| "Bang" | ||
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| ← | SVU, Episode 12.22 | → |
| Production number: 1202 First aired: 4 May 2011 | ||
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| Written By Speed Weed Directed By Peter Leto | ||
An abandoned baby case leads SVU to a "reproductive abuser" who has over 20 children.
Summary[]
After a baby is found on a playground, Detectives Stabler and Benson look for the child's caregiver.
Plot[]
A baby is found abandoned outside in an alley, and Benson and Stabler are charged with figuring out the baby's identity. The baby, Jasper, is the adopted son of a well-to-do woman, Dede Aston. The baby's nanny, Imelda, is in tears when the detectives speak with her, worrying over the empty crib. A neighbor, Wade, claims that he heard screams coming from the apartment the night the baby went missing. A used condom is found in the trash and the nanny confesses that while Dede was away on a business trip, Imelda invited her boyfriend, prominent attorney Ken Turner, over.
Dede arrives at the precinct to get her baby back, and Ken shows up as well. It turns out that Dede and Ken are engaged, and it was Ken's idea for Dede to adopt the baby. He knew a pregnant woman who was a drug addict and arranged for Dede to take custody of the child because she'd be able to offer him a better life.
Imelda claims that Ken doesn't love Dede and he promised her that he'd leave Dede as soon as he gets the chance. Imelda and Dede have an explosive argument, with Dede accusing Imelda of abandoning the baby. When asked where she went on her business trip, Dede confesses that she never left town that night. She was staying at a hotel.
Dede then blows up at Ken for sleeping with Imelda and then tells Ken that she's pregnant. Ken is excited because now there will be a new sibling for baby Jasper, and even if the condom broke, having a baby is a blessed event. Benson notices that Ken's condoms break rather often and that he might be a reproductive abuser. He has an undeniable urge to father children and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. Benson points out that Ken pokes holes in his condoms, which is typical reproductive abuser behavior. However, Dede is too in love with Ken to listen to Benson's warning.
Wade, the neighbor, admits to kidnapping Jasper and placing him outside the children's gym. He believed that the baby was in a terrible environment and hoped that one of the other families who frequent the gym would take him in instead. Dede is relieved to hear the truth behind the baby's kidnapping, but Benson tells her that Ken has fathered over twenty children, and in fact, he's also Jasper's biological father.
The detectives bring in Dr. Audrey Shelton to help with the case. She is an expert in reproductive abusers and provides insight into what goes on in Ken's mind when he tries to seduce women into bearing his children. Benson goes to talk to Bridget, Jasper's mother. Bridget is a drug addict, but it's clear that she regrets giving her son up for adoption and says that Ken pretty much forced her to. Audrey realizes that they can bring Ken in for facilitating an illegal adoption, without the mother's consent.
Ken is brought in, but he doesn't seem to understand that what he did is wrong. Audrey says that she's never seen a worst case of reproductive abuser as with Ken. However, Ken is released from custody on a technicality. Benson confronts him with all of the women who carried his children, along with all of the children. Ken is still unapologetic, but when Audrey states he hurt twenty women in the process, Ken rebukes her words. He then reveals something startling: he in fact intentionally fathered as many as forty-seven children within the US and Europe, claiming that he loves them all. The detectives and women are disgusted that Ken could cause so much suffering without breaking a single law.
Afterwards, Fin reports a call to a murder scene outside of Dede's home, where Ken has been found dead with his chest ripped open.
The detectives bring Wade in as a suspect and find that he is getting ready to leave town. Wade says that he found Ken's body, but he didn't kill him and was about to flee fearing that the detectives would suspect him in Ken's murder. Elliot spots a wasp injection knife, which could have been used in the murder, is found in Wade's home. Wade says that he's not the only person who has the same type of knife. In fact, Dede has the same type of knife.
As the detectives interrogate Dede, they are confronted by Ken's New York victims, saying that they were all together at a restaurant with Audrey on the night that Ken was murdered, and thus none of them could have killed him. However, the detectives question where Audrey is, and find out that while she was originally with Ken's victims, she left to answer a call on her cell phone and never returned.
Stabler and Benson find Audrey holding Dede's injection knife as she sips wine. She admits that she murdered Ken but claims that it was unintentional. Ken had called her and asked her on a date in Dede's garden. She had met Ken and pretended to be seduced, planning to cut off his testicles as revenge for the women he'd hurt. However, she took Dede's injection knife thinking that it was a regular one, and in a struggle stabbed Ken, injecting pressurized air into him and causing his chest to explode. In addition, Audrey admits to having assaulted a pedophile who had been raping 10-year-old children in another city, where the local newspaper had called Audrey a hero and she hadn't been prosecuted. As the detectives place Audrey under arrest, she asks that she be allowed to finish her glass of wine, saying that she doubts that they'll be serving it where she is going.
