A group of men at a bachelor party are watching an amateur porn video that appears to show a girl being raped and shot dead. They hand the video over to the police. But when Briscoe and Green trace the supposed victim, Corey Russell (Monica Keena) she's still alive. The tape was recorded over footage of a family party, which leads the detectives to Corey's classmate Shane Sutter (Peter Facinelli). Under pressure from Van Buren, Corey says Shane raped her and had his friend Kyle Winters film it. The boys are charged with rape. Now the DA's office must investigate Corey's claim that Shane and his friends, who call themselves the "Mack Rangers", have made similar videos with other girls.
The Mack Rangers compete with each other to see who can "score" the most girls, often recording a sex tape as proof. Any girls who say no risk bullying and sexual harassment. In court McCoy summons a witness who turned Shane down, so the Mack Rangers threatened her until she transferred schools. Corey says she didn't want the same to happen to her, so she initially agreed to sleep with Shane. But when Corey didn't want to be recorded, Shane raped her and staged her "death" for the camera. McCoy tells the jury about the Mack Rangers' point-scoring system, and pushes Shane to admit that he wanted to get ahead of his friends. Shane and Kyle are both convicted.
Shane's lawyer gets the verdict overturned and evidence about the Mack Rangers' "points for sex" scheme excluded. Corey does not want to go through another trial, but McCoy is determined the Mack Rangers won't go free. He decides to charge the whole group as a criminal conspiracy to rape. In exchange for immunity, one of Shane's friends agrees to testify that Shane bragged around school about raping Corey. So the other Mack Rangers accept a short jail sentence for rape rather than risk another trial. McCoy and the others reflect that the Mack Rangers clearly don't accept they did anything wrong.
This episode contains examples of:
- Boom, Headshot!: How Corey was supposedly "killed" in the movie.
- Enhance Button: They find the first clue that leads them to Shane because of a single frame of his grandmother's birthday party. This is a single frame, bad quality, yet in typical "zoom and enhance" fashion, they can zoom in on the waiter's embroidered uniform to see the name of the restaurant.
- Everybody Lives: One of the rare Law & Order episodes where nobody dies over the course of it.
- Good Victims, Bad Victims: Mr. Sutter references this and says that the girls in Shane's school "ask" for rape.
- Hands-Off Parenting: Corey's mother seems to have had very little involvement in her life.
- Oh, Crap!: The reaction of Shane's parents when McCoy shows the footage of Corey's rape in court.
- Rape as Drama: What drives the plot of the episode.
- Ripped from the Headlines: Based on the Spur Posse case.
- Skewed Priorities: Corey's mother is more concerned about what will happen if people find out her daughter's sex tape was sold, than the fact that Corey may really have been raped.
- Snuff Film: The investigation begins with what appears to be one.
- We Should Get Another Tape: The detectives are able to trace Shane because he recorded over footage of his grandmother's birthday party.
