After a young woman is raped and murdered, her body turns up in an industrial laundry facility. The perpetrator fires at Benson and Stabler from inside a house during their investigation. When they break in and find a torture chamber in the basement, they arrest the owner of the house (Joseph Sikora). However, further investigation reveals that he is being set up by a serial rapist (R. Lee Ermey). As the investigation progresses, Detective Benson builds a connection to a victim's daughter (Maria Bello) and her son (Charlie Tahan) that invokes her own past in ways she never anticipated.
