| "Info Wars" | ||
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| ← | SVU, Episode 19.12 | → |
| Production number: 19012 First aired: 31 January 2018 | ||
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| Written By Richard Sweren & Robert Brooks Cohen Directed By Michael Slovis | ||
Summary
A female pundit is sexually assaulted during a violent protest in the city.
Cast
Main cast
- Mariska Hargitay as Lieutenant Olivia Benson
- Kelli Giddish as Detective Amanda Rollins
- Ice-T as Detective Odafin Tutuola
- Peter Scanavino as Detective Dominick Carisi, Jr.
- Raúl Esparza as A.D.A. Rafael Barba
Recurring cast
- Joe Grifasi as Judge Hashi Horowitz
- Kurt Fuller as Civil Rights Attorney Jed Karey
Guest cast
- Rhea Seehorn as Martha Cobb
- Jonathon Judge-Russo as Randy Platt
- Adam William Zastrow as Justin Vichinsky
- Lee Roy Rogers as Selma Platt
- Lisa Helmi Johanson as Esme Parker
- Tuck Sweeney as Henry Anderson
- Maceo Oliver as Sergeant Miller
- Lars Engstrom as Campus Cop
- Amber Jaunai as EMT
- James Chery as Antifa Protester #1
- Tam Young as Antifa Protester #2
- Sophie Zucker as Female Student
- Alan Kelly as Alt-Right Dude
- Brocton Pierce as Juror
References
- Antifa
- Canada
- Joseph Goebbels
- Rudolph Giuliani
- Hudson University
- New Jersey
- Barack Obama
- Donald Trump
- Virginia
- Snowflake
- Susan B. Anthony
- Titanic
- LZ 129 Hindenburg
Quotes
- Cobb: Do you people ever stop with the empathy?
- Benson: Which "people" are you referring to?
- Cobb: Let me guess. You cried tears of joy when Obama was elected. Said you'd move to Canada if Trump ever got in. Yet, here you are.
- Benson: I was never going anywhere, but right or left, I want to find the man who assaulted you and make sure that he is apprehended and punished.
- Barba: Well, let's just say that she doesn't present as your typical rape victim.
- Benson: How do you mean? Martha Cobb has made a career out of playing fast and loose with the facts.
- Barba: Fact: She was raped.
- Benson: Right, and that doesn't endow her with sainthood. She dissembles for a living, Rafael. It's what she does.
- Rafael Barba: [after Randy Plitt becomes the lead suspect] The Titanic meets the Hindenburg meets my first year of Little League.
- Benson: Martha, I am not a fan of yours and I think that your views on sexual assault are reprehensible. But you are a survivor and I really want to help you get justice.
- Cobb: Always effective. The inspirational mission statement.
- Benson: If you're pulling your punches for ideological reasons because you don't have the integrity to be honest---
- Cobb: Do not question my integrity.
- Benson: Then how about you drop the armor? How about you start talking to me like a human being, not a media personality? Can we do that? Can we... can we just... talk? Please.
- Jed Karey: Is this one of your books with a picture of you in a skimpy outfit on the cover?
- Martha Cobb: Yes. That "skimpy outfit" put me on the "New York Times" best-seller list for 43 straight weeks.
- Jed Karey: So, what are you selling your readers, Ms. Cobb? Ideas or T and A?
- Barba: Objection!
- Martha Cobb: This is all very entertaining, but do you really wanna ask me about my ass after what I've been through?
- Jed Karey: Withdrawn!
- Benson: A dismissal? That's what you came up with?
- Barba: How would you have voted?
- Benson: Look, whether or not I believe her, this woman deserves her day in court.
- Barba: But this case stopped being a search for the truth. It turned into a Rorschach test about which side butters your political bread.
- Benson: Martha, all I can tell you about your case is that we don't always catch the bad guy. And I'm very sorry.
- Cobb: No apologies necessary, Lieutenant. I know I won't be the first or last woman who doesn't get justice after being raped at Hudson University.
Background Information and Notes
- The character of Martha Cobb mentions that liberals want to put Susan B. Anthony on money, but she was on the silver dollar coin from 1979 to 1981 and again in 1999. That iteration of the dollar coin was replaced by the Sacagawea dollar in 2000.
- Barba mentions attorney Jed Karey was a protege of William Kunstler, a real-life attorney known mainly for defending the Chicago Seven. Kunstler actually guest-starred on Law & Order as himself in the episode "White Rabbit".
Episode scene cards
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Young Conservatives Club |
Indian Road Cafe |
Supreme Courthouse |
Residence of |
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Park Milano Hotel |
Supreme Court |
Supreme Court |
Supreme Court |
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