Sophomore Jinx

Episode aired Oct 25, 1999
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1h

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Richard Belzer and Sean Squire in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)

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Benson and Stabler investigate a female student's murder at a local college. When they develop a suspect on the basketball team, they experience resistance from the college, which is trying ... Read allBenson and Stabler investigate a female student's murder at a local college. When they develop a suspect on the basketball team, they experience resistance from the college, which is trying to preserve its reputation and its chance at an upcoming championship.Benson and Stabler investigate a female student's murder at a local college. When they develop a suspect on the basketball team, they experience resistance from the college, which is trying to preserve its reputation and its chance at an upcoming championship.

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Director
- Clark Johnson
Writers
- Dick Wolf
- John Chambers(executive story editor)
- Wendy West(story editor)
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Trivia
In New York state having sexual intercourse with a dead body is charged as sexual misconduct, a class A misdemeanor which carries a maximum penalty of one year in jail.

Goofs
When Benson and Stabler walk into the examination room, Rodgers is running a bone saw, then when she looks up, she turns the saw off. However, the blade on the saw is not moving at any time.

Quotes
A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael: What was it called before we invented the terms date rape and sexual assault?
Captain Donald Cragen: Boys will be boys?

Connections
References Saturday Night Live: Steve Martin/The Blues Brothers (1978)

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6/10

Way to much to trust

The death of a popular sophomore student brings the SVU squad to St. Raymond's College which as it happens is the alma mater of Dann Florek. Not that the college is bending over backwards to help an alumnus. In fact they're throwing all kinds of roadblocks into the SVU squad investigation.

This episode also as they were trying to establish characters in those early years shows a bit of Elliott Stabler home life. Christopher Meloni is most concerned the late hours that daughter Erin Broderick is keeping. As he says in his job he sees way too much to trust.

It turns out that the victim had sex with two people that night under different circumstances to say the least. One of them is French literature professor Lothaire Bluteau and his description of the night's events leaves even the SVU squad which has thought they heard it all kind of gasping. That is nothing however compared to ADA Angie Harmon who was crossing over from Law And Order prime. I have rarely seen disgust portrayed so well on the big screen and small.

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