When the SVU investigates a case involving two students in a special needs school, Rollins discovers that one child's medical issues stem from a surprising source.When the SVU investigates a case involving two students in a special needs school, Rollins discovers that one child's medical issues stem from a surprising source.When the SVU investigates a case involving two students in a special needs school, Rollins discovers that one child's medical issues stem from a surprising source.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola
- (as Ice T)
- Lou McLaughlin
- (as George Sheffey)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis episode was loosely based off the case of Gypsy Rose Blanchard and her mother, Dee Dee Blanchard.
- GoofsBarba risks his job and his license to practice law by intentionally causing a mistrial and then asking the judge to move the case to family court, thereby allowing Mariel to be sentenced as a minor because he felt that she didn't deserve the prospect of spending the next 25 years in prison for being convicted as an adult for second degree murder. However he didn't need to take this tremendous risk, as an ADA he had the authority to offer Mariel a plea bargain considering the extenuating circumstances of the case. Mariel was obviously under extreme emotional distress after the years of abuse she suffered at her mothers hands, so it would of been perfectly reasonable for Barba to plead her down to manslaughter in the first degree and recommend she be sentenced as a minor, meaning she would only have to spend three years in a juvenile facility.
- Quotes
Olivia Benson: There you are.
Rafael Barba: What are you doing here?
Olivia Benson: I was in the building, checking in with Dodds. You know I got to come back to work eventually. You okay? I heard Judge Barth read you the riot act.
Rafael Barba: I deserved it.
Olivia Benson: Well, whether you deserved it or not, I have absolute faith in your humanity.
- ConnectionsReferences Mommy Dead and Dearest (2017)
But the treatment is as gee whiz as a soft porn movie but minus the cheap thrills. I don't see how that can work, but script here tries by having the star of the show (Kelli Giddish) a female cop/single mother, identifying heavily with both the mom and kid -sort of how an audience might feel. But that gimmick was a contrivance -unconvincing.
So we're asked to wallow in sleaze that isn't sleazy because it's a squeaky clean network tv show. The SVU team couldn't solve this Catch-22, damned if you do and damned if you don't situation, but in the spirit of Wolf's gimmicky "torn from the headlines" overall concept it's full speed ahead for a crappy episode, replete with a convenient sugar-coated utterly phony sort of happy ending.
As the misfortunate kid, Erin Wilhelmi, looks like a teen version of the late Sondra Locke, but is hampered with this unplayable material.
- lor_
- Jul 2, 2023
Details
- Runtime43 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 16:9 HD