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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: Tell me what you did to the child.
- Rice runs forward and hugs and kisses Elliot hard
- Elliot: That's a bad idea
- Rice: Come on let's get it on Rice grabs Elliot's crotch hard
- Elliot: What are you crazy? you're out of your mind! Pushes rice away hard into a wall
[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 |
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I.S. 41 |
Rice Residence |
St. Mark's Hospital |
Office of the |
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