James Lurie

A top forensic psychiatrist, Dr. Greta Heints (Susanna Thompson), is found assaulted and bound in a crack house. She regains consciousness but doesn't seem too eager to help Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) find her assailant. Her husband says she got a call on the private patient line the night of the attack and then went out. Detectives Munch (Richard Belzer) and Fin (Ice-T) investigate Greta's case list and they are looking at a patient named Benny Edgar Ralsay (P.J. Marshall), also known as the duct tape rapist. He has an ankle bracelet and claims he was at home the night of the attack, but the detectives also discover he slips his surveillance by putting the bracelet on his cat. Benny says he has nothing but total respect for Dr. Heints, even though her unconventional method - regressing patients to their early childhood to reparent them - has some people, like Dr. Huang (B.D. Wong), a little concerned.

Bull fears that his client's family ties will negatively impact the jury when TAC represents the seemingly innocent young heir, Connor McCandless (Garrett Foster), of an infamous crime family on trial for murder with his brother. As the trial begins, Bull aims to convince his client to sever his trial from his brother's, which would pit the siblings against each other in court.

Buffy must battle not only The Judge but also Angel, who has lost his soul after experiencing a moment of true happiness.

Now living in the big city, Buffy helps a woman whose boyfriend has mysteriously disappeared, while back in Sunnydale her friends battle the forces of evil on their own.