Charisma
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| "Charisma" | ||
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| ← | SVU, Episode 6.07 | → |
| Production number: E5206 First aired: 16 November 2004 | ||
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| Written By Tara Butters & Michele Fazekas Directed By Arthur W. Forney | ||
The investigation of an impregnated 12-year-old girl leads to a religious cult led by a con-artist.
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[edit] Plot
Melanie Cramer, a 12-year-old pregnant girl who is weeks if not days away from going into labor, is reported to SVU by the hospital she's staying in, and Detective Benson is called in to interview the girl, who claims to have a husband. Upon investigating the home of her alleged husband, she and the rest of the NYPD find that he's the leader of a Branch-Davidian-type religious cult called the Church of Wisdom and Sight, who turns out to be a career con-artist named Eugene Hoff, who is using her pregnancy to inherit a vast fortune from her mother, one of his mostly female followers.
[edit] Cast
[edit] Main cast
- Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler
- Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson
- Richard Belzer as Detective John Munch
- Diane Neal as A.D.A. Casey Novak
- Ice-T as Detective Odafin Tutuola
- B.D. Wong as Dr. George Huang
- Dann Florek as Captain Donald Cragen
[edit] Guest cast
- Tamara Tunie as Dr. Melinda Warner
- Jeff Kober as Abraham / Eugene Hoff
- Holliston Coleman as Melanie Cramer
- Shannon Cochran as Cindy Cramer / Sarah Ophion
- Michael Cullen as Detective Stu MacKenzie
- Emilio Del Pozo as Duty Captain Claros
- John Ortiz as Officer Zermeño
- Kevin Jiggetts as Officer Green
- William H. Burns as Officer Robbins
- Ali Reza as Dr. Rohit Mehta
- Laura Sametz as Simone Buchman
- Christopher Durham as Carl Buchman
- Munson Hicks as Reverend Tucker
- Peter Maloney as Geoffrey Downs
- Melissa Rocco as Janie Buchman
- Angel Desai as CSU Technician
- Elizabeth Flax as Nurse
- Shirleyann Kaladjian as Woman #1
- Marya Grandy as Woman #2
- Rachel Fowler as Woman #3
- John Knox as Clerk
- Bruce Norris as Reggie
- Margaret Reed as Sarah's Attorney
- Tenaja Williams as Pregnant Teenager
[edit] References
ACS; Christian Tabernacle of Grace; Church of Wisdom and Sight; Command post; Communications Division; ConEd; CSU; EMS; Englewood; Englewood P.D.; Entry team; ESU; FDNY; Koresh, David; Manson, Charles; New Jersey; New York Savings Bank; Randall, Ken; St. Catherine's hospital; Ten-code; Waco.
[edit] Quotes
- George Huang: Well, what do you want to talk about?
- John Munch: Well, it doesn't really matter. We could all talk till we're blue in the face. It's not gonna change the fact that the human race is ever-evolving and will always come up with elaborate, repulsive, and depraved ways to kill each other.
- George Huang: And that's what really bothers you, isn't it? That you can still feel disgusted.
- George Huang: What's the first thing you remember seeing after entering the building?
- Elliot Stabler: Dead bodies.
- George Huang: Can you be more specific?
- Elliot Stabler: A bunch of dead bodies.
- Olivia Benson: Now those women out there might be brain-washed, but you're not. You know exactly what he is, a murder and a child raper.
- Sarah Ophion: That's not true.
- Olivia Benson: You knew who he was and you let this happen, you let all those children die.
- Sarah Ophion: It was God's will.
- Olivia Benson: No, Sarah, it was your will. You could blame God and you can blame Abraham but we all know the truth. You did this, you sat there and you watched as a man raped one of your children and then murdered the other. (loudly) You might has well have killed him yourself!
- Donald Cragen: Olivia!
- Olivia Benson: (lowers her voice) He has one of your children and he has your unborn grandchild.
- Sarah Ophion: This is a test. (shakes her head) I won't be tempted.
- (Munch is talking Reggie through a sting with Abraham)
- John Munch: Take a few deep breaths, relax, and just pretend you're embezzling thousands of dollars like it's any other day.
- Abraham Ophion: All these men have come to kill me. Why? Because they know! I am greater than man! I am greater than God! And they are afraid of what I can do!
(BANG! Abraham falls to the ground dead, revealing Melanie wielding a smoking gun. She starts sobbing, and Olivia rushes over, takes the gun away, and holds her) - Olivia Benson: It's okay. It's okay. It's okay...
- Melanie Cramer: That was a lie.
- Olivia Benson: What was?
- Melanie Cramer: He said he was greater than God. But nobody is.
[edit] Background information and notes
- George Huang uses his FBI badge number to acquire a phone tab. The number is 2317616; the same number as Special Agent Dana Scully in The X-Files.
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