When a therapist (played by Shirley Knight) helps an 18 years old Meghan Ramsey (played by Kelly Hutchinson) recall her childhood molestation by her father (played by Brian Kerwin), she reports the incest to detectives Benson and Stabler hoping it would spare her younger sisters from suffering the same fate. At first her mother (played by Amy Irving) does not believe her, but eventually her entire family turns on the father ignoring his protests that are assisted by the discovery of tainted evidence. The whole fragile family later becomes a suspect when the father is punished outside the legal system.