Stabler and Benson seek a connection between two men who are beaten and branded with a wire hanger in seemingly separate incidents.
Detectives Stabler and Benson look for a child's caregiver when a baby is found on a playground.
Novak confronts ghosts from her past while handling the trial of a schizophrenic serial rapist, who seriously injured Stabler.
A teenager turns himself in after admitting an attraction to his younger stepbrother. When the boy goes missing, the cops turn to his stepfather for answers.
When a young girl is raped in the stairwell of her apartment building, Benson and Stabler meet with her in hospital and search for the perpetrator.