Jordan Charney

When Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) are called to the scene of a murder in a church, they find that Bobby Douglas (guest star Sean Dugan), the young man responsible for the crime, had been receiving payoffs from the church to cover up his sexual abuse by a priest. Eric Stoltz guest stars.

A teenage girl is found dead in an alley, with evidence of strangulation, blunt force to the head and sexual violation. She is Sally Galan, a 17-year-old who had been out drinking with her boyfriend, left the bar quite upset and never came home. M.E. Rodgers says that the bite marks on Sally's breasts were eerily similar to an unsolved case in Brooklyn five years ago. Briscoe and Green talk to the detective on that case and the best they can come up with is it was another teenage girl who disappeared on her way home from the library. At the time, there was a mysterious man at the library and they had a sketch. The detectives show that sketch to Julie, a waitress at the bar. She confirms it could have been someone she saw following the victim out of the bar. They are also concerned that he could be a serial killer as there are numerous unsolved missing teenage girl cases, which were all outside and walking distance from home when they disappeared.

A jewelry store in the West Village is robbed. The owner is killed and a customer visiting from Chicago, Glen Fordyce (Mandy Patinkin) is shot. When the stolen goods turn up at a pawnshop, Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) are able to track down the pawner whose description matches the one given by Fordyce as well as the witnesses outside the store. Eddie Travandze (Gene Farber) is their man, and they pick him up and try him for murder. But when it's time for the star witness Fordyce to testify, he is missing. He never got on the plane from Chicago.

After Detectives Fontana (Dennis Farina) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) discover the body of a murdered prostitute in the alley of a Hispanic bordello, they learn that the victim was an undercover reporter who was planning an expose about the L-12, a pervasive gang of thugs who coerced a businessman (guest star William Sadler) to commit the crime. But Assistant D.A. McCoy (Sam Waterston) soon realizes that the reluctant slayer is only trying to protect his imprisoned son (guest star Brad Fleischer) from the gang's abusive tentacles - and that no one is beyond their bloody reach. Annie Parisse, Fred Dalton Thompson and S. Epatha Merkerson also star.

Leah Glaser is found beaten to death in her apartment. It looks as if someone forced their way in, and then attacked her, but Briscoe and Green can't tell what's missing. They try to figure out who would have access to her apartment and find an ambulance driver who, they suspect, had a senior citizen robbery ring with his co-workers. But both drivers had alibis for the time of the murder. The driver dropped Leah off at the Federal Building and it's revealed she was a witness in the deportation trial of Stefan Anders, a Nazi. Leah was a slave laborer at Bobrek, a satellite camp of Auschwitz, which manufactured airplane and submarine parts and was in the process of giving her version of events as part of the Shoah project. She also picked him out of a lineup and Anders' visa photo matched his SS photo. Also, they see he has Leah's prized possession, a locket, which he claims he didn't take from her, but that someone sent it to him anonymously.