Michael Cullen

A woman scheduled to testify in a high-profile rape case is murdered while shopping with her daughter, leading detectives Benson and Stabler to uncover unlikely friendships that could shed light on what happened.

Jamie and Eddie experience marital tension when Eddie allows her newly released ex-convict father to live with them; Danny and Baez go out of their way to help a desperate man find his missing sister.

Reynolds confronts a troubling experience from his past, while Max turns his attention a frequent-flyer patient, rather than think about chemotherapy. At the same time, Frome comes to the aid of a young man suffering from severe delusions.

Logan is forced to face his cultural biases when both a Lebanese gunrunner and an Irish terrorist are suspected of killing a drug dealer.

A mysterious `angel of death' has poisoned a series of hospital victims with cyanide, and detectives Goren and Eames suspect a nurse who they believe fits the typical profile.

Briscoe, resentful at being second-guessed by fellow officers, is frustrated when a gang member who shot an elderly woman for her purse continues to dodge justice.