"Competence" | ||
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← | SVU, Episode 3.22 | → |
Production number: E2335 First aired: 10 May 2002 | ||
Teleplay By Robert F. Campbell & Jonathan Greene Story By Robert F. Campbell, Jonathan Greene & Jeff Eckerle Directed By Jud Taylor |
An overprotective mother claims that her daughter with Down Syndrome became pregnant after being raped.
Plot
Rebecca Tolliver reports her 22-year-old daughter, Katie, who has Down Syndrome is pregnant. Detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler have to make sure it's not just her mother being overprotective and in denial of her daughter's sex life. They learn even more people could have used her innocence about sex to abuse her. ADA Alexandra Cabot then has to interfere and take on her superior, in order to settle the mother-daughter dispute on whether the daughter should have an abortion or not.
Summary
Episode summary
Cast
Main cast
- Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler
- Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson
- Richard Belzer as Detective John Munch
- Stephanie March as A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot
- Ice-T as Detective Odafin Tutuola
- Dann Florek as Captain Donald Cragen
Recurring cast
- Peter Hermann as Attorney Trevor Langan
- B.D. Wong as Dr. George Huang
- Judith Light as Bureau Chief Elizabeth Donnelly
- Harvey Atkin as Judge Alan Ridenour
- Ned Eisenberg as Attorney Roger Kressler
Guest cast
- Lois Smith as Rebecca Tolliver
- Andrea F. Friedman as Katie Tolliver
- James Badge Dale as Danny Jordan
- C.J. Wilson as Scott Lucas
- Matt DeCaro as Mr. Cheney
- Ray Fitzgerald as Ray Dunstan
- Kelley Fahey as Nurse
- Tony Rizzoli as Deli Owner
- Michael Duran as Pharmacist
- Darren Pettie as Joe Parker
- Ezra Knight as Kevin Caldwell
- Craig Alan Edwards as ND Man
- Jason Pensky as Andy McCollum
References
Quotes
- Katie: I got my baby from Danny.
Huang: How?
Katie: Kissing, stupid. (turns to Alex) Your friend doesn't know anything.
Background information and notes
- The episode name "Competence" was also used for the Law & Order fifth season episode, "Competence (L&O)".
Episode scene cards
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
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Manhattan Adult |
Special Needs School |
Manhattan Adult |
West 23rd Street |
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Avco Pharmacy |
The Broadway Arms |
Office of Special Victims Unit |
Competency Hearing |
Previous episode: "Denial" |
"Competence" Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 3 |
Next episode: "Silence" |