Andy Powers

Residents of a Lower East Side apartment are startled when an intruder breaks in during the middle of the night. It turns out to be "Granny Doe" - an elderly woman who can't remember where she is. Granny has been burned and possibly raped. But she isn't much help when Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) question her due to her Alzheimer's disease, which has left her with severe short-term memory loss. Eventually, the detectives discover her identity by researching past tenants of the apartment building. Their victim is Bess Sherman (Jane Powell), who is in her 80's. According to a woman who previously lived in the apartment, Bess used to sneak into the apartment in the middle of the night when she was a young girl. Apparently, she had a "funny uncle." Bess was living at Jubilee Towers; an upscale assisted living facility for adults, but had recently been released to the custody of her son, Joe Sherman (Jay Thomas).

Danny must determine who murdered a man when multiple women who worked for him all take credit for it. Also, Frank disagrees with his priest about how to handle a local boy who has been stealing money from the church, and Nicky is arrested with a group of friends when the police find drugs in her car.

Alicia and Will deal with their growing sexual tension and Diane and Kurt McVeigh continue their flirtation. At the same time, Alicia defends a college student accused of killing her sorority sister while under the influence of a sleep aid.

The lone holdout on a jury is found dead in the jury room. The eleven jurors who were voting guilty and who hated the dead juror are the natural suspects.

Lonely, Carter struggles with his unfulfilled dreams in the wake of his girlfriend's departure--and lurches towards a dangerous temporary solution. New doctor Abby deals with resentful nurses and tends to a tearful, injured young woman kidnapped from Mexico and forced into sexual slavery. Meanwhile, Kovac makes a confession to a fleeing Sam. Neela's domineering, old-fashioned Indian parents arrive and are upset that she abandoned her Michigan medical assignment. Later, Carter treats an Iraqi war veteran who was disfigured in combat; Weaver suggests to new intern Ray (new series star Shane West) that he tone down his alternative-punk look in deference to frightened patients; and two staffers recover from their injuries.