Exorbitant Tuition Can't Protect Your Sons From Handsy Teachers At Manor Hill (Read: Horace Mann)

Initial Crime

After stopping by the SVU squad to try to get a cop to talk with him about a letter he's received, Harold Lassiter (Alvin Epstein) is found in his home, having hanged himself; one of Amaro's (Danny Pino) business cards is next to him.

Real Crime

Lassiter is retired from an exclusive private boys' school, Manor Hill, where several teachers were known to have sexually abused students, which the administration covered up.

Headlines This Was Ripped From

Reports of decades of abuse by teachers at Horace Mann Academy.

How Was the Real Story Fictionalized?

They changed the name of the school? Other than that, it's not really that different, including a disgraced teacher who committed suicide.

Famous Guest Star Who Obviously Did It

Charles Grodin, doing his best Dick Cheney as Brett Forrester, a highly placed Manor Hill board member who participated in the cover-up. Also, oops, his own kid Nathan (Anthony Rapp) is one of the worst predator's victims!

Who on the SVU Team Is Taking It Personally?

Benson (Mariska Hargitay), who gets emotionally involved in a Manor Hill sexual abuse survivors' group and starts yammering on to Barba (Raúl Esparza) about the crime victims getting closure.

Verdict

The statute of limitations seems to have run out on criminal charges, but Forrester finally takes responsibility for his part in the scandal and pledges before staff and alumni to conduct an investigation.

Revelations about the Continuing Characters' Personal Lives That We Should Remember Going Forward

Benson says something shitty to Amaro about blowing off Lassiter -- as if he could have known what was going to happen -- so those two are still beefing, apparently.