Mia Dillon

When an unidentified man is found shot and sexually abused in the alley outside of a gay bar, Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) search for possible motives and suspects, tracing the victim's (guest star Mark-Paul Gosselaar) history back to a small town in Arkansas. However, when their investigation leads the detectives deep inside the porn industry, they realize it is not a clear-cut case of rape and attempted murder.

When a wealthy publisher is murdered, the detectives investigate a young author for a link, but they soon believe the author does not exist and that the publisher was killed because he sensed a scam.

A corporate raider, known for his profitable and hostile company takeovers, is shot in his brokerage house and killed. Detectives investigate a corporate union, which leads them to a particularly bitter ex-employee. However, a new suspect -- and acquaintance of D.A. Schiff -- soon emerges.

Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Green (Jesse L. Martin) investigate a shooting at George Mason High School school where four students are left dead. Finding out who is responsible is quite the task since the shooter was dressed as a Ninja and wore a mask. When the name of a poor, troubled boy comes up, Van Buren (S. Epatha Merkerson) doubts he fits the typical profile of a school shooter and he ends up being cleared. Meanwhile, an e-mail is sent, threatening to finish the job that was started...

A murder confession left on the wrong answering machine prompts Detectives Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Curtis (Benjamin Bratt) to reopen a two-year-old arson case that claimed the life of a little girl. The evidence leads to the victim's teenage stepbrother -- an unstable kid sheltered by his politically connected grandfather (guest star Robert Vaughn, 'The Man from U.N.C.L.E.'), a longtime friend of D.A. Schiff's (Steven Hill) with a secret of his own. Anne Jackson guest-stars as Judge Simons. Carey Lowell, Sam Waterston and S. Epatha Merkerson also star.