A mother reports a case of statutory rape in an effort to keep her teenager daughter's twenty-one year old boyfriend away from her. The girl makes it impossible for SVU involvement when she claims that she and her boyfriend have never had sexual relations. Following their release, the mother is found murdered in her apartment and the boyfriend is the prime suspect. In the end we find that the daughter is guilty of the crime, and Olivia convinces Novak to plead her out because of her own personal connection to their mother-daughter relationship.