Paul Doherty

After being a bit harsh on Lutz in the writer’s room, Liz overhears him criticizing her iron-fisted management. Realizing she has to be more lenient with her staff, Liz adopts a more lax leadership style. Meanwhile, Jack takes Tracy along to an exclusive GE charity golf event, but Jack's hope of using Tracy to get closer to Don Geiss, the GE CEO (special guest star Rip Torn) may backfire when Tracy acts a little too much like his uncensored self amongst the corporate big wigs.

The discovery of a nine year old beauty queen's body in a suitcase on a Manhattan bus sends Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) searching for a pedophile with a fetish for pageants. However, when the prime suspect blames a virtual pornography website for his crime, A.D.A. Cabot (Stephanie March) must put the first amendment on trial.