While investigating the disappearance of a pregnant woman who was raped, SVU uncovers a Bulgarian baby-smuggling ring, and ADA Marlowe is forced to be creative and deceptive to ensure a conv... Read allWhile investigating the disappearance of a pregnant woman who was raped, SVU uncovers a Bulgarian baby-smuggling ring, and ADA Marlowe is forced to be creative and deceptive to ensure a conviction.While investigating the disappearance of a pregnant woman who was raped, SVU uncovers a Bulgarian baby-smuggling ring, and ADA Marlowe is forced to be creative and deceptive to ensure a conviction.
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Did you know
- TriviaSean Cullen has played three different characters over the course of the series:
- Episode 11.22 Ace (2010) - Brett Trask
- Episode 11.16 Witness (2010) - Brett Trask
- Episode 10.17 Hell (2009) - Brett Trask
- Episode 5.24 Poison (2004) - Pete Campbell
- Episode 1.15 Entitled (2000) - Arthur Pruitt
- GoofsBenson and Stabler have to convince ADA Marlowe to arrest the suspect for raping Sophia so that he doesn't get released and flee the jurisdiction and/or rape another woman but she is hesitant to do so because they don't have Sophia to make a complaint against him. Yet Munch and Fin caught the suspect forcing another pregnant woman to walk with him at knife-point, he threatened her with harm to her unborn baby if she didn't go with him. That means they can arrest him and charge him with: kidnapping in the second degree, a class B felony with a minimum sentence of five years in prison and a maximum of 25 years; criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, a class D felony with a minimum sentence of two years in prison and a maximum of seven years; and menacing in the second degree, a class A misdemeanor with a maximum sentence of one year in jail. With the suspect's prior criminal record of sexual assault he would either be remanded or be given a high bail amount, and upon conviction he would get the maximum sentence giving them more than enough time to build a case against him for Sophia's rape. So the debate about not having cause to arrest him so he can't get away or harm another woman was redundant.
- Quotes
Dr. Kyle Beresford: Tell me something: who rapes a pregnant woman?
Detective Elliot Stabler: Well, for every kink, there's a perv with a dream.
Featured review
Not really an ace episode
Lets get a confession out of the way, the character of Jo Marlowe never did it for me as a character. Found her both annoying and flat, with an even more exaggerated mix of Greylek and Paxton (actually know fellow fans that began to appreciate Paxton after encountering Marlowe for the first time), as well as poorly written and acted. So expectations were immediately lowered when deciding to re-watch "Ace", despite the story sounding interesting on paper.
"Ace" didn't strike me as a great, or even particularly good, episode on first watch. It still on second re-watch is an episode that could have been much better and does nothing to change my mind on Marlowe. It is an improvement over the very lacklustre previous episode "Torch", at least this episode feels more like a 'Law and Order: Special Victims Unit' episode, but as far as Season 11 episodes it is somewhere around low middle with just about enough to avoid it from being one of the worst. Not a terrible episode, just not great.
It is slick looking and has a nice gritty atmosphere. The music doesn't over-emphasise the emotions and isn't overused. There is some alert and sympathetic direction in the first half and some nice tension in it in some of the second.
The regulars all do a fine job and Pasha Lychnikov is one creepy sleaze. Loved Stabler and Olivia together and their big scene lives up to the hype it got prior to the episode's airing. Delaney Williams is not one to mess with and any prosecution witness would be freaked out being cross examined by Buchanan with his brutal courtroom tactics. Cragen was brilliant, so good to have an underused character shine the most he's done this season with his dressing down of Marlowe.
Who unfortunately is as intolerable as in "Torch", she really unbalanced that episode and her corny dialogue, Sharon Stone's cheesy and flat acting and her lack of professionalism stick out like a sore thumb. It never felt like she fitted on her brief stint and never connected with the rest of the team. The dialogue is uneven, gritty and thoughtful in the first half but very out of place corny and akward with Marlowe.
Furthermore, the story is uneven too. The first half feels more like 'Special Victims Unit', whereas the second half while compelling enough feels too much like a different story entirely and one that feels like formulaic territory on the latter seasons of the original 'Law and Order'. One that did leave me distracted by Marlowe and truly improbable legalities that didn't strike me as legal.
Concluding, a long way from terrible but it really isn't 'Special Victims Unit' at its best. 6/10.
"Ace" didn't strike me as a great, or even particularly good, episode on first watch. It still on second re-watch is an episode that could have been much better and does nothing to change my mind on Marlowe. It is an improvement over the very lacklustre previous episode "Torch", at least this episode feels more like a 'Law and Order: Special Victims Unit' episode, but as far as Season 11 episodes it is somewhere around low middle with just about enough to avoid it from being one of the worst. Not a terrible episode, just not great.
It is slick looking and has a nice gritty atmosphere. The music doesn't over-emphasise the emotions and isn't overused. There is some alert and sympathetic direction in the first half and some nice tension in it in some of the second.
The regulars all do a fine job and Pasha Lychnikov is one creepy sleaze. Loved Stabler and Olivia together and their big scene lives up to the hype it got prior to the episode's airing. Delaney Williams is not one to mess with and any prosecution witness would be freaked out being cross examined by Buchanan with his brutal courtroom tactics. Cragen was brilliant, so good to have an underused character shine the most he's done this season with his dressing down of Marlowe.
Who unfortunately is as intolerable as in "Torch", she really unbalanced that episode and her corny dialogue, Sharon Stone's cheesy and flat acting and her lack of professionalism stick out like a sore thumb. It never felt like she fitted on her brief stint and never connected with the rest of the team. The dialogue is uneven, gritty and thoughtful in the first half but very out of place corny and akward with Marlowe.
Furthermore, the story is uneven too. The first half feels more like 'Special Victims Unit', whereas the second half while compelling enough feels too much like a different story entirely and one that feels like formulaic territory on the latter seasons of the original 'Law and Order'. One that did leave me distracted by Marlowe and truly improbable legalities that didn't strike me as legal.
Concluding, a long way from terrible but it really isn't 'Special Victims Unit' at its best. 6/10.
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- May 13, 2022
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