Special Guest Stars

Drea de Matteo As Sandra Roberts	Olympia Dukakis As Debby Marsh

Guest Stars

Audrie J. Neenan As Judge Lois Preston Recurring	Austin Lysy As Russell Hunter Recurring
Isabel Gillies As Kathy Stabler Recurring	James Chen As CSU Technician Sung Recurring
Lori Prince As Mrs. Gilbert (Ethan's Mother) Recurring	Melissa Sagemiller As Assistant D.A. Gillian Hardwicke Recurring
Peter McRobbie As Judge Walter Bradley Recurring	Robert John Burke As IA Lt. Ed Tucker Recurring
Adam Senn As Hank Roberts	Al Calderon As Nicky Roberts
James Carpinello As Joe Gilbert

Main Cast

Mariska Hargitay As Detective Olivia Benson	Richard Belzer As Sergeant John Munch
Ice-T As Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola	Dann Florek As Captain Donald Cragen
Tamara Tunie As Dr. Melinda Warner, M.E.	Christopher Meloni As Detective Elliot Stabler
B. D. Wong As Dr. George Huang	Steven Zirnkilton As Opening Narration (uncredited)

Recap

A young child was found on a carousel, he is declared dead on the scene. The coroner comes to the scene and determines that he had been dead for an hour. There are no hits on the Missing Persons list, but surveillance camera spotted him getting out of the cab two hours prior to their arrival, meaning he was alive for an hour after the cab dropped him off. When the detectives go to the place of work of the taxi driver, his boss shows that he is not where he should be, but instead is in the woods. His name is Joe Gilbert. The boy, whose name is Ethan, is the nephew of Joe. Medical examination says his lung was punctured, which broke his rib. For all they could determine, this was accidental, therefore it is inconclusive. On the day he was found, he complained of a stomach ache. The mother says that there was a kid at school who had been bullying him, and that he may have gone too far. It comes out later that Uncle Joe was teaching the boy how to fight...

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• Creator	Dick Wolf
• Executive Producer	Ted Kotcheff  |  Neal Baer  |  Peter Jankowski  |  Dick Wolf
• Co-Executive Producer	Dawn DeNoon  |  Peter Leto  |  Arthur W. Forney  |  Jonathan Greene (1)  |  Daniel Truly
• Supervising Producer	Randy Roberts
• Producer	David DeClerque  |  Gail Barringer
• Co-Producer	Speed Weed
• Consulting Producer	Judith McCreary
• Production Designer	Jeff Crye
• Editor	Karen I. Stern
• Casting	Lynn Kressel
• Music	Mike Post
• Director of Photography	Tom Weston (2)