Joseph Latimore

After a deadly bombing claims the life of a spiritual leader, Stabler meets with an officer who's convinced the crime is part of a larger conspiracy. Tensions rise within the task force as Jet struggles to get her team on board with Vargas' program. Stabler welcomes his older brother to town.

When an unidentified man is found shot and sexually abused in the alley outside of a gay bar, Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) search for possible motives and suspects, tracing the victim's (guest star Mark-Paul Gosselaar) history back to a small town in Arkansas. However, when their investigation leads the detectives deep inside the porn industry, they realize it is not a clear-cut case of rape and attempted murder.

The Reagans argue the pros and cons of profiling as Frank, Danny and the rest of the NYPD search for a bomb that is about to detonate in Manhattan.

State Assemblyman Gerald Clancy asks Sean Logan to negotiate with the railroad to buy land to build a public hospital. Sean meets with railway negotiator Henry Langston, a handsome and well-educated black attorney and offers him $5000 or $100 an acre, the total set-aside for the project. While he considers the offer, Henry becomes attracted to Sean's black assistant Marita.

When Monk starts noticing imperfections in his shirts, he seeks out the woman who inspects them to make sure nothing is wrong. When Monk meets the woman, Maria Ortiz, he learns that something is wrong. Maria’s beloved son, Pedro, is in jail for the murder of a fashion model named Clea Vance, and Maria has been living under great duress ever since. She knows her son isn’t guilty, and Monk agrees to look into the case.