| "Exile" | ||
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| ← | SVU, Episode 20.06 | → |
| Production number: 20006 First aired (US): 25 October 2018 First aired (UK): 28 November 2018 First aired (CAN): 25 October 2018 First aired (AUS): 15 November 2018 | ||
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| Written By Michael S. Chernuchin & Allison Intrieri Directed By Stephanie A. Marquardt | ||
Summary[]
The Special Victims Unit must unravel the mystery of a sexually assaulted young homeless woman who has a dual personality. When she goes missing after being assaulted, the team is challenged to uncover not only her identity but also her whereabouts.
Plot[]
plot
Cast[]
Main cast[]
- Mariska Hargitay as Lieutenant Olivia Benson
- Kelli Giddish as Detective Amanda Rollins
- Ice-T as Sergeant Odafin Tutuola
- Peter Scanavino as Detective Dominick Carisi, Jr.
- Philip Winchester as A.D.A. Peter Stone
Recurring cast[]
- Sandrine Holt as Dr. Lisa Abernathy
- Betsy Aidem as Dr. Sloane
- Sulekha Ebelle as CSU Tech Vega
Guest cast[]
- Aimée Spring Fortier as Grace Walker / Sophie Simmons
- Jake Robinson as Silas Perry
- Mat Vairo as Drew Brogan
- Teri Hansen as Patricia Simmons
- Tim Bohn as Mark Simmons
- Elise Rovinsky as Ann Miller
- Tara Polhemus as Kirsten
- Kaci Tansey as Mandy
- Martin Pfefferkorn as Mitch
- Melvin Abston as Chet
- Sam Kazzi as Doorman
- Lana McLellan as Bar Patron
- Samuel Encarnacion as Bartender
References[]
- Logan Adams
- Gina Carisi
- Pamela Stone
- Benjamin Stone
- Harvey Weinstein
- Kanye West
- Ye (album)
- Kim Kardashian
- Wonder Woman
- Serena Benson
Quotes[]
- Benson: Carisi.
- Carisi: Did you run here?
- Benson: Uh, I was with my trainer when the call came in.
- Carisi: I was with a bear claw. All right, this is the victim. She's still breathing, but her pulse is low, her pupils are dilated. Now, one of the cleaning crew guys from the, uh, bar, they found her this morning when they were taking out the trash. Vega, what do you got?
- Vega: [holding up evidence baggies] Found these near the body.
- Benson: Okay, this looks like blood. We get a name?
- Carisi: No, no cell, no purse, no ID.
- Benson: Okay, are we sure that this isn't a mugging?
- Carisi: Well, the perp didn't just take her wallet and her phone. He also took her panties.
- Benson: But he left her Prada.
- Dr. Sloane: In addition to the concussive wound, she's got bruising on her wrists and thighs and severe vaginal trauma. Rape kit tested positive for semen. I sent it off to the lab.
- Benson: She say what happened?
- Dr. Sloane: Just that she's embarrassed and wants to go home.
- Carisi: Okay, did you get a name?
- Dr. Sloane: Grace Walker. No family. When she was brought in, her BAC was 0.15. That along with the THC in her system, I doubt any consent was involved.
- Benson: Grace. I'm Lieutenant Olivia Benson. This is Detective Dominick Carisi. How are you feeling?
- Grace Walker: Like a herd of elephants did the Texas Two-Step on my head.
- Benson: So, Grace, um... unfortunately, uh, we think that you may have been sexually assaulted.
- Grace Walker: What?
- Benson: There was semen.
- Grace Walker: No...
- Benson: You didn't have any underwear on. I'm so sorry. I know that that's a lot to process.
- Grace Walker: I got blackout drunk and woke up without my panties on. Yeah, it's a lot to process.
- Bartender: I've seen a million of 'em.
- Tutuola: I'm only interested in this one.
- Bartender: [glancing at a photo of Grace] Yeah, I think she was here. Waltzes in in her designer duds with no intention of ever paying for a drink. First she flirts with me, hoping I'll give her a shot on the house.
- Tutuola: Did you give her a shot?
- Bartender: Well, sure. A girl like that is good for business.
