Amaro and Olivia's ex-boyfriend Burton Lowe ask SVU for help with overturning a wrongful conviction in one of Cragen's old cases.Amaro and Olivia's ex-boyfriend Burton Lowe ask SVU for help with overturning a wrongful conviction in one of Cragen's old cases.Amaro and Olivia's ex-boyfriend Burton Lowe ask SVU for help with overturning a wrongful conviction in one of Cragen's old cases.
Ice-T
- Sergeant Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola
- (as Ice T)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaA long running thread about Olivia Benson being in a relationship with an older man when she was a teenager is revisited in this episode, with the man in question being revealed to be named Burton Lowe. It was first mentioned in season one's Wanderlust (1999) and a flashback from this episode is shown with Benson discussing the relationship with Elliot Stabler. In season six's Intoxicated (2005), Benson further discussed the subject with Casey Novak with a flashback from that episode shown several times throughout this episode.
- GoofsWe are being pounded about plastic pollution in waterways and the oceans. Yet at the end of the episode Liv throws an old plastic music tape into the stream. Not a good example. She would have been better to take it to a recycling place.
- Quotes
Captain Olivia Benson: So he's not a rapist.
Sergeant Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: Maybe not. But he's a creep.
- ConnectionsFeatures Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Intoxicated (2005)
- SoundtracksThe Girl From Ipanema
Performed by Astrud Gilberto & Stan Getz
Played by Oliver Benson from an old cassette tape
Featured review
Redemption Arc for a Rapist, Really?
Let's see: Your show reaches a massive milestone in television, 500 episodes over 23 years, all while raising vital public awareness of rape, abuse and other crimes that were mostly hidden from view before SVU came to be in 1999.
So what do producers do to mark these accomplishments?
As if aiming to deliberately disappoint viewers, they write a redemption arc for a rapist (a story that concludes toward the end of this 23rd season).
Also preposterous is that producers felt any need at all to introduce an entirely new pivotal character (the rapist is a predator from Olivia's teen years) during an hour that should have been warm and nostalgic -- not filled with strained dialogue to populate an unfamiliar back-story.
Yeah we get it; producers didn't want the cliches that sometimes sink 'milestone episodes.' But if your writing team is competent that would never be the case.
Inventing someone new in Benson's life (a rapist we're supposed to pity!), now, when they've already got 10,000+ characters in the show's bible, many of them intriguing and worth revisiting, was a total head-slapper.
By this point Stabler had been back in Benson's life via Law & Order Organized Crime for six months, yet neither show has offered a single substantive conversation between these enduring characters.
And if they're gonna write a redemption arc for anyone, doesn't Stabler -- an actual pivotal person in Benson's life -- outrate an unknown?
Also, can the people in charge of this thing give Olivia Benson just one day of happiness? Why is everything 24-7 trauma around this woman? And would Olivia Benson really throw plastic litter into one of the city's lakes? C'mon, make it make sense.
All that aside, Hargitay gives an outstanding performance here. She's crushed, mad and subdued in all the right places. And it was great to see Danny Pino as Nick; made us wish he'd come back full time.
Cragen (Dan Florek) also drops in -- via FaceTime, a mostly wasted appearance that plays like producers' apology for not doing the episode they should have done.
Florek's two additional appearances in the franchise this season -- a coupla fatherly turns on OC, did thankfully hit the perfect nostalgia note.
All in all SVU 500 was just more uncoordinated filler from a franchise squandering some of television's most engaging personalities. Really hoping they get it together soon, so they can wrap it up the way it deserves, not on a whimper with cancellation looming.
So what do producers do to mark these accomplishments?
As if aiming to deliberately disappoint viewers, they write a redemption arc for a rapist (a story that concludes toward the end of this 23rd season).
Also preposterous is that producers felt any need at all to introduce an entirely new pivotal character (the rapist is a predator from Olivia's teen years) during an hour that should have been warm and nostalgic -- not filled with strained dialogue to populate an unfamiliar back-story.
Yeah we get it; producers didn't want the cliches that sometimes sink 'milestone episodes.' But if your writing team is competent that would never be the case.
Inventing someone new in Benson's life (a rapist we're supposed to pity!), now, when they've already got 10,000+ characters in the show's bible, many of them intriguing and worth revisiting, was a total head-slapper.
By this point Stabler had been back in Benson's life via Law & Order Organized Crime for six months, yet neither show has offered a single substantive conversation between these enduring characters.
And if they're gonna write a redemption arc for anyone, doesn't Stabler -- an actual pivotal person in Benson's life -- outrate an unknown?
Also, can the people in charge of this thing give Olivia Benson just one day of happiness? Why is everything 24-7 trauma around this woman? And would Olivia Benson really throw plastic litter into one of the city's lakes? C'mon, make it make sense.
All that aside, Hargitay gives an outstanding performance here. She's crushed, mad and subdued in all the right places. And it was great to see Danny Pino as Nick; made us wish he'd come back full time.
Cragen (Dan Florek) also drops in -- via FaceTime, a mostly wasted appearance that plays like producers' apology for not doing the episode they should have done.
Florek's two additional appearances in the franchise this season -- a coupla fatherly turns on OC, did thankfully hit the perfect nostalgia note.
All in all SVU 500 was just more uncoordinated filler from a franchise squandering some of television's most engaging personalities. Really hoping they get it together soon, so they can wrap it up the way it deserves, not on a whimper with cancellation looming.
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