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| Production number: E4418 First aired: 18 May 2004 | ||
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| Written By Dawn DeNoon & Lisa Marie Petersen Directed By Juan José Campanella | ||
The Detectives investigate an unusual case in which a woman turns into a pedophile after she gets a brain tumor.
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[edit] Plot
A toliet cam is found and once the perp is caught he reveals that on his camera he caught a young boy being molested. The boy, 12 year old Shane is found and his molestor turns out to be his prinicpal Merideth Rice. Rice is captured in the act of molesting Shane, but its revealed that she's actually sick with a tumor that's causing her actions and she is horrified once its removed. Unsure of how to proceed as its not totally her fault, a deal is struck with her: in exchange for probation she can never see Shane again which she has no problem with, she has to go for treatment and she has to register as a sex offender. Her lawyer doesn't like the last one as it will prevent Merideth from ever being a teacher or a principal again which is her life, but Merideth herself agrees as there's no guarentee the tumor won't return and she doesn't want to risk endangering children if it does. Everything seems to be fine, but then Merideth is arrested for violating her restraining order and approaching Shane. She reveals the shocking reason why she did it: she's pregnant and Shane's the father and she thought he deserved to know.
[edit] Cast
[edit] Main cast
- Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler
- Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson
- Richard Belzer as Detective John Munch
- Diane Neal as A.D.A. Casey Novak
- Ice-T as Detective Odafin Tutuola
- B.D. Wong as Dr. George Huang
- Dann Florek as Captain Donald Cragen
[edit] Guest cast
- Stacy Edwards as Meredith Rice
- Diana Scarwid as Jackie Madden
- James Urbaniak as Wade Donato
- Julie White as Dr. Anne Morella
- Robert John Burke as IA Sergeant Ed Tucker
- Jake Weary as Shane Madden
- Pamela Dunlap as Mrs. Elliot
- Jill Marie Lawrence as Cleo Conrad
- Joel de la Fuente as TARU Technician Ruben Morales
- Chris Potter as Mr. Rice
- Amy Sedaris as Charlie Donato
- D.L. Shroder as Phil Gordon
- Jenny Fellner as Cindy Bellamy
- Chuck Montgomery as Vic Spinella
- Tyler Hudson as Jason Rice
- Stephen Gregory as Dr. Kyle Beresford
- Brian Maillard as Gil Tanner
- Matt LoGuercio as Mr. Carson
- Ian Bedford as Officer Bamford
- Elisabeth S. Rodgers as Vanessa Henderson
- Mischa Kischkum as Fred Moynihan
- Oliver Solomon as Rudy Norwick
- James Van Treuren as Teacher
- Joey Parsons as Lana
- Marcel Puissant as Laurent
- Coco as Porn Queen
[edit] References
Brooklyn; Central Park; Creme De La Crop; I Spy Electronics; One Police Plaza; Saint Mark's Hospital; TARU.
[edit] Quotes
Quotes
- Elliot Stabler: Tell me what you did to the child.
(Rice runs forward and hugs and kisses Elliot hard) That's a bad idea
- Rice: Come on let's get it on (Rice grabs Elliot's crotch hard)
- Elliot Stabler: What are you crazy? you're out of your mind! "Pushes rice away hard into a wall"
SVU wonders if Mrs. Madden is molesting her son.
- Don Cragen: When I was on the bottle, I woke up with my share of regrettable bedmates. But her own son?
- Odafin Tutuola: The more you drink, the blinder you get.
- Elliot Stabler: And her alcoholic blackouts are legend
- Olivia Benson: We canvassed the building. Everybody had a horror story ...
- Don Cragen: Before we stagger down this road, let's not rule out other possibilities.
- John Munch: (about a perpetrator who hid video cameras in public restrooms) Gives a whole new meaning to the term 'live streaming video' .
- Olivia Benson: (speaking to a perpetrator who committed their crimes in a bathroom) You had no right to shoot the crap.
- Olivia Benson: Now which one is the pervert?
- Elliot Stabler: The guy who downloaded the most crap.
(After Stabler apparently put the perp in the hospital)
- Ed Tucker: I was just reading up about your thoughts. Suspended four years ago for telling the company shrink you dreamed about killing pedophiles?
- Elliot Stabler: Thought about it. Never did it.
- Ed Tucker: You're getting closer and closer.
- Olivia Benson: (Noting the principal's change in handwriting.)She got something weighing on her mind?
(Profiling the voyeur in the first case.)
- Dr. George Huang: He's either a urophiliac -- that's a sexual attraction to urine -- or a coprophiliac, which is...
- Olivia Benson: Let's not even go there.
- Casey Novak: So what, give her a doctor's note? "Please excuse Meredith from molesting boys, she had a bad tumor".
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- Jackie Madden: Of course I bought a shirt. Gotta support my little man! HEY-YA!
- Elliot Stabler: Probably appreciate it a little more if you were sober.
- Jackie Madden: Screw you!
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[edit] Background information and notes
- In this episode, IAB Sergeant Ed Tucker reminds Detective Elliot Stabler about an incident four years ago when he told the shrink that he dreamed about killing perps. He is referring to the events in the first season episode "Slaves", after which Stabler is almost thrown out of the unit.
[edit] Episode scene cards
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I Spy Electronics |
Knoll Apartments |
Technical Assistance |
Creme De La Crop |
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
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I.S. 41 |
Rice Residence |
St. Mark's Hospital |
Office of the |
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