| "Catfishing Teacher" | ||
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| ← | SVU, Episode 17.10 | → |
| Production number: 17010 First aired (US): 6 January 2016 First aired (UK): 14 February 2016 First aired (CAN): 6 January 2016 First aired (AUS): 14 April 2016 | ||
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| Written By Kevin Fox Directed By Michael Slovis | ||
Summary[]
A high school student plans a clandestine hookup with his female teacher but ends up in a far more sinister situation.
Plot[]
plot
Cast[]
Main Cast[]
- Mariska Hargitay as Lieutenant Olivia Benson
- Kelli Giddish as Detective Amanda Rollins
- Ice-T as Detective Odafin Tutuola
- Peter Scanavino as Detective Dominick Carisi, Jr.
- Raúl Esparza as A.D.A. Rafael Barba (credit only)
Recurring cast[]
- Andy Karl as Sergeant Mike Dodds
- Robert Sean Leonard as A.D.A. Kenneth O'Dwyer
- Tony Campisi as Attorney Steve Roth
- Ngozi Jane Anyanwu as Officer Perlina Edozi
- Kate Elizabeth Young as Melora
- Mark D. Friedman as Attorney Roger Parnes
Guest Cast[]
- Michael Gaston as Donald Bazinski
- Kelli Barrett as Phoebe Bernap
- Missy Crider as Serena Foster
- Erik Heger as Cole Foster
- Noah Fleiss as Nat Phelps
- Jordan Gelber as Principal Bernstein
- Ted Sutherland as Zach Foster
- Alberto Rosende as Jordan Messina
- Judge Jeanine Pirro as Herself
- Alex Esola as David Faulkner
- Christopher Gray as Travis Barstow
- Brett G. Smith as State Trooper Al Clark
- Lindsay Arnold as Megan
- Shanga Parker as Doctor
References[]
Episode references
Quotes[]
- Rollins: Look, thank you so much for meeting me for lunch. I have been going stir crazy on maternity leave.
- Carisi: How's being a mom?
- Rollins: You were right. It's... it's the greatest thing ever.
- Tutuola: Hot for teacher. Happens everywhere.
- Benson: Right, but when the teacher follows through...
- Kenneth O'Dwyer: That is rape.
- Tutuola: That kid's in love. You can't trust someone like that.
- Dodds: All these boys... who the hell are they? What happened to them?
- Carisi: We'll worry about that later. Right now, we need to find Zach.
- Finn: Liv. You know how it goes. When a boy goes through something like this, he never tells anyone.
- Benson: Don't underestimate him. Fin knows more than anybody.
Background information and notes[]
- The story takes place the week before Christmas, but the color of the leaves on the trees shows that it was filmed a couple of months beforehand.
- When Dodds and Carisi knock on the principal's door, they see a sex worker, Melora, who says she "knows you guys". They had encountered her before in the episode "Maternal Instincts".
- Phoebe Burnap's attorney asks what charges she is being held on. ADA O'Dwyer replies that she is currently being charged with two counts of rape in the third degree, but that they may also be adding charges of rape in the second degree, kidnapping in the second degree and "sexual assault".
However sexual assault is not a criminal charge, it is simply a term to describe any type of sexually motivated crime, there is no actual criminal charge for sexual assault. Though the actual crime most commonly mistakenly referred to as sexual assault is sexual abuse (either in the third, second or fist degree). Aggravated sexual abuse is also sometimes mistakenly referred to as "aggravated sexual assault". - Benson tells a 15 year old if he withholds information he could be "an accessory to statutory rape". This is legally impossible as the law cannot be used to punish someone who is in the category of persons the law is designed to protect.
- Kelli Barrett has made two appearances on SVU: 12.15 - Flight as Dahlia Jessup 17.10 - Catfishing Teacher as Pheobe Burnap Coincidentally in both episodes she plays someone involved in a statutory relationship with someone named Jordan. First as the victim then as the perpetrator.
Episode scene cards[]
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Apartment of |
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Haywood Mountain Resort |
Public Works |
Arraignment Court |
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