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"Resilience"
SVU, Episode 4.10
Production number: E3113
First aired: 6 December 2002
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Jackie Landricks Stabler Resilience
Written By
Patrick Harbinson

Directed By
Joyce Chopra

Summary[]

When the detectives look into the attempted suicide of a teenage rape victim, they discover that two of the suspects in the case are in a sexual relationship with the girl's mother.

Plot[]

A businessman stops 15-year-old girl Jackie Landricks from committing suicide by jumping off a subway platform. Elliot and Olivia talk to Jackie, who worries about her parents finding out what happened to her. However, Elliot assures her that they just want to know that she's safe.

The detectives looks at security footage from the subway station and notice a young man named Karl Sirett following Jackie and then running off when Jackie tried to jump. Karl was a bike messenger until he got fired. At the hospital, the doctor confirms Jackie was tied down and raped. Elliot talks to Tom Landricks, Jackie's father and asks about volunteering DNA samples from each male member of the family. Mr. Landricks has no problem with this.

Jackie says she was attacked while walking from school. She was grabbed, forced in a van, tied down, and raped. After the attack, Jackie manage to loosen the straps and ran away. Elliot shows Jackie the picture of Karl Sirrett. Jackie recognizes it because she saw him following her at the subway station. When asked if Karl's the one that raped her, Jackie says she was blindfolded and couldn't see anything. Jackie also says that Karl's penis was pierced with a ring.

Fin and Munch interrogate Karl, while offering him sodas until he needs to use the bathroom. Karl has a history of violence, and he says he doesn't know who Jackie Landricks is. While watching the interrogation, Cragen asks Olivia and Elliot if they got a match on the restraint patterns found on Jackie. Olivia says that Dr. Warner remembers "Chelsea Doe," a deceased, unidentified female victim with no head or fingers being pulled out of the water South of the Chelsea Piers two years before with restraint marks similar to the ones found on Jackie.

Fin and Munch escort Karl to the bathroom. Munch notices the studded ring on Karl's penis and he's arrested. Karl's lawyer, Gina Bernardo arrives, taking away all the soda cans which Munch is trying to collect so they can't get Karl's DNA from them. She says that Karl was tricked by the police into thinking he couldn't leave and she would stop the detectives from getting Karl's DNA based on the fact they saw Karl's studded ring.

Dr. Warner shows Elliot and Olivia the body and says that the restraint marks on Jackie are similar, but different than the ones on Chelsea Doe. The DNA from Jackie's rape kit indicates that Jackie was raped by more than one man. One of them is taking medicine for high cholesterol. Mr. Landricks' DNA doesn't match Jackie's rape kit, so Elliot and Olivia decide to pay the Landricks a visit.

At the Landricks' house, they see Angie, Jackie's mother, running a home daycare center. They talk to Jackie in her room and ask if two men attacked her, but Jackie is reluctant to provide any more information. Elliot steps out and meets Jackie's 6-year-old sister, Sally, who asks for his pen as a "present" for herself. Sally tells Elliot someone named James Randall lives with them. Elliot later notices Randall's medication for high cholesterol. When Elliot asks Jackie if Randall raped her, Jackie becomes defensive and leaves. Randall's room is next door to Jackie, and Olivia and Elliot suspect Jackie knows that Randall had raped her.

Munch and Fin talk to James Randall, who denies raping Jackie. He is horrified when the detectives show pictures of Chelsea Doe to him and gives up a DNA sample. The detectives can't get a DNA sample from Karl Sirett due to police misconduct, as Fin and Munch coerced Karl by taking him into the bathroom. Olivia learns from Jackie's doctor that Jackie has cervical dysplasia. Later, Elliot and Olivia talk to Jackie's teacher, Ms. Bowen. Ms. Bowen says that Jackie had been dating an older boy, the relationship was consensual, and ended the moment Ms. Bowen found out. Jackie's boyfriend turns out to be Karl Sirett.

Olivia and Elliot talk to Jackie at home again. Jackie admits that Karl Sirett was her boyfriend. When she's asked if Karl raped her, Jackie says she doesn't know who raped her. Jackie says the reason she picked Karl as her rapist was because she wanted somebody to blame. When Elliot and Olivia become impatient with Jackie's story and think she knows more than she's saying, Jackie gets defensive again. After Jackie leaves the room, they talk to Mr. Landricks and ask why they rented a room to Randall next to Jackie's room. Mr. Landricks said they needed the money and usually rents out the room to women only.

