Geoffrey Arend

Melody Quinn (Mam Smith) is a prostitute who's talking on her cell phone after a busy night. Suddenly, a car approaches and runs her over. When the cops get there, her purse and coat are gone and in addition to being run over, she's been raped and brutally beaten. The 911 call from an uptown payphone gives them clues - the prints of a cop who is part of the Joint Terrorism Task Force. His Lieutenant is hesitant to let the SVU team interview him because he is working undercover, but he finally agrees and it turns out the cop overheard the cell phone conversation that occurred before the hit and run, so he broke cover to call an ambulance. Stabler (Christopher Meloni), meanwhile, has his son Dickie (Jeffrey Scaperrotta) at the precinct, and Dickie says that the crime scene photos look just like a hot new video game that he plays called NtenCity. Sure enough, the murder was a direct copy of the game.

Arizona's bad day escalates when she advises a patient on a potential double amputation; Derek breaks a promise; Stephanie and Jo find an abandoned baby; the nonfraternization rule leads to a suspension.

While investigating a suspicious suicide, the squad wades into a nasty child-custody dispute between a dying man and his meth-addicted ex-wife. Meanwhile, Pope applies for the police chief job, but Brenda might have something to say about whether or not he gets it.

Naomi struggles with the idea of genetically designing babies; Violet suddenly decides to try electric shock therapy on a patient.

While investigating the death of a woman found in a swimming pool, detectives learn that she was a medical researcher and that she was poisoned.