"LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT"

"FATHER'S SHADOW"

02/08/2012 (10:00PM - 11:00PM) (Wednesday) : DETECTIVE BENSON (MARISKA HARGITAY) FINDS HERSELF IN DANGER WHEN A RAPE INVESTIGATION SPIRALS INTO A HOSTAGE CRISIS. HARRY CONNICK JR., MIRANDA LAMBERT AND MICHAEL MCKEAN GUEST STAR. An aspiring actress is found unconscious in Central Park with drugs in her system and evidence of sexual trauma. Detectives Benson (Hargitay) and Amaro (Pino) pay a visit to the reality show producer (guest star McKean) for whom she had auditioned just before the attack, and stop him from assaulting another actress (guest star Lambert) on the casting couch. The detectives arrest the producer, but the situation turns dangerous when his distraught son takes drastic action in order to get his father out of jail. Meanwhile, Benson and Executive ADA David Haden (guest star Connick) grow closer. Also starring Ice-T (Detective Odafin Tutuola), Dann Florek (Captain Donald Cragen), Richard Belzer (Sergeant John Munch) and Kelli Giddish (Detective Amanda Rollins.) Special appearance by Linus Roache (Bureau Chief Mike Cutter.)