Influence
- Episode aired May 16, 2006
- TV-14
- 43m
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8.1/10
1.1K
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An unstable woman stops taking medication and mows down 10 people with her car; a former rock star wages an anti-psychiatric-drug campaign.An unstable woman stops taking medication and mows down 10 people with her car; a former rock star wages an anti-psychiatric-drug campaign.An unstable woman stops taking medication and mows down 10 people with her car; a former rock star wages an anti-psychiatric-drug campaign.
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BD Wong
- Special Agent Dr. George Huang, M.D.
- (as B.D. Wong)
Marsha Dietlein
- Mrs. Hoskins
- (as Marsha Dietlein Bennett)
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Did you know
- TriviaIn New York state vehicular manslaughter in the second degree is a class D felony, it carries a mandatory sentence of at least two years in prison and a potential maximum sentence of seven years.
- GoofsIn addition to vehicular manslaughter in the second degree Jamie Hoskins should have also been charged with vehicular assault in the first degree, she seriously injured eight people in addition to the teenage girl she killed. Vehicular assault in the first degree would be charged in this instance because she caused serious physical injury to more than one person, it is a class D felony and carries a mandatory sentence of at least two years in prison, and a maximum sentence of seven years.
- Quotes
Captain Donald Cragen: [Discussing Jamie's rape allegations] So she solicited two of her classmates so a third boy would have sex with her?
Detective Elliot Stabler: It looks that way.
Detective John Munch: When I was a kid, girls who had sex were afraid of being called sluts. Now they're auditioning for the title.
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A private crusade against the mental health profession
Before this episode was over the perpetrator caused the death of one adolescent, injured six other people, and got two boys expelled from their school. All because Brittany Snow was off her meds.
It all starts when the janitor catches two kids taking turns on her in the boys bathroom. Up go the cries of rape. But when the evidence gathered fails to corroborate her story Snow loses it completely. In a suicide attempt she runs down 7 people killing one.
And why does she do all this? She had been diagnosed as bi-polar and was on psychotropic drugs. But a rock star who has a private crusade against the mental health profession persuaded her not to. In fact Norman Reedus is paying the high priced Peter Riegert to be her defense attorney.
I found it hard to work up too much sympathy for Snow. That she'd let some teen idol rock star influence her that way is a bit much. Most people do draw the line at letting entertainers take over their lives completely, why couldn't she?
Still Snow shows a touching vulnerability in her performance. And this is a story where it's real hard to apportion the blame and where the legal system doesn't quite cover it all.
It all starts when the janitor catches two kids taking turns on her in the boys bathroom. Up go the cries of rape. But when the evidence gathered fails to corroborate her story Snow loses it completely. In a suicide attempt she runs down 7 people killing one.
And why does she do all this? She had been diagnosed as bi-polar and was on psychotropic drugs. But a rock star who has a private crusade against the mental health profession persuaded her not to. In fact Norman Reedus is paying the high priced Peter Riegert to be her defense attorney.
I found it hard to work up too much sympathy for Snow. That she'd let some teen idol rock star influence her that way is a bit much. Most people do draw the line at letting entertainers take over their lives completely, why couldn't she?
Still Snow shows a touching vulnerability in her performance. And this is a story where it's real hard to apportion the blame and where the legal system doesn't quite cover it all.
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- bkoganbing
- Jan 16, 2015
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