Colin Fickes

Nathan challenges Lucas to a nighttime one-on-one basketball game. If Nathan wins, Lucas must not join the team; if Lucas wins, Nathan will quit.

After failing in his first varsity basketball game, Lucas decides to quit the team.

When the battered body of a murdered 5-year-old girl in foster care is discovered, Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) must explore a complex array of family connections in their search for a motive and murderer. Academy Award-nominee Piper Laurie guest stars.

When someone reveals the contents of the students' time capsule, Lucas and Mouth must confront a person from their past. Brooke has to deal with the revelation that secrets aren't the only things she exposed in the time capsule. Dan learns to forgive Keith. And Haley is forced to reconcile the man Nathan used to be with the man he has become. Meanwhile, Peyton's Breast Cancer Benefit Concert at Tric features performances by Haley and members of the bands JACK'S MANNEQUIN (themselves) and FALL OUT BOY (themselves).

When the backpack and ID of missing college coed Skye Petersen are suddenly dropped off at a thrift store sevenyears after Jack - and ultimately the legal system - determined she was murdered by her married professor with whom she'd just ended an affair, the team decides to reopen the case. Jack fears that he may have elicited a wrongful murder confession during an intense interrogation with the professor. The thrift store's grainy two-day-old securityvideo shows Skye's belongings being left by a woman who looks remarkably like Skye. As the team reinvestigates this formerly high-profile case, Jack is especially eager to learn the truth, despite knowing that this new evidence may uncover a tragic mistake on his part that has already cost the professor seven years in prison.

Russell visits Mariel and discovers that Underlay has taken the children on an unscheduled vacation -- without asking for her permission.