Malika Samuel

The dismembered body of a black boy is found in Central Park, amidst what appears to be Santeria type ritual materials - candles, bowls with blood. Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) trace the candles to a Santeria group but the leader says there's no way any of the members would hurt a child. There haven't been any reports of a missing child, but he does have an unusual scar on his abdomen. M.E. Warner (Tamara Tunie), still unable to identify the victim, says that based on tests to the bones, the child has only been in New York about four weeks, and before that was in Nigeria. The Detectives check on all immigrants from Nigeria - no one is unaccounted for. So they surmise the victim is illegal, and also realize the child could have been brought here to be sacrificed, as that is still practiced by some African cultures.

While trying to help out Olive (guest star Caroline Neff) Voight (Jason Beghe) is attacked and taken. When he doesn’t show for work the team gets suspicious and begin investigating. Ruzek (Patrick Flueger) and Atwater (LaRoyce Hawkins) prove they do belong on the team when they demonstrate smarts and savvy tracking down a lead that will hopefully bring them to Voight. Meanwhile Burgess (Marina Squerciati) and Roman (Brian Geraghty) are trying to track down a girl who has run off with a police badge. Jon Seda, Jesse Lee Soffer, Sophia Bush, Elias Koteas and Amy Morton also star.

Finch goes undercover as a high school substitute teacher to protect a teenage genius who reminds him of his own adolescence as a child prodigy, while Carter undertakes a dangerous mission to stop the FBI from discovering that an imprisoned Reese is the “Man in a Suit.”