"Storm" | ||
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← | SVU, Episode 7.10 | → |
Production number: 07011 First aired: 29 November 2005 | ||
Written By Neal Baer & Amanda Green Directed By David Platt |
Summary[]
When a twelve-year-old girl and her younger sister end up in the hospital after a day at the park, detectives learn that both girls were abducted from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina along with a third sister who is still missing. Despite the interference of a local reporter, Jackson Zane, detectives are able to catch the kidnapper, a known pedophile, and recover the girl, but when Alvin Dutch dies and the autopsy determines it was anthrax, Benson puts everything on the line so that she can get the truth that the people deserve out there.
Plot[]
Much later, Jackson is given a recording by Olivia where Michael Delpit admits to smuggling Anthrax into the city. In each recording a glimpse of the interrogation is shown in which Delpit shows no remorse for turning to a life of crime. Having heard this, Jackson is disgusted and begins writing an article while questioning Benson on why she gave him such information, despite the risk of her job Benson says the truth must be heard, something he admired. Benson soon notices the federal authorities arriving and slowly approaching while telling Jackson to hurry because if she is caught they will both go to prison. Jackson is adding the finishing touches to the article and after completing he tells Benson to go out the back door behind him. While hiding, Benson sees Jackson being escorted out of the building by the feds.
Outside of the federal courthouse, Benson meets with Novak who has read the article and it says the feds are holding Jackson in prison until he names his source but he is adamant about not doing so.
Olivia visits Jackson in prison who tells her that she took a big risk visiting him, because the guards are bound to check his visitor's log but she says that she used her undercover name. Although he refers to it as a big risk, Benson states she needed to see him. She pleads to him to give her up, because she belongs there after forcing him to write the article. However, Jackson refuses because the Anthrax is still out there and says they both did their job by protecting the girls and the city from a risk. When Benson notes that Jackson is in jail, he states as a journalist it is his job to write the truth. He tells Benson that he accepts this outcome and tells her to keep doing her job of protecting people and not to visit him again. He bids her farewell and proceeds to walks off to serve his sentence while Benson just looks after him.
Cast[]
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
- Tamara Tunie as M.E. Melinda Warner
- Dann Florek as Captain Donald Cragen
Recurring cast[]
- John Schuck as Chief of Detectives Muldrew
- Mike Doyle as C.S.U. Technician Ryan O'Halloran
- Joel de la Fuente as T.A.R.U. Technician Ruben Morales
- Stephen Gregory as Dr. Kyle Beresford
- William H. Burns as Officer Robbins
- Nathanael Albright as Paramedic Jones
Guest cast[]
- Matthew Settle as Jackson Zane
- Leo Marks as Michael Delpit
- Birdie M. Hale as Goldie Prioleaux
- Keke Palmer as Tasha Wright
- Russell Hornsby as Alvin Dutch
- Stephen Beach as Federal Officer
- Lou Sumrall as Clayton Miles
- Nickayla Tucker as Nicki Wright
- Drucie McDaniel as Felicity Gill
- Mando Alvarado as Taxi Driver
- Jean Arbeiter as Woman
- Barbara Lee Govan as Mrs. Fontenont
- Mark J. Foley as CDC Technician
- Edward M. Kelahan as Hazmat (uncredited)
References[]
- Lola Wright (kidnapping victim)
- ACS
- Angola
- New York Ledger
- CDC
- Clark Corman
- FEMA
- Hurricane Katrina
- Iraq
- Leavenworth Prison
- Louisiana
- Rachel Martin
- NIH
- New Jersey
- Hurricane Camille
- John F. Kennedy
- Anthrax
- Cipro
- One Police Plaza
- Patriot Act
Quotes[]
- Benson: The perp has got to know that we're talking to Tasha. He could panic and kill the sister.
- Stabler: He's got nothing to worry about. He knows Tasha doesn't know his name or where he lives. He can just stay put and keep abusing Nicki.
- Jackson Zane: [about Cragen] He's laying it on with a trowel.
- Benson: Excuse me?
- Jackson Zane: Jackson Zane from the Ledger. I just got handed the police beat.
- Benson: Pretty cynical for a new guy.
- Jackson Zane: I'm new, not naive. Cute kid. Tragic accident. Whole dog and pony show just in time for the 11:00 news. What's the real story?
- Benson: Just what my captain said. Need to find the girl's parents.
- Jackson Zane: Nobody got home from the park and realized they were short a kid?
- Benson: I guess not.
- Jackson Zane: You could cut me a break. Make me look good to my new boss.
- Benson: But then my boss would ship me out to Sheepshead Bay.
- Benson: [to Jackson Zane] You blew our surveillance on a child abductor. An 8-year-old girl is out there somewhere, maybe dying because of you.
- Zane: I thought you were gaming me. What can I do?
- Benson: Pray that he talks.
- Stabler: Where have you been staying in New York?
- Alvin Dutch: I don't really see how that concerns you.
- Stabler: [Stabler leans on the table and smirks as he sees that Dutch is anxious] Hey. You're starting to sweat. You nervous?
- Alvin Dutch: Hardly. I've been through hell. Clung to a tree all night while bodies floated by. You don't scare me. I know my rights. I've committed no crime. You can't keep me here. I'd like to see my lawyer now.
- [after observing Stabler's interrogation of Dutch]
- Novak: He said the magic words.
- Cragen: And while we wait for legal aid to waltz Mr. Corman out the door, God only knows where Nicki is or what shape she's in.
- Novak: Do you think she's still alive?
- Cragen: He's antsy, sweating. If he'd hidden the body, he'd be calm.
