| "Accredo" | ||
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| ← | SVU, Episode 20.05 | → |
| Production number: 20005 First aired: 18 October 2018 | ||
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| Written By Julie Martin & Brianna Yellen Directed By Jean de Segonzac | ||
Summary[]
A member of a woman's empowerment group is found murdered, leading the Special Victims Unit to the group's charismatic male leader. Meanwhile, Rollins keeps her pregnancy under wraps to avoid going on desk duty.
Plot[]
plot
Cast[]
Main cast[]
- Mariska Hargitay as Lieutenant Olivia Benson
- Kelli Giddish as Detective Amanda Rollins
- Ice-T as Sergeant Odafin Tutuola
- Peter Scanavino as Detective Dominick Carisi, Jr.
- Philip Winchester as A.D.A. Peter Stone (credit only)
Recurring cast[]
- Ryan Buggle as Noah Porter-Benson
- Ngo Okafor as Wyatt (as Ngoli Okafor)
Guest cast[]
- Sarah Carter as Lilah Finch
- Lexi Lapp as Vicky Parson
- Lili Simmons as Gina Goodrich
- Sebastian Roché as Arlo Beck
- America Olivo as Claudia Bell
- William DePaolo as Clayton Rogers
- Sara Masterton as Abby Shane
- Chase Burnett as Tyler Goodrich
- Rebecca Watson as Laura Shane
- Jeffrey Bender as Richard Shane
- Tara Westwood as Marina Basso
- Alice Hamid as Nanette
- Lance Daniels as Brad Simon
References[]
- One Police Plaza
- Al Pollack
- Jim Rollins
- Beth Anne Rollins
- Parkhill, Hauser & Schiff
Quotes[]
- Benson: 12,251 steps today.
- Rollins: Wow, that's great.
- Benson: Yeah, just don't ask me about my pulse.
- Rollins: Fin and Carisi both have Knicks tickets, but I'm more than happy to stay here if you need me.
- Benson: No, no, go. I'm gonna be out of here shortly. I promised Noah that I would have dessert with him.
- Rollins: Okay, 'cause I don't want any special consideration.
- Benson: No, no. I mean, you are pregnant, Amanda and you... you can hide it with clothes, but... but we're gonna have to notify 1PP.
- Rollins: What you got?
- Benson: A rape/homicide in SoHo, and it sounds brutal.
- Rollins: I'm coming with you.
- Benson: No, Amanda.
- Rollins: You said I had a week.
- Benson: Get back, Rollins.
- Rollins: I'm fine.
[seeing the victim, Rollins gags] - Benson: Yeah, come on. Go, go, go. Go, go, go, go, go.
- Benson: She was stabbled multiple times in the chest and the torso. She was sexually assaulted with a table leg.
- Tutuola: Do we know who she is?
- Benson: No. There's no ID. And there's no cell, computer in the loft, no pictures. There's no mail in the mailbox.
- Tutuola: That's strange.
- Benson: Yeah. With the sexual component, Homicide wants us to take the lead.
- Tutuola: Okay. I'll check the traffic cams and canvass the area, see if any of her neighbors can ID her.
- Rollins: Who knew there was so much money in insecurity?
- Carisi: Sign of the times, Rollins. You can always tell a society's priorities by looking at their bestsellers. In the '70s is "The Joy of Sex." The '80s is getting rich. The '90s, staying young.
- Rollins: Now it's female empowerment.
- Carisi: What women want.
- Arlo Beck: Something's wrong. What happened to Vicky?
- Carisi: Vicky was murdered last night. I'm sorry.
- Arlo Beck: Oh, my god. Do we know by whom?
- Rollins: We were hoping to talk to you about her ex-boyfriend.
- Lilah Finch: Brad Simon. He was a line cook at Lucky Dive.
- Arlo Beck: Yeah, Brad... Brad's the reason why Vicky came to Accredo. He was abusive.
- Lilah Finch: He hacked her Facebook account last week, and... he posted these intimate photos. Yeah, here. You can see the caption.
- Carisi: [taking her phone] "Payback, you fugly bitch, for what you did to me. Now everyone can see what a slutbag you are. This is just the beginning. You deserve to die."
- Brad Simon: Look, she told me I was holding her back. She's an unemployed public school teacher, for Christ's sakes.
- Carisi: And what? You're writing your Nobel Prize speech?
- [searching Brad Simon's apartment]
- Tutuola: What's the warrant cover?
- Carisi: Any evidence of their relationship. Meal receipts, strand of hair.
- Tutuola: So, everything.
- Carisi: Yep.
- Tutuola: [deadpan] Great.
- Carisi: Look at that.
- Tutuola: That's definitely blood.
