Michele Santopietro

Carrie goes to a hot new club in an attempt to get over 'Post-It traumatic stress' caused by Berger. Charlotte claims that everything happens for a reason, even failed marriages; Miranda is ecstatic about fitting into her skinny jeans; and Samantha tries to dress her man in designer labels, but doesn't want him to 'label' her.

Firemen respond to a fire in a tenement. A young boy is rescued, but they find his mother raped, beaten, and near death on the couch. The boy refuses to talk and his mother dies shortly thereafter. Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) track down the landlord of the building. He says the woman's name is Dana McGuire, but the real Dana McGuire lives uptown. The victim had stolen her license and was using her name as an alias. Her real name is Jill Hoffman and her husband Dan (Rob Estes) is a successful real estate agent in upscale Rye. The boy is Tommy (Max Weinstein), his son. Jill was his stepmother and she and Tommy were on the run from Dan's abuse. Dan shows up at the hospital to retrieve his son, even though the detectives now fear for the boy's life. Dan's attorney Priscilla Chaney (Sandra Bernhard) then threatens to sue so Benson and Stabler travel to Rye to apologize to Hoffman. They suspect he killed Jill but are having a hard time proving it.

Gordon Rickett (Matthew Modine) is about to be interrogated by a very angry and anxious Detective Stabler. Fourteen years ago, Rickett was suspected of killing an 11-year-old girl and they couldn't make it stick. Rickett and Stabler have some serious history...they hate each other and they know how to push each other's buttons. Munch (Richard Belzer), Benson (Mariska Hargitay), Stabler and Fin (Ice-T) all take turns in the interrogation room, where Rickett refuses anything to eat or drink and doesn't want an attorney. They go back and forth with Rickett trying desperately to outsmart the cops. They can only hold him 24 hours, so the clock is ticking. This goes on all night, and no matter how hard Stabler tries, he can't get Rickett to confess to the new crime - the rape and murder of twelve-year-old Kerry Lynn Palmer.

A woman who apparently died in a ferry crash, was actually the victim of her vengeful best friend, who was devastated the 9/11 widow "stole" her husband.