I'm surprised that no one has reviewed this one. For a change, I don't have to feel sorry for poor girls who worship some guy, get drunk, go to his room, beg for sex,climb on his bed, and then cry "rape" when things get rough. We don't have to see Barba get his head handed to him when the "surprise video" turns up to ruin his case, and we all shake our heads as another guilty defendant walks away. That has seemed to be the theme of this season so far.
In this one, we don't even have to see Reverend Scott, SVU's own Al Sharpton, misinterpret what happened and step in as a representative.
No, I would have to be a "spoiler" to say more. I just want to note that this one will go where you don't expect it to go, and at the danger of saying too much, please note that Kelli Giddish is still on the list of future shows, but by the middle of this episode, you are wondering if she will get her own spin-off, "Cop in Jail." This is one of the best this year so far. What we've learned this year is that it is next to impossible to indict an obvious brutal criminal, that SVU is in a crisis. They can't win a case; they have lost two veterans, and of the remaining detectives, one has been taken off the streets and put in an office, two others have lives so messed up that you wonder how they keep their jobs. I never thought I would see the day that the most stable cop in the whole unit is being played by Ice-T, the rapper who at one time was most famous for his "kill a cop" albums. But Tutuola is now the last bastion of stability.
In the middle of all of that, you get what, at this juncture, is the best episode of the year so far. As some suspect might say, "I have said too much." So I'm walking out of here now, unless you are going to read me my rights, in which case, I'm getting a lawyer.