Sherri Parker Lee

Miranda's first date turns into a wake when the guy drops dead. Meanwhile, Charlotte and Samantha duke it out over their opposing sexual philosophies. Carrie's attempt to teach a seminar on how to meet men is a flop when her students turn on her.

A top forensic psychiatrist, Dr. Greta Heints (Susanna Thompson), is found assaulted and bound in a crack house. She regains consciousness but doesn't seem too eager to help Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) find her assailant. Her husband says she got a call on the private patient line the night of the attack and then went out. Detectives Munch (Richard Belzer) and Fin (Ice-T) investigate Greta's case list and they are looking at a patient named Benny Edgar Ralsay (P.J. Marshall), also known as the duct tape rapist. He has an ankle bracelet and claims he was at home the night of the attack, but the detectives also discover he slips his surveillance by putting the bracelet on his cat. Benny says he has nothing but total respect for Dr. Heints, even though her unconventional method - regressing patients to their early childhood to reparent them - has some people, like Dr. Huang (B.D. Wong), a little concerned.

When the wife (guest star Mary Beth Hurt) of an entrepreneur (guest star Henry Winkler) is found bludgeoned and brutally raped on her kitchen floor, Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Christopher Meloni) believe the attack to be the work of a possible serial rapist. But as the investigation of another attack believed to have been committed by the same man begins to reveal some oddities, attention is re-focused on both sets of grief-stricken husbands and recovering wives, who may or may not be who they claim to be.

DiNozzo returns to his Baltimore Police Department days when he sees a felony suspect from a 15-year-old case at the NCIS crime scene of a murdered Petty Officer.

Following numbers from Jake, Martin helps reunite a French woman with her biological mother and twin sister, then he attempts to find the person responsible for their estrangement. In the meantime, a superstitious young Italian woman is fretting when her astronaut husband loses contact with earth.