Quickie (6 Jan. 2010)

While investigating the death of a sexually-active 17-year-old girl, SVU finds that a suspect in the case is deliberately spreading HIV to his many sexual partners.

Director:

David Platt

Writers:

Dick Wolf (creator), Ken Storer

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 (credit only)
Ice-T	...	Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola
Stephanie March	...	A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot
BD Wong	...	Dr. George Huang (credit only)
Tamara Tunie	...	Dr. Melinda Warner
Dann Florek	...	Captain Donald Cragen
Brian Geraghty	...	Peter Butler
Mattie Hawkinson	...	Rebecca Ellison
Monique Gabriela Curnen	...	Attorney Owens
Brady Corbet	...	Henry Christensen
David Thornton	...	Lionel Granger
Audrie Neenan	...	Judge Lois Preston
Patricia Kalember	...	Judge Taten

Storyline

When seventeen year-old Andrea McWilliams is found strangled and beaten to death in an alley, her ex-boyfriend leads the cops to a website that McWilliams used to meet up with random men . Detective Olivia Benson decides to create a user account for the site and finds womanizer Peter Butler, the man who met up with McWilliams. The case is closed when a different suspect is proven guilty of her murder, and a new one opens when McWilliams rape kit tests positive for HIV. Not only is HIV spreading as a result of countless attacks, but now the detectives must also catch a rapist on the loose.

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Language:

English

Release Date:

6 January 2010 (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:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

User Reviews

The appearance of a 50's star makes the episode!

For baby boomers, the name "Jack Larson" brings back memories of "Look...up into the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's Superman!" Larson is the actor that played the gung-ho Jimmy Olsen on "The Adventures of Superman", the iconic show featuring the late George Reeves in the title.

Larson guest stars as the grandfather of a young AIDS-carrier, played by Brian Geraghty, who has coldly infected several women in the city. Detectives Stabler (Chris Meloni) and Benson (Mariska Hargitay) discover the young man's infecting ways as they investigate the murder of a young woman found dead in a park.

Both Larson and Geraghty are excellent in their respective roles though the story itself seems a tad derivative of older and better SVU installments.

With that said, it's really thrilling to see the elder actor on the small screen,showing that there's still some "spunk" left at age 81 in the "kid reporter".