Iris Little-Thomas

Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) are called to the hospital after a 10-year-old girl is raped. They arrive to find her so traumatized that she cannot even tell them her name. With the help of Detectives Odafin Tutuola (Ice-T) and John Munch (Richard Belzer), they are able to identify the young victim. But they soon realize that her home life is far from normal as Dr. George Huang (B.D. Wong) discovers that her mother suffers from a rare condition that renders her unable to recognize that the young girl is, in fact, her daughter. When the detectives find themselves without a lead, Erik Weber (guest star Henry Ian Cusick), a man they met on their previous case, decides to get involved. But he may be overstepping his bounds. Also starring: Tamara Tunie (Dr. Melinda Warner).

Vance Grodie (Christopher Coucill) is a hotshot defense attorney, who is having a victory celebration after his client, Darnell Marbury (Curtiss Cook), is acquitted of attempted murder of police officer Chris Wilson (Chris Diamantopoulos). It's a hectic scene in the courtroom when the verdict is read, as the victim, now paralyzed, is present with his brother and numerous fellow police officers, who are outraged with the verdict. After Grodie leaves the restaurant for a smoke, his friends hear gunfire. Grodie is found lying dead on the sidewalk. The only thing missing is his palm pilot. Immediately the cops are forced to question their own colleagues, and even check out the blotter for the evening of the crime to see who might be considered a suspect.

When a woman is slashed to death, detectives learn that she wanted her late father to be cryogenically frozen.

A middle-aged man, Gideon Blake, drops dead in an Oyster Bar. Detective Green detects the smell of bitter almonds, indicating cyanide poisoning. His lunch date, a pediatric oncologist named Bethany Allison, arrives after Blake's been taken away. The cyanide came from the hot sauce, which he brought himself. Blake had a strange profession. He "talked" to the dead and people paid him a hefty sum for his services. Briscoe and Green realize there could be many disgruntled former clients but discover his prints match a guy the Feds have been looking for, named John Wayne Mapes. Mapes/Blake bilked doctors out of millions of dollars and Dr. Allison is on his list.

A young model is shopping when the security cameras pick her up shoplifting. When the store manager attempts to confront her in the dressing room there's no response, because she is lying there dead. The victim, Nadia Parkova, is an aspiring model. Found by her body is an empty syringe with traces of Demerol. Cause of death was cardiac arrest and it was a lethal combination of asthma medicine and the Demerol that did her in. But her body showed serious signs of abuse and internal injuries. The Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) think perhaps her boyfriend or father was beating her, but her younger sister Lena (Alexis Dziena) says that's not true, she's accident-prone and fell down the stairs.