Cast[]
Main cast[]
- Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler
- Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson
- Richard Belzer as Sergeant John Munch (credit only)
- 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 (credit only)
Recurring cast[]
- Anne James as Dr. Jane Larom
- James Chen as CSU Technician Adrian Sung
Guest cast[]
- John Stamos as Ken Turner
- Noelle Beck as Dr. Audrey Shelton
- Marta Milans as Imelda Barros
- Jordan Dean as Wade Fisk
- Lori Singer as Dede Aston
- Olivia Horton as Bridget
- Marie Marshall as Margaret
- Alyssa Sutherland as Kate
- Lorna Haughton as Jenny
- Kathy Brier as Charlotte Jones
- Kathleen McElfresh as Vera
- Alexander Wraith as Roger
- Caitlin McHugh as Stacy
- Kelley Jackson Garcia as Hannah
References[]
- Bebetique
Quotes[]
- Stabler: Mr. Turner, thanks for getting down here so quickly. Why don't we go somewhere private so that we can talk. Says here, you used to be an A.D.A.
- Ken Turner: Yeah, Nassau County. I would've stuck it out, but you know, I couldn't make ends meet.
- Stabler: Mm-hmm. And now you work for Daschle Private Equity doing credit default swaps?
- Ken Turner: Yeah, I know. Guys like me tanked the economy.
- Stabler: So it is true.
- Dede Aston: How could you sleep with Imelda?
- Ken Turner: I'm sorry. She came on to me. You know, I know it's wrong, but she's young and exotic.
- Dede Aston: And what am I, your grandmother?
- Stabler: Just because Dede in love with some jerk doesn't mean she's neglecting her baby.
- Wade Fisk: Last night, he was screaming his lungs out for hours. Ken and Imelda just ignored him. Kept screwing.
- Stabler: So you thought it'd be better to dump him in an alley?
- Ken Turner: Why do you have such a hard-on for me?
- Stabler: 'Cause you can't keep yours out of unsuspecting women.
- Ken Turner: Every man dreams of bedding lots of women. C'mon, admit it, detective. You know you want to bang your partner. Watch her grow swollen with your child. And why not, man? She'd give you beautiful babies.
- Stabler: You are a sick son-of-a-bitch.
- Stabler: How long you been doing this?
- Dr. Audrey Shelton: My whole life, really. Mom's a therapist.
- Stabler: Oh, dad was a cop. Not that I ever wanted to follow in his footsteps.
- Dr. Audrey Shelton: Me either, but my sister's boyfriend beat the hell out of her one night. Next thing I know, I was a domestic violence counselor in Buffalo.
- Stabler: Well, I hate to say it, but It might be easier if this guy was hitting women.
- Dr. Audrey Shelton: His charm is what makes him so dangerous. There's no limit to the number of women whose lives he can wreck.
- Benson: Maybe Audrey's research can raise awareness about reproductive coercion and pass laws about it. Poking holes in condoms will become fraud with intent to deceive.
- Stabler: Sure. Flushing birth-control pills down the toilet becomes larceny.
- Tutuola: Being a world-class creep can get you dead as a doornail.
- Tutuola: Looks like Dede went from thinking he's Mr. Perfect, to hating his guts.
- Stabler: Enough to blow em all over the place.
- Stabler: [to Audrey] We know about Buffalo.
- Dr. Shelton: I'm impressed.
- Stabler: You assaulted that guy with a baseball bat. You put him in the hospital. Why?
- Dr. Shelton: He was raping 10-year-olds. Newspaper called me a local hero. A.D.A. declined to prosecute.
- Stabler: And Ken Turner hadn't broken any laws.
- Dr. Shelton: Don't give me that, Stabler. You wanted him punished too.
- Stabler: I did want him punished, not dead.
- Dr. Shelton: [as she explains about what happened to Ken Turner] Soon as I get there, he invites me out into the garden, starts seducing me. I told him I needed to use the bathroom, and I went looking for a knife. Found me a doozie. I joined him in the garden. I just meant to cut his penis off. Boom! Ken bursts open. [laughs]
- Olivia Benson: Come on, Audrey, it's time to go.
- Dr. Shelton: Please, Olivia. Just a few more sips. They don't serve wine where I'm going.
Background information and notes[]
- Like several SVU episode titles, "Bang" is a double entendre both meaning a sudden loud noise (such as the noise from explosions) and to have sexual intercourse in slang terms. In this case, it describes both Ken Turner's death from the wasp knife, which produced a loud noise that a neighbor described as "a wet bang", and his promiscuity.
- The trailer for the US and Australian premiere can be found on YouTube, making it one of the few SVU episode trailers for an Australian premiere available to watch online.
- When raiding the suspect's hotel room, detectives catch the suspect, a reproductive abuser, in the bathroom poking a hole in a Landon brand condem. Landon is a fictitious brand also used in Season 10 "Baggage".
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