: Lewis forces a bound and beaten Benson on a violent road trip. During this time, he murders the father and assaults the mother of his own former defense attorney in front of her. He even shoots a rookie officer who attempts to pull them over.

The nightmare begins at the end of Season 14, when Benson returns home to find a serial rapist and killer named waiting for her in her apartment. Over the course of the "Surrender Benson" episode, Lewis abducts her and subjects her to a brutal period of captivity and psychological torture. The Ordeal

: Hargitay has described filming this episode as the hardest of her life, stating she had to "go to places inside myself I didn't even know existed".