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"Snatched"
SVU, Episode 10.13
Production number: 100
First aired (US): 3 February 2009
First aired (AUS): 29 April 2009
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Snatched
Written By
Mick Betancourt

Directed By
David Platt

Summary[]

Episode summary

Plot[]

When a young girl named Rosie Rinaldi is kidnapped, the evidence immediately points to the mother's ex-husband, a recently paroled convict named Geno Parnell. However, after Parnell is found to be innocent, the detectives unravel a family of con-artists and master thieves. It is revealed that her own mother and step-father are responsible for what happened; the mother, whose father is demented, was hired to fence the diamonds from a heist. The mother and her husband found it and used it to pay off the gambling debts that the step-father had incurred, but as not enough money was paid towards the debts, they set up a ransom. The mother, as she escapes, refuses to give up as if she goes to prison, then she will not see Rosie for a long time. The police surmise that the jewel thieves tried to retrieve the jewels, but that, failing, they kidnapped Rosie instead.

With the help of a man named Eddie Mack through a code, Geno and Stabler track down a professor named Roy Batters, the best safe-cracker in the country, whose opinion they obtain on who could have committed the robbery, as it was a very difficult safe to crack. At first reluctant, he reveals that there are probably only three people in the world who could have cracked the safe; those three are him, his mentor and the son of his mentor. As he had not done the deed, and as his mentor is now dead, Stabler and the police burst into the son's apartment and arrest him for the crime. In the closet, Stabler finds Rosie unharmed. Stabler gives her to Geno to take care of and gives him money for a few nights at a hotel. Parnell's parole officer decides to let his parole violation go, giving Geno a chance at a new start with his daughter.

But Geno tries to rob the hotel and goes back to prison, to the shock and anger of Stabler, who believed that Geno had really changed and would use his second chance. He and Benson are confused, however, because the gun Parnell had used was unloaded. Rosie is sent to a nice foster home while her mother and father are arrested in Connecticut. Eddie Mack shows up with almost two hundred thousand dollars for Rosie, not telling the police where it came from, just that he had owed her grandfather (who is sent to an adult care facility for his dementia) and that it has a note from Geno gifting it to Rosie. Stabler finally understands why Parnell has done what he has done--believing Rosie would be better off without him, he had purposely gotten himself sent back to prison. Mack believes Geno realized that, as bad as he might have wanted a normal life with his daughter, sometimes it is simply better to let it go. Mack offers his services in the future, but he suggests jokingly that Benson be the one to talk to him.

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Quotes[]

[Finn helps Stabler subdue a suspect]
Stabler: I had him!
Tutuola: Yeah like Custer had the Indians.

[Cragen reveals he arrested a suspect when he was a patrolman]
Tutuola: He's that old huh?

Geno: (about a jewlery heist) My whole life I never made a haul half this rich.
Stabler: I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that.

Stabler: Go take care of your daughter. You'll figure it out. (he hands Geno a wad of cash)
Geno: You sure you're a cop?

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Nut Hut Theater
1652 Broadway
Tuesday, January 13

Residence of
Liz Renaldi
721 West 47th Street
Wednesday, January 14

Galactica Bar
403 West 14th Street
Thursday, January 15

Hudson University
Office of Roy Batters
Thursday, January 15

Hotel Lobby
1751 Broadway
Thursday, January 15

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