"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" Raw (2005)

Director:

Jonathan Kaplan

Writers:

Dick Wolf (creator)
Dawn DeNoon (writer)

TV Series:

"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" (1999)

Original Air Date:

1 November 2005 (Season 7, Episode 6)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

Plot:

An investigation of a horrific school sniper attack leads the team to a particularly obnoxious Neo-Nazi group.

Plot Keywords:

Neo Nazi | Murder For Hire | Racism | Undercover Agent | School Shooting

Cast

Christopher Meloni	...	Detective Elliot Stabler
Mariska Hargitay	...	Detective Olivia Benson
Richard Belzer	...	Detective John Munch
Diane Neal	...	A.D.A. Casey Novak
Ice-T	...	Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola
B.D. Wong	...	Dr. George Huang
Tamara Tunie	...	Dr. Melinda Warner (credit only)
Dann Florek	...	Captain Donald Cragen
Marcia Gay Harden	...	Star Morrison / Dana Lewis
J.C. MacKenzie	...	Brian Ackerman
Joe Grifasi	...	Hashi Horowitz
John Rubinstein	...	Judge Schuyler
Joel Garland	...	Brannon Lee Redding (as Joel Marsh Garland)
Cody Kasch	...	Kyle Ackerman
Myk Watford	...	Mark Whitlock

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

USA:TV-14

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company:

Wolf Films

Quotes:

[first lines]
Opening Announcer: [voiceover] In the Criminal Justice System, sexually based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

It was actually very powerful

This episode was incredibly complicated. It started with one crime, followed the threads to another, and then onto something even bigger. The first crime was a terrible shooting of some school students. It appeared to have been a racially motivated crime. While interviewing students and searching for suspects, the detectives stumble across a sexually abused student. This young girl was awesomely acted, although I found her scenes incredibly disturbing. And then there was a very powerful scene afterwards involving her abuser. It just made me so sad.

Anyway, links are discovered to a particularly nasty white supremacy organisation, which even seems to have its own special youth division headed by the sons of one of the leaders. Marcia Gay Harden has a great guest-starring role as one very scary character. The whole concept of nasty racist organisations is explored and it's absolutely terrifying. We are then treated to a dramatic stand-off which I have to say I actually quite enjoyed. This was a very slick, well-written and well-paced episode.