Sipowicz and Clark go to arrest a shooting suspect and Sipowicz ends up pushing a woman down to the floor; a bystander informs them she's Money T's woman, and Sipowicz is in danger. Medavoy and Jones catch the case of an older woman who has been severely beaten and bound with tape. A friend of Clark's shows up at the 15th to tell Clark his name has come up in the investigation of a murdered prostitute.

A call comes in from the FBI reporting a bomb threat at the Family Court building; as the detectives evacuate the building, McDowell and Ortiz witness a letter bomb explode in a Judge's chamber. Clark gets grief from the uniforms about his involvement with a prostitute and is called in to talk to IAB, where Fraker informs him he is a suspect in her murder.

Sipowicz and Clark catch a DOA who has been shot in his apartment, once in the groin and once in the head, his gun lying at his side. Medavoy and Jones respond to a shoot-out at a food mart, where the store owner chased out and may have shot the Hispanic robber. A few blocks away, McDowell and Ortiz respond to a Hispanic man who claims he was shot by a robber down the street. Connie has a visit from her very pregnant sister, who is sporting a black eye given to her by her husband.

Sipowicz and Clark respond to a call about a missing 5-year old girl whose father claims that he notified a friend's nanny to watch her while he went to the bathroom. McDowell and Ortiz, soon joined by Medavoy and Jones, catch the case of a seventeen year old girl who was dragged by a car and then shot. Connie, after finding her sister has once again been beaten by her husband, Frank, has him arrested.

Sipowicz and Clark work the case of a 16 year old boy stabbed to death for his fancy new bicycle; Medavoy and Jones also work the case. Connie once again finds her sister Michelle badly beaten and bleeding and has an ambulance take her to the hospital; Ortiz heads out to find Frank.

The detectives investigate the fatal shooting of a police officer. A call shortly after to a break-in leads to the discovery of one of the perpetrators dead on the roof. McDowell and Ortiz are split off to investigate the kidnapping of a young adopted boy. Clark gets a call that his father is at a bar, drunk and causing problems.

Note

• Katt Williams guest stars as Martel Cates

Connie has brought her dead sister's baby home; Clark Jr. is still trying to deal with his father having been turned into an informant by IAB. A dead prostitute is found in a vacant lot; another dead woman is found in the laundry room of her building. Lt. Rodriguez meets his ex-wife Angela for lunch.

Clark and McDowell investigate the death of a 17-year-old female auxiliary cop, who turns out to have been having sex with a number of the uniform cops, including the auxiliary captain. McDowell and Ortiz respond to the firebombing of a car. Haywood asks Jones to investigate when her grandmother appears to be the victim of a phone scam. Tony continues seeing Angela.

Theo has responded negatively to Andy and Connie's announcement that he and his dad are moving into Connie's apartment. At the scene of a dead Child Protective Services worker, Carla Solomon, her neighbor thinks it is suicide, as she says Carla has been depressed lately. More disturbing, the uniforms on scene are throwing a lot of attitude at Sipowicz and Clark because all of them have been called in to talk to IAB, despite Sipowicz and Clark having solemnly promised not to inform on them. The widow of a former 15th Squad detective arrives with some of her husband's ashes, wanting to give them a permanent home at the squad. Angela's more recent ex-husband tells Rodriguez she stole his BMW.

Andy bids goodbye to his apartment, which he has sublet to a delighted John Irvin. Angela misses a breakfast date with Tony. Clark is upset and moody, having found out it was his father who informed on the uniforms. Sipowicz and Clark, with help from Medavoy and Jones, work the case of a young bipolar man who has vandalized his father's apartment; Ortiz and McDowell investigate a dead party girl, who was adopted at age eight and apparently has a history of attacking people.

Clark, Sipowicz, Medavoy, and Jones arrive at a DOA and find Laughlin back on the job, entirely ungrateful that they lobbied to have him returned to duty. The DOA is accused of trying to hijack the car of a young errand-runner for a record company. When two ounces of cocaine are found in the car, the young woman is arrested. McDowell and Ortiz find three obviously neglected small children alone at the DOA's last known address. Angela failed to meet with Tony to go to rehab last night; he is called to a DOA, who turns out to be Angela, dead of an overdose.

