Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 7, Episode 2 : Design

About Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 7, Episode 2 : Design

Benson saves April Troost (Estella Warren) from committing suicide, but feels responsible when Troost dies during the trial of the man she accuses of raping her and getting her pregnant. It isn't long before detectives learn that Barclay Pallister (Julian Sands) wasn't the only man April picked up in a bar who has no recollection of sleeping with her, and the squad realizes that Troost was no victim. Their search takes them from prospective parents looking to adopt her child to the men she drugged and accosted to the sperm center she used to work at, which ends up at the center of the case. Finally, its revealed that April is in fact a con artist who was playing them all along and was never raped; in fact, she was the rapist of several men. She also isn't dead: she faked it and the suicide attempt. With the help of her father, Olivia finds and arrests her for fraud, but she uses the baby to force them to give her a deal of no jail time in order to find out where it is, although when April leaves, she does express the hope that the baby has a better chance at a good life than she did. It turns out her mother had the baby and was in on the fraud, as well. Benson and Stabler get the baby (Sarah) and she's turned over to its biological father. However, Benson is sure they haven't seen the last of April and her mother. This is a crossover episode with the Law & Order episode Guest Stars: Estella Warren, Peter Riegert, Mark McGrath, Lynda Carter, Julian Sands, Ronny Cox, Bobby Flay, Caren Browning, Jill Marie Lawrence, Tom O'Rourke, Mike Doyle, Jesse Palmer, Rob Devaney, Caroline McMahon, Jeffrey Doornbos, Kate Hampton, Frank Rivers, Jim Hendricks, Rick Gifford, Joe Napoleone, Mary Ellen Ashley, Amanda Rowan, Furaha Moye, Rick Johnson, Gloria Colonnello,