LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNITS4, E18
Desperate
Firemen respond to a fire in a tenement. A young boy is rescued, but they find his mother raped, beaten, and near death on the couch. The boy refuses to talk and his mother dies shortly thereafter. Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) track down the landlord of the building. He says the woman's name is Dana McGuire, but the real Dana McGuire lives uptown. The victim had stolen her license and was using her name as an alias. Her real name is Jill Hoffman and her husband Dan (Rob Estes) is a successful real estate agent in upscale Rye. The boy is Tommy (Max Weinstein), his son. Jill was his stepmother and she and Tommy were on the run from Dan's abuse. Dan shows up at the hospital to retrieve his son, even though the detectives now fear for the boy's life. Dan's attorney Priscilla Chaney (Sandra Bernhard) then threatens to sue so Benson and Stabler travel to Rye to apologize to Hoffman. They suspect he killed Jill but are having a hard time proving it.