Note

• Lori Petty guest stars as Joyce Bradovich

An unpleasant woman is found beaten to death in her apartment. First impressions implicate the illegal immigrant who was doing work for her, but he is a weak suspect. Medavoy and Jones investigate the stabbing death of an abrasive do-gooder who rubbed everyone the wrong way with his holier-than-thou harangues. IAB arrive, on an anonymous tip, and find four ounces of heroin in Clark's car. Theo regresses and is wetting his bed, despite having stopped more than two years before.

Sipowicz works to prove that Laughlin is the one who planted the heroin in Clark's car. John is visited in jail by his father, who wants to help, but seems more upset that Clark Jr. trusts Sipowicz more than his father to clear his name. The other detectives investigate the rapes of two young women at a local park; both were with their boyfriends, who were tied up and forced to watch.

Shannon comes clean about Laughlin setting up Clark; Clark is released and Laughlin arrested. Clark Sr., shows up at the station house, drunk, and shouts at the uniforms that he was the one who informed, not his son. A wealthy gay man, who has been serving as an unofficial halfway-house for newly-released convicts, is found dead, as is an activist working to help young gang women get out of their gangs.

Andy and Connie are having a hard time blending their lives, to the point that Andy hints at John Irvin he might want his apartment back. Cases investigated are a man robbed in a Murphy scam with a transvestite hooker and a young Pakistani woman who appears to be the victim of an "honor killing" by her father.

Julian Pisano, the half-helpful, half-worthless snitch from Season 9, is shot and wounded during what he claims was a carjacking, though Andy and Clark Jr. don't really buy his story. Connie and Rita catch a case where a woman was scammed for $100 in the street; the woman gets increasingly annoyed and complains to a high level of the NYPD when she feels her case is being neglected. Clark goes to check on his father and finds he has committed suicide; Andy quickly finds Clark Sr.'s gun cleaning kit so he can arrange the death to appear to be an accident.

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While investigating a drug dealer's murder, Baldwin and Greg end up in a shootout with the suspect, which results in the death of a 13-year-old boy, an apparent innocent bystander. Rita and Connie investigate the death of a belligerent drunk, who is found a long way outside his usual orbit.

Things are uneasy between John and Rita after their breakup over his inability to accept her offer to help him deal with his father's suicide. One of the cases investigated is the murder of a record promoter, next to whom is a note reading "Die bitch". The other is the assault of a mail-order bride from Russia, whose husband has obviously tired of her. Valerie tells Baldwin about threats she has been receiving.

In court to finalize her adoption of her dead sister's daughter, Connie and Andy are blindsided by the abusive father's parents, who challenge Connie and Andy's fitness as parents. A Nigerian man is killed, possibly having been mistaken for his petty criminal brother. McDowell and Ortiz investigate when a waitress complains of being stalked by a doctor. Valerie is beaten up, and Baldwin tries to make good on the threats he made against the man the week before.

The squad continues to work to help Connie keep custody of baby Michelle by researching the Colahans. Medavoy discovers that Frank had a sister no one knew about, who had some sort of crisis, turning from a happy child to a withdrawn teenager. Medavoy gets a break in the beating of Valerie Heywood when fingerprints in her apartment lead to an associate of the man Baldwin threatened. An old AA friend of Sipowicz' makes the break in the case of a jerk found dead in a shop.

Andy reaches out to Diane Russell, working now in SVU, to try to get Frank's sister Adrian to open up about her relationship with her father, pointing out that if Michelle is adopted, the same thing will likely happen to her. When a mild young woman is found dead, her friends and family are unconcerned though her brother-in-law was using her apartment for affairs and her boyfriend is deep in debt to loan sharks. John and Dr. Jennifer Devlin kindle a torrid relationship.

• Note - Kim Delaney returns in an appearance as Diane Russell

Rita is finding it harder to deal with John's flaunting of his relationship with Jennifer and requests a transfer. Andy and Connie plan an "under-the-radar" wedding. When a Korean, a Pakistani, and an Arabian-American are all gunned down, initial suspicion falls on a Korean young man, posing as an honors student while running a gang. Fraker shows up at the squad, ranting at both Sipowicz and Rodriguez after the revelation of his affair, which neither had a hand in revealing.