During the War in Ukraine, a teen girl's whole family is killed. She comes to New York, where she gets trafficked. She is running in the street with blood on her face when Frank Cosgrove finds her and she gets hit by a car. While he is leading EMTs to her, the perp kills her and gets away before Cosgrove can react. Cosgrove teams up with Jalen Shaw to work on the case. They find out that the girl was living with her aunt and was missing for two months. They also find out from the M.E. that saltw
The wealthy and powerful Silas family has broken ground on New York's first casino, but someone threatens to delay construction: resident Henry Cole who refuses to leave his home. When Cole ends up dying from a fall over his apartment balcony, Stabler suspects foul play. The M.E. shows Stabler rat bites on Cole's leg. Stabler, Jet, and new OCCB detective Jamie Whelan investigate and learn the rats were not native to New York, but a species from Africa that have venomous bites. The man who purcha
Stabler and the task force question Silas and Serrano about Kenny Kyle, the person buying the rats. They deny knowing him. Meanwhile, Kyle finds a gun hidden in the woods. Two police officers show up and get shot by Kyle. Pearl hires a private investigator to spy on Teddy. The person who Kyle bought the rats from gets sent to the hospital after Kyle comes asking for antibiotics to combat rat bites. Stabler and Jamie visit a woman who Kyle had always visited if he was in a predicament, Dede Hayes
At the construction site, a new worker falls and is taken to the hospital, leading to a dispute between Pearl and Bishop. Meanwhile, Kenny goes to Rikers and assaults one of the police officers there, resulting in a visit from Stabler. Reyes wants to go into Rikers to try and talk to Kenny, but Bell does not want him to do so. She later changes her mind. Because of the incident at the site, construction is halted. Reyes tries to get in with Kenny and later does when he takes a shank to the stoma
Stabler gets called to testify against the Brotherhood in court. He later gets asked by Amanda Rollins to investigate the rape of two girls who were assaulted by people dressed as cops. Bell gets told by the Deputy Inspector that OCCB might get shut down. Stabler and the task force question a guy who was attacked by dirty cops, but he does not trust the detectives. At first, they think it might be a faction of the Brotherhood, but that turns out to be false. A kid named Dante gets out of prison
The team raids Vaughn's house only for Vaughn to watch from a security camera and blow up a car outside of the house, feet away from the team. Reyes goes back to the hospital to talk to Dante, but he gives Reyes nothing to work with. The Deputy Inspector's office isn't able to help provide more resources for the team until later on. Stabler and Jamie talk to Manny's lawyer, but they're not looking to cut a deal with information. Reyes goes to his foster family home to find Leonard, but he escape
Jet and Jamie go undercover to take down a jewelry smuggling operation, using Detective Tia Leonetti as their courier. Tia is Stabler's former partner from when he was with the police in Rome. She came to New York to help take down Abramov, who is smuggling gold. Meanwhile, Abramov killed one of his people when he asked for more gold. Reyes goes undercover to talk to Abramov. He succeeds, but they decide to turn one of the girls in the smuggling operation instead. Meanwhile, Pearl Serrano gives
Bell gets a visit from Lillian Goldfarb, who tells her that she is going to get promoted to Deputy Inspector, but Organized Crime has to shut down. Meanwhile, Stabler gets a call from Teddy who says that Pearl mysteriously fell the previous night and is in the hospital. The doctors do not know the reason as to what happened. Bell tells Stabler not to take the case, but he does not listen to her and takes it anyways. Stabler and Jamie go to the bar outside of which Pearl fell and find the securit
Robert Silas' attorney comes to the task force to talk about making a deal. Stabler and Bell meet Robert in a neutral location to discuss the deal while Jet, Jamie, and Reyes are en route. The location has no service to get in contact with anyone. While discussing the deal, a fake DA shows up after Bell tells him where to go. She finds out he is fake when the real DA shows up to negotiate. The task force gets into a shootout with the fake ADA where Stabler winds up shooting him from the window.
