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Control

  • Episode aired Nov 18, 2003
  • TV-14TV-14
  • 43m
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8.3/10
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Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Control
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The Detectives find themselves hunting for a person who cut off a man's genitals and left him to die.The Detectives find themselves hunting for a person who cut off a man's genitals and left him to die.The Detectives find themselves hunting for a person who cut off a man's genitals and left him to die.
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    • Director
      • Ted Kotcheff
    • Writers
      • Dick Wolf(story by)
      • Neal Baer(teleplay by)
    • Stars
      • Christopher Meloni
      • Mariska Hargitay
      • Richard Belzer
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    • Director
      • Ted Kotcheff
    • Writers
      • Dick Wolf(story by)
      • Neal Baer(teleplay by)
    • Stars
      • Christopher Meloni
      • Mariska Hargitay
      • Richard Belzer
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    Christopher Meloni
    Christopher Meloni
    • Detective Elliot Stabler
    Mariska Hargitay
    Mariska Hargitay
    • Olivia Benson
    Richard Belzer
    Richard Belzer
    • John Munch
    Diane Neal
    Diane Neal
    • Casey Novak
    Ice-T
    Ice-T
    • Odafin Tutuola
    BD Wong
    BD Wong
    • Dr. George Huang
    • (as B.D. Wong)
    Dann Florek
    Dann Florek
    • Donald Cragen
    Jacqueline Bisset
    Jacqueline Bisset
    • Juliet Barclay
    Austin Pendleton
    Austin Pendleton
    • Horace Gorman
    David Thornton
    David Thornton
    • Lionel Granger
    Caren Browning
    Caren Browning
    • CSU Captain Judith Siper
    Mike Doyle
    Mike Doyle
    • Forensics Tech Ryan O'Halloran
    Mickey Hargitay
    Mickey Hargitay
    • Grandfather
    Joseph McKenna
    • Samael
    Joanna Merlin
    Joanna Merlin
    • Judge Lena Petrovsky
    Samantha Mathis
    Samantha Mathis
    • Hilary Barclay
    Eddie Korbich
    • Nick Petracho
    Kellee Stewart
    Kellee Stewart
    • Neva
    • Director
      • Ted Kotcheff
    • Writers
      • Dick Wolf(story by)
      • Neal Baer(teleplay by)
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    • Trivia
      Mariska Hargitay's real-life father, Mickey Hargitay, appears in the episode "Control". He plays the grandfather on the escalator, who first encounters the male victim, and is seen speaking to Mariska's character, Detective Benson.
    • Goofs
      The opening scene was shot in the Exchange Place PATH (Port Authority Trans Hudson) station in Jersey City, NJ. The giant escalator and colorful neon lights are unmistakable. At some point Stabler says: "Here comes the Number 2 train". The NYC subway doesn't stop in Jersey City.
    • Quotes

      Captain Donald Cragen: So either Gorman was snipped by a homeless guy or had a voluntary penectomy. Not a word I get to use every day.

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      Featured in The 56th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2004)

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    7/10
    Benson doesn't believe
    In the list of creepy perpetrators that the SVU squad has had to deal with Austin Pendleton in this episode has to rank in the top five. But the squad doesn't deal with him as a perpetrator but as a victim.

    SVU gets called in by Transit Police and finds Pendleton with his unit whacked off with a sharp instrument. Later on when he books from the hospital in locating him they find he's been the stalker of several women, he kidnaps them, tortures them, puts them through 'marriage ceremony' and then lets them go. It's so bizarre that no one except Samantha Mathis reported him. And on the day she did a few years back Mariska Hargitay found her drunk and incoherent and didn't believe her.

    Finding the torture chamber built under a synagogue made believers of the whole squad. And then other victims come forward and the mass of evidence piles up. And then Pendleton is found dead.

    SVU looks at both Mathis and her mother fashion mogul Jacqueline Bisset. So what happened and who did it, for that you watch the show for.

    As an added treat David Thornton shows up once again as smarmy criminal defense attorney and he's always a creep even when he's defending good people. But it's Pendleton's chamber of horrors and method of torture that will leave you gasping.
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    • Release date
      • November 18, 2003 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • New York City, New York, USA
    • Production companies
      • Wolf Films
      • Universal Network Television
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    • Runtime
      43 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.33 : 1

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