Authority (29 Apr. 2008)

A man accused of impersonating a police officer over a telephone and telling a fast food manager to sexually assault an employee is found not guilty, and as a result becomes a vocal crusader telling other people to defy authority figures.

Director:

David Platt

Writers:

Dick Wolf (creator), Neal Baer,

Stars:

Christopher Meloni, Mariska Hargitay, Richard Belzer

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Christopher Meloni	...	Detective Elliot Stabler
Mariska Hargitay	...	Detective Olivia Benson
Richard Belzer	...	Sergeant John Munch
Diane Neal	...	A.D.A. Casey Novak
Ice-T	...	Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola
Adam Beach	...	Detective Chester Lake
BD Wong	...	Dr. George Huang
Tamara Tunie	...	Dr. Melinda Warner
Dann Florek	...	Captain Donald Cragen
Robin Williams	...	Merritt Rook
Didi Conn	...	Nurse
Joel de la Fuente	...	TARU Tech Ruben Morales
Mike Doyle	...	Forensics Tech Ryan O'Halloran
Monica Raymund	...	Trini Martinez
Ka-Ling Cheung	...	Dr. Cheng

Storyline

A man accused of impersonating a police officer over a telephone and telling a fast food manager to sexually assault an employee is found not guilty, and as a result becomes a vocal crusader telling other people to defy authority figures.

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Plot Keywords:

defending oneself in court | beauty

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

29 April 2008 (USA)

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Wolf Films, Universal Media Studios (UMS)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

60 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

16:9 HD

Did You Know?

Trivia

This story based on a number of actual phone hoaxes, especially one that happened at a McDonald's restaurant in Mount Washington, Kentucky on April 9, 2004, where a phone caller claiming to be a police officer manipulates the staff of a business to sexually abuse innocent people as "interrogation."

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Goofs

When Benson and Stabler first arrive at Aerodax, the employee they are talking to says that Merritt Rook is "a audio engineer" instead of "an audio engineer".

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Quotes

Detective Elliot Stabler: The Milgram Experiment.
Merritt Rook: You've done your homework. Yes, only this time its for real.

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Connections

Featured in The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards (2008)

User Reviews

Resembles reality of the last few years

I liked this episode mainly because it was surprising for me that they would use real life story like that. This episode is practically showing what happened in real events as late as 2007 in Floridian McDonald's. You can read more about it on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strip_search_prank_call_scam They even used the same name for detective Milgram. Maybe I'm a geek, but I found that fascinating)) Anyway, like people say: "you can't event reality", so I guess it's not a surprise that majority of episodes on SVU are very similar to real life cases. If the above link does not work, then you can look up topic on Wikipedia, called "Strip search prank call scam".