Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Season 7, Episode 5 - ProjectFreeTV

7 - 5: Strain

The discovery of the bodies of two young gay men who were both meth addicts as well as victims of a new strain of HIV that can kill its victims in less than a year leads to an investigation. Tutuola learns that his son, Ken (Ernest Waddell) is gay, and has difficulty accepting it, even though he and Benson end up going to Ken for help with infiltrating an anti-meth group. The group's leader, Gabriel (Brian Bloom), soon becomes their top suspect when the squad realizes that the two men died because they passed the disease on. Gabriel is ultimately revealed to have been the killer and is convicted, but one of the victim's father's speaks for him and offers him forgiveness and asks for a lenient sentence for him. Gabriel gets fifteen years (the minimum penalty for murder) as a result, and the man's story inspires Fin to call his son.