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Production number: 9004 First aired: 2 October 2007 | ||
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.
Cast[]
Main cast[]
- Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler
- Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson
- Richard Belzer as Sergeant John Munch (credit only)
- Diane Neal as A.D.A. Casey Novak
- Ice-T as Detective Odafin Tutuola
- Adam Beach as Detective Chester Lake
- B.D. Wong as Dr. George Huang
- Tamara Tunie as M.E. Melinda Warner (credit only)
- Dann Florek as Captain Donald Cragen
Recurring cast[]
- Kevin Tighe as Gregory Searle / Julian Cooper
- Liza Lapira as C.S.U. Detective Lu
- Anne James as Dr. Jane Larom
Guest cast[]
- Florencia Lozano as Lauren Molby
- Richard Short as Erik Winton
- Lisa Joyce as Kristi McGarrett
- Ryan Lynn as Dan Friedich
- John Hickok as Mr. McGarrett
- Christina Brucato as Rachel McGarrett
- Paul Klementowicz as Tobin Willis
- Teddy Bergman as Nestor Buchanan
- Jessica Almasy as Ginger
- Doan Ly as Attorney Anna Bentley
- Carmen Gill as Corinne
References[]
- Another Youniverse
- Berlin, Germany
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Cooper's Rare Books
- Canada
- Denver, Colorado
- Hudson University
- Long Beach, California
- Tel Aviv, Israel
- Wit Billions
- Vixy Platinum
- Ernest Hemingway
- Sexomnia
- Sleeping Beauty
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 |
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Crime Lab |
Ginger Maxon's Loft |
Another Youniverse Headquarters |
4 | 5 | 6 |
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Cooper's Rare Books |
Mercy General Hospital |
Bus Terminal |
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