"Inconceivable" | ||
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← | SVU, Episode 9.14 | → |
Production number: 9014 First aired: 22 January 2008 | ||
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[]
- Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler
- Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson
- Richard Belzer as Sergeant John Munch
- Diane Neal as A.D.A. Casey Novak
- Ice-T as Detective Odafin Tutuola
- Adam Beach as Detective Chester Lake
- B.D. Wong as Dr. George Huang (credit only)
- Tamara Tunie as Dr. Melinda Warner (credit only)
- Dann Florek as Captain Donald Cragen
Recurring cast[]
- Austin Lysy as Russell Hunter
- John Schuck as Chief of Detectives Muldrew
- Joanna Merlin as Judge Lena Petrovsky
- Erica Bradshaw as Court Clerk
Guest cast[]
- Mark Moses as James Grall
- Charity Henson as Carol
- Meredith Eaton as Jocelyn Miller
- James Waterston as Mr. Harvey
- Danielle Skraastad as Paige Harvey
- Cindy Cheung as IVF Tech
- Gabrielle Anwar as Eva Sintzel
- Richard Masur as Dr. Berletch
- Janine Turner as Victoria Grall
- Meredith Zinner as Maya Jorgensen
- Darrin Baker as Stan Jorgensen
- Emilio Delgado as Enrique Diaz
- Rightor Doyle as Chad Ogilvy
- Kevin Kane as Scott Ryland
- Jane Fergus as News Anchor
- Tom Treadwell as Segment Producer
- Jason R. Moore as Jensen Delivery Man
- Gabrielle Lansner as IVF Tech
- Unknown as Joanie
References[]
- Alicia Harvey
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Denver, Colorado
- Martin Fiorello
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Iraq
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Nelson Mandela
- Phoenix, Arizona
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Kelly Ryland
- United States Army Reserves
- Values Defense League
- Washington
Quotes[]
- [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[]
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
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Hudson Cryobank |
Apartment of |
Harvey Residence |
New York Public Library |
5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
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Hudson Cryobank |
Arraignment |
Grall Residence |
Rikers Island |
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