SVU Drones On And On And On
A town car involved in a traffic accident contained a prostitute and her john; the prostitute has a bar code tattoo on her neck to mark her as the property of her pimp, a Lou Pappas (Alon Moni Aboutboul).
Another young woman with a bar code tattoo is found beaten to death; she had been pregnant.
The first prostitute, Pilar (Jamila Velazquez), had a forged visa in her passport, which was forged by someone who's suspected to be connected to a terrorist, soon to arrive in the U.S.
When the terrorist contact, Sofia (Evgeniya Radilova), is ultimately caught (she's posing as one of the prostitutes, but she's a virgin), she reveals that she is from Waziristan, and that her doctor father was killed in a drone attack, which led her to embark upon her terrorist activities, so that she could avenge his death; Googling "unmanned drone strike waziristan" will yield a sadly high number of results.
"Sexually active -- very. Scarring and fibrotic changes to the perineal tissues, vaginal and anal."
The SVU team is instructed to back off the prostitution ring when it's revealed that a joint task force with Homeland Security has jurisdiction. So the SVU-ers decide to ignore the order, and launch their own prostitution sweep, in the course of which they just may happen to arrest members of Pappas's operation. Though Lt. Eames (Criminal Intent alumna Kathryn Erbe) scolds them for going rogue, she eventually agrees to let the SVU team raid the brothel and save the day.
Due to his having been compromised in the season-premiere prostitution case, Amaro (Danny Pino) is super-touchy about this one.
Amaro's wife Maria has moved to DC with their daughter, but Amaro and Laura are still talking, and he's been there to visit. Eames still isn't over her professional breakup with her old Major Case partner Goren, as she tells Benson (Mariska Hargitay): "All that time together, the two of us. It's like we were married." "But you weren't," says Benson knowingly.