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"Wannabe"
SVU, Episode 11.23
Production number: 11023
First aired (US): 12 May 2010
First aired (UK): 13 August 2010
First aired (CAN): 14 May 2010
First aired (AUS): 29 July 2010
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Flecther Wannabe
Written By
Dawn DeNoon

Directed By
David Platt

Plot[]

A man makes an announcement over an intercom in an electronic store calling all ladies to the television section for a giveaway which confuses the salesman helping a woman and a little girl looking at TV's. Just as the sales clerk states he's going to check on what's going on, every single TV screen suddenly broadcast a man pulling down his pants in front of a camera. He has a very distinctive birthmark shaped like the state of Florida on his groin.

A month later, a group of police that have been pulled together to try to find him. One of the officers questions why they are chasing down a simple flasher, when Eliot and Olivia explain that the man has raped three girls since that day - an 11 year old, 15 year old, and a 12 year old. Every rape occurred on a Sunday and it is now the fourth Sunday. They want to catch him before he rapes another young girl. Cragen sends the all of the police on a manhunt in Central Park. A rookie named Fletcher catches the guy and, after a brief chase and struggle, manages to arrest him.

However, after discovering the young officer Fletcher made several glaring mistakes and bungled the evidence, Cragen and Marlowe discover that he isn't really a police officer, but is actually a teenager who dreams of being a cop. The evidence, arrest, and information they gathered from the suspect since he was brought into the station, is all invalid now. Fletcher is arrested for his actions, but Marlowe cuts him a break as his intentions were good and makes a deal so that he won't lose his chance to be a cop in the future, as long as he adheres to certain rules such as turning over all of his police paraphernalia.

Fletcher breaks the rules again and spies on the suspect, but he is discovered and is shot. Marlowe is furious because Fletcher broke the deal, but he reveals that the suspect's father gets off on tapes of the crimes. Marlowe seems to decide to cut him some slack again, telling him that maybe one day she will see him when he really is a cop. This information leads to the arrest of the suspect and his father who was the mastermind behind the rapes.

Summary[]

Episode summary

Cast[]

Main Cast[]

Recurring Cast[]

Guest Cast[]

References[]

Quotes[]

Wayne Hankett: (perp):  I didn't do anything!
Benson: How 'bout we start with resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer?
"Officer" Fletcher: (wannabe cop):  Look, he's the rapist, check this out, look. (reaching towards front of suspect's pants).
Wayne Hankett: Hey hey hey, how many times you gonna grab my junk, you pervert?
Stabler: What are you doing?
"Officer" Fletcher: I was showing you the birthmark.  It's him, I got the right guy.
Benson: Let's not strip search him in public.
Stabler: We'll take pictures of it back at the station house; birthmark isn't going anywhere.

Benson: (as Elliot photographs suspect's birthmark)  Looks like Florida to me.
Stabler: To me it looks like guilty.
Benson: (as suspect starts to lower his pants)  Whoah, we don't need to see anything south of Key West!
Wayne Hankett: (suspect):  Leave me alone.
Benson: Keep it in your pants, okay?
Stabler: Sit down. Sit down
Benson: Keep your pants on Mr. Hankett.
Stabler: Now you are not denying being a flasher, are you Mr. Hankett?
Wayne Hankett: What just happened, that was an accident, okay?  It just kind of fell out.
Benson: Just like it did in the electronics store?
Stabler: What you have an epilectic seizure while you trying to put it away?

Background information and notes[]

  • This marks the final episode to be directed by SVU veteran David Platt.

Episode scene cards[]

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Fletcher Residence
3966 Bedford Avenue
Brooklyn, New York
Monday, May 10

NYPD Explorers
Cleanup Site
317 West 126th Street
Monday, May 10

Family Court
Tuesday, May 11

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