This is primarily thanks to well-defined characters and a simple yet effective central conflict that drives each narrative.
Benson is bloody and beaten, bound to a chair, with duct tape covering her mouth.
It’s clear she has been drugged, as her response time is severely impaired.
When Benson’s phone rings, she remarks that her boyfriend is on his way to her place.
After stopping at a hardware store, Lewis takes Benson to an out-of-the-way cabin near the beach.
He handcuffs her to the iron bed frame and proceeds to taunt her.
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.
She then cuffs him to the bed and tells the woman to take her child and leave.
Her mother had alcoholism and was mentally and physically abusive to Olivia as she was growing up.
This is one of the main reasons Benson advocates for victims.
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She is an abuse survivor and the daughter of a rape survivor.
After Benson cuffs Lewis to the bed, she talks to him while he is passed out.
He is subdued and held captive, and she should call her team and end things the right way.
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But Benson can’t do it.
Even when Lewis tries to get her to shoot him, she can’t.
Benson has her own traumatic past that led her to the Special Victims Unit.
She helps victims by bringing their abusers to justice.
Law & Order: SVUis available to stream on Hulu in the U.S.
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