"Tortured" | ||
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← | SVU, Episode 4.16 | → |
Production number: E3121 First aired: 14 February 2003 | ||
Written By Dawn DeNoon & Lisa Marie Petersen Directed By Steve Shill |
A Tibetan woman, who was a victim of torture in her own country, is found murdered with a foot missing. The search is on for a killer with a foot fetish.
Summary[]
A Tibetan woman who was tortured in her home country is found murdered, with her foot missing and after an exhaustive search of potential suspects, the killer is a victim of torture himself.
Plot[]
Episode summary
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
- Dann Florek as Captain Donald Cragen
Recurring cast[]
- Daniel Sunjata as C.S.U. Technician Burt Trevor
- Illeana Douglas as Attorney Gina Bernardo
- Tamara Tunie as M.E. Melinda Warner
Guest cast[]
- Fred Weller as Preston Bennett
- Charlie Hofheimer as Jerry Dupree
- Steve Schirripa as Paulie Obregano
- Paul Fitzgerald as Ryan Chambers
- Jodi Long as Center Director
- Henry Strozier as Dr. Shelton
- Margaret Colin as Mrs. Krug
- Latarsha Rose as Laurie Schneider
- Ryan Postal as Brendan Krug
- Jolly Abraham as Detchen Gyatso
- Selena Nelson as Hooker
- Andrea Bianchi as Christian Miller
- Travis Guba as Marshall Bowman
- Sara Barnett as Greta Thorson
- Ed Vassallo as Paramedic Rodriguez
- Juliet Pritner as Officer Bailey
- Jesse Perez as Technician Carlisle
- Larry Brustofski as John
- Erin McLaughlin as Clara Johnson
- Philippe Cu Leong as Waiter
- Ron Domingo as Manager
- Dan Musico as CSU Tech
- Judy Del Giudice as Judge Corwin
References[]
- Hello Dalai Restaurant
- China
- Tibet
- Ted Bundy
- Jeffrey Dahmer
- Mark David Chapman
- Joel Rifkin
- Arthur Shawcross
- Kumsong Bennett (victim)
Quotes[]
- Stabler: There's blood on the boot maybe she got a piece of him.
- Benson: I'll get an evidence bag.
- Stabler: [unzips the victim's boots and see that the foot has been cut off] Liv, I don't think the bloods our perps, its hers
- Benson: [to the canvas cops] Guys, anybody find a severed foot?
- [about the murder victim's injuries]
- Tutuola: Restraints, painful game of shock the kitty. Smacks of S&M to me.
- Cragen: I know one woman's pain can be another man's pleasure, but this girl was not spanked to death.
- Stabler: I'm not buying it. Kathy didn't come home all night, I'd be out looking for her.
- Benson: That's you.
- Stabler: That's everybody.
- Benson: That's bull. How many times have we been working on a case and Kathy doesn't hear from you?
- Stabler: That's different. I'm on the job.
- Benson: [to Preston Bennett] Kunsong screaming bloody murder in the middle of the night on a regular basis.
- Stabler: How's that open to interpretation?
- Preston Bennett: She had nightmares! She tried everything, even sleeping upright in a chair. Still, she'd wake up thinking she was back in Tibet. The nightmares were so real, even with me holding her, she couldn't stop screaming.
- Stabler: Well, someone shut her up with a wire across her vocal chords.
- [about the couch that he stole]
- Benson: You don't strike me as a floral, shabby-chic kind of guy.
- Paulie Obregano: I'm not. That's why I sold it. It belonged to my ex.
- Benson: Now why would she leave a catch like you?
- Paulie Obregano: Cause she's a whore and she found a fatter wallet.
- Laurie Schneider: I had to ride home in my stocking feet.
- Munch: At least you got to keep both of yours. The next woman wasn't so lucky.
- [Public defender Gina Bernardo flags down Alex while she's walking down the hall with her assistant]
- Gina Bernardo: Oh Alex, yoo-hoo!
- Cabot: Hi, Gina. [to her assistant] I'll see you back at the office.
- Gina Bernardo: Hi.
- Cabot: Nice shoes.
- Gina Bernardo: Thanks, I hate them too.
- Bernardo: You're prosecuting, right?
- Cabot: You know I am, Gina. You've served me with enough motions.
- Bernardo: Right. I've got a few more. You saved me a trip. I don't want to wear out these puppies. Request for a 7:30 hearing...
- Cabot: Psych eval. Very original.
- Bernardo: Thanks. [hands her the documents] IQ...and physical... and neurological.
- Cabot: What, no proctologist?
- Bernardo: No, not this time.
- Cabot: Gina, you and I both know any affirmative defense you come up with is going to be a load of crap.
- [Bernardo is questioning a neurologist on the stand about the function of the frontal lobe]
- Gina Bernardo: Dr. Shelton, what exactly does the brain's frontal lobe do?
- Dr. Shelton: It controls emotions, urges, knowledge of right and wrong. Basically, it's our impulse control center.
- Gina Bernardo: So say I had the urge to call opposing counsel an uptight, self-righteous, little bitch, my frontal lobe knows that means sanctions and it keeps my mouth shut?
- [Alex is questioning the same neurologist]
- Cabot: Dr. Shelton, are you saying that everyone who suffers a blow to the frontal lobe will kill?
- Dr. Shelton: No, of course not. There are numerous cases in the history of brain--
- Cabot: Thank you. You've offered a provocative theory. What it lacks in substance, it makes up for in pretty colors.
- Benson: Jerry, your mother's used to taking out her frustrations on somebody. Now who's that person gonna be when you're out of the house?
- Krug: [about Jerry] I didn't make him the way that he is. There's always something wrong with him. I did everything I could to fix it.
- Benson: With blows to the head?
- Krug: Nothing else worked! You don't know what he put me through! Oh, don't look at me like that. I am not the one that's sick.
[to her customers as she is being arrested] You know me. You know that I'm a good mother. You tell them that I'm a good mother! Tell them!
Background information and notes[]
- Goof: The medical examiner mentions damage on the victim. She refers to "nine metacarpal bones." There are eight carpal bones (the wrist) and five metacarpals (the palm).
- Continuity Error: This episode takes place in late January, early February. In the episode "Pandora," which takes place on some of the same days, Stabler was in Prague. In this episode, on the same day, he's in New York.
- A proctologist is a doctor specializing in disorders of the rectum and anus. Yet another example of Alex being a smart-ass.
- The character Jerry Dupree is loosely based on the American serial killer Jerry Brudos. Brudos killed four women in or around Salem, Oregon, through 1968-69. He had a foot fetish and was infatuated with women's shoes. At the time of his death on 3/28/2006, he was the longest-incarcerated inmate in the Oregon Department of Corrections.
Episode scene cards[]
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
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B&C Importers |
Bellevue / NYU |
Hello Dalai Restaurant |
Paulie's Apartment |
5 | 6 | 7 |
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Ma's Bakery |
Trial Part 77 |
FDNY |
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