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SVU, Episode 9.02
Production number: 9004
First aired: 2 October 2007
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Erik Winton Benson Stabler Avatar
Written By
Paul Grellong

Directed By
Peter Leto

Summary[]

The detectives investigate the case of a young woman, Rachel McGarrett, who went missing after her younger sister Kristi was raped by Rachel's boyfriend Dan Friedich, who suffers from sexsomnia and attacked her accidentally. In an effort to locate Rachel, Benson and Stabler use her avatar from an online game that she was playing to find her. During the investigation, the detectives attempt to locate the body of Lauren Molby who disappeared twenty-five years before. To their shock, they find Lauren still alive and after revealing the truth to her, she helps them get a confession from the killer.

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Quotes[]

Benson: You don't usually go for a walk after your sister's been raped.

Dan Friedich: You don't understand. Okay, I have this condition.
Stabler: And I have a headache.

[about Dan Friedich]
Novak: We can't charge him with the rape.
Stabler: If it looks like a rape and acts like a rape...
Novak: It is a rape, unless the accused isn't conscious of what his body's doing. It's like a sleeping mother who rolls over on her baby. Her body did it, but her mind wasn't aware of it.

Tutuola: Who do you have now, psychic hotline?
Lake: Better, one of Rachel's friends. [turns the phone on speaker] You still there, Ginger?
Ginger: Yes.
Lake: Alright, tell the detectives what you told me.
Ginger: I think Rachel's in Another Youniverse.

Lake: She's Vixy. You're Tawny. Sounds like a couple of strippers.
Ginger: Actually you're close. We use A.Y. to explore some fantasies.
Lake: What kind of fantasies?
Ginger: We own a couple of virtual sex clubs.
Lake: How do avatars have sex?
Ginger: Same way as humans do only in A.Y., it's just animated.

Benson: So you can do anything you want and you and Rachel chose to be prostitutes?
Ginger: It's a fantasy, not a crime. Plus it's safe. Sex for money with no risk of STDs or getting pregnant. We're not hurting anybody.

[Benson has just ordered Winton to reset the Youniverse's daylight in order to pinpoint Julian Cooper in cyberspace]
Benson: Do it.
Erik Winton: Okay, I'm about to freak out five million people.

(After unexpectedly finding Lauren alive)
Lake: Cap, we've found the cabin.
Cragen: Start the search.
Lake: The search is over. Lauren Molby is alive.

Stabler: Hey, you in a hurry there?
Gregory Searle: Detective Stabler. Come to see me off?
Stabler: Nah, I came to arrest you.
Gregory Searle: For what?!
Stabler: You crossed on the red. Didn't you see the light?
Gregory Searle: You've gotta be kidding me!
Stabler: Your safety's no laughing matter. Oh, we found your cabin. And that's not all.

Lauren Molby: Please, you gotta let me see him. I've waited years for this. I've loved him since I was 15. What? You think a 15 year old can't fall in love?
Stabler: I have teenage daughters who fall in love all the time.

Background information and notes[]

  • Video games are also the subject of the episodes "Game" and "Intimidation Game", which deal with violence in video games and its players. The Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "F.P.S." deals with violence towards colleagues while the SVU episode "Burning With Rage Forever" deals with children on online games such as Fortnite and Roblox. This episode deals with the danger of online simulation games which have changed drastically since the time this episode aired.
    • Another Youniverse is very similar to the real life video games The Sims and Second Life. In fact, the graphics of Another Youniverse look very similar to the first The Sims game as well as the discontinued online game The Sims Online.
  • Kevin Tighe reprises his role of Gregory Searle in the season 17 episode "Sheltered Outcasts" in the same role.


Episode scene cards[]

1 2 3

Crime Lab
One Police Plaza
Tuesday, September 25

Ginger Maxon's Loft
488 West 20th Street
Tuesday, September 25

Another Youniverse Headquarters
115 West 47th Street
Tuesday, September 25

4 5 6

Cooper's Rare Books
31 Charles Street
Wednesday, September 26

Mercy General Hospital
365 West 32nd Street
Wednesday, September 26

Bus Terminal
Queens, New York
Thursday, September 27

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