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"Haunted"
SVU, Episode 6.10
Production number: E5212
First aired (US): 7 December 2004
First aired (UK): 13 June 2005
First aired (CAN): 7 December 2004
First aired (AUS): 27 April 2005
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Mike Sandoval Fin Haunted
Written By
Amanda Green

Directed By
Juan J. Campanella

After nearly losing his life to save a young boy from a pair of gangbangers, Fin is declared a hero... until a woman surfaces from his days in Narcotics.

Summary[]

Fin is badly injured in a bodega shooting, which results in the death of the two young shooters responsible. As Fin is considered a hero for saving a young boy in the bodega, his old past as a Narcotics cop catches up with him when he investigates the disappearance of a young girl who was involved in drugs at the request of her mother. Eventually, it is revealed that she had been murdered and her body was in a city grave the whole time. The girl's, Trisha, body is exhumed and returned to her mother for proper burial, but Fin learns that she had a c-section at one point and investigates to find out what happened with the baby. He learns that after coming into the hospital heavily pregnant and high, Trisha got told off by the doctor and turned her life around for the baby, Austin, before her murder. He finds out that her friend Lizzie has Austin and tracks her down with the help of SVU after she robs a drug store for meth ingredients and gets her to give up Austin's location. Fin and Mike, the rookie cop he's working with, rescue Austin from Lizzie's drug dealer boyfriend T.D. and finally unite him with his grandmother.

Plot[]

Fin learns that Trisha had a c-section at one point and investigates to find out what happened with the baby. He learns that after coming into the hospital heavily pregnant and high, Trisha got told off by the doctor and turned her life around for the baby, a healthy boy named Austin, before her murder. He finds out from her old boss that she had a friend named Lizzie who might have Austin.

Informing Trisha's mother Sandra of the existence of her grandson, Fin promises to return him to her.

He and Mike track Lizzie down with the help of SVU after she robs a drug store for meth ingredients. Mike arrests her after he gets her to give up Austin's location, which is the house of her boyfriend T.D.'s sister.

After noting the meth was cooking, Fin and Mike rescue the kids who were exposed to the chemicals. Fin finds Austin with T.D. and with help from Mike, they successfully rescue the infant and take down Lizzie's drug dealer boyfriend T.D. at his lab.

A protesting T.D. is arrested while the detectives and Austin are decontaminated. Fin thanks Mike for his help, something the latter accepts. Soon Sandra Knowles comes down after being called by Fin, she begs the police to let her in because of her grandson being inside before she spots Cragen and requests that he lead her to Austin. Cragen does so and calls out to Fin, who finally unites Austin with his grandmother, who forgives him and thanks him for finding the boy.

Cast[]

Main cast[]

Recurring cast[]

Guest cast[]

References[]

Quotes[]

Tutuola: Who's the best at undercover in your squad?
Sandoval: I'm your guy.
Tutuola: No offense, but my grandmother wouldn't sell an aspirin to you.

[The detectives search a stash house after the explosion]
Tutuola: Cold pills?
Sandoval: Yep, and matchbooks.
Tutuola: Thousands of them.
Sandoval: You need both to cook crystal meth.
Tutuola: Well, that explains the pole-cams and the booby-traps. Meth makes you paranoid.
Sandoval: Beyond paranoid. I once collared a heavy tweaker who shot his dog because he was afraid he was gonna rat him out to the cops.

Tutuola: You did good.
Sandoval: Thanks.

Tutuola: Look there's Grandma.

Background information and notes[]

  • When Detective Munch calls Stabler from the hospital to tell him where to find the gun at the bodega, he asks for him by name. This is odd, given he would have called Stabler's personal cell phone. Additionally, the scene is edited so that Stabler isn't given the information.
  • This episode is the first appearance of recurring character Ken Randall, Fin Tutuola's son, played by Ernest Waddell.
  • When Fin first tells Cragen about Vance Dennis and shows him Dennis' license, his sex is clearly listed as female.
  • An early plot point in this episode revolves around Fin being accused of shooting an unarmed robber at the bodega. Security camera footage showed that the boy tossed the gun in the air when shot and it landed on top a freezer unit. This is very similar to a plot point in a 1967 episode of Dragnet, "The Shooting Board," where Sgt. Friday shoots and kills an armed robber at a laundromat, but the gun is never found and Friday is accused of shooting an unarmed man. The gun is later found at the laundromat and Friday, of course, is vindicated.
  • At the beginning, Olivia is at Ken Randall's apartment, asking for Kwasi Tutuola. It is here we learn that he uses his Mom's Maiden name Randall, and goes by the name Ken Randall.

Episode scene cards[]

1 2 3 4

543 West 122nd Street
Monday, November 29

Special Victims Unit
Squadroom
Tuesday, November 30

190 West 134th Street
Tuesday, November 30

Manhattan North
Narcotics Squad
Tuesday, November 30

5 6 7

Mercy General Hospital
Pre-Natal Clinic
Thursday, December 2

Knowles Residence
Yonkers, New York
Thursday, December 2

Roly's Mini-Market
Bronx, New York
Friday, December 3

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