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At the end of the episode, Justin's disabled mom is calling for her son. We see her wheelchair at the bottom of the stairs as detectives Benson and Stabler escort Justin (just arrested) away.

So apparently they just left a disabled woman there? They could have let Justin go check on her, or checked on her themselves before taking him away. Or at the very least, yelled "He's being arrested, call someone else" up the stairs.

I like Amanda Rollins but how the fudge did she keep her job after screwing up so badly at the illegal club. Surely she should be on at LEAST three months medical leave for rehab.

BEST: Mike Dodds
WORST: Dale Stuckey

I LOVE when the crew tackles cold cases! I love it when the episode starts with one case and the story unravels into an even deeper unsolved murder. My favorites are

1. Bedtime (s.11 ep. 18)- so many twists and turns until the very end. I never would've suspected the retired cop helping them all along was one of Cal Cutler's sidepieces. All the 70s alumni actresses fit the story and were great too.

2. Persona (s.10 ep. 8)- what started off as the typical Domestic Violence episode ended with one of the most memorable stories on the show. Linnie living with Mia felt symbolic to me that Linnie couldn't run from her past no matter what. I sympathize with Linnie, she escaped from going to prison but had to spend 35 years living in fear and isolation to avoid being caught. In a great twist Judge Donnelly (one of my favs) is linked to the old case and ties into the story. The ending is bittersweet as Linnie gets acquitted but loses her husband who she spent their whole marriage lying to.

3. Ballerina (s.10 ep. 16)- one of the best Law and Order episodes period. Carol Burnett and Matthew Lillard go way outside their normal range and gave us 2 of the craziest characters we've seen. Birdie was a twisted but loveable black widow. I feel like she would've never been happy with most of her husband's as she really wanted the surrogate husband she raised, her own nephew! Chet never felt love from his birth mother so he sought that feminine connection from Birdie but it manifested into something wayy different.

These are just a few, but there were plenty more. We're going to ignore the character assassination of Dana Lewis tho😂😂. What is your favorite cold case episode?

This is the official video from the L&O Youtube account -- it's 30 minutes of the season-long beef between the two.

As I was watching the latest season and they had little drops of this throughout, I thought I must have missed something because I didn't understand what the issue was or why Tynan had it out for Benson.

Seeing all 30 minutes of it together confirms that this plot line made zero sense. I'm even more confused now than I was before.

The actress who plays Tynan is compelling so there could've been some really interesting elements with her, but this was not it. She acted the hell out of it and made what was written like a cartoon villain more subtle, which is a testament to her acting skills. But seriously, what was this whole arc?

Like, she wants to destroy Benson's career all because she's mad she is out in the field too much and she won't take a job at 1PP? What a weird vendetta, especially when she has major skeletons in her closet.

Oh my GOSH! I can’t believe this is how they bring Elliot Stabler back on my GOSH!!!!!

ALL THESE YEARS, THIS IS HOWWWWW?!???!!!! My poor girl. No, I have never seen Organized Crime, so this is a complete surprise! Oh my GOSH! I am just disgusted to be honest. Olivia deserved so much better than him ghosting her, and then randomly popping back up to come to her award ceremony, or whatever guise they had cooked up.

I do not care if y’all spoil the episode for me. I am so annoyed seriously that this is how careless they brought him back.

hey so i started watching law and order svu a month ago and now im on season 6 but I've noticed there is so much islamophobic remarks, it wasn't until season 4 ig but im getting tired now, they put a jewish character who gets so sad when kids die (ironic) and its so funny when stabler passes islamophobic remarks like my guy u are literally white and american what are u talking about. am i overreacting or what

I ask this after seeing a post about Buchanan and Calhoun defending a client who is obviously guilty and still pleading not guilty.

But lawyers like Buchanan and Calhoun could represent a client who's overwhelmingly guilty but if the client wants to plead not guilty and how they want to is up to the client. They can only give their opinion.

Now I know that we all hate attorneys like Buchanan, but he's a damn good defense attorney if you ever needed one.

And even if you don't agree with the client you can't just quit after being retained. You have to either get permission from a judge or the client isn't able to pay the fees.

The whole point of a defense attorney is because everyone, no matter how vile, deserves a defense.

I want to become a defense attorney myself and I also have an aunt who is an actual attorney and she told me about a case she had for years and couldn't get out of until the client couldn't afford her anymore.

