Law & Order: Special Victims Unit:
Season:     13     / Episode:     1    
Scorched Earth

Danny and Jackie are initially assigned the case of a bride who is murdered in a drive-by gang shooting on her wedding day, but Danny gets pulled off to protect the unpopular leader of a foreign nation who is in town for an operation and believed to be an assassination target. Vinny Cruz arrests a young man who proves critical to the drive-by shooting investigation, but Jamie is worried that his partner performed an unjustified stop of the suspect that will jeopardize the case.

1Michael looks all over Miami for Anson, but does not have very much time to find him. An old nemesis, Agent Bly (Alex Carter), interrogates Fiona after she is arrested. Bly tries to get Fiona to give up information on Michael's involvement by saying he died in a truck explosion. Fiona sees through the deception and stays with her story that she acted alone at the British consulate. Michael, Sam and Pearce corner Anson at a chemical plant. As Michael is about to bring him in, Anson reveals a dead-man switch that will trigger a bomb in the plant, and Michael allows him to escape. Michael warns the others, who make for the exits. Pearce and a colleague make it out in time, but Sam stays behind to free a hostage that Anson had chained to a pole. After the plant explodes, several seconds pass before it is revealed that Sam and the hostage got out alive. Meanwhile, Jesse and Madeline deal with a paranoid Army Ranger patient of Anson's, whom the latter sent to Madeline's home in order to buy time. Pearce alerts every major agency about Anson, putting him on every watchlist.