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"Noncompliance"
SVU, Episode 2.06
Production number: E1417
First aired: 24 November 2000
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Munch Fin Noncompliance
Written By
Judith McCreary

Directed By
Elodie Keene

Plot[]

A schizophrenic who refuses to take his medication becomes the main suspect in a killing and an assault.

Cast[]

Main cast[]

Recurring cast[]

Guest cast[]

References[]

Quotes[]

[about Mark Nash]
Cabot: Defense is going to ask for a 730. State Examiner will keep him until he's fit for trial.
Benson: Maybe we'll get his story instead of Dostoyevsky's "Crime And Punishment."

Mrs. Nash: [about the stigma of mental illness] Mark doesn't scare me, detective. Pathetic, narrow-minded people do.

Stabler: You're uncomfortable with the mentally ill.
Benson: No, I am uncomfortable with dangerous unpredictability.

Dr. Emil Skoda: Do you refuse medication because you prefer the world you live in to reality?
Mark Nash: I'd be crazy if I didn't.

Mark Nash: I dream of angels, but I live with demons.

Benson: When I said I'd have dinner with you I thought we might be sitting.
Stabler: You can sit in the car.
Benson: You're a classy guy, you know that?

Background information and notes[]

  • Actress Tamara Tunie appears for the first time as M.E. Melinda Warner. Tunie continued to make guest appearances until season seven, where she became a main cast member. She previously appeared as Defense Attorney Caroline Bennett in the Law & Order seventh season episode "Deadbeat".
  • The character played by actress Michelle Daimer, Defense Attorney Dawn DeNoon, seems to have been named for the producer and writer with the same name, Dawn DeNoon.
  • Noncompliance is a clinical and medical term used when a patient refuses necessary treatment, particularly psychiatric, even when doctors decide it can contribute to the patient's health and safety, as well as those of other people in their vicinity.
  • Goof: In the opening when Alvin Maddox discovers Maggie's body, Maggie's panties are around her right ankle. However, when Det. Stabler approaches the body, the panties are around Maggie's left ankle.

Episode scene cards[]

1 2

Sandomir Residence
356 West 19th Street
Monday, November 13

Nash Residence
172 West 25th Street
Monday, November 13

3 4 5

Arraignment Court
Part 65
Wednesday, November 15

Sing Sing
Correctional Facility
Ossining, New York
Monday, November 20

Fast Stop Market
648 West 23rd Street
Monday, November 20

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