"Theatre Tricks" | ||
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← | SVU, Episode 13.11 | → |
Production number: 13011 First aired (US): 11 January 2012 First aired (UK): 20 May 2012 First aired (CAN): 11 January 2012 First aired (AUS): 19 April 2012 | ||
Teleplay By Marygrace O'Shea Story By Marygrace O'Shea, Julie Martin & Warren Leight Directed By Constantine Makris |
When an actress is raped on stage during a performance, the SVU squad discovers the attacker was set up to commit the crime.
Summary[]
An actress in an interactive theater production is raped on stage, while the audience believes it to be part of the show. The SVU detectives hit a dead end in their investigation when they learn the show's passionate director gave the audience, including the assailant, masks to wear during the performance. Detectives Rollins and Tutuola track down an obsessed fan of the young actress who recorded the assault while stalking her, which leads Detectives Benson and Amaro to a respected judge. With the judge's reputation on the line, the SVU squad explores the underbelly of the New York theater world to uncover who really orchestrated the public attack.
Plot[]
Episode plot
Cast[]
Main Cast[]
- Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson
- Danny Pino as Detective Nick Amaro
- Kelli Giddish as Detective Amanda Rollins
- Richard Belzer as Sergeant John Munch (credit only)
- Ice-T as Detective Odafin Tutuola
- Dann Florek as Captain Donald Cragen
Recurring cast[]
- Stephanie March as A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot
- Gilbert Gottfried as T.A.R.U. Technician Leo Gerber
- Jacqueline Hendy as Defense Attorney Sofia Crane
Guest cast[]
- Jenn Proske as Meghan Weller
- Grant Shaud as Critic
- Gayle Rankin as Holly Schneider
- Adam Driver as Jason Roberts
- Angela Pietropinto as Estelle Roberts
- Fisher Stevens as Director Ted Scott
- Kevin Pollak as Judge Gerald Crane
- Coco Nicole Austin as Venus
- Larisa Bond as Young Woman #4
- Gabra Zackman as Defense Attorney Debra Wagner
- Molly Montgomery as Eve
- Micah Stock as Goat Mask Actor
- Mark David Watson as Paolo
- Shane Geraghty as Double Judge Crane
Reference[]
- Elliot Stabler
- Dante's Inferno
- Sugar Babyz
Quotes[]
- Benson: Rape kit's in. There's no trauma, except for wrist abrasions. No DNA.
- Amaro: It was their opening night. Any chance it was all for publicity?
- Benson: This girl Meghan, she just moved here from Hennepin, Minnesota six months ago. She's pretty shaken up.
- Amaro: Well, she is an actress.
[There's a long pause as everyone looks around] - Cragen: Point taken. [to Amaro] See if her story has changed overnight.
- [after what Amaro said about Meghan]
- Rollins: What was that about? What, she's an actress, she's on stage, she dressed provocatively, that means she's automatically lying?
- Benson: No, they don't think that.
- Rollins: Well, something else was going on. I also know you heard it too. I keep wanting to think that things have changed.
- Benson: They have changed. Compared to the way it used to be? They've changed.
- Estelle Roberts: I live in hell. I don't need to see a play about it.
- Jason Roberts: If I was gonna set up Meghan, I've got images that are a lot hotter. See?
[shows the detectives the images] - Rollins: Really? Jason, you just made bail on a surveillance charge.
- Rollins: Amanda Rollins: Jeez. The director, the I.T. guy, the judge. Just pick your pervert.
- Benson: [referring to Meghan] Well, a pretty girl new to New York City. Every guy she met saw her as easy prey.
- Rollins: Can I ask you something? How long have you worked SVU?
- Benson: Don't ask.
- Rollins: No, it's just... how do you trust any man ever after working this job day in, day out?
- Benson: I trusted my partner.
- Rollins: Yeah, okay.
- Benson: I haven't given up hope. There are good guys still out there.
- Rollins: [to Holly] You know, I'm from a small town too. I come up here to the city, I think things are gonna be different, my life's gonna change.
- Holly Schneider: You don't get it! You're like Meghan. How long have you been in New York? And you're already a detective? You're just like her. Everything just handed to you. Guys jumping up to help you, nice apartments, upgrades to first-class. All you have to do is show up...
- Amaro: And you get the part.
- Meghan Weller: Holly, I thought you were my friend. You had someone rape me!
- Holly Schneider: It's about time something bad happened in your life.
- Rollins: I didn't see or hear a shred of remorse. With all the abusive men in her life and Meghan's betrayed by a woman. Didn't see it coming.
- Benson: Yeah, it's hard enough out there. You'd like to think that we could look out for each other. [gives Rollins a knowing look] Good night.
- Rollins: Get home safe.
Background information and Notes[]
- Actor Ice-T's wife, Coco, has a cameo in this episode as an actress in the theatre production show in the open.
- The victim is being introduced as coming from Hennepin, Minnesota and Hennepin is presented as a town. However Hennepin is in fact a county in Minnesota; Minneapolis is in Hennepin County.
Episode scene cards[]
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