Saturday, January 1 2005

LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT --(10:00PM-11:00PM) --(TV-14)

"Conscience"

A BOY IS KILLED AT THE HANDS OF A DISTURBED NEIGHBOR--KYLE MACLACHLAN GUEST STARS -- When a five-year-old boy disappears from a playground, Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Stabler (Chris Meloni) are on the scene, searching for suspects. They meet the boy's thirteen-year-old neighbor, Jake (guest star Jordan Garrett) who witnessed the boy being watched by a man earlier that day. The case takes a grim turn, when the boy is discovered dead by suffocation and all clues lead to Jake as the killer. Jake admits his crime but claims he has been mentally unstable since he suffered abuse at a camp he attended upon suggestion of the victim's psychiatrist father (guest star Kyle Mclachlan, "Sex & the City"). Tamara Tuni also guest stars. Richard Belzer, Ice-T, Diane Neal, B.D. Wong and Dann Florek also star.