Law & Order: SVU and Chicago PD

After Severide found the pictures he got Detectives Lindsay and Voight from Chicago PD into the mix. After realizing that her half-brother was in a few of the photos, Lindsay called Detective Rollins from New York, the last known location that Lindsay had for her sibling. 

After Lindsay and Jay Halsted arrived in New York, the search for Lindsay's half-brother, Teddy began. They wanted to find Teddy not only to get him off the street but to also shut down the child pornography ring, a live Internet broadcast with a young boy (Henry) being forced to perform viewer requests no matter how bad was just hours away.

After tracking Henry to the youth center where he was last seen, the cops are led to high school senior Jocelyn. She's a survivor of these perverts, and that's how she knows Teddy. Last she heard about him, he was working at the piers.

Teddy isn't in a good position; the piers are a hot spot for hustling. Teddy doesn't want to help the cops. Benson, tried to connect with him by giving him an extra blanket in his cell. She plays to his conscience, explaining that the men who ruined him 10 years ago are still doing it to other children. 

Benson and Lindsay go to Jocelyn again, they mention how they found Teddy and how they are trying to bust a sex ring. Jocelyn then runs off without saying anything. It turns out that the same men, in addition to being assaulted by Teddy, tortured her. When confronted by Jocelyn, Teddy tells her that he only did it because he knew the other men would be much worse. 

Benson then finds out that the security guard at the youth center is a part of the sex ring. He was found to be responsible for handing over kids form the center to the child abusers in return for money. His excuse was he needed the money for his own children, who were in college. When he went to run away Benson took him down. 

Voight roughed up the security guard a bit, and even though he probably deserved it, Benson stopped Voight. She even made a reference to her former partner, Detective Elliott Stabler, who also had a hot temper. She said she wouldn't tolerate Voight's behavior, especially because he has no jurisdiction in New York and she wouldn't hesitate to lock him up if he did it again.

The only way they could get Jocelyn to talk was through Benson and Voight pretending to be Henry's parents. Once see spoke up, the police were able to find the people that were doing this, they broke in the door of the hideout where Henry was. They arrested the guy but then they found out the ring is based out of Chicago not New York and its bigger than they thought it was.

And then Jocelyn and Teddy remember a man who might be the one who captured Henry, all they have is his name, everyone wants to track him down. They do find Bob Clinton, just in time too. He was about to pin Henry down when they broke in and took him to jail. When Clinton was taken in, a video feed shows that another young girl will soon face the same things Henry did. Clinton says he will only talk if they give him immunity, so Benson sends him down to the holding cell while he 'thinks things over'. Clinton tells them there is someone higher up running the show.

Then back in Chicago Andrew Lewella (the man who was responsible for financing the child pornography) and a police officer were shot. Surveillance footage doesn’t show much, but then Roman notices a little detail about the killer, his ear is disfigured. Then looking at Lewella’s payments, Rozek notices there’s one payment about 5k a month that goes to some nursing facility in Oak Brook. It’s suspicious because he didn’t have any family.

They then visit the nursing home and are guided towards Mrs. Hughes, one of the residents. She doesn’t know Lewella or that he is making her payments, she thought her daughter Matilda was. They track down Matilda, who works at the Department of Health and Children Services. But she hasn’t been heard from in 3 days. They go to her house to find her dead.

Back at the precinct, the gang is going through files when Erin stumbles upon her brother’s file. She never knew he was in the system nor did she know he was assigned to a foster family for 2-months. The file shows that the Widing’s currently have two foster children 9-year-old Amy and 13-year-old Chris. She and Rollins pay the family a little visit, hoping to get some answers. Sam Widing opens the door and tells them to wait so he can put the dog away. In that moment, Rollins gets a call notifying her that Jill; Sam’s wife has been dead for a while, yet she’s still listed as a foster parent on the file, obviously, suspicious. They enter the house and find Sam upstairs with a gun in his hand, repeating, “I’m sick” over and over again. They try to talk him down and let him know he can get some help as long as he tells them where Amy and Chris are, but it doesn’t work. Sam blows his brains out.

We now know a Department of Health and Children Services employee was responsible for funneling kids to foster parent Sam Widing. With help from Lewella they were able to send the kids to New York from Chicago where Clinton took the pictures and committed the abuse.

Roman and Burgess took the picture of the shooter with the disfigured ear to different MMA fighting rings and they finally get an ID on the shooter, Todd Ledbetter. He’s got a warrant out for his arrest and he is also registered as a sex offender. A witness tells them about a house he was last seen entering. As they close in, Ledbetter escapes through the roof, jumping from building to building. Eventually, Ledbetter tries to jump onto another roof but doesn’t make it and falls to his death.

The rest of the unit burst into the house and find the little girl; Amy, tied up to a chair. Amy finds comfort in Lindsay’s arms. Amy tells them that the big man took her brother Chris from the house. Latter Lindsay tells Voight that she wants Amy to stay at her house until she finds someone she trusts to adopt her. That goes against rules, but Voight asks Platt for the favor, to which she agrees.

Lindsay’s mom finds Teddy and convinces him to help. She takes him to the office where he notices the man on the board. Matilda’s boss at the Department of Health and Children Services! They bring him into Voight’s torture chamber because he doesn’t want to say he is involved. Benson then comes down and tells him to stop and let her handle it. She tells him that he can redeem himself, he can turn his life around despite all the bad he has done and “still feel the sun” on his face in jail. All he has to do is tell them where Chris is, which he does. They find the second house and find Chris locked in a room, he is scared, but he is safe.

The deceased officers wife and daughter are picking up their fathers things from the station. As they exit they are surrounded by a salute of officers who gathered outside to honor the fallen officer.

Lindsay then goes to Amy, and tells her that she found a nice family that she trusts. Also they want to adopt her and her brother Chris. And Lindsay is going to join them for dinner to meet the family and see Amy’s new room.