Sarah Hyland | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

• Also known as: Law & Order: SVU, SVU
• Genre: Police procedural, Legal drama, Thriller, Mystery
• Created by: Dick Wolf
• Starring: Mariska Hargitay, Christopher Meloni, Richard Belzer, Dann Florek, Michelle Hurd, Stephanie March, Ice-T, BD Wong, Diane Neal, Tamara Tunie, Adam Beach, Michaela McManus, Danny Pino, Kelli Giddish, Raúl Esparza, Peter Scanavino, Philip Winchester, Jamie Gray Hyder, Demore Barnes, Octavio Pisano, Molly Burnett
• Narrated by: Steven Zirnkilton
• Theme music composer: Mike Post
• Opening theme: "Theme of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit"
• Composer: Mike Post
• No. of seasons: 24
• No. of episodes: 538
• Executive producers: Dick Wolf, Ted Kotcheff, Peter Jankowski, Michael Smith, Julie Martin, Jonathan Starch, Arthur W. Forney, Mariska Hargitay
• Showrunners: Robert Palm, David J. Burke, Neal Baer, Warren Leight, Rick Eid, Michael S. Chernuchin, David Graziano
• Running time: 40–44 minutes
• Production companies: Wolf Entertainment, Studios USA, Universal Network Television, NBC Universal Television Studio, Universal Media Studios, Universal Television
• Original release: Network, NBC
• Release: September 20, 1999 – present

This series follows the Special Victims Unit, a specially trained squad of detectives in the New York City Police Department that investigate sexually related crimes.

"Repression"

When a therapist (Shirley Knight) helps eighteen-year-old Megan Ramsey (Kelly Hutchinson) recall her childhood molestation by her father (Brian Kerwin), she reports the incest to detectives Benson and Stabler hoping it would spare her younger sisters from suffering the same fate. At first her mother (Amy Irving) does not believe her, but eventually her entire family turns on the father, ignoring his protests that are assisted by the discovery of tainted evidence. The whole fragile family later becomes a suspect when the father is murdered. Eventually it is proven Megan is a virgin and the rape was a false memory planted by her therapist. Megan's sister (Blythe Auffarth) confesses to accidentally killing her father and the police arrest the therapist and charge her with reckless endangerment.

"Hothouse"

When the body of a fourteen-year-old girl (Juliet Brett) is found floating in the Hudson River, Benson and Stabler think she was smuggled into the country by sex traffickers. Tutuola discovers the victim's exceptional academic success and suspects that this had something to do with her murder. The detectives find out that the girl's father (George Tasudis) uses violence to coerce their[whose?] other daughter (Aya Cash) into non-stop studying, and their mother (Funda Duval) is afraid to stop him. The killer turns out to be a high school student (Sarah Hyland) who obsesses over impressing her mother (Enid Graham). Mitigating circumstances come into play when the SVU discovers that she[who?]suffered from sleep deprivation and overdosed on drugs used to treat ADD.