Benson is called in after a young woman shows up at the hospital, raped and beaten with her head shaved. Haley Kerns refuses to submit to a rape kit, but Benson steals her underwear before leaving the apartment and gives it to Warner to check out. When Benson returns to her apartment, she encounters Star Morrison who admits that Haley is a federal informant working with them on eco-terrorism.

The squad is left reeling from the fallout after Captain Cragen wakes up with a dead escort - a potential witness in a case - in his bed. Tensions run high in the precinct as the detectives contend with the investigation of Cragen, as well as the arrival of a tough new captain.

The squad is left reeling from the fallout after Captain Cragen wakes up with a dead escort - a potential witness in a case - in his bed. Tensions run high in the precinct as the detectives contend with the investigation of Cragen, as well as the arrival of a tough new captain.

The best-selling author of an erotic novel is attacked and the subsequent investigation leads the team to a popular TV talk-show host.

Captain Cragen takes back control of the SVU team, and the detectives are tasked with exposing a sex trafficking operation enslaving young women that has possible terrorist connections. The officers are on the verge of cracking the case when their efforts are halted by Eames, forcing Benson to get creative with the investigation.

A boy is kidnapped while in the care of his father, and the investigation reminds the officers of an unsolved abduction that occurred in the same neighbourhood 13 years earlier. Benson vows to learn from past mistakes to set both cases right.