The team investigates the torture of a elderly senile woman, leading them to her son, grandson, and nursing home. Benson and Stabler eliminate her son and grandson as suspects. Upon investigating her nursing home they find her grandson's friend, who works there, lost his temper and burnt her repeatedly, explaining her wounds and ending the initial investigation. The elderly woman then suddenly experiences cardiac arrest and is saved by the woman who runs the nursing home. It is later revealed the woman running the nursing home injects some of her patients with the same medicine that would save a dying person's life, but will put a healthy person's life in jeopardy. After she revives the patient she enjoys looking like a hero and the attention that follows.