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5 - Community policing
A family is assaulted, the wife and their 12yo daughter are raped. They start a manhunt, they think they found the right guy and the police shoot him: Terence Reynolds. The boy dies, and he was not the rapist. Barba wants to pursue the cops who emptied their guns on Terence. He was shot 35 times. Liv and all the cops are on the detectives side, but Barba goes against them anyway. Liv keeps saying that they followed police procedures.
Declan meets Rollins, back from a long mission, and she admits that he is the father.
7 - Patrimonial burden
At her virtue-ball, a 13yo gir faints, it turns out she’s three months pregnant. They suspect the cameraman who follows them around for their show, and the girl’s older brother, but then they point to the family’s priest. The family agreed to him marrying the girl, not knowing he’s really the father. Mom is beyond shocked when she learns the truth, and he’s arrested. He’ll plead guilty. There’s talk of Barba, but he’s not in this episode.
Dodds is still adjusting to the team. Rollins is taken to the hospital, after 8 and a half months she was still working. She needs to stay there and Carisi is good at comforting her.
8 - Melancholy pursuit
Noah is almost 2. Liv loses him at the part and freaks out, but she finds him.
A young girl goes missing and then is found dead and Dodds is troubled by it. The Me helps with a partial dna match, like a half-brother, and they start a long search, because apparently this Ray guy left sons everywhere, and his wife never knew.Ultimately they find the right one.
9 - Depravity standard
A man confessed to Benson to kidnapping a child and having killed others. He agrees to plead guilty but then in front of the judge he says that he's innocent, that Barba and Benson were yelling at him, that she put words in his mouth, so there will be a trial. They don't have enough evidence for the murders but the mother of the kidnapped child refuses to make him testify.
Carisi is going to law school and asks Barba to let him be his shadow in court.
Wong testifies for the defence. Rollins is in the hospital, Finn stays with her.
After six days the jury has no verdict. They reach a deal of eight years but then the defence lawyer learned that the jury reached a deadlock and pulled back. It's a mistrial, but Wyatt's mother says that after speaking to her husband and son they have decided to go to trial.
It ends with: complications with Rollins pregnancy.
10 - Catfishing teacher
(No Barba, this ep’s counsellor is Robert Sean Leonard)
Carisi and Rollins with the baby. She’s on maternity leave and he’s really good with the baby.
A female teacher has sex with students, and a 15 yo boy is now missing. He is found in the wrestling coach cabin, in his bed. A young man who was once in his team refuses to testify but then kidnaps the coach and tortures him to get a confession. When they go to him, he dies on his way to the hospital. The guy will now be tried for murder.
11 - Townhouse incident
Liv's babysitter is worried about a woman. When Liv checks it out she ends up in a bad situation. Two guys and a woman are terrorising a family and beating up the husband to get money, but they don't have it at home. The daughter is raped. Lucy goes to Carisi and they get worried and go check. Roxie's brother Ralph is sent to the bank with the wife, and gets caught there. Liv calls Tucker to handle the negotiation. Barba shows up to talk to Ralph, not even looking at Tucker. Dodds and another cop get in in their underwear to get the husband out. Liv tells Roxie to surrender, and when she goes out to check the car for Joe, she's too scared to go back in and knees down surrendering. Liv tells Joe to put a gun to her head and he'll be safe. They walk out together and she convinces him that he only needs her, so the kids run to safety. Now alone with him, she manages to hit him so a sniper can kill him. Liv thanks Tucker and they take her away.
12 - A misunderstanding
Liv talks to her psychiatrist again. Rollins takes her baby child to the station. Rita comes to Liv with a case: she's representing the victim, this time, a 15yo girl who went to a party with an 18yo boy and was raped. The boy seems really surprised. Buchanan represents him, which means it'll get ugly, I'm sure. Barba is lovely and funny :)
The case is weak, the parents are fighting more than the kids. Barba tries to make a minor deal for misconduct. Rita helps him with the girl's parents, but the boy's family refuses. Liv talks to Barba, tells him he did a good job, that the world needs new rules on sexual conduct for teenagers. The verdict is: not guilty on attempted rape, but guilty on the sexual misconduct. Both the kids are sorry but the families keep fighting.
13 - Forty-one witnesses
Rollins is back from maternity leave.
