Law and Order Special Victims Unit (1999)
Season 4: Episode 18
Desperate
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Air Date:
2025-12-06
Release Date
1999
End Date
2025
Episode Description
After a young boy witnesses the brutal sexual assault and murder of his stepmother, he is too terrified to tell the detectives who attacked her.
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Taken
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Countdown
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Protection
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Counterfeit
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Execution
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Popular
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Justice
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Clock
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Recall
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Dependent
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Responsible
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Pretend
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Screwed
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Impulsive
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Behave
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Wet
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Dirty
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Smoked
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Downloaded Child
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Post-Mortem Blues
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Reasonable Doubt
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Thought Criminal
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Intimidation Game
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Surrendering Noah
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Unholiest Alliance
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Fashionable Crimes
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Assaulting Reality
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Intersecting Lives (1)
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Making a Rapist
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Rape Interrupted
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Decline and Fall
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Great Expectations
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No Surrender
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Know It All
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Real Fake News
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No Good Reason
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Something Happened
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Intent
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Gone Baby Gone
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Pathological
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Flight Risk
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Info Wars
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The Undiscovered Country
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Chasing Demons
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In Loco Parentis
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Dare
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Send In the Clowns
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The Book of Esther
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Remember Me (1)
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Remember Me Too (2)
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Man Down
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Zero Tolerance
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Revenge
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I'm Going to Make You a Star
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The Darkest Journey Home
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Down Low in Hell's Kitchen
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The Burden of Our Choices
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At Midnight in Manhattan
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Murdered at a Bad Address
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Counselor, It's Chinatown
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We Dream of Machine Elves
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Can't Be Held Accountable
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Must Be Held Accountable
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She Paints for Vengeance
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The Longest Night of Rain
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Redemption in Her Corner
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I Deserve Some Loving Too
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Swimming With the Sharks
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Eternal Relief from Pain
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Dance, Lies and Videotape
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Garland's Baptism by Fire
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Solving for the Unknowns
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The Things We Have to Lose
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Ballad of Dwight and Irena
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Remember Me In Quarantine
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Sightless in a Savage Land
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Turn Me On, Take Me Private
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The Long Arm of the Witness
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Hunt, Trap, Rape, and Release
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The Only Way Out Is Through
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Return of the Prodigal Son (I)
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Welcome to the Pedo Motel
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Our Words Will Not Be Heard
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In The Year We All Fell Down
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Trick-Rolled at the Moulin (I)
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Post-Graduate Psychopath
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What Can Happen in the Dark
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Wolves In Sheep's Clothing
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And the Empire Strikes Back
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Never Turn Your Back on Them
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One More Tale of Two Victims
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Fast Times @TheWheelHouse
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The Five Hundredth Episode
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They'd Already Disappeared
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Nightmares in Drill City
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People vs. Richard Wheatley (I)
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Silent Night, Hateful Night
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Burning with Rage Forever
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Tommy Baker's Hardest Fight
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If I Knew Then What I Know Now
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Video Killed the Radio Star
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Promising Young Gentleman
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Sorry If It Got Weird for You
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Once Upon a Time in El Barrio
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Eighteen Wheels a Predator
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Tangled Strands of Justice
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Did You Believe in Miracles? (I)
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Confess Your Sins to Be Free
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A Final Call at Forlini's Bar
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The One You Feed
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Mirror Effect
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The Steps We Cannot Take
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Breakwater
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Controlled Burn
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Dead Ball
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A Better Person
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And a Trauma in a Pear Tree
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Jumped In
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Soldier Up
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Blood Out
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Intersection
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Dutch Tears
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King of the Moon
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The Presence of Absence
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Duty to Report
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Probability of Doom
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First Light
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