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"Blood"
SVU, Episode 6.21
Production number: E5223
First aired (US): 10 May 2005
First aired (UK): 5 September 2005
First aired (CAN): 10 May 2005
First aired (AUS): 28 July 2005
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Kathleen Stabler & Kathy Stabler
Written By
Patrick Harbinson

Directed By
Félix Alcalá

Plot[]

Benson and Stabler probe an assault and carjacking, only to find that it is connected to illegal trafficking in painkillers apparently headed by an elderly woman. Meanwhile, Stabler's daughter, Kathleen is arrested for a DUI, and he uses his connections as a cop to cover it up.

Summary[]

Episode summary

Cast[]

Main cast[]

Recurring cast[]

Guest cast[]

References[]

Quotes[]

[about Joey Beavan]
Carey Hutchins: He's one tough kid. Thrown from a moving car, not even a whimper.

Doctor: Miss Beavan, you need to come inside.
Samantha Beavan: No, we're both fine.
Doctor: No, your son isn't. His tox screen was positive for opiates.
Samantha Beavan: Painkillers. I don't understand. I'd never give Joey any drugs.
Benson: Sam, you were breastfeeding.
Stabler: You could've killed him.

[about Sam Beavan]
Stabler: That baby could've died while Mommy was trying to score.
Benson: So we punish her for being raped?

Samantha Beavan: Why are you treating me like I'm a criminal?
Stabler: 'Cause your baby's toxicology report says that you are one.

[When Munch and Fin visit Jake Lumet in the hospital]
Tutuola: Good morning, Jake. Wakey-wakey.
Jake Lumet: [wakes up to find himself handcuffed to his bed] What? Hey, hey, hey, hey! Hey, what'd I do?
Munch: Same old, same old. Sodomized a woman, stole her car and almost killed her baby.

[about Jake Lumet]
Stabler: Look, Sam's a nursing mother trying to take care of her 9-month-old kid and Jenny Rogers is just a sweet old lady. So, why does this pathetic junkie need to beat up helpless women?

Kathleen Stabler: Daddy!
[runs to Elliot]
Elliot Stabler: It's alright.
Kathleen: I'm so sorry!
Elliot: It's alright. Why didn't you call me? Why didn't you tell the officers who I was?
Kathleen: I was scared.
Elliot: I'm sure you were.
Kathleen: No, I was scared of what you'd do.

[after Kathleen's arrest]
Kathy Stabler: I'm sorry. There was a party she wanted to go to...
Elliot: And you just let her go?
Kathy: Elliot! She is 17 years old.
Elliot: I know, but I know. Take her home. We'll talk about it tomorrow.

Cragen: Okay, so who do we believe: the junkie rapist or the crying granny?
Fin: [about Jenny Rogers' prescription] She's either selling, or she's in real bad shape. 80 mgs every six hours? That's enough to numb a moose.

Benson: Why didn't you tell us, Sam? Did you think we wouldn't believe you if you told us you were attacked by a woman? We know that women can be more vicious than men in sexual assault, especially if the victim is younger and prettier.
Tutuola: With guys, it's just business. They take what they want: money, drugs, sex. It's all the same. With a woman, it's personal.

[finds Jenny living in a storage unit]
Benson: Jenny, you can't live here.
Jenny Rogers: Yes, I can. The gas station across the street has a bathroom, it's very clean.

Cragen: [to Jenny's attorney] Now, how can you go with an elder abuse defense if Jenny never reported it?
Jenny's Attorney: Because she's one of a million and a half victims who never do. You don't believe me, tell your detectives to ask Jenny why she had to sell her parents' house.

[about Kathleen getting arrested]
Cragen: What happened at the 15 two nights ago?
Stabler: My kid got in trouble. Good night.
Cragen: Why didn't you tell me?
Stabler: Nothing to tell, I took care of it. Patrol issued the summons for a moving violation. They brought Kathleen down to verify ID.
Cragen: After you got everybody to make her DUl go away.
Stabler: Okay. What are you saying, Captain?
Cragen: Somebody starts digging, they're gonna find the paper trail. Radio tapes from the sector car telling dispatch they stopped a DUl.
Stabler: If it comes back to me, I'll take care of it.
Cragen: What about the guys who stuck their necks out for you?
Stabler: Well, they got kids. They understand.
Cragen: That the message you wanna send your kids? That the law only applies to certain people?
Stabler: I'm taking care of my family and given the chance, I'd do it again.

Cragen: [to Stabler] How many times do you think you can break the rules and get away with it?

Jenny: You arrested Kevin?
Benson: He'll be in a treatment program. He's getting the help he needs, and you can live your life without being afraid.
Jenny: What life? You took my son away. What have I got to live for now?

Jenny: Do you have children?
Stabler: Yes.
Jenny: What would you do if one of them got into trouble? You'd help them.

Background information and notes[]

  • In this episode, Kathy Stabler states that Kathleen is 17 years old.
  • Goofs: When Jenny Rogers is on the stand after the defense objects saying it was a leading question about a man coming down the stairs, the prosecutor says that Jenny Rogers testified that she heard a man and a woman arguing and then they found the woman dead so it must be the woman coming down the stairs. What Jenny Rogers had said on the stand was that she heard people arguing, she didn't say man or woman.
  • Throughout the episode the word oxycodone is mispronounced, it is pronounced almost exactly like it's spelled: "oxy-co-down". Yet Stabler, Munch and Benson all pronounce it "oxy-coden".
  • In the opening sequence, when the baby is thrown from the car, the car seat comes to a full stop before the mother gets up to run over to it. Later, when we see surveillance footage of the crime, the car seat is still rolling in the street when the mother gets up to run over to it.
  • Kathleen Stabler's DUI would be mentioned several times throughout the course of later season episodes. The next time it is mentioned is in the episode "Ripped".

Episode scene cards[]

1 2

Apartment of
Jake Lumet
246 Avenue D
Wednesday, January 26

Forensics Garage
150-14 Jamaica Avenue
Queens, New York
Wednesday, January 26

3 4 5

Technical Assistance
Response Unit
One Police Plaza
Thursday, January 27

Apartment of
Samantha Beavan
415 West 98th Street
Friday, January 28

Trial Part 46
Thursday, February 24

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