(Was he labeled a sociopath specifically because his attitude and history sound more in lines of a psychopath. I haven't seen the episode in a long time, so my recollection is fuzzy, I admit.) |
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== Quotes == |
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* '''Perp''': This is bull!<br />'''Fin''': No, that's racial profiling. Sucks, don’t it? |
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== Background information and notes == |
== Background information and notes == |
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Revision as of 13:28, 20 August 2014
| "Soulless" | ||
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| ← | SVU, Episode 4.25 | → |
| Production number: E3127 First aired: 16 May 2003 | ||
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| Written By Dawn DeNoon & Lisa Marie Petersen Directed By Chad Lowe | ||
A rape victim is kidnapped and murdered.
Plot
After a rape victim is abducted from the hospital and later found murdered, the detectives discover that one of the multiple suspects is a psychopath with a juvenile conviction for rape, torture and murder.
Summary
A rape victim, Chloe Dutton, is brought into the hospital one night with a bar stamp on her hand, and when Benson tries to interview her, she insists that she wasn't raped after all and that she was drunk; then she refuses to accept Benson's help. A short time later, the nurse announces that the rapist snatched Chloe from the hospital. The detectives locate the bar that the stamp is from, and they find that the ID that Chloe used to sign in belongs to Jenna Sterling.
It's discovered her sister Vienna stole her ID and that it was used by Chloe to get into the bar. Chloe's murdered body is found washed up on a riverbank and Warner determines that she was drowned in a toilet and gang-raped by four people. Checking the hospital's phone records, its determined that Chloe called Vienna and a flurry of phone calls went between her and three boys named Andrew, Seth and Davis who the squad figures to be three of the rapists.
After letting Seth go to Washington D.C. and arresting him as a suspect for a crime committed there, the detectives are able to take his DNA thanks to Virgina law and he is proven to be one of the rapists and quickly turns on the other two, making a deal. The other two confess and make deals, saying another young man named Max Van Horn got them in on the rape after Chloe passed out and they were too drunk to realize what was going on.
Benson and Stabler arrest Van Horn who's real name is Mitch Wilkens and is a parking attendant they encountered earlier in the case, but he claims the other three pulled him in on the rape, he was just trying to fit in and Seth is the killer. Evidence is found that apparently proves this fact and Seth is put on trial, but a woman named Mrs. Leggit approaches them and fingers Mitch as the killer.
According to her, Mitch, who's real name is Eric Wayne Proctor, brutally tortured, molested and murdered her son when he was ten and her son was three eleven years before and he was tried as a juvenile and his record was expunged after he got released three years before. Once confronted, Eric is very arrogant about things and believes that he's untouchable. His mother is in denial about his actions until Benson realizes that a bracelet she's wearing is the same Chloe is wearing in the hospital security photo.
Afterward, Eric's mother testifies against him, no longer able to deny what she's known deep inside all along. She begs the judge and jury to put him away forever and the jury finds Eric guilty of both kidnapping and murder. Benson and Stabler confront him as the house he lives in belongs to an old woman with no family and most of her friends dead and is missing, leading them to believe he murdered her too. They try to convince him to tell them where her body is, but he refuses and leaves to go to prison.
Cast
Main cast
- Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler
- Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson
- Richard Belzer as Detective John Munch
- Stephanie March as A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot
- Ice-T as Detective Odafin Tutuola
- B.D. Wong as Dr. George Huang (credit only)
- Dann Florek as Captain Donald Cragen
Recurring cast
- Peter Hermann as Attorney Trevor Langan
- Tamara Tunie as Dr. Melinda Warner
- Sheila Tousey as Judge Danielle Larsen
- Welly Yang as CSU Technician Georgie
Guest cast
- Logan Marshall-Green as Mitch Wilkens, aka Max Van Horn
- Ann Dowd as Sally Wilkens
- Kieran Campion as Seth Wolfford III
- Matthew Bennett as Mr. Stark
- Danny Hoch as Kracker
- Brette Taylor as Mrs. Dutton
- Mark Jacoby as Phillip Dutton
- Siobhan Fallon as Linda Leggatt
- Daniel Letterle as Andrew Kenworthy
- Ashley Burritt as Vienna Sterling
- Mary B. McCann as Guidance Counselor
- Ashton Holmes as Davis Harrington
- Amber McDonald as Jenna Sterling
- Eisa Davis as Vera Galeano
- Ciaran Tyrrell as Keith
- Peyton List as Chloe Dutton
- Mary Beth O'Connor as Attorney Andrea Forbes
- Denise Wilbanks as Dora Stark
- Nicholas Hagelin as Bernie Thorkle
- Brian Letscher as Paramedic
- Heather Finn as Nancy
- Susan Varon as Nurse Gruber
- Miche Braden as Nurse Tolentino
- Geoff Reinhard as Public Defender
- Brian D. Coats as Jury Foreman
- Dennis Vargas as Morgue Assistant
References
Max Van Horn, Peek-A-Boobs Andrew Stuart Lister Inspired by the Jesse Pomeroy case
Quotes
- Perp: This is bull!
Fin: No, that's racial profiling. Sucks, don’t it? - Tutola: It's doesn't get any whiter than the cracker.
Background information and notes
Background information and notes
Episode scene cards
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Fifth Avenue at 76th Street |
Sterling Residence |
Arlington Police Station |
Wilkens Residence |
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Rikers Island |
Trial Part 35 |
Trial Part 35 |
| Previous episode: "Perfect" |
"Soulless" Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 4 |
Next episode: "Tragedy" |