Rude Boy
When singer Micha Green (Tiffany Robinson) walks into a studio to see her boyfriend, fellow artist Caleb Bryant (Eugene Jones), hitting on a backup singer and confronts him, he punches and chokes her.
"They should go on a double date with Chris Brown and Rihanna," says Munch (Richard Belzer), saving us the trouble, because duh.
Caleb's assault takes place in front of several witnesses; Caleb goes on TV (in a bowtie) to express his contrition to Wendy Williams (as herself), not Larry King; Micha isn't Barbadian. There are more differences, but we'll get there.
"Call my Jew." - Caleb.
When Caleb has to go to court for violating an order of protection by getting within 1000 yards of Micha, and the judge somehow lets him slide on the grounds that Caleb thought he didn't have to observe the order if Micha invited him to, Amaro (Danny Pino) pretends to see a gun in Caleb's jacket in order to frisk him and trump up a reason to get Caleb into a holding cell. Sure, he gets lucky and finds half a gram of weed, but still.
Obviously, Benson (Mariska Hargitay), who we learn has led a seminar about domestic abusers that Barba (Raúl Esparza) has taken and learned well. (When she notes, "Look: when an offender strangles his victim, he's ten times more likely to kill his victim," he recites the statistic along with her.)
Micha eventually drops the assault charge against Caleb; though the order of protection still stands, he follows her to a release party for their single. At the party, her producer and mentor Brass (Charles Malik Whitfield) calls Fin (Ice-T) to report that Caleb has shown up, upon which Caleb gets enraged and shoots Brass point-blank in the chest, killing him. Micha spends a few hours pretending not to have seen anything, but finally tells Benson and Barba what happened and promises to testify to the Grand Jury...except, when it comes down to it, she lies on the stand, and takes off to Bermuda on vacation with Caleb. While there, he gets a text. She conversationally asks whom it's from, he gets mad, and...cut to a shrine in her honour, because her dead body has been found floating beside their yacht. So the two people Caleb kills are another place the Caleb Bryant story diverges from Chris Brown's (as of the time of this writing, anyway; characters in the episode get many opportunities to warn Rihanna through the TV: "We know that when men do this once, they do it again. The bottom line here is that you are not safe"; "I saw a woman who's traumatized who doesn't realize the danger that she's in"; "That's not love, that's brainwashing"). So, long story short, there's no verdict, because the star witness in Brass's murder gets killed, apparently by the same perpetrator.
"Look, my dad used to talk with his fists," says Amaro. "I know Caleb. He's a real threat to that girl." Here's hoping Rihanna heard that one too.