SVU S16 E15 “Intimidation Game”
“Don’t make me do it. You still have time to turn your life around and not be a total jackass on YouTube.”
Detectives Fin Tutuola, Sonny Carisi, and Amanda Rollins come to the aid of a female programmer who is assaulted at a video‑game tournament. They learn the victim's boss, Raina Punjabi, is being harassed online for her upcoming feminist‑themed game. Despite the growing threats, Raina refuses to delay the product release. At the rollout event, the CEO is abducted from the stage and taken away by a trio of masked extremists opposed to women in the gaming world.
As the violence against Raina escalates, Fin tells Sgt. Olivia Benson the kidnappers are mimicking the game and heading for a deadly ending. As the squad attempts to rescue Raina from a warehouse, Carisi and Rollins find themselves cornered on a nearby rooftop by the ringleader (played by Logan Paul). But Fin, joking that his experience with first‑person shooters has prepared him for this, gets the drop on the armed suspect.
Meanwhile, Benson worries about the effect of gamer culture and toxic masculinity on baby Noah.
We're talking about the lowest‑rated episode of Special Victims Unit, season 16 episode 14, “Intimidation Game.” Our returning guest is Pulitzer Prize–winning author Marcia Chatelain.
This episode is inspired by the 2013 online controversy known as "Gamergate."
