A young girl is in a coma after ingesting detergent and her mother is suspected of poisoning her. A biased judge makes the case hard to prosecute which leads to an investigation into his past.

An elderly woman's strangulation leads to a case involving mass murders in a home-nursing company.

A young woman appears to be raped and left for dead, but she was trying to kill herself, and when she succeeds, the woman who helped her is put on trial.

When internal information is used to stage a prosecutor's death, Novak puts her job on the line to get a confession.

When a young boy dies due to a religious ritual gone awry, Benson and Stabler unravel a mysterious pattern of violence, abuse and murder within one foster care family.

A sociopathic bully in a private high school tortures and murders her own friend. The incident leads to even more violence and death in the private school.