Maggie Burke

Detective Benson's (Mariska Hargitay) half-brother (Guest-Star Michael Weston) has her torn between family and professional duties. Det. Olivia Benson is called upon to help in an investigation regarding her brother Simon Marsden. She finds herself caught in the investigation of her brother between Police Captain Julia Millfield (guest star Kim Delaney) and FBI Agent Porter (guest star Vincent Spano). Benson believes her brother is innocent, but this case is starting to threaten her career, as she digs deeper into the case she uncovers family secrets. Chris Meloni, Dann Florek, Diane Neal, Richard Belzer, Ice-T, B.D. Wong, and Tamara Tunie also star.

Scott Giddins is a drug dealer, found dead near the Williamsburg Bridge. Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) canvass the neighborhood near his home and find a young woman in his apartment, close to death from a drug overdose. Scott was a bad guy - he had a reputation for selling drugs and hurting people. One of his acquaintances leads the cops to Bill Parker, a bus driver who was seen chasing Scott with a lead pipe because he was responsible for his teenage son's overdose and death. Briscoe is disturbed by the whole case, because it reminds him that his own daughter died at the age of 24, as a result of someone no different than Scott.

A woman who apparently died in a ferry crash, was actually the victim of her vengeful best friend, who was devastated the 9/11 widow "stole" her husband.