During the 12th season of this Emmy-winning crime drama, Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni), detectives with New York's Special Victims Unit, welcome new assistant D.A. Gillian Hardwicke (Melissa Sagemiller) and face off with suspicious charmer Erik Weber (Henry Ian Cusick). Benson also aids a traumatized rape victim (Jennifer Love Hewitt) and travels to Los Angeles to process old DNA evidence.