They have a suspect - the girls' tennis coach. They found a relative on a genealogical website. Benson says this is pretty old school even if it's higher tech. Amaro says they can search ancestry sites now. So the DNA is inconclusive, which does nothing for Ian. Rollins thinks Burton is still into Olivia and that's why he's here. He loved Haley.Īnother flashback (fantasy?) where Benson recalls saying she said yes to Burton because she wanted to get away from her mother. He ran home and his parents took him to the hospital and he was so messed up he thought he did it. He heard footsteps on the gravel and someone hit him over the head and kidnapped Haley. He lit a cigarette and then they kissed and started making out.
Ian jogs down the track, worrying the cops guarding him. He looks upset as he stares out at the track. Anyway Ian arrives for a cognitive reenactment - favor from Carisi. It turns out that her mother interfered, telling her that Burton had another girlfriend and Burton that he'd be expelled if he ever contacted Olivia again. Amaro understands the science and by the way is working on a biophysics degree.īenson talks to Burton. The kit has been in freezer purgatory all this time. Amaro says all he needs is 15 cells of DNA. Ian could have been out on parole but he refused to apologize when he was innocent. But Ian had a concussion and was knocked out before Haley was killed. the case? Benson said she called Cragen and that Ian had confessed. In the present, Burton says Serena would have been proud. There is a flashback of younger Benson telling Novak that her mom set her up with someone when she was 21 who wanted to marry her. He walks in and it turns out that he and Olivia know each other. Amaro is looking into the case.Ī crime writer named Burton Low comes to see Amaro. They had arrested someone who recanted his confession. He now works in forensic science, solving cold cases (hah!) He has a case from 1996 he wants to reopen. She doesn't really want to talk about Serena.Īt work, Amaro is there to surprise her. After a flashback of Serena telling her not to be a cop, Benson answers Noah's question about how old she would be.