I missed the last episode... can someone recap for me? Thanks so much!
I got these from tv.com:
After a van containing two young children ends up in the river, Beck finds herself drawn to the young girl, Eden, and the investigation into a tape found in the vehicle turns up a mysterious death involving a controversial attachment therapy technique. Beck tries to do the right thing by saving Eden, only to find herself torn when it seems as though there is nothing she can do to help. The investigation into the rebirthing turns up a foster family who abuses the children in their care, but not all of the children agree that it was abuse.
(Stabler gets stabbed in the chest with a pen by a visibly upset and disturbed foster child. A little girl was found buried in the backyard after she suffocated from 'rebirthing' therapy. They find out a couple has been 'collecting' and mistreating foster children just for the government checks. Dani brought Elle back to live with her and she sets the couch on fire. She wanted to die in the fire and she's sent to a foster home. After that, Dani realizes she can't do any of this.)
Elliot Stabler: John, what do we got?
John Munch: Van tried to take a shortcut to Brooklyn. River got in the way.
Casey Novak: The defense can argue that during the missing sections of the tape, an alien spaceship came down and squashed the girl with a giant pumpkin.
Dani Beck: I can't do this.
Elliot Stabler: Why?
Dani Beck: I fix things. That's who I am. And I can't fix the little girl.
Elliot Stabler: That's not what we do.
Dani Beck: But you want to. And I thought I could.
(crying) How do you keep doing this job?
Elliot Stabler: Because I have to.
Dani Beck: Why? We don't make a difference.
Elliot Stabler: Dani, you can do this.
Dani Beck: Are you asking me to stay?
Elliot Stabler:
(long pause) Dani, I can't. You've got to be here for yourself, not for me.
Dani Beck:
(in a whisper) Yeah.
(long pause) Bye Elliot.
(He watches her as she walks away, visibly upset.)