Lawrence Arancio

Pediatrician Gilbert Keppler (Guest Star Lawrence Arancio) is found guilty of sexually assaulting four of his male patients. Soon after his trial, his attorney, Lionel Granger (Guest Star David Thornton), informs the detectives that Keppler will be suing the NYPD and the Denslow Medical Center on the grounds that they knew he was sexually abusing patients long before they took any action to stop him. Detectives Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) and Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) decide to go directly to Keppler for questioning only to find him murdered in his apartment. To the detectives’ surprise, ADA Alexandra Cabot (Guest Star Stephanie March) shows up at the crime scene, after three years in the witness protection program. Attorney Lorna Scarry (Guest Star Mariette Hartley) reminds Cabot how tough solving a case can be. The SVU team must put the past and lost time behind them in order to solve the case. Also starring: Richard Belzer (Detective John Munch), Dann Florek (Captain Donald Cragen), Ice-T (Detective Odafin Tutuola), Michaela McManus (A.D.A Kim Greylek), Tamara Tunie (Dr. Melinda Warner), and B.D. Wong (Dr. George Huang).

Dr. Bull and his Trial Analysis Corporation (TAC) team must formulate a new defense strategy when they discover the jury has a subconscious gender bias toward their client, a female pilot accused of negligence after one of her flights crashes.

A crane crushes a construction worker, Hector Lazaro, at a high rise and the high profile developer, Wayne Hardy, is on the scene quickly. Detectives Lupo and Bernard question Gary Talbot, the foreman, and there is a question about the size of the crane used. After some forensic accounting, it's determined that Eddie O'Connor, the building inspector, was being bribed to look the other way and he's arrested. But the case doesn't end there. Hector's only relative is his wife Alicia, who is comatose, and there are suspicious circumstances surrounding her condition. She had extensive chlorine in her lungs, as if she drowned, but she is afraid of the water. In addition, money that was being skimmed at the construction site was being used to pay Alicia's hospital bills, by Gary Talbot. The Detectives believe Alicia was having an affair with Talbot, especially when Talbot's number came up on her pre-paid cell. Shannon, Gary's wife, cares for their 9-year-old daughter Lucy who is severely disabled. They question Shannon and discover Alicia worked as a caregiver for their daughter. The cops and DA's think Shannon pushed Alicia into the pool because she thought she was having an affair with her husband. Shannon finally admits that's what happened and she agrees to take a deal. But Cutter sees Shannon look at her husband, and she doesn't look like a woman scorned.

In this ripped-from-the-headlines plot, Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) and Curtis (Benjamin Bratt) investigate the carjacking/murder of a young mother who leaves behind a husband and four small children. The case seems cut and dry when they discover the woman covertly recorded her own murder on a pocket tape recorder, even getting the murderer to say his name. When the tape and murder weapon get thrown out of court on a technicality, McCoy (Sam Waterston) and his new partner, Asst. D.A. Jamie Ross (Carey Lowell, 'Leaving Las Vegas'), must pull out all the stops to keep a cold-blooded murderer from going free.

A middle-aged man, Gideon Blake, drops dead in an Oyster Bar. Detective Green detects the smell of bitter almonds, indicating cyanide poisoning. His lunch date, a pediatric oncologist named Bethany Allison, arrives after Blake's been taken away. The cyanide came from the hot sauce, which he brought himself. Blake had a strange profession. He "talked" to the dead and people paid him a hefty sum for his services. Briscoe and Green realize there could be many disgruntled former clients but discover his prints match a guy the Feds have been looking for, named John Wayne Mapes. Mapes/Blake bilked doctors out of millions of dollars and Dr. Allison is on his list.