Wrong Is Right
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| "Wrong Is Right" | ||
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| ← | SVU, Episode 2.01 | → |
| Production number: E1403 First aired: 20 October 2000 | ||
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| Written By David J. Burke & Jeff Eckerle Directed By Ted Kotcheff | ||
The Manhattan Special Victims Unit struggles with the Morris Commission's uneasiness over Stabler and Jeffries while they investigate the murder of a man whose crotch was set on fire after he was shot in the face.
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[edit] Plot
Plot
[edit] Cast
[edit] Main cast
- Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler
- Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson
- Richard Belzer as Detective John Munch
- Michelle Hurd as Detective Monique Jeffries
- Dann Florek as Captain Donald Cragen
[edit] Guest cast
- Stephanie March as A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot
- Ice-T as Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola
- Adam Kaufman as Michael Goren
- Gerry Bamman as Craig Prince
- Isabel Gillies as Kathy Stabler
- Erin Broderick as Maureen Stabler
- John Driver as Police Commissioner Lyle Morris
- Paul Wesley as Danny Burrell
- Nathan Wetherington as Jason Sloan
- J.K. Simmons as Dr. Emil Skoda
- Laura Regan as Denise Sandler
- Geoffrey Ewing as Ralph Noble
- Lance Reddick as M.E. Taylor
- Denise Burse as Counselor Scheider
- Michael X. Martin as Principal Dietz
- Christopher Wynkoop as Local police officer
- Suzanne Grodner as Teacher
- Michael Hollick as Coach
- T.J. Kenneally as PD Eisendrath
- John McGinty as Policeman #1
- Elizabeth Martin as School secretary
- John Doman as Munch's informant
[edit] References
Radial Velocity; Belgium; Morris Commission; Christ Church; Andrew Croft; George Kazinski; North Atlantic Treaty Organization; Bosnia; Israel; Gulf War; Iraq
[edit] Quotes
- John Munch: Reevaluation stinks.
- Monique Jeffries: Truly. Best crime stats in thirty years and they're reevaluating?
- John Munch: It's how it works. We get rid of the criminals they fear, they start fearing us. Public hates tough cops 'til they need one.
- Alexandra Cabot: You want me to secure a search warrant for the offices of a defense contractor to search classified national security files for evidence in a sexually motivated homicide?
- John Munch: Yes, you got a problem with that?
- Alexandra Cabot: (dials a number) Judge Hermann, please. (pause) Uncle Bill ... look, I need a little favor.
- Elliot Stabler: What're you doing up?
- Maureen Stabler: I couldn't sleep.
- Elliot Stabler: Did you have a nightmare?
- Maureen Stabler: You have to sleep to have nightmares.
- Elliot Stabler: Of course, what was I thinking?
- "A child molester only has power as long as his secret is kept. You tell the truth, his power is gone."
- – Alexandra Cabot
- "What are the odds that you have a picture of Senator Joseph McCarthy tattooed on your ass?"
- – John Munch
(Munch is calling an informant)
- "I want to see your spook ass NOW!"
- – John Munch
(Captain Cragen is showing photographs of "special victims" to illustrate the point of his unit's existence.)
- "This little boy's mother stuck his hands on a frying pan until his fingers burned off. This rape victim required twelve hours of surgery to have a steel plate put into her head after her attacker pummeled her with a claw hammer. This one didn't make it! Is there ANYBODY on this panel who doesn't share Detective Stabler's anger for the perpetrators? This man is a good cop! As his Commanding Officer, I stand with him and every good cop who faces these horrors day after day and has the strength to keep his impulses in check. Now if you can look at these pictures and not understand that, the problem here isn't Elliot Stabler, is it?"
- – Donald Cragen
[edit] Background information and notes
- This episode features the first appearances of two new regular cast members. Stephanie March appears as A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot, while Ice-T briefly cameos as new Detective Odafin Tutuola. Ice-T previously appeared as Seymour 'Kingston' Stockton in the franchise's only movie.
- This episode also means the end for Michelle Hurd as regular character Detective Monique Jeffries. Jeffries had sex with a man whom she knew was a suspect in a case. After being seen as a possibly unbalanced person by the Morris Commission, Jeffries is reassigned to desk duty while she is re-evaluated. This is one of three episodes in the second season in which Hurd appears in the opening theme. The other two are "Asunder" and "Runaway".
- Deleted scenes from this episode included a meeting between ADA Alexandra Cabot and Captain Donald Cragen, and also a bathroom scene between Detective Elliot Stabler and his wife, Kathy.
- From this episode forward, Chris Meloni is credited as Christopher Meloni.
- When Elliot Stabler comes into the office wearing a Hawaiian shirt, John Munch makes a snide comment about Jimmy Buffett. Jimmy Buffett is an American singer-songwriter whose songs typically revolve around beaches, tropical islands and laid back parties. His fans, dubbed "Parrot-Heads," generally assume the uniform of a Hawaiian shirt and shorts when Buffett plays a concert that they go to see.
- The Twin Towers of the World Trade Center are briefly seen in this episode.
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