"Sunk Cost Fallacy" is another one of my favorites from this season, giving us an absolutely tragic story of spousal abuse between a horrible man and a woman, Jules who just wanted to keep her child safe.
The case started out as what seemed to be a man who'd planned his wife's "abduction" as a front to cover up the fact that he had killed her and their child to make his life easier, and all the pieces seemed to suggest it. Until - evidence that they were both still alive from credit card statements surfaced, and Benson discovered that Jules had faked her death, and the former ADA of the SVU, Alex Cabot, had actually helped her and had been running an illegal ring to help battered woman vanish and create new identities.
Soon, it was revealed that Jules had run away to try and protect herself from her horrific abuser of a husband, and Benson struggled with what Cabot was doing, as it was outside of the law. Benson had to admit under oath at a hearing that she had seen Jules alive, and then she asked Jules to come back with her and promised to help her fight her abusive husband in court and gain custody of her child.
But, the story has a tragic end. Jules is found dead, murdered by a car, and it's no one's handiwork but the husband himself. Or at least, someone he'd hired. The SVU weren't able to prove that he'd done it, and in the end, he gained custody of his child, even though he endangered in the past. A completely tragic end and it really shook me up that people like this man can actually get away with all the horrifically evil things he'd done.
I commend Cabot's appearance here, and the way she worked outside of the law to get justice for women is a really brilliant addition to her already very well-written character.
A tragic episode that really makes you think, and also despair for the state of the world.
The case started out as what seemed to be a man who'd planned his wife's "abduction" as a front to cover up the fact that he had killed her and their child to make his life easier, and all the pieces seemed to suggest it. Until - evidence that they were both still alive from credit card statements surfaced, and Benson discovered that Jules had faked her death, and the former ADA of the SVU, Alex Cabot, had actually helped her and had been running an illegal ring to help battered woman vanish and create new identities.
Soon, it was revealed that Jules had run away to try and protect herself from her horrific abuser of a husband, and Benson struggled with what Cabot was doing, as it was outside of the law. Benson had to admit under oath at a hearing that she had seen Jules alive, and then she asked Jules to come back with her and promised to help her fight her abusive husband in court and gain custody of her child.
But, the story has a tragic end. Jules is found dead, murdered by a car, and it's no one's handiwork but the husband himself. Or at least, someone he'd hired. The SVU weren't able to prove that he'd done it, and in the end, he gained custody of his child, even though he endangered in the past. A completely tragic end and it really shook me up that people like this man can actually get away with all the horrifically evil things he'd done.
I commend Cabot's appearance here, and the way she worked outside of the law to get justice for women is a really brilliant addition to her already very well-written character.
A tragic episode that really makes you think, and also despair for the state of the world.