Meg Gibson

Carrie dates a short-story writer...and his family. Miranda begins dating a divorced father while Samantha sleeps with Charlotte's brother.

Collected evidence in a rape case leads Detectives Stabler (Christopher Meloni) and Beck (Connie Nielsen) to a surprising suspect, Martin Trenway (guest star Charles Shaughnessy), a distinguished lawyer. Charges are pressed against him, but later dismissed due to insufficient evidence. However, a difficult and emotional meeting with an older French woman, Lorraine Delmas (guest star Leslie Caron), is able to break open the case. Mariska Hargitay, Dann Florek, Richard Belzer, Diane Neal, B.D. Wong, and Tamara Tunie also star.

After the rescue of a young girl from a sex trafficker, Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stone (Philip Winchester) must take drastic measures to reunite her with her mother. Meanwhile, Rollins (Kelli Giddish) decides to give her rocky relationship another chance.

When Danny finds a disoriented man in a park covered in his girlfriend's blood, he finds it hard to believe that the man has no recollection of the night's events until they find a strong narcotic in his bloodstream. Meanwhile, Jamie gets into trouble when he helps an off-duty officer cover up his intoxication after he apprehended an armed robber.

When Philip and Elizabeth are given an urgent task to plant a bug in Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger’s office, they risk exposure when an unwilling maid of the Weinberger home refuses to cooperate. Stan closes in on a member of the Soviet Rezidentura in an effort to uncover the identities of deep cover Directorate S operatives.