- Carisi: Yeah. There's also some blood on the jeans, here.
- Tutuola: Guy'd be off the hook if he'd just do his laundry.
- Benson: Well, not that it matters, but I run my unit.
- Lilah Finch: But who runs you?
- Lilah Finch: Before Arlo, I was running the Commodities Department at Parkhill, Hauser & Schiff, and I was pretty damn good at it, too.
- Benson: But?
- Lilah Finch: But the guys upstairs, they put me there because they had to. Everybody knew it. They had to prove to the Street they weren't sexist. And sure, I was making a lot of money, but every morning, Managing Partners' Meeting boys' club was checking my daily reports, just waiting for me to crash and burn.
- Benson: And after Arlo?
- Lilah Finch: I marched into that morning meeting and I said, "I don't crash and burn." I gave them my notice and opened my own shop. Only women work for me now.
- Rollins: Did Vicky Parson have sexual issues?
- Arlo Beck: Well, she wasn't living her life to her to its potential personally and professionally. Kind of like you.
- Rollins: Excuse me?
- Arlo Beck: A woman becomes a cop. Why? To establish power over men. Why? Because men have: A, disappointed her, B, demeaned her.
- Rollins: How about C, she believes the scum should rot in prison.
- Arlo Beck: Oh, the lies we tell ourselves. Let me guess. You're not married to the daddy, are you?
- Marina Basso: Arlo? Oh, my god, we divorced six years ago.
- Carisi: Hold on. You two were married?
- Marina Basso: For two years.
- Tutuola: After you two started Accredo?
- Marina Basso: All good things must die.
- Tutuola: Not this.
- Carisi: Accredo's alive, and apparently it's doing very well.
- Marina Basso: Good for Arlo. He was the smartest man I ever met. And empathetic.
- Tutuola: That's what he calls branding women?
- Carisi: [seeing her surprise] Oh, you didn't know about that?
- Marina Basso: No. But I'm not surprised. It's like a dog marking his territory, I suppose.
- Tutuola: Arlo's possessive?
- Marina Basso: He's possessive, obsessive, reclusive, outgoing, introspective, and could charm meat from a lion. Or should I say a lioness? It was all a little too much to live with.
- Carisi: So you have nothing to do with Accredo anymore?
- Marina Basso: Not at all.
- Carisi: Okay, then... why did you walk away?
- Marina Basso: If you must know, it was completely personal. I found out that Arlo had been sleeping with Lilah.
- Carisi: That must have pissed you off.
- Marina Basso: Actually, what pissed me off is he said it was for my own good. To help me get past my jealousy issues. I'm sorry. Nobody's that charming.
- Rollins: [to Gina] Get on the floor.
- Gina Goodrich: What?
- Rollins: Get on the damn floor! [pulls Gina out of her chair and puts her foot on Gina's body] Huh? You feel empowered yet? How's this? Huh? How about now?
- Benson: [storms into the interrogation room] Amanda! Stop!
- Rollins: What? She wants to feel demeaned? I'll demean her.
- Benson: Your behavior was unacceptable.
- Rollins: When I was growing up, I had a TV in my room. "Family Ties" was my favorite. Alex P. I really, really liked him. And I would turn the volume all the way up so I couldn't hear what was going on downstairs. The screaming, the cussing. We were not the Keatons.
- Benson: Well, news flash: Nobody's family is.
- Rollins: My mom had this vase. It wasn't expensive, but she really loved it, and he threw it at her. It shattered into a million pieces. And that was right before he beat the crap out of her.
- Benson: I'm so sorry. I didn't know.
- Rollins: The thing is, I wasn't mad at him. I was so mad at her. You know, how? How... how could she let him?
- Rollins: Did, uh... Gina rat out Arlo?
- Benson: Only for blackmail. So, to get into Arlo's inner sanctum, the girls have to give collateral; the deed to their house, naked photos...
- Rollins: Like the ones, uh, Brad took of Vicky.
- Benson: And are you ready for this? The brand that we saw, AHM, it stands for "At His Mercy".
- Rollins: Let's go arrest the son of a bitch.
- Benson: Look, we checked the GPS on Lilah's phone. She never left Accredo.
- Rollins: Well, at least we know her phone didn't.
- Benson: [as a thought strikes her, she glances at her own tracker] Lilah wears a FitTrackr. The app... uploads the data to the cloud.
- Carisi: Lieu, we got her. TARU came through big time. Now, GPS puts Lilah in the vicinity of the loft, but that is nothing. Look at this. [putting up an image] Now, this is a graph of Lilah's heartrate on the night of the murder. Now, from 8:45 to 9:00 p.m., it gets up to 110. Now, that's gotta be her going up the six flights of steps it took to get to the crime scene.
