| "Burning With Rage Forever" | ||
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| ← | SVU, Episode 23.11 | → |
| Production number: 23011 First aired (US): 13 January 2022 First aired (UK): 25 July 2022 First aired (CAN): 13 January 2022 First aired (AUS): 10 February 2022 | ||
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| Written By Brianna Yellen & Brendan Feeney Directed By Mary Lambert | ||
Summary[]
A boy disappears after meeting up with an online gamer. Benson suspects her son is being bullied.
Plot[]
At Rikers, Murtaugh and his lawyer are confronted on the recant by Carisi. Murtaugh is confident that he would not be convicted, claiming he didn't kidnap Tino who voluntarily got in his car only got sick at his house and injured himself trying to imitate a game scenario. Unconvinced, Carisi offers a deal of twenty years while Cryer tries to bargain for ten years but Murtaugh refuses to go that long without a computer and his smug attitude causes Carisi to change it up to twenty-five years and he leaves them to go over their limited options before he walks out of the room in disgust.
Sebestian arrives in the office to tell the detectives and Carisi, Tino will not testify and the squad are left worrying over how they will convict Murtaugh until Benson recalls they have Carlos. She reminds them that Carlos revealed that Murtaugh confessed to him about the rape.
Carisi calls in Carlos and Spiro who initially wants to decline Carlos' testimony for trial because they are prosecuting him but when Carisi reveals there's a chance that Murtaugh could avoid jail, Carlos volunteers. Carisi asks him what happened to the video because the detectives are unable to locate it, as Spiro tries to argue about Carisi making Carlos look like a liar but Carlos silences him and reveals that he took Murtaugh's phone when he broke in and shows Carisi the video of the rape. He states he didn't anyone else to see it.
Much later, Baktashi and the Guzmán family announce on TV, they are pleased that Carlos' testimony against Murtaugh led to him being imprisoned for the rest of his life.
Cast[]
Main cast[]
- Mariska Hargitay as Captain Olivia Benson
- Kelli Giddish as Detective Amanda Rollins
- Ice-T as Sergeant Odafin Tutuola
- Peter Scanavino as A.D.A. Dominick Carisi, Jr.
- Octavio Pisano as Detective Joe Velasco
Recurring cast[]
- Ryan Buggle as Noah Porter-Benson
- Michael Dempsey as Elvis Baktashi
- Caris Vujcec as Detective Louise Campesi
- Stephen C. Bradbury as Judge Colin McNamara
- Eric Kirchberger as Attorney Stephen Cryer
Guest cast[]
- Christian Navarro as Carlos Guzmán
- Sebastian Sozzi as Sebastian Guzmán
- Jamila Velazquez as Maya Jimenez
- Ryan Woodle as Theodore Murtaugh
- Nicolas Calero as Tino Guzmán
- Brian Calì as Counselor Joe Spiro
- Jacqueline Torres as Gloria Guzmán
- Jason Schuchman as Dov Maxwell
- Kate Grimes as Claudia Parker
- Andrés Hinspeter-Seda as Hudson Parker
- Charlotte Ewing as Annie Parker
- Amelia Fowler as Neighbor
References[]
Quotes[]
- Theodore Murtaugh: [to Carisi] Look, you chose this job. Don't be mad because you actually have to do it.
- Noah: [to Olivia] Hudson's just an idiot. No one likes him anyway. He bullies everyone. It was just my turn to be his target.
- Olivia: Why?
- Noah: I don't know. First, he went after Corey 'cause Corey told everyone their pronouns are they/them, and Hudson started calling Corey a fairy. So then I said that I was bi and that there's no shame in being true to yourself.
- Olivia: That's right, Noah. So you stood up for Corey and stood up for yourself. And that is incredibly brave.
- Noah: Well, it's my truth. I just hadn't told anybody before.
- Olivia: Well, thank you for telling me.
- Noah: No big deal. It's not like I have a boyfriend or girlfriend. It's just not fair for anybody to be left out.
Background Information and Notes[]
- Noah comes out as bisexual which means that he is the first child character in the franchise to be an LGBTQIA+ character as well as the youngest character.
- This is the fourth episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode about video games. The season six episode Game was centered around video game violence and the controversy around Grand Theft Auto. Avatar was centered around online simulation games based on such games as The Sims and Second Life while Intimidation Game was centered around threats and misogyny towards female video game developers. This episode is clearly centered around children on online video games such as Fortnite and Roblox.
- Campesi is promoted back to Detective, indicating the charges against her and her fellow officers or just her in the shooting incident were dropped or they or just her was acquitted.
Episode scene cards[]
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278 West 132nd Street |
Child Advocacy Center |
Apartment of |
Rikers Island |
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"Burning With Rage Forever" Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 23 |
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