An informant named Tino rams into the back of a police car, while his wife gets kidnapped by a group of street racers. Stabler winds up seeing a psychiatrist after the incident at Robert Silas' warehouse, but leaves when he gets a call from Tino asking for help finding his girlfriend. Bell meets with the new Deputy Inspector, who respects her for denying the position. Stabler and Reyes meet up with a friend of Stabler's up in the Bronx who refuses to give information on the street racers. The ta
Jamie drives Ruiz and Menendez to where the true leader of the organization is, Antonio Duran. Duran immediately kicks Jamie out, causing Stabler to take over the undercover operation. They stage Jamie's death, which infuriates him as he wanted to do the job. Thurman brings in two detectives from Miami to help the task force take down Duran's drug-running operation. Stabler is able to get a position in Duran's group because of the staged video. Duran later has Menendez keep an eye on Stabler to
At the arraignment of Octavio Montanero, Montanero lashes out in court saying that Eamon Murphy killed Bell's former partner, not him. This causes Bell to investigate what happened years ago. She finds out that the weapon that killed her partner did not match the slug that was found. Murphy hears about what happened at the arraignment and asks his second-in-hand Seamus O'Meara to handle it. Montanero later gets killed in jail. Thurman tells Bell to be careful about what she is doing with the cas
Jet takes big steps in her relationship with O'Meara. A fight erupts at the bar with O'Meara and another group, later revealed to be people that Rika hired to help Stabler. Murphy visits the bar and asks Stabler to make him a partner, to which Stabler gives him 25% and has to show up to the bar regularly. O'Meara and Jet go to a heliport where they see Murphy bringing in an Irish boxing champ. Murphy is shown wearing the police academy ring of Bell's former partner on his finger. Bell later visi
Amato watches Jet get kidnapped by O'Meara and then gets kidnapped himself by Murphy moments later. Teddy holds a cop hostage and escapes after being told by the task force not to get in the way. Stabler questions Murphy about where O'Meara is. Murphy has an idea as to where he may be. O'Meara takes Jet into the woods to kill her. Jet manages to escape and the task force takes O'Meara into custody after Stabler shoots him. Murphy finds out from Amato that OCCB was running the bar and later kills
Stabler attempts to prevent a gang war when Janelle Carver, the daughter of David Carver, leader of the "Sons of Sin" motorcycle club and also Stabler's old platoon leader in the Marines, is abducted and her fiancé murdered by members of "The Cursed Crew," a rival gang lead by Peter Grimes who has close connections with the Los Toros cartel. The task force uses a prospect to find a weapons cache also being tracked by the ATF. They inform Stabler that kidnapping is usually done by cartels, not mo
Deputy Inspector Ray Thurman calls the task force after an assassination attempt on Stephen Lee, a candidate for Chinatown councilman. Lee's wife Jennifer is hit and taken to the hospital. Detective Chang, 4th Precinct, Community Affairs attempts to push OCCB off the case. Lee was receiving threats from gangs and informed the 4th Precinct, but refuses a security detail until Stabler persuades him otherwise. The investigation leads to Daniel Yao, a worker who ran during the attempt. Stabler and B
Detective Chang works with the task force to help them take down Michael Quan, who is now running for city council. In order to fight his smuggling and human trafficking operation, they stake out his ship "The Blue Siren" to intercept a supposed slave shipment, but only find Wen Shao, a frantic father in search of his 16 year old son Bo, all the way from China. A wayward life raft shows signs that the slaves may have been moved before the ship made port. They, along with Bo, are taken by Kai and
Whelan and Reyes go undercover at a gay club looking for Paolo Costa, a drug dealer from Rio. During the bust, someone collapses at the club and Paolo is beaten before he is arrested by an unidentified male. The man who collapsed is identified as a Eric Geary, a policeman. He is taken to the hospital and, once stabilized, states that he was drugged with GHB. Costa lawyers up during interrogation about the drugs and who he is selling them to. The task force works to find the man who assaulted Cos
Chief Novak of NYPD Counter Intelligence arrives during a UN assembly to provide high profile transport to an External Affairs Minister named Diya Laghari from Delhi. She is called upon to give a speech that may turn the tide in the Ukraine War. Stabler takes personal charge of Madam Laghari and her briefcase before the escort is attacked by remote car bombing; Laghari's personal assistant, Sita, is injured. Soon, Laghari is delivered to the Consulate and Stabler meets her head of security, Veer
On Staten Island, Agent Curtis McCrary of the FBI calls in the task force when Phil McBride's head is discovered decapitated in his clothes dryer by his wife. It is found that he was part of a crew of bank robbers, probably linked to heists in Union Square worth over 2 million dollars. Another of the crew, Frank Little, was shot the previous morning. They're linked by their jobs at a Crypto exchange. The investigation leads them to Lloyd Bloom who is living with Phil's sister in Rosebank, workin
The Special Victims Unit is called in to cooperate when Junior Suarez is linked to a rape for hire case they are working. Benson and Stabler go to Greenhaven to check Suarez's cell and find a phone. While there, Benson has an uncomfortable reunion with Oscar Papa, the leader of BX9. Sergeant Bell later interviews Maria Varga and identifies Juarez as her attacker. Slootmaekers finds he was paid in bitcoin and got the job online. Whelan and Reyes are tasked with checking the computer of Derek Scul
Shadowërk puts a bounty on Oliva Benson and Elliot Stabler worth $50,000. Jacob Bettencourt, an IT worker in association with Shadowërk, is questioned by Whelan and Reyes. In response to the bounty, the Feds take Benson and Stabler off active duty. Linda Wilkie is questioned and investigating her leads to her son, Kyle, who was coding at summer camp the past five years. The police and FBI raid the Wilkie home, but Kyle is not there. Benson and Stabler are attacked at a diner and, after Benson is