A drug addict girl is raped in a courtyard, lots of windows looking down at the place but nobody did anything or came forward. Nobody saw anything... but a girl who saw the three guys exit a café with her made a video, so they know their faces. They find them, but the evidence in trial is not conclusive. The victim doesn't remember, and nobody actually saw the rape. Carisi understands that a guy, struggling with alcoholism, lied to him. He's a friend of the girl, but when he saw it he froze and got drunk instead of calling 911. Now he makes amends by testifying, but he shows up drunk. Despite that, he is a good witness, and to prove his credibility, his memory, Barba tries making him repeat the question that were just asked and also describe the jury with his eyes closed. He convinces the jury. Liv is impressed :)
At the end, we see Liv drink red wine at home, alone... she drinks a lot, doesn't she?
14 - Nationwide manhunt
Greg Yates want to talk to Rollins in exchange for names of unidentified victims. He asks to be transferred to Dr Rudnick block, but when Liv and Barba go to see him he's nowhere to be found. He escaped with the doctor, Carl Rudnick. Already two men have been killed. Rudnick had help from the same redhead woman that helped William Lewis escape! Lindsay and another one from Chicago PD come to help. Yates is on a killing spree, Rudnick is found badly injured. Dodds is shot and Lindsay goes after Yates alone.
15 - Collateral damages
Using a girl still at the police academy but looking a lot younger as bait, they arrest an ex boxe champion. To avoid jail, he helps them take down other people who watch and distribute child pornography videos. They are shocked when they see that one of these people is Deputy Commissioner Hank. His wife Pippa never suspected a thing.
(I liked this actress, she's good)
He tries to find a way to come out clean, but there isn't one. At the end, he'll plead guilty.
There is Barba in this episode, yes.
16 - Star-struck victims
A girl says that famous actor Bobby D'Amico and his friend raped her, but Dodds senior is friends wiwth Bobby and doesn't believe her, and Barba doesn't have enough evidence. She's a vlogger, and she posts online the whole story. She changes it a bit, keeps the video online saying her 'followers' want to know, she kept dancing like nothing happened after the rape... she's definitely not a credible witness. At the trial, Buchanan makes it look like she lied to have more views... Barba has a big strategy to try and trap them but Buchanan knows he's winning so he doesn't call them to testify. Barba is defeated. The verdict is not guilty.
I like Barba :)
Rollins went undercover without authorization, not knowing yet the two guys had already lawyered up, so her video of them attempting to rape her was not allowed in court. At the end, it's shown on the news.
Liv thinks Rollins leaked it out, but it was Dodds Jr.
17 - Manhattan transfer
A tip leads Svu to bust a party where underage girls are trafficked, raped, given to other men. The place was full with important people: judges, lawyers, rich people, and also two cops who claimed to be undercover and a nun who infiltrated to save the girls. Sister Nina tells Liv that those cops were raping girls. Since all the girls come from the same school, Tucker goes to talk to his cousin Eugene who is a priest there. Right after that their witness Cara is killed and Nina becomes paranoid and terrified when she sees Liv with Eugene's cousin, and goes away.
Tucker confronts Eugene, so later the Church's monsignore goes to Barba to make charges against Tucker, claiming that he knew and was an active part of a girls trafficking thing. When Barba talks to Liv, she defends Tucker: "you're wrong about him!" Barba is confused, Svu and Tucker were never friends, as far as he knew: "he went after each and every one of you" but Liv strongly defends him: "he had to be relentless". Barba understands, asks her if they are involved: "don't ask me that" and he's hurt that she never told him: "we're done talking".
He has to start an investigation on Tucker and the episode ends with Liv removed from her job, and young Dodds temporarily on her place.
Why does Liv like the macho-type so much? Elliott, Cassidy, Tucker... she sounded proud when she yelled at Barba that Tucker almost bit Eugene's head off...
18 - Unholiest alliance
The dirty cops and the priests, they all implicate Tucker. Nina runs away scared but is found, raped and killed. A girl saw it all and was almost Od'ed, but survived and told her story. It seems like there's nothing to be done. The team sort of blackmails the judge found at that party into procuring them warrants for the priests finances, and they discover that Eugene had a kinky relationship with a young man, and that Monsignor knew about it: that's what he used to blackmail Eugene into procuring them vulnerable girls.
Carisi is a catholic and makes a last attempt to appeal to Eugene's belief. He gets thru to him and Eugene tells them when they can find all the paper-trail on the traffic. The monsignor, a bishop and at least one priest, Nina's murderer, were raping girls, blackmailing them into silence and pimping them out to powerful people who would use their influence to favour their church. With that evidence, they now have a good case. They get everyone but the bishop, protected by the Church and sent far away. Tucker and Liv have their job back.