When Mrs. Landricks comes home with the kids, Sally gives Elliot a bracelet as a present. Elliot talks to Dr. Huang about Sally's overly affectionate behavior and Huang says that it might be sign of abuse. However, Elliot says the parents love their kids and the kids appear happy. The second DNA match from Jackie's rape kit matches Charles Eno, an ex-con who lives a block away from the Landricks and used to work as a butcher. Eno says he never touched Jackie but admits sleeping with her mom, Angie. The DNA clears Karl as a suspect in Jackie's rape, but it matches James Randall. Randall admits he never touched Jackie, but also slept with Angie Landricks. He also says that Mr. Landricks paid him to have sex with his wife.

According to Dr. Huang,Tom Landricks is a narcissist and sex-obsessed. He treats his wife and daughter as adults, and uses them for sex to make up for the fact that he's infertile. Jackie's afraid to talk without being blamed for breaking up the family. Child Services are called to take the Landricks children away. Angie is upset and blames Jackie for what's happened. There are two little boys, Phillip and Antoine, that don't belong to the daycare. Sally says that they are her brothers.

While being questioned, Angie admits that Phillip and Antoine are her kids. Tom wanted Angie to have more kids because he became infertile after Sally was born. Tom pulled in men off the streets for Angie to have sex with so she can have more kids, but due to a problem with Phillip's birth, Angie had to have a hysterectomy and now, she cannot have anymore children, so Tom decides to use Jackie to have the babies. Elliot yells, calling Angie "disgusting" for using Jackie like that. Angie cries, begging to see her husband and says she loves her kids and she & Tom would never hurt them. According to Dr. Huang, Tom Landricks is obsessed with having children and "family", sort of like a cult, just without the religion part.

When Elliot and Olivia go to talk to Jackie again, Cragen informs that Jackie's been moved to a psychiatric treatment center after a breakdown. When Tom Landricks arrives at the precinct and asks where his wife & kids are, he and Elliot nearly come to blows with each other. At the treatment center, Dr. Huang says that Jackie has regressed into a childlike state of mind because of the trauma she's endured. He suggests that Elliot talks to Jackie because she's looking for a father figure.

Elliot talks to Jackie and they play with a doll and a teddy bear. When Jackie uses the toys to show how to make Elliot "feel good," Elliot asks how Jackie knows it. Jackie says that she learned by watching her mom have sex. Elliot asks Jackie if that's what she wants to do and Jackie says that her dad won't. Elliot says her dad's selfish, but Jackie says he loves her. Elliot tells her sometimes people say they love you and can do bad things. Jackie cries and says her dad loves her. However, Elliot tells her he's using her and knows why Jackie ran away. Jackie says that her dad told her that her mom couldn't have a baby anymore and since she was older, it was her turn to have a baby. She didn't want to, but her dad said that Jackie had to save the family. When Elliot asks what happened, Jackie says her dad took her in her bedroom, disrobed her, and told her to lie down the bed. When she saw her dad with a syringe in his hand, Jackie tried to run away. However, her dad caught her and tied her down. Then, she saw her mom and begged her to make her dad stop, to no avail. Jackie says her dad inseminated her with Randall and Eno's sperm. Jackie cries into Elliot's arms and Elliot comforts her.

Mr. Landricks' lawyer, Ms. Conrad tries to make a deal that Mr. Landricks will plead guilty to promoting prostitution, which is a misdemeanor. Cabot refuses and Ms. Conrad says she'll be forced to expose Jackie's promiscuity and false accusations in court. Mr. Landricks says that he loves Jackie and would never hurt her, but Cabot shuts him up. While in court, Jackie falters her testimony, saying that Elliot made her tell her lies about her dad. She says her parents would never hurt her.

Without Jackie's testimony, the case is dismissed and the kids can go home to Tom and Angie. It's then discovered that Jackie is pregnant and wants to keep the baby. Fin wonders why it took two years (after Angie's hysterectomy) to use Jackie to get pregnant. The detectives come to the assumption that Tom Landricks might've killed Chelsea Doe. Cragen tells the detectives to try to identify Chelsea Doe while he introduces Dr. Huang to the body.

Dr. Huang looks over the body and thinks that it's possible that Tom Landricks had the mentality to kill. Huang suggests that he kept the head & fingers as souvenirs, and restrained Chelsea Doe in a way so she would fight back. The detectives discover that Chelsea Doe is actually Karen Stencil, a woman who used to live at the Landricks during the same time the body was discovered. They talk to Karen's grandmother, who says that Karen used to be the Landricks' nanny; and she was told by Tom Landricks that Karen moved to Europe two years before. She hasn't heard from her since. Elliot looks at a picture of Karen and recognizes the bracelet on her is the same one that Sally gave to Elliot as a present.

