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

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.

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