Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Season 10, Episode 8

Persona

A woman named Mia (Clea Duvall) claims to have been raped in an alley to hide being abused and raped by her husband (Nathaniel Marston). Benson gets her to admit the abuse, but Mia recants which ends in her murder at the hands of her husband. While solving this crime, Benson stumbles upon another case of spousal abuse and murder which involves Mia's older neighbor Linnie (Brenda Blethyn) who is revealed to have been involved in an abusive relationship, which ended when she killed her former husband, and escaped custody under the supervision of Judge Donnely (Judith Light), who was greatly humiliated as a result.