In this SVU episode little Gabrielle Brennan is kidnapped on the way to school. Blood from the van that was the snatch vehicle is her's and Dr. Warner says that the little girl is suffering from early stages of undiagnosed leukemia. Which makes it critically important more than usual that the SVU squad get her back quickly.
As it happens Tamara Tunie is breaking the news to her parents when a ransom call comes in. The perpetrator is watching and can see them. What's strange here is that while father Tom Verica works in a bank, he's not rich by any means. Neither is mother Kaitlin Hopkins got any kind of independent wealth. It adds up to Christopher Meloni that someone has some inside information and this is some kind of inside job.
This episode belongs to Tamara Tunie. Normally she's just giving forensic information to the squad for a case. Her by dint of being with the parents she gets more involved in the case. She gets to deliver the ransom demand and her scenes with the kidnapper with a Halloween mask are the best in the show.
Glad they gave Tamara Tunie quite a bit more than normally is the case.
As it happens Tamara Tunie is breaking the news to her parents when a ransom call comes in. The perpetrator is watching and can see them. What's strange here is that while father Tom Verica works in a bank, he's not rich by any means. Neither is mother Kaitlin Hopkins got any kind of independent wealth. It adds up to Christopher Meloni that someone has some inside information and this is some kind of inside job.
This episode belongs to Tamara Tunie. Normally she's just giving forensic information to the squad for a case. Her by dint of being with the parents she gets more involved in the case. She gets to deliver the ransom demand and her scenes with the kidnapper with a Halloween mask are the best in the show.
Glad they gave Tamara Tunie quite a bit more than normally is the case.