...Or Just Look Like One
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| "...Or Just Look Like One" | ||
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| ← | SVU, Episode 1.03 | → |
| Production number: E0907 First aired: 4 October 1999 | ||
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| Written By Michael R. Perry Directed By Rick Rosenthal | ||
A severely drugged, beaten and raped teen model is dumped in front of Roosevelt Hospital.
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[edit] Plot
After teen model Jazmin Burgess is dumped, beaten, and raped in front of Roosevelt Hospital, Benson and Stabler investigate to find out why a sixteen-year-old girl was out alone after midnight. High levels of drugs in Jazmin's system lead them to take a look at not only the modeling agency with which Jazmin was signed, but also the photographer who was supervising her last shoot and had booted her out because she was 'too heavy'. Stabler's disgust with the whole issue is aggravated by his and Kathy's worry that their daughter Maureen, who has been refusing to eat lately, may be anorexic.
[edit] Cast
[edit] Main cast
- Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler
- Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson
- Richard Belzer as Detective John Munch
- Dann Florek as Captain Donald Cragen
[edit] Recurring cast
- Dean Winters as Detective Brian Cassidy
- Michelle Hurd as Detective Monique Jeffries
- Carolyn McCormick as Dr. Elizabeth Olivet
- Jerry Orbach as Detective Lennie Briscoe
- Jesse L. Martin as Detective Ed Green
- Isabel Gillies as Kathy Stabler
- Erin Broderick as Maureen Stabler
- Holiday Segal as Kathleen Stabler
- Patricia Cook as Elizabeth Stabler
- Jeffrey Scaperrotta as Dickie Stabler
[edit] Guest cast
- Jerry Orbach as Detective Lennie Briscoe
- Jesse L. Martin as Detective Ed Green
- Bebe Neuwirth as Nina Laszlo
- Catherine Dent as Deborah Latrell
- Ritchie Coster as Carlo Parisi
- Damian Young as Hampton Trill
- Todd Stashwick as Ricky Blaine
- Laura Poe as Sue Burgess
- Peter Marx as Tom Burgess
- Rica Martens as Mrs. Johnson
- Saidah Arrika Ekulona as Dr. Lakhmajara
- Elizabeth Van Dyke as Attorney Harris
- Chris Orbach as Detective Ken Briscoe
- Lawrence Woshner as Doctor Sullivan
- Ray Virta as Schecter
- Felix Solis as Nick
- Lianna Pai as A.D.A.
- Carl Palmer as EMT
- Nancy McDoniel as Nurse
- Rafael Ferrer as Mooney
- Frank Senger as Pampas
- Michael Mastro as Postal medic
- Gary Klar as Lt. Joey Poole
- Layla Alexander as Theresa Burgess (uncredited)
[edit] References
Roosevelt Hospital; Laszlo Agency; Measuring Man; Vanessa Wong; Benzadrene; Anorexia; Morgan Talent Management; Latham & Watkins; Jazmin Burgess
[edit] Quotes
- "Money, power, respect; supermodels are the Greek goddesses of our time, if you want to believe Camille Paglia."
- – Dr. Elizabeth Olivet
- Lennie Briscoe: You are looking at the fruits of four hours of dumpster diving along 59th Street. Nine dumpsters in all.
- Elliot Stabler: You trying to tell me the two of you went dumpster diving?
- Ed Green: Hell, no. We supervised a couple of uniforms. I don't do disposable diapers.
- Donald Cragen: Hey Lennie, c'mon. I haven't eaten in an hour. [He turns to Benson and Stabler.] You guys go ahead. These guys owe me lunch.
- Lennie Briscoe: I don't owe him anything! I'm just gonna supervise his doughnut withdrawal.
- Carlo Parisi: I have thousands of polaroids. I'm a photographer.
- John Munch: Yeah. And Larry Flynt's a publisher.
- Olivia Benson: So where does he hide his dirty pictures?
- Elliot Stabler: You got three choices: under the bed, in the back of the closet, or amongst boring and unappealing papers.
- Olivia Benson: I take it that's another guy thing?
- Elliot Stabler: Yeah.
- "Beauty is power until you lose it and then you're garbage. Nobody gives a damn about you. You wouldn't understand that, Detective Benson, because you're still a beautiful woman."
- – Deborah Latrell
[edit] Background information and notes
- Chris Orbach (Ken Briscoe) is the real-life son of Jerry Orbach (Lennie Briscoe). In the series Lennie portrays Ken's uncle. When they run into each other in the station, Lennie asks Ken to keep quiet that he is his uncle. The relationship is not referenced again.
- In this episode several cast members from Law & Order make their first appearance on Special Victims Unit. The characters of regular cast members Jesse L. Martin and Jerry Orbach help the Detectives with solving the murder, and Carolyn McCormick appears as psychologist Dr. Elizabeth Olivet.
- Actress Bebe Neuwirth would later appear in Law & Order: Trial by Jury as regular cast member A.D.A. Tracey Kibre.
- Layla Alexander plays the uncredited role of victim Theresa Burgess. She would later return in the first season finale "Slaves" as Ilena Condrescu.
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