Michael Cullen

When a woman is murdered during an afternoon shopping trip with her daughter, Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) are called in because she was scheduled to testify in their high-profile rape case. As the detectives continue to investigate the correlation between the murder and their case, they discover unlikely friendships that will lead them to the truth.

Jamie and Eddie experience marital tension when Eddie allows her newly released ex-convict father, Armin (Michael Cullen), to live with them. Also, Danny and Baez go out of their way to help a desperate out-of-town man (Dave Quay) find his missing sister; Anthony enlists Erin’s help when new evidence arises in a closed case from his previous police career; and Frank goes head to head with Archbishop Kearns (Stacy Keach) when a local priest calling for the NYPD to be defunded causes friction between the force and the church.

The detectives believe that someone is murdering hospital patients and find that tainted medication is leading to the deaths.

As Max (Ryan Eggold) begins his treatment, he realizes that it may slow him down faster than he originally thought. Meanwhile, Reynolds (Jocko Sims) must deal with an incident from his past when a reporter comes to the hospital and Sharpe (Freema Agyeman) and Bloom (Janet Montgomery) continue a contentious conversation.

After a cop bar is bombed by the Weather Underground, Hunt and Sam search for more explosives and soon discover the target of the bombs are members of a secret cop squad; Sam starts seeing a psychiatrist after being shot, leading to his acceptance of being in 1973.