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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- 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.
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Not one of the more memorable ones
Season 10 and 11 of SVU are where the series started getting goofier and more overtly political, and this episode takes the cake for it. The pacing is poor, about a third of the story is taken up by a secret testimony from a character who just sits there and talks (very little of what he has to say is interesting or engaging), and the ending is overdramatic and saccharine. The acting from the usual cast is good as always, the soundtrack is well-written but not particularly noteworthy, and the cinematography is quite good. Other than that, it's all downhill from there.
The main villain is this walking, talking Soviet-esque stereotype who looks like an imploding Elon Musk and is about as complex and deep an antagonist as that. When he's not winking at the arresting officers and making silly comments, he's making weird faces for no apparent reason. The show also has this bizarre subplot with a witness to a crime and his name is "Flossy" (he's a hobo who lives in his own car and likes to clean his teeth in front of other people). I don't really get it, whether this was stuck into the show as some sort of humor shtick or if it was just a strange way to fill airtime. It was annoying and wholly unnecessary, although the actor who plays "Flossy" does a decent job.
Then there's the social commentary on "anchor babies" (infants of illegal immigrants born on American soil and thus granted automatic citizenship). The episode approaches the topic with an entirely one-sided progressive absolutism that comes across as sanctimonious and fails to address the very real harm done to women and children as a result of the "anchor babies" issue. One man is even called a "racist" in the episode for criticizing the issue, despite the fact that the pregnant woman in question is whiter than an albino polar bear. Picking an actress with perfect teeth, a wide smile like she just won the lottery and styled hair might not have been the best choice if the show's goal was to make people sympathetic with struggling immigrant mothers. SVU has always leaned more towards the liberal side but still always, generally speaking, managed to effectively illustrate that there are multiple legitimate sides to every political issue. Not so here, an unfortunate trend that comes to follow the entirety of the series going forward from these last couple of seasons.
This entire episode was weird, wrapped up way too cleanly and perfectly to be real, and its sociopolitical commentary is problematic at best. The absurdly implausible end reveal is the cherry on top.
The main villain is this walking, talking Soviet-esque stereotype who looks like an imploding Elon Musk and is about as complex and deep an antagonist as that. When he's not winking at the arresting officers and making silly comments, he's making weird faces for no apparent reason. The show also has this bizarre subplot with a witness to a crime and his name is "Flossy" (he's a hobo who lives in his own car and likes to clean his teeth in front of other people). I don't really get it, whether this was stuck into the show as some sort of humor shtick or if it was just a strange way to fill airtime. It was annoying and wholly unnecessary, although the actor who plays "Flossy" does a decent job.
Then there's the social commentary on "anchor babies" (infants of illegal immigrants born on American soil and thus granted automatic citizenship). The episode approaches the topic with an entirely one-sided progressive absolutism that comes across as sanctimonious and fails to address the very real harm done to women and children as a result of the "anchor babies" issue. One man is even called a "racist" in the episode for criticizing the issue, despite the fact that the pregnant woman in question is whiter than an albino polar bear. Picking an actress with perfect teeth, a wide smile like she just won the lottery and styled hair might not have been the best choice if the show's goal was to make people sympathetic with struggling immigrant mothers. SVU has always leaned more towards the liberal side but still always, generally speaking, managed to effectively illustrate that there are multiple legitimate sides to every political issue. Not so here, an unfortunate trend that comes to follow the entirety of the series going forward from these last couple of seasons.
This entire episode was weird, wrapped up way too cleanly and perfectly to be real, and its sociopolitical commentary is problematic at best. The absurdly implausible end reveal is the cherry on top.
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