The team scrambles to find the group responsible for an sleepytime attempt on a UN diplomat. Whelan and Reyes find a key clue in the depths of the city's tunnel system. Stabler struggles to balance the investigation with his mother's increasing need for support.
Detective Elliot Stabler returns to the NYPD to battle organized crime after a devastating personal loss that rocks him to his core. The city and police department have changed dramatically in the decade he's been away, and he must adapt to a criminal justice system in the midst of its own moment of reckoning. Stabler journeys to find absolution and rebuild his life, while leading a new elite task force that is taking apart the city's most powerful criminal syndicates one by one.