[s23e12] Tommy Baker's Hardest Fight -

is the 12th episode of the 23rd season of the long-running police procedural Law & Order: Special Victims Unit . It originally aired on January 20, 2022, on NBC . Plot Overview

The episode begins when Tommy Baker, a popular undefeated professional boxer, fails to show up for the biggest match of his career. The investigation quickly transitions from a missing person case to a violent crime when Tommy is discovered barely alive in a car, having been brutally attacked. Detectives Rollins and Velasco uncover that Tommy had been living a "double life"; while married to his childhood best friend, Chrissy, he was secretly dating a man named Phil. [S23E12] Tommy Baker's Hardest Fight

Tommy intended to come out publicly after his upcoming victory and had planned a visibility campaign. is the 12th episode of the 23rd season