At the ACS home, Elliot and Olivia talk to Sally. Sally says that she took the bracelet from Jackie's drawer. Jackie recognizes the bracelet and says she found it in Karen's room after she left. Karen's old room turns out to be Randall's room. The floor is pulled up and Karen's skull & fingers are discovered. The detectives visit Tom Landricks in jail and confront him with the facts. Tom accuses them of setting him up. The remains found the house match Karen based on her grandmother's mitochondrial DNA. Tom admits that he killed Karen because she was going to tell the police about what he was doing.

Back at the ACS home, Elliot visits Jackie, who appears recovered. She tells Elliot that even though her father did bad things, she still loves him. Jackie decides not to keep the baby because that's what her father would've wanted, and she doesn't want to do that anymore.

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Quotes[]

Benson: [to Jackie Landricks] We're gonna call your mom and dad and they'll meet you at the hospital, okay?
Jackie Landricks: No, please don't tell them. They'll kill me.
Stabler: Jackie, this is not your fault. They're just gonna be glad you're safe.

Tutuola: [to Karl Sirett about Jackie] So why'd you run when she tried to kill herself?
Karl Sirett: Those guys had it under control.
Tutuola: Or you knew the cops were on the way and she'd finger you.
Karl Sirett: Finger me for what?
Munch: We know you like attacking women. Did you go all the way with Jackie?
Sirett: Who's Jackie?
Tutuola: The girl you followed into the subway. The girl you raped.
Sirett: I told you I never saw that bitch before.
Munch: [while reading from a file] "I never saw the girl. I never met the bitch." You should get a better story, don't you think?

[while using the restroom]
Sirett: Jealous?
Munch: No, but I am impressed. I believe the technical term for that is a Prince Albert.
Sirett: Ladies love the prince.
Tutuola: The technical term for these are handcuffs.
[handcuffs Karl]

Stabler: Can you tell me who James Randall is?
Sally Landricks: He lives with us.
Stabler: Is he old like me?
Sally Landricks: Worse.

Benson: No wonder she's not talking. Her rapist lives right next door.

James Randall: Just because I have high cholesterol doesn't mean I raped anybody.
Munch: So it's just a coincidence, Mr. Randall that the medication you take wound up inside Jackie Landricks?
James Randall: Yeah, it's just a coincidence. Lots of guys have high cholesterol.
Tutuola: Lots of guys don't live next to the victim's bedroom.

James Randall: You want a DNA sample, sure, I'll give you a DNA sample. Just get me a plastic cup or a pretty woman, I'll give you all the DNA you want.
[unzips his pants]
Munch: Put it away, Mr. Randall. All we need is to swab inside your mouth.

Stabler: [to Mr. Landricks] You know, I gotta ask you something. Why would you let a 40-year-old man rent a room right next to your 15-year-old daughter?
Tom Landricks: Why? Because I need my head examined.

Sally: I got you a present.
Stabler: You did?
[Sally hands him a bracelet]
Sally: [whispers] Don't tell anybody.

Charles Eno: I had sex with Angie Landricks, but I never touched the girl.
Munch: You had sex with Jackie's mother?
Charles Eno: Yeah! Why would I mess with jailbait when I could get it from her moms?

[after it's revealed that James Randall DNA was inside Jackie Landricks]
Randall: I swear I never laid a hand on her.
Stabler: Right. Your little tadpoles just swam in all by themselves.

Randall: I didn't touch the girl!
Stabler: Don't tell me. You just had sex with her mom.
Randall: Yeah, that's right.
Benson: That's pretty ballsy doing it right under her husband's nose.
Randall: Oh, the hell. He paid me to do it.
Stabler: He paid you to have sex with his wife?
Randall: Yeah. He likes to watch.

[about two young boys from the Landricks' house]
Miranda Bowen: Detective Benson, we've got a problem. There's no record of these two in the home. No names, no addresses...
Benson: What does Mrs. Landricks say?
Bowen: Nothing I can repeat.
Stabler: Can you tell me who they are?
Sally: That's Philip, and that's Antoine.
Stabler: Who's their mom?
Sally: Mom is.
Stabler: Okay. Who's their real mom?
Sally: My mom is, stupid! They're my brothers.

Angie Landricks: [about her husband] He wanted me to have the kids.
Stabler: He wanted you to have the kids.
Angie Landricks: Sally was his last. He can't have any more.
Stabler: That's very sad. So he just pulls men off the streets and lets them play inseminator?

Benson: You used your own daughter.
Angie: No. Those men did. Randall and Eno.
Benson: They swear that they didn't!
Angie: But they're lying!
Stabler: Either you let them rape your daughter, or your husband took their semen out of you and did it himself.
Angie: That's disgusting.
Stabler: YOU'RE DISGUSTING!! YOU ARE! Your own child!

