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| Production number: E4420 First aired: 17 February 2004 | ||
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| Written By Amanda Green Directed By Rick Wallace | ||
SVU investigates the death of a boy previously found eating from the trash, but was returned to his paranoid mother.
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[edit] Plot
Jacob Nesbit is found eating out of the garbage. He explains to Detective Stabler that most food is forbidden by his mother. Benson and Stabler investigate the unusual parenting of Marilyn Nesbit. After Marilyn's husband was shot in a holdup, she kept her sons very close. According to Marilyn, processed food causes cancer, school is a place where children are shot and bullied, the city streets harbor killers around every corner, and foster homes lead children into lives of abuse and misery.
When she learns ACS is coming to check on Jacob and his older brother Adam, Marilyn is sure her children will be removed. That night, Jacob calls Stabler for help. Stabler rushes to the apartment to find Jacob shot, with Marilyn and Adam missing. With the help of Autopilot (a system like OnStar), detectives track her car. They remove her and Adam from the home of a friend and fellow home-schooler.
Marilyn explains that she kept a pistol for protection, and Jacob must have accidentally shot himself. Forensics rules this out. Marilyn tells detectives that she couldn't have shot him; she was careful to be seen shopping at the time of the shooting.
Adam confesses to shooting Jacob, but insists that he was saving his brother from the hell of children's services. Adam repeats the same paranoid views of his mother. Novak talks to the Kester family--the only friends of the Nesbit family. The daughter, Polly Kester, gives Novak emails implying that Marilyn convinced Adam to shoot Jacob and himself.
Novak decides to charge Marilyn too. At the grand jury, Marilyn says that the system is persecuting her, including the police, lawyers, and DYFS. Novak realizes that Marilyn means the Division of Youth and Family Services, which is an agency in New Jersey similar to ACS. Benson and Stabler find she lived in New Jersey several years ago, with her sons Adam and Daniel. Daniel was her first child. She beat him after her husband died, and he was placed in foster care. She told Adam that Daniel died in a foster home and she moved to New York.
Novak brings Daniel to see his brother Adam. Adam realizes that his mother is delusional and agrees to testify against her.
[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
- Marlo Thomas as Judge Mary Clark
- Diane Venora as Marilyn Nesbit
- Joseph Cross as Adam Nesbit
- Isabel Gillies as Kathy Stabler
- Kevin Thoms as Daniel Nesbit
- Audrie J. Neenan as Judge Lois Preston
- Lauren Vélez as Attorney Shamal
- Beth Ehlers as Mrs. Kester
- Dixie Carter as Denise Brockmorton
- Harvey Atkin as Judge Alan Ridenour
- Jesse Schwartz as Jacob Nesbit
- Rose Arrick as Hazel Crane
- Marceline Hugot as Leslie Price
- Larry Fleischman as Steve Krauss
- Jennifer Piech as Poppy Conlon
- Ebbe Bassey as Iris Jordan
- Donnetta Lavinia Grays as Officer Ramirez
- Jeffrey Scaperrotta as Dickie Stabler
- Maura M. Knowles as Heather Thompson
- Laura Lehman as Polly Kester
- Bill Winkler as Sam
- Julie Fain Lawrence as Elise
- Rick Johnson as Court Clerk
- Chester Riley as Pimp
[edit] References
Division of Youth and Family Services
[edit] Quotes
Quotes
[edit] Background information and notes
Background information and notes
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