“LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT” “WITNESS”

03/17/2010 (10:00PM – 11:00PM) (Wednesday)

WHEN A PROMISCUOUS YOUNG GIRL CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN RAPED, DETECTIVES BENSON (MARISKA HARGITAY) AND STABLER (CHRIS MELONI) MUST PROVE THAT SHE IS TELLING THE TRUTH.

Soon after a young girl, Laine McAlister (guest star Diora Baird), is raped in her apartment building’s stairwell, Detectives Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Eliot Stabler (Chris Meloni) meet Laine in the hospital and find her extremely shaken with a large cut on her hand. After an unpleasant exchange with a man she claims is her boyfriend, the detectives become suspicious that she may have fabricated her rape to get attention.

Their suspicions grow when she waits to reveal that there was an eyewitness. As the gravity of the situation intensifies, Benson and Stabler find themselves in a race to track down the witness and get a testimony before it is too late. Also starring: Ice-T (Detective Odafin Tutuola), Richard Belzer (Detective John Munch), Tamara Tunie (Dr. Melinda Warner), and B.D. Wong (Dr. George Huang).

Note: Last minute change:

03/17/2010 (09:00PM – 10:00PM) (Wednesday) : A WOMAN FOUND DEAD AND TO HAVE BEEN HIV-POSITIVE, THE SEARCH THEN BEGINS FOR THE MAN WHO’S KNOWINGLY SPREADING THE VIRUS
When seventeen year-old Andrea McWilliams is found strangled and beaten to death in an alley, her ex-boyfriend leads the cops to a website that McWilliams used to meet up with random men . Detective Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) decides to create a user account for the site and finds womanizer Peter Butler (guest star Brian Geraghty), the man who met up with McWilliams. The case is closed when a different suspect is proven guilty of her murder, and a new one opens when McWilliams rape kit tests positive for HIV. Not only is HIV spreading as a result of countless attacks, but now the detectives must also catch a rapist on the loose. Also starring: Chris Meloni (Detective Elliot Stabler), Dann Florek (Captain Donald Hagen), Richard Belzer (Detective John Munch), Ice-T (Detective Odafin Tutuola), Stephanie March (ADA Alexandra Cabot), B.D. Wong (Dr. George Huang), Tamara Tunie (M.E. Warner) and guest star Jack Larson (Dewey Butler).

Source: NBC Press Release