19 - Sheltered outcasts
Carisi goes undercover at a sex offenders shelter. Three women are raped, and the shelter therapist who cared about them is killed. They find one rapist, but not the second one, the murderer. By chance, the victim and a guy's lawyer are at the station at the same time, and she recognises his voice. The lawyer knew that they would get the blame, but they get him.
Carisi got beaten by a victim's father. He is also upset by the way those guys life is ruined after they are put on the list... just a curiosity, there is no list for murderers or thieves who get out of jail, why is that the only list given to the public is that of sex offenders? (with an almost criminal lack of details, I'd add.)
No Barba in this one.
20 - Fashionable crimes
Carisi takes pictures of Olivia and Amanda with their kids: lovely.
A photographer (Fisher Stevens) rapes a girl while his assistant Maura took pictures. He's the bad brother of a famous fashion designer. He did the same to many other girls, but nobody would testify against Alvin because he's powerful and they'd never work again.
Her boyfriend is very jealous and manipulative and he convinces her not to testify. In exchange, he got money from the rich brother.
The first suspect is the boyfriend, but it was his brother that killed him, tired of cleaning up his messes. When he confesses under pressure, his wife confesses too trying to protect him.
Liv goes home to see Noah and Munch who was babysitting him. "Turns out there's more to life than Svu". With Noah now Liv knows that too.
21 - Assaulting reality
Liv and Tucker are at a bar asking for the tv to be turned off: "who actually watches this show?"... well, Rollins with popcorns while Carisi handles the baby girl.
It's 'Heart's desire', where a man chooses a girl. Melanie is shown a clip of her 'having sex' when she cries that she'd never do that, and "did Ryan rape me?"
Rollins brings the case to Liv, and they investigate. The executive producers fill them with lies and misdirections. Jeffrey and Regina Prince blame it all on Lizzy, if Graham raped Melanie. They filmed it all, and aired a special making it look like they were the heroes who uncovered the truth; Liv and Barba have Lizzy bugged before talking to the Princes. There will be no trial, Graham pleads guilty and will make a deal.
22 - Intersecting lives
Carisi passed the bar, Dodds will join terrorism next week. Fin's son has a case for him. The boy and his boyfriend will have a son.
A prison warden rapes girls in prison, constantly. Inside and outside the prison. They make up a cover to investigate Ryker's. They have the other girls raped by Munson out of prison, but they don't want to testify against him, he has power over them.
(A girl calls Rollins : Elsa :p )
They're too afraid, and with reason. Munson is arrested and after the arraignment Barba calls Liv and Dodds: "I'll need you to walk me out of here"
Outside, a guy threatens him. He acts cool: "right here in front of these people?" and "here's my home address, you come by any time you want" bus as soon as the guy walks away he's all shaken up and tells Liv. "This is just the beginning" are his last words.
23 - Heartfelt passages
That same guy threatens Barba again and he wants him arrested. Barba tells Carisi and Rollins he's been getting threats all year, after the case of the three cops who shot Terence Reynolds. As the one she can trust, Rollins calls Benson, but she has her hands full:
Now that Gary Munson's wife has done some texts, she believes it and wants a divorce, and asks Liv's help because she's scared. They throw a 'good luck party' for Dodds at the station when she calls Liv and Dodds goes with her. Liv takes the children outside, Dodds is inside when Munson pulls his gun out and takes his wife hostage. Munson only wants her but Dodds can't leave because he'll kill her.
When they hear a gunshot, they burst in, Dodds has been shot. At the hospital, it seems he might recover, his dad speaks to him and also his fiancee Alice, but he needs emergency surgery again, he doesn't really make it. His heart's still beating but he's gone neurologically. They all attend his funeral, Barba too.
Benson tells them of that video that Dodds leaked out. Carisi tells Barba they're looking for that guy and he says: "I'm not worried, not in here", then after he'll pick him at a line up: "he looks smaller in there".
He was paid 250$ every time he talked to Barba, who says "250, that's it? I should be offended"
Carisi is still thinking about being a DA. "There's a opening in Brooklyn" but of course he can't leave now.
"How's Liv doing?" - "She's taking it hard"
Liv talks to the doctor again.
Tucker tells her he requested transfer to hostage negotiation, he's leaving Iab. "We have a good thing going here, the three of us" - "yeah, we do"
Tucker asks her to go to Paris, they kiss and walk away with Noah.
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