Counterfeit
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| "Counterfeit" | ||
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| ← | SVU, Episode 3.14 | → |
| Production number: E2313 First aired: 25 January 2002 | ||
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| Written By Amanda Green Directed By Arthur W. Forney | ||
A woman's body is found near her car after she was raped. Detectives Benson and Tutuola are paired to discover what the motive was, as well as why was her car's trunk full of forged drugs.
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[edit] Plot
Plot
[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
- Tamara Tunie as Dr. Melinda Warner
- B.D. Wong as Dr. George Huang
- Daniel Sunjata as CSU Technician Burt Trevor
- Khrystyne Haje as Francesca Jesner
- Armand Schultz as Kevin Ragolia
- LeAnna Croom as Stacia Green
- Billy Strong as Phil Urzi
- Robert John Burke as IA Sergeant Ed Tucker
- Rochelle Bostrom as Samantha Raggetti
- Jenn Thompson as Mandy Mangun
- Paul Regina as Jeffrey Trapani
- Gordon Joseph Weiss as Brandon O'Keefe
- Michael O'Keefe as Officer Marcosi
- Ty Jones as Officer Graves
- William Cote as Bartender
- Michael McCartney as Driscoll
- P.J. Morrison as Sorre
- William H. Burns as Robbins
- Tom Bruno as Uniform Officer #1
- Michael Arthur as Uniform Officer #2
- Ed Bogdanowicz as ESU
- Sharon Wilkins as Neighbor #2
[edit] References
References
[edit] Quotes
"Alright, nice dress."
"Yeah, it was a nice date. Where's Munch?"
"He banged in sick."
"He's such a hypochondriac. How many times has he had anthrax this week?"
- - Odafin Tutuola and Olivia Benson
"Burning the midnight oil."
"Just like you asked."
"Nice dress."
"Don't start."
- - Donald Cragen, Odafin Tutuola and Olivia Benson
"These cases have too much in common. Same area, same time of night..."
"Paula Grace was front page news. There's enough details for Franscesca to fake hers."
"There is no way that she could have faked being that traumatised. I'm telling you Captain, this woman was raped."
"I just don't want to send the rat squad on some witch hunt and screw some innocent cop."
"Neither do I."
"Could have been anybody in a uniform, didn't have to be a real cop."
"Doesn't matter. This woman is a rape victim until we prove otherwise."
- - Olivia Benson and Odafin Tutuola
"You wasted your time fingering me"
"You're right. So hate us, don't let her die."
- - Officer Marcosi and Olivia Benson
"You know if this goes south, we're both back in uniform."
"And if we don't try Franscesca's dead."
"You don't know someone till you work with 'em."
- - Odafin Tutuola and Olivia Benson
"Were you a car thief in a former life?"
"No, baby. A boy scout. Always prepared."
- - Olivia Benson and Odafin Tutuola
"When are you going to tell me how you really got hurt?"
"Why should I give that up, when you never even once mentioned that you have offspring?"
"My son? What, Olivia told you that?"
"I bare my soul to you and you can't even share that there's a little Tutuola running around."
"He's not little, he's 18."
- - Odafin Tutuola and John Munch
"You just soft-pawed them."
"I don't wanna blow two good cops."
"You sound more like their union rep."
"Who's side are you on?"
"The victims, where we're supposed to be."
"What about the truth. Your victims definately not telling that."
"We just had a chance, and you blew it. Now it's IAB's call."
- - Olivia Benson and Odafin Tutuola
(Munch walks in on crutches) "I can't wait to hear this."
"Your sympathy is overwhelming."
"What happened to you?"
"Skydiving, hard landing."
"He wiped out riding his friend's Harley."
"Now the only thing he'll be riding is a desk."
- - Odafin Tutuola, John Munch, Olivia Benson, Elliot Stabler, and Donald Cragen
[edit] Background information and notes
- This episode seems to be based on the Craig Peyer case. Peyer was a California Highway Patrol officer convicted for the 1986 strangulation murder of 20-year-old Cara Knott, a student at San Diego State University. On the night of December 27, 1986, Knott was driving from her boyfriend's home in Escondido to her parents' home in El Cajon, California on Interstate 15 when Peyer, on duty in a marked CHP patrol car, signaled Knott to pull off the freeway on an isolated off ramp. It is believed that the situation escalated when Knott threatened to report Peyer for unprofessional behavior, and that he killed her by bludgeoning her with his flashlight and then strangling her with rope and then he threw her body off an abandoned bridge into the brush below in an attempt to avoid disciplinary action. The first trial resulted in a hung jury. Upon retrial, testimony regarding a potential second suspect and a hearsay explanation for the defendant's scratches was ruled inadmissible, and Peyer was found guilty of murder. In 1988, Peyer was sentenced to 25 years to life. The Craig Peyer case was covered in the book True Stories of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit by Kevin Dwyer and Juré Fiorillo. (Source: Craig Peyer at Wikipedia)
- The term "counterfeit" is an imitation that is made with the intent to deceptively represent its content or origins. In this episode Jeffrey Trapani imitated a cop in order to lure his victims to his place.
- Actor Robert John Burke makes his first appearance as IAB Sergeant Ed Tucker. Burke also appeared as different character in episodes from Law & Order.
- In this episode we learn that Detective Odafin Tutuola has a son. Ken Randall is eighteen years old in this episode.
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