Shout-outs to Leener, Sars, and Rona.
Also, a big, wet, juicy, tie your mother down, give me all your love tonight Happy Birthday shout-out to Chris Meloni, who celebrated his natal anniversary on April second.
And so it begins in an apartment, where in a mirror we see a robed body with long blonde hair. Benson enters the room and the M.E. guy tells her that the victim, Layla Briggs, hanged herself from her bed. Huh? Oh, right, it's a big ol' four post canopy job. Whatever. Anyway, he takes off the robe as the camera follows Benson around the room, so that we see Layla's back and Benson sees her front. There are scars and welts and burns (oh my!) all over the victim's back, and I guess the opposite view is rather colorful, because Benson wonders aloud, "Is there anything she didn't pierce?" The M.E. figures she's got "so much steel in her, it must set off metal detectors." "Not to mention the burn marks," replies Benson. My boyfriend Elliot Stabler theorizes that they "could be self-inflicted," as the camera finally finds his fabulous form. Hi, honey! He wonders if they have any reason to believe this isn't a suicide. M.E. Boy tells them the robe was tied over Layla's folded arms. Stabler doesn't see the difficulty in that, and Benson is all, "Wait. The robe was open; did you open it?" M.E. Boy apparently missed the day in M.E. school where they talked about not disrupting a potential crime scene, because his feeble, whiny reply is that he "was told it was a suicide. [He] had to examine the body." Even the victim is rolling her eyes at this one, as we see the left half of her dead-ass face every time the camera cuts to Stabler. Stabler asks another cop if any of his men disturbed the body. Copper man says his first instinct was suicide, and he called the SVU as soon as he thought otherwise. Benson and Stabler are justifiably pissed. Roll skeevy credits.