John Schuck

The girls try to help in a campaign to get Gil Kessler elected as local official. To his advantage, his chances of winning are boosted when reporters snap photos of Blanche entering his home one evening while his wife was away.

Construction workers discover a teenage girl, Tandi McCain (Amanda Seyfried), who's been missing for days, bound with duct tape and very scared. She was apparently raped, but when her stepfather, Ronald (Michael O'Keefe), arrives, they fight to prevent her from going to the hospital. Benson (Mariska Hargitay) convinces them they have no choice in the situation. Tandi had definitely been raped, and claims she was on the Hudson University campus, when four cadets kidnapped her and took her. She is a little sketchy with the descriptions, but the detectives are able to identify four cadets who all have the same story - Tandi had been at a dorm party, drinking and having a good time. They all claim innocence, and continue to stick by the fact none of them touched her.

Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Chris Meloni) aggressively pursue a child molester who kidnapped three young sisters from New Orleans after their parents were killed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina -- but their efforts to secretly locate the third child are compromised by an ambitious reporter. However, a far greater problem looms as the New York cops butt heads with federal authorities after the suspect is discovered to have deadly anthrax that could result in a full-blown epidemic. Dann Florek, Ice-T, Richard Belzer, Diane Neal, B.D. Wong and Tamara Tunie also star.

Fin and Benson are on a stakeout, and when Fin goes into the bodega to get a cup of coffee, a couple of teenage punks stick up the cashier. Shots are flying everywhere, when the dust settles, the punks and cashier are dead, Fin is badly hurt and a young boy is saved. Fin goes into surgery, and his long lost son pays him a visit. The publicity surrounding the shooting is intense, and Fin is off the hook when surveillance video shows he only fired after the punks shot first. But a woman approaches Fin at the police station, distraught - she says Fin is responsible for her daughter's disappearance.

A woman's body is found murdered in a park alongside a man with a bullet in his head -- Detective Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Special Agent Lauren Cooper (Guest Star Erika Christensen) join forces and suspect "The Woodsman," a serial killer Cooper has tried to catch for years. Detective Chester Lake (Adam Beach) and Benson begin to question Cooper's true motives when the male victim is later identified as "The Woodsman." Also starring: Christopher Meloni, Dann Florek, Ice-T, Diane Neal, Richard Belzer, and Tamara Tunie.