Countdown
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| "Countdown" | ||
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| ← | SVU, Episode 2.15 | → |
| Production number: E1412 First aired: 23 February 2001 | ||
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| Written By Dawn DeNoon & Lisa Marie Petersen Directed By Steve Shill | ||
The Detectives have to work around the clock to find an abducted girl.
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[edit] Plot
When a girl escapes from the van of the man who abducted and raped her, the SVU team learns that this perp has a strange M.O.: He kidnaps young girls and holds them hostage for three days, photographing them in different costumes and throwing them birthday parties, before raping and murdering them. But even after they find him, there's one final twist to this grisly tale.
[edit] Cast
[edit] 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
[edit] Guest cast
- Jim Gaffigan as Oliver Tunney
- Debbon Ayer as Mrs. Douglas
- Isabel Gillies as Kathy Stabler
- Joanna Merlin as Judge Lena Petrovsky
- Andrea Bowen as Sophie Douglas
- Jonathan Fried as Clayton Mills
- Dylan Price as Detective Danny Tatum
- Lisa Roberts Gillan as Mrs. Simmons
- Patricia Cook as Elizabeth Stabler
- Jeffrey Scaperrotta as Dickie Stabler
- Jeffrey DeMunn as Charlie Phillips
- Ann Talman as Mrs. Lehr
- Uzi Parnes as Joe Hayes
- Kristin Rohde as Detective Becker
- Johnathan MClain as Isaac Yarbrough
- Christine Toy Johnson as Dr. Anderson
- Frank Deal as Don Newvine
- Rafael Ferrer as Detective Trainor
- Timothy Shew as Charles Guzek
- Kent Cassella as Detective Palmieri
- Lisa Summerour as Defense Attorney Dylan
- Lou Carbonneau as CSU Technician Martin
- Ted Sutton as Robert
- Thomas Schall as Dawson
- Kia Goodwin as Shari
- Brian Cahill as Uniform policeman
- Ray Iannicelli as Saul
- Ramsey Faragallah as Market owner
- Alicia Sedwick as Sheila
[edit] References
Rhonda Simmons; Bonnie Weathers
[edit] Quotes
- Elliot Stabler: Damn it, it's the twins' birthday. I never picked up their present.
- Olivia Benson: Well, I think you have an excuse.
- Elliot Stabler: Yeah, you come talk to me after you cancel on Michael again tonight.
- (Benson has given up on finding the victim and is arguing with Stabler)
- Donald Cragen: Get a few minutes of rack time, both of you!
- Elliot Stabler: (to Olivia) Take a nap. I'll let you know how it turns out.
- Olivia Benson: Screw you.
- Elliot Stabler: Screw you.
- Donald Cragen: (to Olivia) You, go out and get some fresh air. Elliot, talk to your wife.
- Elliot Stabler: You want us to go to Queens? I live in Queens. You know how long it's gonna take us?
- Donald Cragen: Not as long as it's gonna take them to get their asses down here.
- Elliot Stabler: Good point.
- "I've read the same paragraph five times and I still have no idea what it says."
- – Olivia Benson
- Elliot Stabler: Pick up the phone.
- John Munch: The wacko on line one or the psychotic on line two?
- "While we're there, remind me to get party tape for the twins' birthday party. I don't want to have to use crime scene tape."
- – Elliot Stabler
- Alexandra Cabot: I need you to authorize this deal.
- Charlie Phillips: Counselor, I am a public servant, and the public at large does not want this...boil on the butt of humanity living to a ripe old age!
- Alexandra Cabot: Charlie, think of the mother!
- Charlie Phillips: I am! And I'm sure that she'd want to see him to die.
- Alexandra Cabot: Maybe. But she probably wants to know what happened to her daughter also.
- Charlie Phillips: And what about the mothers of all his other victims? They want him dead. The city wants him dead. Even protesters against the death penalty want to see this guy dead!
- (Cragen comes out of a bathroom stall to find all the detectives waiting for him)
- "I'm not tipping *all* of you."
- – Donald Cragen
- "Look! I know we're on your turf, and I would be prickly about it, too. That's why I had every intention of coming down here, and shmoozing, and kissing a little ass! But we have got a ticking clock, do you understand? My partner and I have been on this case for three days straight, and we're too damn tired to get in a pissing match, so we just need to know if you're gonna help us or not!"
- – Olivia Benson
- Olivia Benson: We're positive it's him?
- John Munch: Unless there's a white-van-driving, dentally-challenged, pedophile convention in town, I'd say yes.
[edit] Background information and notes
- Twins Elizabeth and Dickie Stabler were born on 21 February 1993.
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