- Benson: Right.
- Carisi: Then it flattens out. That's gotta be the "Hi, how are you"s. They make some small talk. Then ten minutes later, boom. It goes up to 130; it stays elevated for forty minutes. It gets as high as 160, Lieu.
- Benson: That's the murder.
- Carisi: That's what I'm thinking.
- Benson: Pick her up.
- Lilah Finch: Not saying anything.
- Benson: Okay. Well, that's your choice. That's what Arlo would want. It's always what Arlo wants, isn't it?
- Lilah Finch: We didn't do anything wrong.
- Benson: Well, that's for a jury to decide, but while you're in here, what do you think Arlo's doing?
- Lilah Finch: You don't know him.
- Benson: Yes, I do. I know him very well. You know, most of the women in here are in here because they believed a man's lies. Ask them. They'll be happy to tell you.
- Lilah Finch: Arlo made me feel like I could do anything overcome my fears, be my best self. You're asking me to say that the last 10 years of my life meant nothing.
- Benson: I'm asking you to look at the next 10 years, the next 20 years. I believe you when you said that that empowerment and that strength It is in you. And, Lilah, I know that you're smart enough to make the right decision because, Lilah, let me tell you something. You only have two choices. Lilah, be smart. You can be silent and spend the rest of your life in prison. Or you can make a deal and testify against him, and maybe... maybe You can get out by the time you're 50. And believe me, that's a lot of life left.
- Claudia Bell: You have no grounds to arrest my client, let alone charge him.
- Rollins: Well, the D.A. disagrees. With Gina's testimony and Lilah's testimony, we have second-degree murder.
- Arlo Beck: Lilah confessed?
- Benson: Well, the good news is is that Lilah doesn't have to worry about being alone for the next ten years, because Lilah admitted to killing Vicky on your orders, and Gina admitted to framing Brad.
- Rollins: Sounds a lot like conspiracy to me.
- Claudia Bell: I didn't hear the word "agreement" anywhere.
- Rollins: Yeah, I didn't hear your client deny any of it, either.
- Benson: [to Arlo Beck] You know what the worst thing is? What really pisses me off is not that you conned women out of their own money. It's not that you convince women that it's in their best interest to sleep with you. It's not that you demean women or humiliate women. What really disgusts me is that you make women feel good about themselves. Empowered. Addicted to feeling invincible. You know, I can see that you're intelligent. Empathetic. So, you make women feel safe. They feel heard. And because they trust you, they share their deepest insecurities, their weaknesses, with you. And then you use those vulnerabilities to destroy them. You, Mr. Beck, are the worst kind of predator there is.
- Rollins: I'm a damaged person, too, Claudia. Hell, there's probably men that damaged me, but I don't care 'cause I'm gonna put my head down and I'm gonna get through it, using the courage or the stick-to-itivness or whatever you want to call it that's it's already inside me.
- Rollins: So I'm gonna notify One PP that I'm pregnant and I'm gonna tell them that you didn't know.
- Benson: Amanda, you don't have to do that.
- Rollins: No, I'm... yeah, I do. And it is going to kill me to have to sit behind a desk, but it's only a few months, right? The father, I wanted you to know, is... um, Al Pollack. He's a cardiologist.
- Benson: Doctor. Nice.
- Rollins: Yeah, we'll see.
- Benson: I'm really happy for you, Amanda. If I haven't said that before.
- Rollins: I know.
Background Information and Notes[]
- This episode is based on the NXIVM cult scandal.
- Sarah Carter, who guest starred in this episode, also guest starred on the show Smallville. One of the main lieutenants of the NXIVM was Smallville star, Allison Mack.
- Benson is seen working out with a trainer. She had mentioned feeling out of shape in the episode "Man Up".
- Rollins, who is still pregnant, gets sick at the sight of a dead body, just as she did previously in "Criminal Pathology" when she was pregnant with Jesse. Detective Megan Wheeler (from Law & Order: Criminal Intent) does the same during her pregnancy in the episode "Major Case".
- Rollins mentions that she used to love watching the show Family Ties when her parents fought. One of the stars of the show, Michael Gross, guest starred as Jeffrey Prince, a reality show producer Rollins investigates, on the SVU episode "Assaulting Reality".
- In a deleted scene, Fin and Carisi try to figure out who the father of Rollins' baby is.[1]
Episode scene cards[]
| 1 | 2 | 3 |
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93 Thompson Street |
Office of |
2551 Long Pond Road |
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 |
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Accredo House |
Apartment of |
Residence of |
Rikers Island |
Footnotes[]
| Previous episode: "Revenge" |
"Accredo" Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 20 |
Next episode: "Exile" |