Jean De Baer

An abused 7-year-old girl lays comatose while Benson and Stabler (Mariska Hargitay, Christopher Meloni) try to figure out what member of her dysfunctional family is responsible for her state.

The philandering wife of an arrogant plastic surgeon disappears, and the detectives suspect his efforts to find her are insincere.

The murder of the president of New York's most popular (and expensive) department store leads Briscoe and Curtis to two feuding daughters of the store's elderly owner, in this modern day 'King Lear.' McCoy and Ross try to play the estranged sisters off each other for a conviction, however they might be too tricky for their own good as they are out-maneuvered at every turn by the family patriarch.

When a teacher's low-life husband is run down on a Manhattan street, it seems like a simple case of hit and run. Detectives Logan and Cerreta soon connect one of the wife's high school students to the car used in the crime. While the victim did have huge gambling debts, the real motive turns out to be an affair between teacher and student.

Doc starts his new office position downtown and gets a taste of paramedic bureaucracy.