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"The Third Guy"
SVU, Episode 1.16
Production number: E0920
First aired (US): 25 February 2000
First aired (CAN): 25 February 2000
First aired (AUS): 12 June 2000
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BensonStablerTheThirdGuy
Written By
Dawn DeNoon & Lisa Marie Petersen

Directed By
Jud Taylor

An elderly woman is found dead in her apartment and has been sexually assaulted and robbed.

Plot[]

An elderly woman is apparently raped and murdered during a home invasion robbery. After catching the home invaders, Stabler and Benson learn that they were not the rapists, but a mentally challenged delivery man who found her later was.

Cast[]

Main cast[]

Recurring cast[]

Guest cast[]

References[]

Quotes[]

Tech: Guy ejaculated on her thigh. Take a look at this. Tied up with her own support hose.
Benson: The attacker came unprepared. The rape was probably an afterthought.
Stabler: How do you get those thoughts about somebody who looks like your grandmother?

Hiphop: [while being arrested] Me has embaucado, you douche!
Stabler: Yo, Hiphop. You want us to Mirandise you in English and Spanish, we can.

Benson: I could be wrong, but Good Samaritans don't usually rape elderly women.

Jeffries: [to Alfonso about Carlos] Why are you letting this boy gamble with your life? How old are you? Seventeen?
Munch: Look at me, take a good look. In 15 years, you're gonna be as old as I am.

Benson: [to Carlos] Let me explain something to you. You jerk us around, you jerk your deal off the table.

Dr. Emil Skoda: Guy starts a fire, reports it, helps put it out. Hero syndrome.
Munch: Or Carlos takes a hero and turns him into the patsy. Schmuck syndrome.

Cragen: You wrote a psych evaluation on Jimmy Walp.
Dr. Skoda: No, actually, I didn't.
Stabler: According to Jimmy's legal aid attorney, you did.
A.D.A. Fahey: He's filed for a statement hearing. If he can prove Jimmy didn't understand his Miranda, we lose his statement
Benson: And anything that came after that.
Cragen: How could you give the defense that ammunition? In writing?! I asked you-
Dr. Skoda: I put a little sticky on your desk by his DD5, that's all.
Stabler: What was on this bombshell sticky?
Dr. Skoda: "Retarded" and a question mark. Never should have left this office.
Fahey: Well it did. It made it into the discovery packet. The meeting's Monday. Anything you can dig up refuting his alleged "retardation" would be greatly appreciated.

Munch: Insatiable Bondage Sluts. That's nice.

Munch: He was fired from McDonald's. That alone will win the case for him.


Background information and notes[]

  • This is Lance Reddick's first appearance as Medical Examiner Taylor.
  • This is also J.K. Simmons' first appearance as Dr. Emil Skoda in episodes from Special Victims Unit. Dr. Skoda was a regular character in Law & Order.
  • This episode contains a number of references to the 1949 film The Third Man. Shared plot elements include mental disability, illegal traffic in prescription drugs, dialogue mentioning cuckoo clocks, and of course the title. In the Law & Order episode "Fluency", Jack McCoy interrogates a defendant by describing in meticulous detail the ferris wheel scene in this film. The suspect, charged with second degree murder for selling counterfeit packages of influenza vaccines resulting in the deaths of 16 people, breaks down while recounting the scene himself.
  • Det. Jefferies refers to someone to be questioned as "Jonathan Smith," but seconds later, the intertitle card noting where Dets. Stabler and Benson are reads "Apartment of Johnny Schmidt."

Episode scene cards[]

1 2 3 4

Home Medical Supply Delivery
Bronx, New York
Monday, February 14

Stephen Foster High School
590 West 16th Street
Wednesday, February 16

Rikers Island
Correctional Facility
Wednesday, February 16

Apartment of
Johnny Schmidt
243 East 4th Street
Thursday, February 17

5 6 7

Apartment of
Jimmy Walp
175 West 21st Street
Thursday, February 17

Home of
Sylvia Walp
530 West 110th Street
Saturday, February 19

Supreme Court
Trial Part 31
Statement Hearing
Monday, February 21

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