- Stabler: [exiting the interrogation room] Casey? You've got to help us out here, 'cause I'm not cutting this guy loose.
- Novak: [matter-of-factly] Print him.
- Cragen: [Cragen and Stabler look at each other confused] Counselor, without grounds to arrest, we need a court order to compel his fingerprints.
- Novak: Do you think he knows that?
- Benson: Miss Goldie, thank you so much. You call us if you can think of anything, okay?
- Goldie Prioleaux: I just did. Camille. Not Katrina. Camille was the name of that storm.
- Benson: Miss Goldie, what's the president's name?
- Goldie Prioleaux: Oh, Kennedy of course. I voted for him.
- [discovers the FBI cleaned out the squad room's evidence]
- John Munch: Why, Santa, why?
- [the unit returns to the Squad Room to find everything gone]
- Tutuola: Who do we call when we been raped?
- Federal Officer: Captain Cragen, M.E. Warner, your part in this investigation is over. There's no need for your squad take any further action regarding Alvin Dutch or his death.
- Benson: What about the girls?
- Federal Officer: They're being well cared for and all appropriate steps are being taken to locate next-of-kin.
- Benson: Those girls have been through hell. They need therapy and continuity with people that they know and trust.
- Federal Officer: I appreciate your compassion, Detective Benson, but this is a matter of national security.
- Cragen: You said it was a matter of public health when you raided our squad room. I think you owe us an explanation.
- Federal Officer: I can't give you one. You don't have the security clearance. All information obtained by the NYPD or the medical examiner's office is now classified.
- Stabler: We just keep our mouths shut till people start dying from anthrax.
- Federal Officer: The federal government is prepared to deal with any and all exigencies.
- Munch: Sure, by calling in the black helicopters.
- Tutuola: For once, he's not being paranoid.
- Federal Officer: This meeting is over. Any leak of classified material will be investigated and punished as a federal offense.
- Stabler: We just gonna bend over and take it?
- Cragen: We have no choice. This came from Washington. The P.C. can't overrule the Feds.
- Benson: Well, what about the girls? We just forget about them and everything that they've been through?
- Cragen: Yes.
- Benson: This is crap.
- Dr. Warner: We could have a citywide health crisis. If the public isn't warned, they can't protect themselves.
- Cragen: Melinda, my hands are tied.
- Stabler: [to Olivia as he shows her the newspaper] What the hell were you thinking?
- Benson: Nice picture.
- Stabler: Why'd you give it to him?
- Benson: Who says I did?
- Stabler: Don't play games with me. Olivia, look. The Chief of D's is in there right now. The Feds are going nuts. They know someone from this squad leaked that photo to the Ledger.
- Benson: A lot of people had cameras in the park that day. Jackson Zane could've gotten that photo from anybody.
- Stabler: Oh, okay. You really think that's gonna fly?
- Benson: Those girls lost their mother, their home, everything, but they still trusted us to make things right.
- Cragen: I don't like being bossed around by some G-man in a $1,000 suit, but when I am told to stand down in the interests of national security, I bite my tongue.
- Benson: Captain...
- Cragen: Shut up. When they question me, I don't want to lie and they will question us all. If they prove you leaked this, they will take your job, your pension, and your freedom. I don't want to visit you in a federal lock-up, Olivia.
- Stabler: ACS just called. I think all this media attention spooked the Feds. They returned the girls.
- Benson: We gotta go talk to them.
- Stabler: You have lost your mind.
- Benson: Those girls are safe for now, but what about the rest of the city? There's anthrax out there somewhere and Nicki is the key to finding it.
- Stabler: You don't think the Feds questioned her all night long?
- Benson: Elliot, she's a traumatized 8-year-old girl who's been kidnapped and molested after watching her mother die. We know how to talk to her.
- Nicki Wright: Mama says it's a sin to take things that don't belong to you.
- Stabler: Well, you know what, Nicki? I want to call the guy who drove that van. And I'm gonna tell him that you just borrowed the fairy dust. It's not such a bad thing to borrow stuff, right?
- Michael Delpit: If people are too stupid to prepare for all eventualities, then they're too dumb to live. I view it as natural selection.
- Benson: You're sitting in jail, Jackson. Give them my name and get back to work.
- Jackson Zane: I give them your name, they win. There's no freedom without free press. Now, I chose to write this story. And I'll take the consequences. Good-bye, Olivia. Don't come back.
Background information and notes[]
- According to Dr. Huang, 2,300 children and 4,500 sex offenders have gone missing since Hurricane Katrina.
- Olivia's undercover name is Rachel Martin, which was previously used in the episode "Starved".
- Goldie Prioleaux mentions Hurricane Camille, which happened in 1969, then says that Kennedy is the president, but he died in 1963. Richard Nixon was the President when Hurricane Camille occurred.
- Goof: When the feds are about to arrest Zane, he is shown typing the same sentence on his laptop twice.
- Goof: Casey says they don't have any probable cause to arrest Alvin Dutch and they can't hold him. However, they already know he kidnapped Tasha and her two younger sisters, and have her sworn statement saying so. Therefore, this is more than enough probable cause to arrest Alvin on three counts of first degree kidnapping of a minor. Also, due to Alvin being an out-of-state resident with no fixed address and no ties to the community, he almost certainly would of been remanded at arraignment or at the very least been given a very high bail amount had he lived.
Episode scene cards[]
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
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Hurricane Help Center |
St. Mark's Hospital |
Home of |
Home of |
5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
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20 Federal Plaza |
Administration of |
Jersey Gentific |
Federal Courthouse |
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