Maria Tucci

A female financial analyst with a fetish for sexual bondage is found hanging dead, but while Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) debate if her death was a suicide or homicide, they discover that the victim recently tried to purchase $10 million of diamonds -- all of which leads to a Wall Street financier (guest star Geoffrey Nauffts) with a mean streak. During their hunt, they cross paths with a Tennessee insurance investigator (guest star Craig Heidenreich), a crooked charity organizer (guest star Christopher McCann) and other low-lifes from the sado-bondage scene. Richard Belzer, Dann Florek, Michelle Hurd and Dean Winters also star.

Brad Osterhaus, a successful stockbroker who was very friendly with numerous women, is found dead in his upscale apartment. He fell down the stairs but the cause of death is a blow to the head. Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) discover he has multiple female friends, and had recently purchased three expensive pieces of lingerie. One was for a friend who is about to get married (she also has an airtight alibi); another is for Lindsay Tucker (Melissa Errico), a photographer with a young child. She considered herself Brad's true girlfriend (the other women were just dalliances) and she is very upset. Her alibi is she was at the office of world-renowned cosmetics maven Jackie Scott (Lucie Arnaz) at the time Brad was killed. The detectives question Jackie but she isn't much help. She's an empire unto herself and corroborates Lindsay's alibi. But when the detectives ask a few more questions about the people in Jackie's and Lindsay's lives, they discover Jackie is Lindsay's mother and both mother and daughter were sleeping with Brad.

Mike's engagement to Laurie is the talk of the office as staff fantasizes about what it would be like to be married to him. Paul tries to get Claudia's engagement ring back from Mike, while Stacey imagines spending life with him.