Acceptable Loss (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)

"Acceptable Loss"
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode
Detectives Tutuola (Ice-T) and Amaro (Danny Pino) with Lt. Eames (Kathryn Erbe), their weapons trained on their suspects.
Episode no.	Season 14 Episode 4
Directed by	Alex Chapple
Written by
Production code	14004
Original air date	October 17, 2012 (2012-10-17)
Guest appearance(s)
Angela Sarafyan as Anna Richard Kind as Dworkin Doug E. Doug as Wiggins Alon Moni Aboutboul as Lou Joey Oglesby as Mikey Karen Tsen Lee as Medical Examiner Jamila Velazquez as Pilar Morenas Derrick Baskin as Officer Gillette Shezi Sardar as John Jack Haley as Reynolds Evgenia Radilova as Sofia Special Guest Star: Kathryn Erbe as Lieutenant Alexandra Eames
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"Acceptable Loss" is the fourth episode of the fourteenth season of the police procedural television series, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, it is the series' 299th episode overall. It originally aired on National Broadcasting Company (NBC) on October 17, 2012. In this episode, Captain Cragen (Dann Florek) comes back from his suspension just as the Special Victims Unit is being stopped by Lieutenant Eames (Kathryn Erbe) for uncovering a sex trafficking operation, leaving Detective Benson (Mariska Hargitay) to figure out another way to free the enslaved women.

The episode was written by veteran Law & Order franchise writer, and directed by franchise director Alex Chapple. It marks the first crossover of any kind with SVU and the now-ended L&O spin-off Law & Order: Criminal Intent. Kathryn Erbe reprises her role of Alexandra Eames from that series.

"Acceptable Loss" received generally positive reviews, with critics mostly commenting on Ice-T's performance throughout the episode. According to Nielsen ratings, the episode's original broadcast was watched by 6.25 million viewers and acquired a 1.6/4% share in the 18–49 demographic. It ranked fourth in its time slot, but was the highest-rated NBC program that evening.

With Captain Cragen (Dann Florek) back in the precinct, the Special Victims Unit is in full force and working to expose a sex trafficking operation that tags and enslaves young women. The captain puts Detective Tutuola (Ice-T) undercover to find out who is behind the brutal crime, Amaro (Danny Pino) irate at the captain's decision.