When the only evidence in a crime is a church confession, Carisi must find another way to prove his suspect guilty. Benson agrees to meet with an old friend seeking to make amends for past t... Read allWhen the only evidence in a crime is a church confession, Carisi must find another way to prove his suspect guilty. Benson agrees to meet with an old friend seeking to make amends for past transgressions.When the only evidence in a crime is a church confession, Carisi must find another way to prove his suspect guilty. Benson agrees to meet with an old friend seeking to make amends for past transgressions.
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Kelli Giddish
- Detective Amanda Rollins
- (credit only)
Ice-T
- Sergeant Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola
- (as Ice T)
Erica Cruz Hernández
- Rita Ortega
- (as Erica Cruz Hernandez)
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- TriviaWhile undercover in the confessional booth Detective Ruz told the priest she changed the door code to the day of Saint Dwynwen (subtitles incorrectly spell it "Dwynwyn"). Saint Dwynwen, sometimes known as Dwyn or Donwen, is the Welsh patron saint of lovers (and injured animals), she is celebrated in Wales on January 25th. There are few actual historical accounts of Dwynwen, most of what is known about her comes from legend and folktale. Dwynwen was thought to be the daughter of King Brychan Brycheiniog, who ruled Wales in the early to mid 5th-century A.D. Legend says that Dwynwen was in love with a young man named Maelon Dafodrill, but her father refused to grant her hand in marriage to him. Distraught with grief over not being able to be with the man she loved Dwynwen prayed to God for her to fall out of love with him so she wouldn't have to feel the pain of heartbreak and loneliness. An angel of the Lord appeared to her and said God heard her prayer and created a potion that would cause her to fall out of love, but that it would take a sacrifice on her part: she would have to agree to never marry, remain a virgin and live in solitude for the rest of her life. Dwynwen agreed and moved to Ynys Llanddwyn, a small island off the coast of Wales. She built a church on the island, and after she died around 460 A.D. stories spread about a sacred fish appearing in the church's pond whose movements could predict the fate of the relationship of lovers. These stories caused the Church of Dwynwen to became a sacred shrine during the Middle Ages, couples from across Wales would make a pilgrimage to the church on January 25 to see the sacred fish and learn the fate of their relationship. The Protestant Reformation of the 16th-century caused the shrine to become forbidden, as it and the fish were considered to be pagan idols; though by the late 19th-century the church and shrine began to be visited again as a reform in Protestant churches caused local traditions to become no longer forbidden or taboo.
Saint Dwynwen is not officially recognized or commemorated by the Anglican or Catholic Church, however many Anglican and Catholics from Wales still commemorate her on January 25th.
- GoofsBeverly Morrison and Olivia both say that Burton is guilty of rape because when Burton had sex with Beverly she was too intoxicated to consent to sex. Which is technically true, if a person is legally intoxicated (BAL above 0.08%) the law considers them mentally incapacitated and unable to consent to sex, constituting rape in the second degree.
However Burton stated he also was extremely intoxicated, meaning he also legally could not consent to sex, a case such as this is not considered rape. It is only rape in the second degree if one of the persons is intoxicated and the other is sober and of sound mind and takes advantage of the intoxicated person's impaired judgment.
- Quotes
Sergeant Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola: The neighbor's boyfriend's a bottom-feeder, but I don't think it's him.
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Sanctimonious and Nauseating
So, here's the deal with Olivia Benson. She slept with an ADA, technically her boss. She slept with more than one partner or member of the squad. She slept with an Internal Affairs cop -- someone who could be responsible for investigating her (and more than once did). She told a convicted rapist she hopes he gets raped in prison. She lied to the ME and used public tax dollars to do a personal DNA search so she could find her father and half-brother. As the squad's leader, she approves of her officers sleeping with each other.
This is just the tip of the iceberg in her unethical choices and behaviors.
Yet through all that, she has never once owned up to her indiscretions. She's never apologized nor faced any real consequences. Yes, she was kidnapped. But the she got loose and instead of running for safety chose to beat the man nearly to death -- judge, jury, and near executioner.
Not once
In tonight's episode, she chastises a man who slept with her nearly half a century before, when he was 21 and she was 16 (the age of consent in some states) and who even asked her to marry him. There's no point in suggesting laws and mores may have been different and so forth because in particular people not alive back then don't want to hear it. That's fine. No one is here to debate the behavior of a predator.
But what they really should hear -- which Benson sanctimoniously condemns the guy for not doing enough to take ownership of his actions (while he struggles to apologize -- is Benson taking ownership of her own misdeeds, too, of which there are many.
Instead, what we get is another pandering episode, designed to get people to cheer for Benson on her high horse striking a blow for this or that cause. Because she refuses to even consider her own indiscretions, though, it comes across as hypocritical. And that's what sinks episodes like this one, where the rest of the plot -- something about a woman who keeps an affair going and then is assaulted -- seems of less importance than Benson's self righteousness. Of course, for people worshipping Benson, the disconnect is unimportant. But for anyone who's watched the show for a few years, it's hard to so easily ignore Benson's many, many lapses while having to endure her constant, clueless double standards.
This is just the tip of the iceberg in her unethical choices and behaviors.
Yet through all that, she has never once owned up to her indiscretions. She's never apologized nor faced any real consequences. Yes, she was kidnapped. But the she got loose and instead of running for safety chose to beat the man nearly to death -- judge, jury, and near executioner.
Not once
In tonight's episode, she chastises a man who slept with her nearly half a century before, when he was 21 and she was 16 (the age of consent in some states) and who even asked her to marry him. There's no point in suggesting laws and mores may have been different and so forth because in particular people not alive back then don't want to hear it. That's fine. No one is here to debate the behavior of a predator.
But what they really should hear -- which Benson sanctimoniously condemns the guy for not doing enough to take ownership of his actions (while he struggles to apologize -- is Benson taking ownership of her own misdeeds, too, of which there are many.
Instead, what we get is another pandering episode, designed to get people to cheer for Benson on her high horse striking a blow for this or that cause. Because she refuses to even consider her own indiscretions, though, it comes across as hypocritical. And that's what sinks episodes like this one, where the rest of the plot -- something about a woman who keeps an affair going and then is assaulted -- seems of less importance than Benson's self righteousness. Of course, for people worshipping Benson, the disconnect is unimportant. But for anyone who's watched the show for a few years, it's hard to so easily ignore Benson's many, many lapses while having to endure her constant, clueless double standards.
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- bkkaz
- May 13, 2022
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