this, until the end of season 12. The detectives are supervised by veteran Captain Donald Cragen and are supported by detectives Monique Jeffries and Ken Briscoe during the first season. When Cassidy is transferred to Narcotics after thirteen episodes, Jeffries becomes Munch's sidekick until the start of the second season, when Munch is permanently partnered with Detective Fin Tutuola and Jeffries moves to the Vice unit. .

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After the end of season 12, when Detective Elliot Stabler shoots a teenage girl who bursts into the special victims squad room shooting and causing deaths, he is placed on administrative leave, and in season 13, which takes place A month later, he decides to retire from the special victims unit and the Police Department. In the same episode, Amanda Rollins arrives, a young detective from the sex crimes unit in Atlanta who has been hired by Captain Cragen. In the next episode, Nick Amaro, a Narcotics detective assigned to work in the SVU, arrives; Benson does not immediately adapt to the new members of the unit until later in the season. During the first season the unit does not receive a full-time assistant district attorney until the arrival of Alexandra Cabot during the second season, who is assigned to work with the detectives. After Cabot's departure in the fifth season, the position is occupied by Casey Novak who remains until the end of the ninth season when she is censured for lying to a judge (although she later reappears in season 12 after three years of censorship. ) and Kim Greylek is brought in as a replacement in season 10 and remains until mid-season when Alexandra Cabot returns to the series.

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From season 11 and until the end of season 13, the series does not have a permanent assistant district attorney. In season 11, following the departure of Alexandra Cabot mid-season, she is replaced by assistant district attorney Jo Marlowe who had previously been Detective Elliot Stabler's partner during the 1990s before the start of the series. Marlowe leaves the Special Victims Unit at the end of season 11. Initially, Assistant District Attorney Mikka Von is transferred from Chicago to New York to become the permanent Assistant District Attorney of the Special Victims Unit. but after being fired by prosecutor Jack McCoy, a new prosecutor is assigned to the SVU, Gillian Hardwicke, a Brooklyn prosecutor who has a 92% conviction rate and who tends to have trouble working with detectives Benson and Stabler at the same time. principle. Sonya Paxton, the district attorney's executive assistant who was assigned to SVU during season 11 and is put into rehab for alcoholism, returns during season 12 in two episodes, being murdered in the second by a criminal.

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For season 13, the District Attorney's Office has a "shakeup" primarily due to the change of district attorney, and Mike Cutter (from the original Law & Order series) is given the position of head of the assistant district attorney's office. district and supervises the work of prosecutors Casey Novak and Alexandra Cabot assigned to the SVU again; Other assigned assistant prosecutors are Rose Callier and Executive Assistant District Attorney David Haden, who has a brief romantic relationship with Detective Olivia Benson that ends because both could lose their jobs. In the season 13 finale, Captain Donald Cragen is taken to prison when Carissa, a prostitute, is found dead in his bed. He is pursued by assistant prosecutor Paula Foster in the season 14 premiere, and Benson later discovers that she is in a corruption ring of the prosecutor's office so Foster is taken to prison while the Captain returns to the SVU

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In season 14, Rafael Barba, a Brooklyn assistant district attorney (like Gillian Hardwicke) is assigned as a permanent prosecutor for the Special Victims Unit where he remains until season 19 where, after disconnecting a baby of three years with cerebral palsy and being tried for it, he retires from the prosecution, and Peter Stone, a former prosecutor from Chicago, enters, who, in the finale of season 20, after falling in love with Olivia Benson, leaves the SVU and Detective Dominic Carisi becomes the new assistant prosecutor assigned to the special victims unit until today. During season 14, Benson rebuilds her relationship with Detective Brian Cassidy after a thirteen-year hiatus. At the end of this season, Benson is assaulted by William Lewis, a serial rapist and murderer, but manages to escape from him in season 15, where she decides to end her relationship with Brian. However, this has consequences, leaving her traumatized, so she turns to a therapist during season 15 to face her fears (this being the reason for the end of the relationship between Olivia and Brian). After the departure of Sergeant Munch in the fifth episode of season 15, Benson agrees to take the sergeant exam and during a dinner with co-workers in the ninth episode, we learn that she has become the new sergeant of the SVU. Captain Donald Cragen retires after the tenth episode, leaving Sergeant Benson in charge of the unit temporarily, until the arrival of Lieutenant Declan Murphy who takes charge of the unit before leaving in the season finale. Before the season finale, Lewis manages to escape from prison and after committing several murders and rapes, he manages to scare Sergeant Benson one last time when he shoots himself in front of her.

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As of the season 15 finale, Benson becomes the adoptive mother of Noah, a baby whose biological mother (a prostitute named Ellie Porter) is murdered in the season 15 finale by a white slaver. In season 16, Detective Nick Amaro finds himself demoted to police officer after beating up a pedophile (in the season 15 finale, named Simon Wilkes) and being taken to prison for it. A new detective, Dominick "Sonny" Carisi, is introduced in the first three episodes to replace Nick in the SVU until he returns later. In the beginning of this season, Sergeant Benson confronts (along with her team) the white slave trafficker who murdered Noah's biological mother. After a series of serial murders, the white slave trafficking network is dismantled, since in the middle of a brawl, Detective Tutuola kills Angel, the leader of the gang. Near the end of season 16 and beginning of season 17, Gregory "Greg" Yates (played by Dallas Roberts), a doctor with traits of psychopathy and sadism, appears, who terrorizes the city with a series of murders. Due to Yates' unprecedented dangerousness and cunning, the SVU must join forces with Chicago PD to stop him. However, although Yates is arrested and sentenced to prison, the appearance of new bodies forces a new investigation to be carried out, which leads to the forensic doctor Carl Rudnick, an acquaintance of Yates and with the same degree of danger. Rudnick is brought to trial, but after paying bail, he flees and murders Yates' girlfriend, finally being arrested near the Canadian border.

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After a period of tranquility, both psychopaths escape from prison, causing a new wave of murders. Once again the SVU and Chicago PD must join forces. The escape ends with a badly injured Carl Rudnick captured and the death of Greg Yates at the hands of Chicago PD. In the process, Detective Mike Dodds is injured, forcing him to rest for a few episodes. The series has also made crossovers with other series from the same network, Chicago Fire and Chicago PD, which take place in the city of Chicago.