Well I made it to New York (from London) to see Mariska in Every Brilliant Thing for the Saturday shows (yesterday). This was instead of a party for my 60th. I was initially coming just for one show but thought what the hell, I’m here to see the show so may as well see it twice.

What a wonderfully talented lady she is. Yes we know that already. But to see her in an entirely different role to that of Olivia Benson!!

I am so delighted to have been able to see her. For show 2 I had stage seating, front row. Not only did I get given a card to read out with about 5 lines of writing, she used my pen in the show, and without giving the story away, the guy who played her ‘love interest’ had the seat next to him cleared so Mariska sat next to him briefly but as I was on the other side, she was sitting next to me too!! 😃. I got a high five too (as did a lot of people)! I saw her arrive at the theatre in the morning and said good morning and she acknowledged me then too. She did come out at the end of the later show to see people queuing hopefully to see her and get an autograph. It was hot and been a long day and the queue was huge so nobody had any autographs signed but she thanked us all and then left the theatre.

A gracious lady. I had no expectations other than to be in the audience and couldn’t have picked better seats for this show. Everything else that happened was a complete bonus.

Well done Mariska. Fabulous performances, you sure have some great dance moves and you are a highly intelligent and very talented actor.

It will be strange to see you back as Olivia Benson on the tv screen.

Very thankful to have experienced this.

I now have to get back to reality and deal with cancelled flights due to the weather and hope I can return to UK later this evening.

Help me identify this SVU episode—I've been trying to figure it out for hours!

I'm hoping someone with an encyclopedic SVU memory can help because this is driving me crazy.

Here's what I remember (some details may be slightly off, but I'm pretty confident about most of them):

• It is definitely Law & Order: SVU (I've never watched Chicago P.D., FBI, etc., except for crossover episodes).
• I believe the undercover detective is Amanda Rollins, but it could possibly be Olivia Benson.
• The detective goes undercover as a newly trafficked victim (not an escort or prostitute).
• I don't think she originally had permission to go undercover, or at least it wasn't part of the initial plan.
• She ends up living with several other trafficked girls in what looks like an old institutional building—almost like an abandoned hospital, school, or mental health facility. I remember dingy white/blue walls.
• The girls wear casual clothes (tank tops, T-shirts, jeans/leggings), not matching outfits or lingerie.
• She becomes close to one particular teenage girl she's trying to protect.
• The trafficker/ringleader is a white man who speaks another language (possibly Eastern European/Russian/Albanian/Serbian—I can't remember exactly).
• At one point one buyer comes to choose a girl. The trafficker lines all the girls up, and the buyer slowly walks down the line looking at each of them before selecting the undercover detective.
• I originally thought the buyer was Carisi, but now I'm not sure. It could have been Fin, Amaro, Cassidy, Murphy, or another male detective posing as a wealthy buyer.
• I remember the buyer wearing a nice suit, and I think the undercover detective says something like "You clean up nice."
• After she's chosen, they're taken into a private room (or possibly a room with a window in the door), where they can quietly exchange information while pretending everything is normal.

I've already ruled out:

• S9E15 "Undercover" (the prison episode)
• S16E15 "Undercover Mother"

Does this sound familiar to anyone? Or am I somehow combining two different SVU episodes into one memory?

Someone else said this in a post here, that the earlier seasons used to have much more of the actual law and order and less drama about the squad’s personal lives. I prefer that so much more. I miss Warner, Huang, Cabot (and Barba and Novak), Morales (the TARU guy), and the guy from the CSU unit. Even though I really miss Elliot, Cragen and Munch, I didn’t even mind Rollins, Amaro or Carisi. But the show really fell off from Season 20 onwards, it should have ended there or had a fresh start. Now its such a snooze fest with cringe lines and delivery. Such a far cry from how humorous and hard hitting it used to be. With the seasons prior, I don’t care how ridiculous some of the cases and the details that followed were (esp in the very early seasons lol), they were so much more interesting and thought provoking. You could tell they were fairly fleshed out too. Sorry, been on a re-run and needed to vent. :/

I know this is a weird question because of SCU's pretty dark/bleak nature, but do you guys have any "comfort" episodes you like to watch, for whatever reason? (For me its ones that make me happy either during or at the end).

The ones I think of off the top of my head are s2 ep3 Closure (pt 2) and s6 ep6 Conscience. Cleary getting what he deserved at the end of Closure and knowing they wouldnt be able to pin it on Harper or Mrs Cleary was very satisfying. And Conscience because as viewers we all sympathize with the psychologist who killed Jake and we know he did the world a huge favor.