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"Consent"
SVU, Episode 2.10
Production number: E1419
First aired: 19 January 2001
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Alex Cabot Consent
Written By
Jeff Eckerle

Directed By
James Quinn

Plot[]

Benson and Stabler investigate the case of a young college girl, Kelly D'Leah who was raped, but can't remember anything about the incident. It is soon discovered that Kelly was drugged with GHB, leaving the detectives with many suspects and accomplices.

Cast[]

Main cast[]

Recurring cast[]

Guest cast[]

References[]

Quotes[]

Nick Monroe: [to Fin and Munch] Crime scene or not, this is private property. The city's gonna pay for these shrubs?
Munch: I arrest you for obstructing justice, the university gonna pay your bail?

Munch: [to Harry] Want some syrup with those flapjacks there, slappy?

Harry: You sons of bitches. You said I wouldn't have to take a needle.
Munch: Yeah, well, we lied.

Tutuola: A lap dance sends a pretty strong signal.
Benson: She was drunk.
Stabler: So was he.
Benson: So that excuses him?
Stabler: No, but her behavior's open to interpretation.
Tutuola: She might have played it out and woke up with a case of buyer's remorse.
Benson: So now we're blaming the victim?
Cragen: Nobody is blaming her, but we all know how hard it is to get an indictment on a he-said, she-said even without the ambiguities.
Munch: [as he hangs up the phone] That was the lab. Tox screen just came back. They found traces of GHB in Kelly's urine.
Cragen: So much for the ambiguities.
Cragen: Only one reason to slip someone a date rape drug. Find out who spiked her drink, you find the rapist.

Stabler: Sometimes the thought of Maureen in college scares the hell out of me.
Benson: I don't blame you.
Stabler: Higher education used to mean BA's and PhDs, now it's roofies and GHB.
Benson: And deans with confidential disciplinary committees.

Stabler: You either talk to us here or you talk to us downtown because right now we got you pegged as an accomplice. So you'll have plenty of time to test the bonds of brotherhood in criminal court.

Munch: Fin and I made friends with a guy in the campus police department.
Tutuola: We did?
Munch: Nick, the campus dick. Maybe we can appeal to his fraternal sense of brotherhood among cops.

Joe Templeton, Sr.: [to Cragen] I demand to see my son.
Cragen: I'm sorry, Mr. Templeton, but he's in with the detectives right now.
Templeton, Sr: I'm his father. I have a right to be with him.
Cragen: He's an adult under the law and in point of fact, you don't have that right.
Templeton, Sr: Do you want me to go over your head?
Cragen: I am not some college provost you can intimidate with threats. Now you wanna gun for me, sir, you give it your best shot, but it won't help your son one damn bit.
Templeton, Sr: You have children, Captain?
Cragen: No.
Templeton, Sr: I just want him to know that he doesn't have to go through this alone.
Cragen: Then be there for him, but in the eyes of the law, Joe is responsible for his own actions and this time, he's gonna have to stand on his own two feet.

Benson: Look, Dana, I understand that your sisters are pressuring you, but your friend was drugged and raped. Now you need to decide what's more important: living with them or living with yourself.

Stabler: Tess, possession is just the beginning. Now we prove conspiracy, you're looking at rape.
Tess Michner: Rape?
Benson: You took away her ability to consent.
Tess Michner: You'll never prove that.
Benson: No? One of your sorority sisters already decided to break the code of silence.
Stabler: Told us how Joe gave you the clap before he dumped you for Kelly.
Benson: I mean, what better way to get back at the little tease than making sure she paid full freight for the ride?
Stabler: And GHB was the ticket.

Benson: Prison is no sorority, Jodie.
Stabler: On the bright side, you still might be young enough to have kids when you get out.

Kelly D'Leah: [while testifying for the grand jury] I was lying on my back in the hospital, shaking. The doctor told me I'd been raped. I was scared. It's like someone stealing a piece of your soul. And even when you find out who, and how you can never get it back. I may not remember that night, but I do remember my life before it and I'll never be that person again.

[about Kelly]
Wally Parkers: She kissed me.
Cabot: And you took that kiss as the green light to go ahead?
Wally Parkers: She never said no.
Cabot: Her shirt was stained with vomit, her hair was matted, her eyes were blurry and you still thought she wanted to have sex?
Wally Parkers: Yes.
Cabot: I guess it was just your lucky night.

Benson: [to Kelly] The grand jury indicted Tess and Jodie on possession, but they didn't return charges against Wally or Joe.
Kelly: They're saying I wasn't raped? But what about the semen, the gonorrhea, the hickeys?
Benson: Apparently, the grand jury split on the issue of consent. They believed that you were drugged, but they didn't believe that the guys knew. On the other hand, the dean expelled them all.
Kelly: Hardly seems worth it.
Benson: Kelly, you did the right thing.
Kelly: I never took those pills the doctor gave me. I don't know why, but I just I couldn't. What if I'm pregnant?
Benson: I'm probably not the best person to ask.
Kelly: What about my parents? I haven't told them yet.
Benson: Might be a good time, huh?

Background information and notes[]

  • The title refers to the investigation into the details of the two rapes central to the episode and the arguments of consent for both rapes throughout the sequence of events the day the rapes happened.
  • The drug used in this episode, GHB, is also used in the Law & Order episode "Fools For Love". In that episode, one of the victims' deaths is attributed to choking on vomit from a GHB overdose administered by her rapist/killer.
  • The school used while talking to the victim's friend was Herbert H. Lehman College. The staircase is located in the Speech/Music building.

Episode scene cards[]

1 2 3

Hanford University
Delta Kappa Delta
Sorority House
Monday, January 8

Kollege Keg Bar
1718 Amsterdam Avenue
Tuesday, January 9

Office of
Dean of Students
Geraldine Richter
Tuesday, January 9

4 5 6

Hanford University
Organic Chemistry Lab
Thursday, January 11

Grand Jury Room
Friday, January 19

Grand Jury Room
Friday, January 19

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