"Folly" | ||
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← | SVU, Episode 2.17 | → |
Production number: E1428 First aired: 23 March 2001 | ||
Written By Todd Robinson Directed By Jud Taylor |
Summary[]
When male prostitutes turn up beaten or worse in hotel rooms, the Detectives uncover a dangerous male escort service.
Plot[]
The beating of a young man uncovers a dangerous male escort service where the boss may have reasons for sending her staff on potentially deadly dates.
SVU find the male escort waiting in the reception room. He is reluctant to answer questions but states he was about to go up but the detectives confiscate his room card and Stabler tells the confused man that this is his lucky night before the detectives leave.
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[]
- J.K. Simmons as Dr. Emil Skoda
Guest cast[]
- Eddie Cahill as Tommy Dowd
- Simon Jones as Darien Marshall
- J. Tucker Smith as Gary Sutton
- Linda Stephens as Mrs. Dowd
- Marguerite MacIntyre as Darlene Sutton
- Darien Sills-Evans as CSU Tech Foster
- Richard Holmes as James Coe
- Patricia Kalember as Leslie DeSantis
- Susan Stahnke as Hotel Manager
- Lee Bryant as Claudia Baines Marshall
- Stuart Zagnit as Harrison Barnett
- Mark Zimmerman as Defense Attorney Katz
- Leo V. Finnie III as Bartender Joe
- Mercedes Herrero as Sarah Dolan
- Todd Williams as Uniform #1
- Colin Egglesfield as Steven
- Debra Eisenstadt as Lab Tech Ellen Matthews
- John Harris as Leo the Photographer
- Amanda Naughton as Lisa the Bride
- Jeff Robins as Bartender Bill
- Greg Stuhr as Uniform #2
- Stephen Bienskie as Ira the Groom
References[]
References
Quotes[]
- Benson: Don't people have sex in bed anymore?
- Stabler: Apparently not.
- Benson: The Earth must have moved.
- Stabler: And he saw stars.
- Tutuola: I'm not staying in here with all these cancer-causing particles flying around.
- Munch: Stop worrying. As an African-American you're statistically far more likely to die of diabetes, high blood pressure, or heart disease.
- Tutuola: Or a bullet.
- [When Fin comes into the squad room wearing up a doctor's mask]
- Munch: What's up, Doc?
- Tutuola: Not taking any chances.
- Munch: Maybe I should become an escort.
- Tutuola: Don't quit your day job.
- Munch: Everybody has fantasies. Most of them don't run amok. You know, guy wants to sleep with Miss October. His wife wants to spend 45 minutes with the buff construction worker she sees outside her office window.
- Leslie DeSantis: [about her escort business] I provide companionship.
- Cabot: You are nothing but a high-priced pimp and like a pimp, you use violence to keep your stable in line.
- Darlene Sutton: Can I go home now?
- Stabler: You're not going home, Darlene. You're going to jail.
- Darlene Sutton: I can't go to jail. The inmates, the guards. What would they do to me? [holds Stabler's hand] You will protect me, won't you?
Background information and notes[]
- A folly, in more vintage language, is a venue of theatrical entertainment with extravagantly flashy female performers, which is likely a jab alluding toward the male prostitution in the episode. It is also spelled and pronounced like the psychological disorder Skoda mentions that the criminals had, folie à deux.
- This is actress Patricia Kalember's first appearance in a Special Victims Unit episode. In this episode she played Leslie DeSantis, but in the following episodes she would play recurring character Judge Taten.
- This is actor J.K. Simmons' last appearance as Dr. Emil Skoda in an episode from Special Victims Unit. He would continue to play the role on Law & Order and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
Episode scene cards[]
1 | 2 | 3 |
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Providence Hospital |
Man about town |
Beaumont Hotel |
4 | 5 | 6 |
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Apartment of |
Apartment of Darien and |
Broadway Hotel |
7 | 8 | 9 |
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Empire Aparments |
Rikers Island |
Barnett, Sloan |
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