A Single Life
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| "A Single Life" | ||
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| ← | SVU, Episode 1.02 | → |
| Production number: E0903 First aired: 27 September 1999 | ||
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| Written By Dawn DeNoon & Lisa Marie Petersen Directed By Lesli Linka Glatter | ||
Benson and Stabler investigate the death of Gretchen Quinn, and uncover a long kept secret.
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[edit] Plot
When the body of Gretchen Quinn is found wearing only a red slip after having gone through an upper-story window, Benson and Stabler soon find out that 'Gretchen Quinn' has never existed.
[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
- Angie Harmon as A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael
- Leslie Hendrix as Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers
- Chris Orbach as Detective Ken Briscoe
- 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
- Dennis Boutsikaris as Dr. Mark Daniels
- Laila Robins as Ellen Travis
- Paul Hecht as Robert Sodarsky
- Michael Nouri as Dallas Warner
- Douglas McInnis as Trent Peterson
- Walt MacPherson as Detective Mourad
- Leslie Lyles as Dr. Chatman
- Welly Yang as CSU Technician Georgie
- Matthew Arkin as Attorney Daniels
- Virginia Louise Smith as Page
- Liam Craig as Hawkins
- Michael Gaston as Buddy
- Keenan Shimizu as Grocer
- Randy Lutterman as Neighbor
- John Elsen as Policeman #1
- Lou Bonacki as Policeman #2
- Julia K. Murney as Waitress
- Mike Wiggins as Waiter
- Cliff Thorn as Yuppie Guy
- Mary Hammett as Yuppie Girl
- Andrew Boyer as Maître d'
[edit] References
Gretchen Quinn; Susan Sidarsky; Marge Cragen
[edit] Quotes
- Elliot Stabler: You want me to bust him in the grill? I mean we're not getting anywhere in there.
- Olivia Benson: It's not we. It's me.
- Elliot Stabler: What's that mean?
- Olivia Benson: That pompous jerk will never condescend to deal with a woman. You go in there.
- Elliot Stabler: We good?
- Olivia Benson: We're good.
- Detective Mourad: Looks like maybe they did more than kiss.
- Olivia Benson: Yeah, he read her a little Walt Whitman, they made hot passionate love, then right before he rolled over and fell asleep, he heaved her out the window - excuse me - through the window.
- John Munch: You could toss a hundred pounds without breaking a sweat.
- Monique Jeffries: Toss you, you skinny-ass geek.
- Olivia Benson: Oh. Now Queens is a suburb. Since when?
- Elliot Stabler: Since we got a little space, some trees, grass to mow.
- Olivia Benson: Yeah. I got a regular eight-by-ten of you out there mowing the lawn.
- Elliot Stabler: Well. I do. Sometimes.
- Olivia Benson: Admit it. Kathy does all the housework. 'Cause you're never there.
- Elliot Stabler: Okay. I admit it. Kathy's the man of the house.
- Olivia Benson: Exactly.
- Olivia Benson: 'It will swim right into a man's penis and lodge itself there by erecting sharp spines.' Ow.
- Elliot Stabler: Erecting sharp spines. That's a fish with a sense of irony. (to Cragen) How'd you know that?
- Donald Cragen: In the jungle they always taught you 'Don't hold your nose. Hold your stones.'
- (Elliot and Kathy have turned on the disposal after fixing it}
- Dickie Stabler: (enters) Mommy have you see my turtle? I left him in the sink.
- Elliot Stabler: (looks down at the now working disposal) ...
[edit] Background information and notes
- In this episode we learn that Captain Donald Cragen was married to a woman named Marge.
- Captain Cragen talks about the events in the Law & Order season one episode "The Blue Wall", where he comes under suspicion for laundering drug money.
- This is the first appearance of Elliot and Kathy's children. The children are Maureen, Kathleen, Elizabeth, and Dickie.
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