[after Jackie ends up in the hospital due to a breakdown]
Stabler: [to Dr. Huang] She's playing with dolls. How do you know she's not faking?
Dr. Huang: You don't. Not until you talk to her.
Stabler: Who, me? No, no. No, no, no. No, you're the shrink.
Dr. Huang: And you're the dad. That's what she's looking for. Another father.

Jackie Landricks: [to Stabler while she's playing dolls with him] This is Cindy's friend, Bear. He likes her very much, don't you, Bear?
Stabler: Why does he like her?
Jackie: Because Cindy knows what Bear wants.
Stabler: And what do I want?
Jackie: You want Cindy to be nice to you.
Stabler: And how are you gonna be nice to me?
Jackie: She'll make you feel good. Do you want her to show you? It's okay. I know what to do.
Stabler: Yeah, how do you know what to do?
Jackie: Cause I've watched.
Stabler: Who did you watch, Jackie?
Jackie: My mom.
[stops playing with the dolls]
Stabler: You watched her with other men? Is that what you want to do?
Jackie: Daddy said I couldn't.
Stabler: That's because he is selfish. He just wants to keep you all for himself.
Jackie: He loves me.
Stabler: Sometimes people say that they love you and they can do bad things.

Cleo Conrad: Jackie was just transferred to a psychiatric treatment facility. You think a jury is gonna buy her crazy story?
Cabot: I think when a jury hears that your client paid strangers to screw his wife, they're gonna believe pretty much anything she says.

Tom: I love my daughter. She means everything to me. I would never harm a hair on her head.
Cabot: Shut up. I'll see you in court.

Stabler: You heard Tom Landricks is getting his family back?
Munch: It gets worse. ACS just called. Jackie's pregnant, wants to keep the baby.
Tutuola: Daddy's turkey basting worked.

Cragen: You think Landricks is a murderer and not just a sick freak?
Munch: Since when do those two exclude each other?

Tom Landricks: There is no way that I would hurt Karen. The kids loved her. You are setting me up! You put those terrible things there.
Stabler: Under two feet of concrete?
Benson: Tom, we know that it's Karen.
Cleo Conrad: How for God's sake?
Benson: Her mitochondrial DNA was an identical match to the grandmother.
Tom Landricks: [to Conrad] What are they talking about? I didn't do anything.
Stabler: You know something, I'm done with this guy.
[to Tom Landricks] Yeah, you did. You tied her up, you raped her, you killed her, you tried to hide her body. Next time I see you, you're gonna have a needle in your arm. Keep denying it.

Tom Landricks: I had to protect my family. If there are no children, the family dies.
Benson: What about Jackie? She tried to run away. Were you gonna kill her, too?
Tom Landricks: No. I'd never hurt Jackie.
Benson: Well, she's hurting now, Tom. She's got a baby inside of her that you put there.
Tom Landricks: Jackie loves me. She knows that I love her and she'll do what's best for the family.

Jackie: [to Stabler] He's my dad. He did all those horrible things and he's my dad.
Stabler: But you got away.
Jackie: Yeah, I did. I'm not gonna keep the baby. It's what Dad would have wanted, isn't it? I'm not gonna do that anymore.

Background information and notes[]

  • The subway station in the opening scene is meant to be West 4th Street (according to the large sign). A passenger also identifies an approaching train as the C, which does stop at West 4th. However, the train is actually the N (according to its logo), and the real subway station is Church Street according to the tiling on the walls.
  • It was discovered that a mother was forcing her 14-year old adopted daughter to artificially inseminate herself with sperm she had purchased on the internet. The mother had adopted two other children from abroad during her marriage, and another after her divorce. Due to health concerns, she could not give birth herself having had previously undergone voluntary sterilization. After her fourth requested adoption had been denied, she then turned to her daughter to give birth to a child she could raise as her own. When the girl gave birth at 16, child protective services were alerted when midwives discovered the mother attempting to remove the baby from the ward.

Episode scene cards[]

1 2 3 4

Saint Gregory's Hospital
502 West 25th Street
Monday, November 25

Home of
Tom and Angie Landricks
364 West 16th Street
Tuesday, November 26

James F. Cooper School
402 West 19th Street
Tuesday, November 26

Adams' Treatment Center
270 West 34th Street
Wednesday, November 27

5 6 7

Trial Part 22
Friday, November 29

Office of
The Medical Examiner
Friday, November 29

ACS Emergency
Children's Shelter
Saturday, November 30

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