- Tutuola: She found another sucker?
- Bartender: Two, actually.
- Tutuola: They happen to be regulars here?
- Bartender: I only know the one guy, Drew. He's my dealer.
- Tutuola: Your dealer? You heard me say I'm a cop, right?
- Tutuola: You know, in my experience, when somebody throws their friend under the bus, they're lying.
- Grace Walker: You seen a lot of girls that have been, uh...
- Carisi: Way too many.
- Grace Walker: How do their boyfriends take it usually?
- Carisi: You're worried about telling Tommy?
- Grace Walker: I'm the one who got drunk. Maybe we just don't tell him about the other stuff.
- Carisi: I mean, that's really your choice, but in my experience, the support of a loved one is a good thing.
- Silas Perry: [as he's being arrested] Harvey can go to friggin' hell.
- Tutuola: Harvey who?
- Silas Perry: Me Too this, Time's Up that. You can't even pick up a broad at a bar these days.
- Tutuola: [sarcastically] What is this world coming to?
- Benson: Grace remember anything more about what happened last night?
- Carisi: Nah, she was pretty tired.
- Benson: Well, call her. We need to get her in here for a line-up.
- Rollins: That's gonna be a problem. I tried the number she gave us. It goes to the Theta Phi Kappa house at Spence College. They've never heard of a Grace Walker.
- Benson: Why is this never easy?
- Rollins: You know, Grace... said her name was Walker. She got her free lunches at the Walker House. She said her boyfriend was a surgeon named Tommy. I mean, there is a little bit of truth in all the lies she told. So she gave us the phone number of the sorority house.
- Benson: You're thinking she went to Spence.
- Rollins: "Peripatetic"?
- Benson: That's definitely a college word.
- Benson: The video was taken a week before she disappeared.
- Stone: I... I can't believe it's the same girl.
- Benson: Three years living on the street will do that to a person. God knows what she had to do to survive.
- Benson: Hey, you okay?
- Stone: Yeah, I'm okay.
- Benson: No, you're not.
- Stone: My sister went missing once, before we institutionalized her.
- Benson: She ended up living on the street.
- Stone: Yeah, with a junkie, doing meth. It's the only time I ever saw my father cry.
- Benson: You cannot attack the parents.
- Stone: How are you not more upset about this?
- Benson: Peter, they are not the ones that are guilty here.
- Stone: They hung a few flyers. My dad had half the PD working overtime.
- Benson: And Mark Simmons is not in the same position.
- Stone: The hell he's not. They're both fathers.
- Grace Walker: I just want you to leave me alone.
- Carisi: I just saw your boyfriend beat the living crap out of you, Grace.
- Grace Walker: If I don't care, then why should you?
- Benson: Because no one deserves to be treated like that.
- Lisa Abernathy: You're right, Liv. It looks like Dissociative Fugue Disorder.
- Stone: Translation?
- Lisa Abernathy: It's a very rare condition where the patient loses autobiographical memory, their personal identity, so they adopt a new one.
- Benson: And it's usually triggered by child abuse or sexual assault.
- Stone: Sophie did spend the last three years getting assaulted on the street.
- Lisa Abernathy: Grace did. Not Sophie. That identity had already been exiled from her conscious mind.
- Stone: Well, that's a little dramatic.
- Lisa Abernathy: We tend to experience identity as a thing, but it's less stable. It has less unity than we'd like to believe. Sophie didn't like the identity she had, so she gave it the boot. Enter Grace, stage left.
- Benson: So it's almost like she committed suicide without actually having to kill herself.
- Stone: So the trauma happened her freshman year at Spence?
- Lisa Abernathy: Or there was something there that triggered the memory.
- Stone: You think her father abused her?
- Lisa Abernathy: I think it's possible. I wouldn't put her back together with her parents until we find the source of the trauma.
- Stone: She doesn't have years to spend on the couch.
- Benson: Somebody sexually abused this girl, and the trauma was so severe that she actually abandoned who she was.
- Stone: You catch him, I'll cook him. But I'm gonna need a lot more than the testimony of a girl who can't remember what happened.
- Benson: Okay, so how do we help her remember?
