| "911" | ||
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| ← | SVU, Episode 7.03 | → |
| Production number: 07007 First aired (US): 4 October 2005 First aired (CAN): 4 October 2005 First aired (AUS): 29 May 2006 | ||
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| Written By Patrick Harbinson Directed By Ted Kotcheff | ||
Summary[]
A distraught girl calls 911 and claims she's trapped in a room. After further investigation, Det. Benson discovers she's a child pornography victim.
Plot[]
Benson is on her way out for the evening when a call comes in from a little girl who says she's locked in a room alone.
Elliot is in Brooklyn working on a case, and Fin is out looking for Ricardo Garcia. While trying to draw the girl out, Benson is drawn deeper into the little girl's life; although the other officers begin to suspect the whole thing may be some sick joke when they find holes in her story. But Benson is convinced that the little girl, Maria, is the real deal. By talking to Maria, Benson is able to ferret enough information from her so that they have a place to start, but Maria's captor has an affinity for electronics and has done everything he can to make sure that no one can find the little girl he has kidnapped.
Attempts to trace the call fail as the perpetrator has made it so the call bounces all over the place through a virus in the system and the clues the girl is able to give them lead the detectives to a burned-down restaurant. Also, the girl has been reported as dead, but when Benson has a picture sent of her, she recognizes her from a pornography website form Montreal SVU had been warned about. The girl claims her mother is dead and Benson puts together the fact that the girl was sold by a relative as a slave and was apparently told her mother had died while the mother was told the same about her.
Finally, with the help of an FBI agent, the virus is removed from the system and all Maria has to do to be found is call 911 again, but she falls asleep and the kidnapper finds her on the phone with the cops. The cops realize there's an electronics store across the street from the destroyed restaurant and due to the kidnapper's affinity for electronics, realize he could own it and bought the mug the girl was using as a clue from the restaurant in the past. The detectives search the store and find the girl's prison, but no sign of her, but catch the kidnapper outside when Benson recognizes his glasses from the girl's description. They capture him, with him being identified as Richard Dwyer (holding the same first name as the suspect) but he refuses to give up the girl's location or confirm involvement.
When he demands to go, Benson finds mud on his shoes, despite his claims of a business meeting. With help from Fin, they find pieces of burnt wood and realize he could have easily buried her in the lot of a burnt restaurant and after breaking his nose for his actions and attempted assault on Benson, they go across the street and dig there and find the girl, not breathing. Benson manages to revive her, and Benson and the girl finally meet face to face.
Cast[]
Main cast[]
- Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler (credit only)
- Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson
- Richard Belzer as Detective John Munch
- Diane Neal as A.D.A. Casey Novak
- Ice-T as Detective Odafin Tutuola
- B.D. Wong as Dr. George Huang (credit only)
- Tamara Tunie as M.E. Melinda Warner (credit only)
- Dann Florek as Captain Donald Cragen
Recurring cast[]
- Joel de la Fuente as T.A.R.U. Technician Ruben Morales
Guest cast[]
- Christopher Evan Welch as Richard Dwyer
- Zabryna Guevara as Julia Ortiz
- Jeanine Monterroza as Maria Recinos (voice)
- Chandra Wilson as Rachel Sorannis
- Rachel Diaz-Stand as Maria Recinos
- John Herrera as Consul Duarte Farias
- Johnnie Mae as Latifah
- Carol Maillard as Ronda
- Vickie Tanner as Shayna
- Chris Mendoza as Ricardo Garcia
- Jessica Pimentel as Selma Garcia
- Venida Evans as Old Lady
- Tyree Michael Simpson as Uniform Officer
- Samantha Yoy as Angela Garcia
References[]
Quotes[]
- [about Maria]
- Benson: Nobody would invent the nightmare that she has been through! Why are you trying to poke holes in her story rather than trying to find her, because Munch found some spook toy?!
- Cragen: Whoever's doing this likes spook toys. He's already using at least one device.
- Benson: [on the phone] Maria, wake up, Maria... Maria?
- Richard Dwyer: Who is this?
- Benson: This is the police. We know exactly where you are.
- Richard Dwyer: [teasingly] No, you don't.
- [hangs up the phone]
- [Fin approaches Munch and Benson looking at incriminating photographs of Maria]
- Munch: Detective Tutuola, come and pollute your soul with some child porn, my friend.
- [while she pins down Richard]
- Benson: You know where she is. Now if she dies, I promise I will make the rest of your life hell.
Background information and notes[]
- Mariska Hargitay won a 2006 Emmy award for "Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series" for this episode.
- This episode is one of two that Wolf Films submitted for consideration for a 2006 Emmy nomination.
- This is widely considered to be the best episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, mostly due to Hargitay's Emmy win as a result of this episode.
- Goof: When the detectives look into the parking lot at the beginning of the episode, it is all dirt. When they ram through the fence at the end, there is grass.
- Goof: When the police cars ram the fence at the vacant lot, they stop, and the fence is resting on the hoods. Then half a second later, the fence is on the ground about a yard from both cars.
Episode scene cards[]
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
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Friday, September 23 |
6:48 PM |
911 Call Center |
Honduran Consulate |
| 5 | 6 | 7 |
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7:35 PM |
7:52 PM |
8:19 PM |
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