Sophia Bush | 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.

"Comic Perversion"

When a college student is raped after heckling a comedian (Jonathan Silverman) for making rape jokes, ADA Barba tells SVU they cannot arrest the comedian based on his words alone. After another student accuses the comedian of rape, Benson quickly arrests the man, giving Barba a tough circumstantial case which propels him to call out Benson on the arrest. Meanwhile, Chicago police officer Erin Lindsay (Sophia Bush) comes to Manhattan to ask SVU for help.

"Chicago Crossover"

Benson and SVU get a new lead on a missing child pornography victim from Sergeant Hank Voight (Jason Beghe) of the Chicago Police Department. When things become personal for CPD Detective Erin Lindsay (Sophia Bush), she and her partner, Jay Halstead (Jesse Lee Soffer), travel to New York to lend a hand in the investigation.

"Daydream Believer"

Benson and CPD Sgt. Voight lead their teams in the investigation of a rape-murder case that is frighteningly similar to a case from New York a decade ago. While searching for the suspect, one of Chicago's own is kidnapped, intensifying SVU's mission to help Voight's team locate the man.

"Nationwide Manhunt"

Benson calls CPD Sgt. Voight (Jason Beghe) after Gregory Yates (Dallas Roberts), whom they jointly arrested last year, claims that some of the unidentified remains from the beach have ties to Chicago. Voight sends Detectives Lindsay and Dawson (Sophia Bush and Jon Seda) to New York to interview Yates. However, when Benson, Barba and Dodds return to Green Haven to meet with Yates again, they learn that he has escaped with fellow convict Dr. Carl Rudnick (Jefferson Mays), triggering a massive manhunt.