A woman accuses her husband, a cop, of raping her. When Benson and Stabler arrest him, he denies his wife's claims and claims she's unbalanced.A woman accuses her husband, a cop, of raping her. When Benson and Stabler arrest him, he denies his wife's claims and claims she's unbalanced.A woman accuses her husband, a cop, of raping her. When Benson and Stabler arrest him, he denies his wife's claims and claims she's unbalanced.
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- TriviaOne of the Internal Affairs detectives tells Cragen that they understand why he doesn't like them, since it was IA that made him take down his own mentor. This is referring to the events of The Blue Wall (1991), when Captain Cragen was in command of the 27th precinct. Cragen's former commanding officer, Peter O'Farrel, who held the rank of Deputy Chief at that point, had been accepting bribes from the mob for years, including back when Cragen worked with him. He took bribes and helped cover up numerous crimes including drug and weapon smuggling, prostitution of underage girls, armed robbery and murder. O'Farrel knew that IA suspected that a high ranking member of the department was dirty and that they were closing in on him, so he attempted to frame Cragen by having someone hack the NYPD database as well as Cragen's financial information to make it appear that Cragen was taking bribes. This worked at first as Cragen was relieved of duty and indicted on charges of tampering with evidence, receiving bribes and embezzlement. The only way Cragen was able to clear his name was by wearing a wire and getting his old mentor and friend to admit what he had done. IA made Cragen do this, his choice was to either "rat" on his mentor and friend or loose his rank, job, pension and freedom.
- GoofsIn an effort to gain her cooperation ADA Cabot threatens to charge Mrs. Andrews with assault in the second degree and tells her if convicted she'll be spending three years in prison. Then she says she might be willing to plead her down to assault in the third degree and lower her sentence to 18 months in prison. However third degree assault is a class A misdemeanor, the maximum sentence allowed by law for assault three is 12 months in jail, not a day more.
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Detective John Munch: There are five stages of grief. Don't go through them all at once.
- ConnectionsReferences Law & Order: The Blue Wall (1991)
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Powerful, deceptively complex case of rape
A very strong ediion of SVU, which probably would have a quite different slant if made today. It becomes a variation of the "he said/she said" format, but deals with very powerful, always timely issues involving rape, police misconduct, and the propensity of police departments (and other instituttions) to cover up misdeed by thier own personnel.
Nestor Serrano is terrific as the cop accused of raping his wife, a charge which nearly all his male colleagues, apart from straight-aroow Dann Florek, treat with contempt -as one asks "How can a man rape his wife?". Over a couple decades later I suspect this aspect of the show has become dated.
But the central issues are treated with an amazing array of conflctng details and attitudes, enough to make what seemsd to be black & whtie at the outset become mruky and provide plenty of food for thought. Even the assistant district attorney's attitudes become suspect.
This is what good writing can do: create discussion and even get the viewer to change or at least second guess his/her attitudes.
Nestor Serrano is terrific as the cop accused of raping his wife, a charge which nearly all his male colleagues, apart from straight-aroow Dann Florek, treat with contempt -as one asks "How can a man rape his wife?". Over a couple decades later I suspect this aspect of the show has become dated.
But the central issues are treated with an amazing array of conflctng details and attitudes, enough to make what seemsd to be black & whtie at the outset become mruky and provide plenty of food for thought. Even the assistant district attorney's attitudes become suspect.
This is what good writing can do: create discussion and even get the viewer to change or at least second guess his/her attitudes.
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- lor_
- Jul 11, 2023
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