| "Guardian" | ||
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| ← | SVU, Episode 19.21 | → |
| Production number: 19021 First aired: 9 May 2018 | ||
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| Written By Julie Martin & Matt Klypka Directed By Stephanie A. Marquardt | ||
Summary[]
Fin investigates a man's claim that his sister was gang raped.
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[]
- Erica Camarano as Officer Rachel Ortiz
- Ami Brabson as Judge Karyn Blake
- Lauren Noble as Carmen
- Alan Ariano as Judge Lee Wong
- Sarah Ellen Stephens as Officer Selena Gaines
- Brittany Jeffery as Defense Attorney Leah Simon
- Amanda Warren as Defense Attorney Regina Carter
Guest cast[]
- Kymbali Craig as Dorothy Hall
- Nile Bullock as Leonard Haynes
- Big Daddy Kane as Ray "Four Stroke" Willis
- Rachel Hilson as Tiana Williams
- George Wallace as Ron Carter
- Alejandro Hernandez as Bobby Jackson
- Rotimi as Malik Williams
- Maul Donte Davis as Jerome Freeman
- Almeria Campbell as Dr. Diana Davis
- Anthony Ventola as Lee Green
- Kane L. Brown as Lena Carrera
- Laiona Michelle as Lashonda Williams
- Julyan Horne as Jayden
- Larry Nunez as Diego
- Craig Geraghty as Officer Harper
- Jason Sol as Bogeda Owner
References[]
Quotes[]
- Benson: The victim is 16?
- Rollins: Yeah.
- Benson: Uh, you call the mother?
- Rollins: Well, the mother is in Bedford Hills Correctional. There's no father in the picture. Her older brother, Malik, is her legal guardian.
- Benson: Okay, and Malik is the one who reported the rape?
- Rollins: Yeah, so he and his friend, Jerome, were apparently trying to call for help, and the bodega owner thought it was a robbery.
- Benson: So much for community relations.
- Dr. Diana Davis: I just examined Tiana Williams.
- Benson: How is she?
- Dr. Davis: Scrapes, bruising on her knees, palms, gential trauma on the rape kit. Semen in her throat and underwear.
- Benson: Okay, well let's get that to the lab, and see if we can get lucky enough to get a DNA hit.
- Rollins: She was pretty out of it when we found her. What came up on the tox screen?
- Dr. Davis: Traces of heroin, and her blood alcohol was .19.
- Rollins: A sixteen year old girl, alone in the middle of the night, in that kind of shape.
- Dr. Davis: You don't wanna know how many times we see that in here.
- Benson: Malik trafficked his mother, too?
- Tutuola: And they're both blaming it on Tiana.
- Benson: Man, that family had it rough.
- Tutuola: Same as everyone that grows up in the projects. Some will make it out, some won't. But we all make our own choices.
- Benson: You don't talk about your childhood much.
- Tutuola: Back at you, lieu.
Background Information and Notes[]
- This is the first episode Ice-T is credited as Sergeant Odafin Tutuola.
- If Malik hadn't accepted a plea bargain for 15 years in prison, in exchange for sparing his sister the pain of testifying; and he'd been convicted by the jury he would have faced a minimum of 30 years in prison and a maximum of 91 years. He was guilty of: Unlawfully dealing with a child in the first degree (for giving his sister drugs and alcohol and exposing her to prostitution), a class A misdemeanor with a maximum sentence of one year in jail; Sex trafficking (for using drugs to compel his sister to work as a prostitute), a class B felony with a minimum sentence of five years and a maximum of 25 years in prison; Tampering with a witness in the first degree (for nearly killing his sister to prevent her from testifying as a witness against him), a class B felony with a minimum sentence of five years and a maximum of 25 years in prison; And finally attempted murder in the first degree (for ordering his friend to give his sister a fatal dose of heroin to prevent her from testifying as a witness), a class A-I felony with a minimum sentence of 20 years and a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison.
- When Tiana is in the ER and starts to have an asthma attack the doctor orders the nurse to give her "10 milligrams of Albuterol." This is something a doctor wouldn't say since Albuterol is the brand name for the inhaled form of Salbutamol, the active drug in Albuterol inhalers. When being given in intravenous form the doctor would use the drug's actual name to avoid confusion, so the doctor should have said "10 milligrams of Salbutamol". We know she was ordering the intravenous form because when inhaled Salbutamol dosages are measured in micrograms, not milligrams.
Episode scene cards[]
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Lee's Liquor Store |
Apartment of |
Apartment of |
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Apartment of
Malik & Tiana Williams
Hering Houses, Building 5 |
Arraignment Court Part 4 Thursday, April 26 |
West 102nd Street Tuesday, May 1 |
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