"Confidential" | ||
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Production number: 11015 First aired: 10 March 2010 First aired (US): 10 March 2010 First aired (UK): 18 June 2010 First aired (CAN): 12 March 2010 First aired (AUS): 3 June 2010 | ||
Written By Jonathan Greene Directed By Peter Leto |
Plot[]
When security cameras record footage of Renee Simmons being abducted in a building owned by high-powered and highly protected Fortune 500 member Richard Morgan, the CEO of Richmore Investments, it's not long before Cragen and the SVU squad find Renee dead in one of the building's dumpsters.
Munch recalls a similar case from 1987, sending Benson and Stabler to Sing Sing to speak to Daniel Hardy, the man who was accused of of killing 27-year-old Nancy Pierce in 1987, and Daniel begs them to reopen his case and prove his innocence.
As strange similarities between the two cases begin to arise, Benson and Stabler face fierce opposition from Ingrid Block, the pit-bull attorney for the killer, Richard Morgan himself. It turns out that Richard has been carrying out a Ponzi scheme, and it was Richard who killed Nancy Pierce.
Ingrid is willing to do whatever it takes to get Richard acquitted. But Richard is fatally shot by 80-year-old Thomas Rooney, a man that Richard stole a lot of money from. Rooney's wife had recently passed away from cancer, and Rooney felt that he had nothing left to lose.
It falls on Cabot to decide whether the ruthless lengths that Block went to to defend Richard constitute a crime itself, while Stabler proves Daniel Hardy's innocence.
Cast[]
Main cast[]
- Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler
- Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson
- Richard Belzer as Sergeant John Munch
- Ice-T as Detective Odafin Tutuola
- Stephanie March as A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot
- B.D. Wong as Dr. George Huang (credit only)
- Tamara Tunie as M.E. Melinda Warner
- Dann Florek as Captain Donald Cragen
Recurring cast[]
- Tonye Patano as Judge Linda Maskin
- Jabari Gray as C.S.U. Detective Keegan Timmons
- Chike Johnson as Victor Tate
- Judith Light as Judge Elizabeth Donnelly
- Tim Miller as Court Clerk
Guest cast[]
- Lena Olin as Defense Attorney Ingrid Block
- Richard Burgi as Richard Morgan
- Russell G. Jones as Hopkins
- Yul Vazquez as Daniel Hardy
- Daniel Hartley as Matt Simmons
- William Bogert as Thomas Rooney
- James Lloyd Reynolds as Security Supervisor
- Kevin Earley as Security Man Tony
- Carissa Jocétt Toro as Valerie Martin
- Joseph A. Halsey as Uni #1
- Ian Jarvis as Urinal Man
References[]
- Black Monday
- William Blackstone
- Bernie Madoff
- The Karate Kid film franchise
- Jack McCoy
- Nancy Pierce (victim)
- Renee Simmons (victim)
Quotes[]
- Cabot: [to the judge about Richard Morgan] Your Honor, you're looking at Bernard Madoff, The Karate Kid edition.
- Ingrid Block: That's prejudicial, Judge. I want her censured.
- Judge Linda Maskin: I don't see any jury here, Ms. Block, and she certainly isn't going to prejudice me.
- Stabler: DNA from the Nancy Pierce case is gone which means Daniel Hardy is now officially, eternally screwed. He is staying in prison for the rest of his miserable life.
- Ingrid Block: I have a duty to preserve my client's confidentiality.
- Benson: He's dead.
- Ingrid Block: The law says it doesn't matter.
- Benson: Richard Morgan let an innocent man take the fall for a murder that he committed.
- Ingrid Block: I took an oath.
- Benson: You're protecting a corpse!
- [about Ingrid Block]
- Stabler: Yeah, boo-hoo-hoo. She let him rot in prison for two decades. What the hell is wrong with her?
- Cabot: If she had come forward, she would have been disbarred, maybe gone to prison.
- Cragen: For providing evidence that would set a wrongfully accused man free?
- Cabot: Only Massachusetts allows an attorney to break privilege if he or she knows of actual innocence and since privilege doesn't die with the client, she just committed career suicide.
- Daniel Hardy: If I didn't owe you one, I'd never let you bring me back. Why are we here?
- Stabler: The guy with his back to us.
- Hardy: What about him?
- Stabler: He's you.
- Hardy: What are you talking about?
- Stabler: His name is Victor Tate. I collared him 11 years ago for rape. Last year, I found out he didn't do it. I screwed up. He's going to be serving out his sentence.
- Hardy: Nothing you can do for him?
- Stabler: No. But you can for Ingrid Block.
- Hardy: You want me to help her?
- Stabler: Do you remember Richard's karate belts?
- Hardy: What about them?
- Stabler: I don't think Ingrid gave them back to Richard after Nancy's murder. Someone with access to her office did.
- Hardy: Block stole 22 years of my life.
- Stabler: Revenge isn't going to get them back.
- Hardy: Helping that bitch going to get him out? What do you care?
- Stabler: Her hands were tied by the law.
- Hardy: Listen, man, she should be punished for what she did to me.
- Stabler: Richard Morgan put you in here. He's the one who stole those years from you. Now if Ingrid Block hadn't come forward, that would be you. You'd be pushing a mop for the rest of your life.
Background information and notes[]
- The judge granted Richard Morgan pretrial release on the condition that he surrender his passport and be confined to his home with an electronic monitoring device, however she fails to set a bail amount and even says "bail is denied". When bail is denied a defendant is remanded into the custody of the department of corrections, being confined to house arrest is a form of being out on bail.
Episode scene cards[]
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
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Sing Sing |
Arraignment Court |
Supreme Court |
Supreme Court |
Supreme Court |
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