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"Brief Interlude"
SVU, Episode 14.23
Production number: 14023
First aired (US): 15 May 2013
First aired (UK): 4 June 2013
First aired (CAN): 15 May 2013
First aired (AUS): 20 June 2013
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Teleplay By
Peter Blauner & Kevin Fox

Story By
Peter Blauner & Kevin Fox & Pedro Garcia

Directed By
Kevin Bray

The SVU Detectives reach a series of dead end leads when an unidentified woman is found unconscious in the river.

Summary[]

Detectives Benson and Amaro are called to the scene when an unconscious woman with signs of physical trauma is found in a river near the Mayor's home. With the victim in a coma, the squad races to identify and account for her prior whereabouts. They uncover a wild side to an otherwise normal wife and mother, and the investigation reaches an unsettling conclusion.

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Episode plot

Cast[]

Main Cast[]

Recurring Cast[]

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Quotes[]

Cragen: Harbor and Aviation know where she floated in from?
Rollins: No, they said if we know when, they can tell us where. And if we know where, they can tell us when.
Cragen: That's not as helpful as I'd like
Dr. Warner: It'd be more helpful if she were dead.
Tutuola: Melinda, really?
Dr. Warner: Rigor, a time of death, we could backtrack.

Wayne Randolph: [reads headline of the New Yorker newspaper: Coma Vic Partied Hard] Is all this stuff true?
Benson: They're just trying to sell newspapers. You know who your mom is.

Tutuola: [knocks on door] Santiago Morales!
Rollins: It's late. He could be asleep, he could be working.
Tutuola: He is a musician. He's not sleeping and he's damn sure not working.

Cragen: Call Harbor and Aviation back. See whether they can figure out how she washes ashore Gracie Mansion.
Tutuola: No need to use them, Captain. That's why I brought my rope guy, Colin Bennett.
Cragen: So, your rope guide is tide guy?
Colin Bennett: Ropes, tides, paints, solvents. CSU calls me their renaissance man.
Cragen: O.K., Michelangelo.

Background information and notes[]

  • The victim in this episode is said to be from Edmonton, Alberta. Her two sons are named Wayne and Grant, likely after famed Edmonton Oilers players Wayne Gretzky and Grant Fuhr.
  • When Benson and Amaro are investigating Ariel Randolph's hotel room, they put on latex gloves. However, once Amaro discovers her passport, the close-up of Amaro flipping through it shows him without gloves. When the camera shot switches back to the wide angle, Amaro clearly still has gloves on.

Episode scene cards[]

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Bellevue Hospital
Intensive Care Unit
Wednesday, April 24

Times Square Motor Lodge
338 West 40th Street
Wednesday, April 24

Residence of
Phil DeSapio
275 Kingsland Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
Thursday, April 25

P.S. 27
108 West 77th Street
Thursday, April 25

Loft of
Santiago Morales
44 Vernon Boulevard
Queens, NY
Thursday, April 25

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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Season 14
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