The IRL-premise for this episode is the so-called "Ground Zero Mosque" NYC developer/arbitrage scam from a few years back, specifically the reaction to the project from Bitter Clingers out of central casting, refracted through a complex infiltration fiasco with various alphabet groups tugging on the strings. It goes in the pile of vaguely similar L&O SVU episodes in which they try to aggrandize the city sex-crimes cops via teaming up with feds-- which can be enjoyable, when they're working/competing with a charismatic Fibbie, or DEA, or Coast Guard cadet or whatever; unfortunately this time they got a "feisty" agent played by Harden who attempts to be Gene Hackman while throwing pointless roadblocks into the detectives' way. The use of the story-arc with Benson's young ward is teased but not worked into the plot meaningfully. Substandard sequencing and even a bit tepid on the Urban Tragedy element (i.e. there's no one even remotely sympathetic in this story), noticeably for a series that is usually the most melodramatic of the Dick Wolf spin-offs anyway. Feels like a bad ABC/Disney pilot starring Kerry Washington or something you'd stumble across on basic cable, particularly the Turner channels.