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"Inconceivable"
SVU, Episode 9.14
Production number: 9014
First aired: 22 January 2008
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Benson Inconceivable
Written By
Dawn DeNoon

Directed By
Chris Zalla

Plot[]

A robbery at a sperm bank has Benson and Stabler racing to recover fertilized embryos before it is too late. The team then start interviewing several embryo donors such as a woman with cancer taking chemotherapy, a couple who fertilized their young daughter, and a few people with genetic disorders until the suspect a pair of publicity-seeking extremists James and Victoria Grall who believe that fertilized embryos are a sin, after interviewing the couple they then find the fertilized embryos were delivered via mail but are too late as the fertilized embryos are now gone. After standing trial the Gralls apologize for their action and hold a press conference only for James Grall to be shot and killed, the team then track down the killer Scott Ryland at an airport were his wife Kelly a soldier is being brought back home after dying in Iraq. Scott then confesses into killing James due to Kelly having froze her embryos before she left in case she died they could still have a child, Scott then peacefully surrenders and is arrested.

Cast[]

Main cast[]

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References[]

Quotes[]

Benson: Chief of Ds is coming our way, and Cragen doesn't look happy.
Stabler: What did I do now.

[about a tank of frozen embryos stolen from a fertility clinic]
Chief of Detectives Muldrew: Now, Don doesn't believe this falls under your purview, but those are potential children who've been kidnapped. If they're not special victims, who is?

Benson: Well, it's not like someone stole their hubcaps, Elliot. Do you know what they went through to get those embryos?
Stabler: You know, I don't. I made kids the old-fashion way.
Benson: Well, some people aren't as blessed as you are.

Maya Jorgensen: I'm divorced with no prospects. I want children. All I have are these embryos.
Lake: Do you have them, Maya?
Maya Jorgensen: Oh, you think I took them? If I have a baby in 9 months, come arrest me.

Benson: These people believe that if an embryo screens positive for some devastating fatal disease, like Tay-Sachs, it should still be implanted.
Stabler: Yeah.
Benson: Knowing full well that the baby that comes out will never know anything but pain and suffering.
Stabler: Look, it's tough.
Benson: No, it's not. You give your kid a fighting chance.

[about the parents of a brain damaged child]
Benson: They're trapping her in a child's body forever.
Stabler: Parents have to make hard choices. Now, this last pregnancy, Kathy was over 40. It It makes for much higher risk. Things like Down Syndrome and...
Benson: You know what? Eli turned out perfect, so spare me the perils of women over 40 having babies.
Stabler: You know you'd make a great mom.
Benson: Oh my God. I am not having this conversation.
Stabler: You're great with kids.
Benson: Yeah, I know.
Stabler: Look, maybe you should start thinking about having kids and any way you want to do it, I'll support you.
Benson: Elliot, do me a favor.
Stabler: Yeah?
Benson: Shut up and drive.

Tutuola: You wanted to purposely create a child with a disability.
Jocelyn Miller: Size is not a disability. We have normal lifespans and lives. Why shouldn't I be allowed to have a child who looks like me? Everybody else can.

Jocelyn Miller: I think someone would've noticed if the thief were 4'1".

Munch: I got one. Thirteen, actually. Meet the Master-Bated Race. They're donor sibs.

Munch: For all they know, I could be donor 10-19.
Tutuola: [looks at the kids' pictures] They don't look like freaks to me.

Eva Sintzel: [to Olivia] Do you have kids?
Benson: Uh, no. No.
Eva Sintzel: Don't you want them?
Benson: I... yes, I do. Very much.
Eva Sintzel: Then what are you waiting for?

Tutuola: You better not have gotten me over here for another one of your jokes.
Munch: Is that all you think I'm good for?

Tutuola: You still on that machine? Since when did you become Super-Tech?
Munch: Since you dumped me for Lake. Bessie here is the only one who will have me as a partner.
Tutuola: I think you like her better.

Background information and notes[]

  • Elliot tells Olivia she should consider having a child. Much later in Season 15, Olivia becomes a foster mother and later adopts a baby.

Episode scene cards[]

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Hudson Cryobank
313 Worth Street
Wednesday, January 16

Apartment of
Maya Jorgensen
607 West 87th Street
Wednesday, January 16

Harvey Residence
1402 Oakcrest Avenue
Hewlett, New York
Wednesday, January 16

New York Public Library
Park Slope Branch
Wednesday, January 16

5 6 7 8

Hudson Cryobank
313 Worth Street
Friday, January 18

Arraignment
Part 46
Monday, January 21

Grall Residence
309 East 55th Street
Monday, January 21

Rikers Island
Tuesday, January 22

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