- Lisa Abernathy: Every patient is different. But starting with the man who assaulted her might be a good place to start.
- Stone: Yeah, piece of cake. If we knew who he was.
- Benson: [getting an idea] Hold on. What if... what if we took Sophie back to the place where she became Grace?
- Sophie Simmons: Kirsten convinced me to rush Theta. It probably sounds silly to you, but it was so on fleek.
- Benson: Oh, I was a... I was a Phi Delta.
- Sophie Simmons: Really? I just thought, I mean... the badge and the gun...
- Benson: Oh, I know, I know. You know, college was, uh... an escape for me.
- Sophie Simmons: My dad thought the sorority was a waste of time. There. Under that tree, that's... where I met Paul. He was the first guy I ever... I was a late bloomer.
- Benson: Got it.
- Sophie Simmons: That's where we ate. People talk about the freshman 15? I actually lost weight.
- Benson: [laughing] I lived on Cap'n Crunch. It wasn't 'till I moved in with Billy that he upped my game to a can of tuna.
- Sophie Simmons: Uh, are you still with Billy?
- Benson: Oh, no. No, no. Billy is a thing of the past.
- Sophie Simmons: There's no way in the world my dad would ever let me move in with a guy.
- Benson: Well, I didn't exactly tell my mother.
- Sohpie Simmons: My dad's gonna kill me.
- Benson: Hey, Sophie, it's okay.
- Sophie: No, it's not. He said if I got below a "B", then he was gonna send me to SUNY.
- Benson: Sophie, parents say a lot of stupid things, right? And they try to scare you because they want you to stay on the right road, but you want to know who's really scared? We are.
- Sophie: You're a mom?
- Benson: I am. And I keep telling myself that it's gonna get easier, and that one day I'm gonna figure it all out, but... they say talking makes it easier? Try reasoning with a 6-year-old.
- Grace: I want to die.
- Benson: I'm so sorry, Sophie. I can't promise that I can take the pain away, but what I can promise you is I will do everything I can to help you.
- Grace: Don't touch me!
- Benson: Look, I know that you're feeling...
- Grace: You don't know anything!
- Benson: Sophie, please.
- Grace: Stop calling me that! You told me that I would be better if I knew what happened to me. You told me I would get past it.
- Benson: You will. That is still true.
- Grace: You said that if I looked at the bastard who hurt me in the eye and I told him how he ruined my life, that would start the healing. He's dead, goddamn it! There is no healing!
- Benson: This guy was a professor. He's supposed to guide young minds, not destroy them.
- Carisi: If he weren't already dead, I'd... I'd kill that guy.
- Benson: What did you just say?
- Carisi: I was just speaking figuratively.
- Benson: That's genius, Carisi.
- Grace: [while standing at her rapist's grave with Olivia] The last three years of my life I've been living on the street, using newspapers and garbage bags to stay warm. I let strange men use my body in exchange for food, protection, drugs. I was 18. I was supposed to be finishing my second semester of college. I lost time with my friends, my studies, my dad. You got your few measly minutes of sexual gratification and I lost my life. I will never forgive you for what you did to me, Professor, but hopefully I can move on with help from my family and friends. I'm going to survive. Yes, I am.
Background Information and Notes[]
- When Benson is voicing her frustration over what to do with Sophie/Grace, Carisi suggests she could be "5150'ed." Section 5150 of the California Welfare and Institutions Code allows peace officers to detain the mentally ill for medical evaluation. This statute has no effect outside of California, and certainly not in New York City, where SVU is set. New York officers have a mental hygiene statute, Section 9.41, but they would likely reference it as "mental hygiene" or an "emergency committal."
- A peripatetic is someone who likes to wander around or constantly travel, a nomad in other words.
- Early in the story, when the rape victim is still in the hospital, she is shown getting fluids from intravenously from a fluid bag. She has a green butterfly needle taped to her arm, which is only used for blood collection or to inject small amounts of medication. In reality, an IV catheter would be used instead.
Episode scene cards[]
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Black Bunny Bar |
Sharp Data, Inc. |
179 East 75th Street |
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155th Street |
Theta Pi Kappa House |
Spence College |
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