Wanderlust
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| "Wanderlust" | ||
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| ← | SVU, Episode 1.05 | → |
| Production number: E0905 First aired: 18 October 1999 | ||
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| Written By Wendy West Directed By David Hugh Jones | ||
A travel writer is found tied up with a woman's undergarments, which leads Detectives Benson and Stabler to a strange love affair.
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[edit] Plot
After a travel writer is found tied up with a woman's undergarments choking off his air supply, Benson and Stabler initially suspect his landlord's boyfriend, but suspicion soon turns to the landlord and her daughter. Both seem far too interested in what their tenant is doing with his time. After learning the daughter had a sexual relationship with the tenant, things take an even stranger turn.
[edit] Cast
[edit] Main cast
- Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler
- Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson
- Richard Belzer as Detective John Munch
- Dann Florek as Captain Donald Cragen
[edit] Recurring cast cast
- Dean Winters as Detective Brian Cassidy
- Michelle Hurd as Detective Monique Jefferies
- Isabel Gillies as Kathy Stabler
- Erin Broderick as Maureen Stabler
- Holiday Segal as Kathleen Stabler
- Patricia Cook as Elizabeth Stabler
- Jeffrey Scaperrotta as Dickie Stabler
[edit] Guest cast
- Lynn Collins as Virginia Hayes
- John Dossett as Tom Dayton
- Henry Strozier as Jon Freeman
- Patricia Richardson as Annabel Hayes
- Michael David Mantell as Jimmy Delmonico
- Bruce Barney as Richard Schiller
- Marisa Redanty as Dr. Ramsdale
- Kamal Marayati as Mr. Patel
- Lisa Tharps as A.D.A.
- Liza Lapira as Waitress
- John Thrall Bush as Tourist
[edit] References
Northwest Newsstand; Durst Publishing; Scott Dayton; Belize; Berlin, Germany;
[edit] Quotes
- (on the late Richard Schiller)
- Annabel Hayes: It was a business relationship. He had a fantastic credit rating.
- Monique Jeffries: Is there anything you just accept?
- John Munch: Yes. Compliments.
- Monique Jefferies: Oh, no wonder you're so skeptical.
- Olivia Benson: Virginia, Detectives Munch and Cassidy are going to take you home.
- Virginia Hayes: (to Munch) Can I drive?
- John Munch: Since you're probably as old as my partner, I don't see why not.
- Brian Cassidy: What?
- Virginia Hayes: Cool.
- Olivia Benson: Did she leave after he left?
- Waitress: No. She stuck around for a while. I told her she's much better off without him. Women are always much better off left to their own mechanical devices.
- John Munch: Yes, Santa Claus, there is a Virginia.
- John Munch: Think you can still make direct deposit from the great beyond?
- Virginia Hayes: I asked him to take me away - "You promised."
- Elliot Stabler: What did he say?
- Virginia Hayes: He said he needed to travel light.
- Donald Cragen: Your feelings will always be part of your police work--
- Elliot Stabler: But--
- Donald Cragen: The more you try to deny it, the more they will control you.
[edit] Background information and notes
- Wanderlust is a loanword from German to English that designates a strong desire for, or impulse to wander.
- This episode is inspired by elements of the Vladimir Nabokov novel Lolita, including plot points and character names. The novel is internationally famous for its innovative style and infamous for its controversial subject: the book's narrator and protagonist, Humbert Humbert, becoming sexually obsessed with a pre-teen girl.
- The landlady's name, Annabel Hayes, combines Poe's poem Annabelle Leigh and Nabokov's landlady/mother character, Charlotte Haze. Like Nabokov's Charlotte, the landlady drinks heavily, fancies her well-mannered literary tenant, and has an antagonistic relationship with her teenage daughter.
- The teenage girl's name, Virginia Hayes, combines the surname "Haze" with the first name of Poe's child-bride Virginia.
- The victim, Richard Schiller, has the same name as the man that Lolita marries (when Humbert finds the grown-up Lolita, she is Mrs. Dick Schiller).
- One of the peripheral characters is a doctor with the last name Ramsdale. Ramsdale is the name of Lolita's hometown.
- Olivia mentions having an affair with an older man when she was almost 17. In the episode "Intoxicated", we learn that the man was one of her mother's students, and that she was almost arrested after assaulting her mother during a fight about her relationship.
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