Monica Phelps is found dead in her apartment, her son Nathan hiding in the closet behind her body. Detectives soon link Monica's death to philanthropist Ted Carthage, who runs an organization dedicated to helping people get off the streets. Benson is certain that Carthage is the killer, but a shaky ID from Nathan puts him back on the street. After Nathan kills Carthage himself, Sophie Devere argues that Nathan committed the killing because he saw Carthage shoot his mother -- something the gun manufacturers don't like.
- Directed by
- Michelle MacLaren
- Written by
- Michele Fazekas, Tara Butters
Guest stars
Malcolm David Kelley
Nathan Phelps
Ron McLarty
Joseph Malloy
Gordon Clapp
Ted Carthage
Annie Potts
Sophie Devere
Ramón Rodríguez
DJ
David Aaron Baker
Mike Geddes
Nancy Opel
Teri Carthage
Glynn Turman
Dr. Young
Spencer Grammer
Katie
David Thornton
Lionel Granger
Jill Marie Lawrence
Cleo Conrad
Judith Light
Elizabeth Donnelly
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S7 E1Demons
Sep 20, 20058.342 min
Twenty years after being convicted of the rape of a teenage girl, Ray Schenkel is released, much to the dismay of retired detective William Dorsey. When a teenage girl is raped on the route Schenkel would have taken home, Stabler goes under
S7 E2Design (I)
Sep 27, 20057.743 min
Benson saves April Troost from committing suicide, but feels responsible when Troost dies during the trial of the man she accuses of raping her and getting her pregnant. It isn't long before detectives learn that Barclay Pallister wasn't th
S7 E3911
Oct 4, 20058.643 min
Benson is on her way out for the evening when a call comes in from a little girl who says she's all alone. While trying to draw the girl out, Benson is drawn deeper into the little girl's life, and although the other officers begin to suspe
S7 E4Ripped
Oct 11, 20056.942 min
When the teenage son of Stabler's old partner comes under suspicion for attacking a classmate, Stabler's inability to treat this like any other case gets him suspended.
S7 E5Strain
Oct 18, 20058.143 min
The discovery of the bodies of two young gay men who were both meth addicts as well as victims of a new strain of AIDS that can kill its victims in less than a year leads to an investigation. Tutuola learns that his son, Ken, is gay, and ha
S7 E6Raw
Nov 1, 20058.243 min
After a six-year-old boy dies in a school shooting, detectives trace the gun used back to a white supremacist's gun shop. Munch and Tutuola both face hatred and prejudice from the major suspects in the case, but their investigation soon tak