Intent (SVU)

"Intent"
←	SVU, Episode 19.08	→
Production number: 19008 First aired: 6 December 2017
	th of 502 produced in SVU
←	th of 502 released in SVU	→
	th of 1271 released in all
Written By Lawrence Kaplow & Robert Brooks Cohen Directed By Adam Bernstein

Summary

The cops get tangled in an elaborate online hoax that leads to the rape of a popular social media star. Meanwhile, Benson sets firm ground rules with Sheila.

Plot

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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

• Brooke Shields as Sheila Porter
• Ryan Buggle as Noah Porter-Benson
• Anthoula Katsimatides as Meryl Smith

Guest cast

• Steve Howey as Andy McPherson
• Gage Golightly as Katy Miller
• James Monroe Iglehart as Shawn Tompkins
• Tenea Intriago as Heather Parcell
• Nick Sullivan as Deputy Sheriff Chuck Howley
• Glenn Fleshler as Counselor Phillip Atshuler
• Ben Roberts as Buck
• Barbara Kingsley as June Parcell
• Gillian Glasco as Officer Stevens
• Valerie Kingston as Judge Martha Whitman
• Ava DeMary as Debbie
• Violet Knobel as Amy
• Melody Bates as Waitress
• Erik Martin as Marv
• Jenny Hickman as Missy
• Christopher Tighe as Man
• Lailee Clemons as Foreperson
• Phoebe Amirault as Shopper (uncredited)

References

• Catfishing
• Kim Kardashian
• Generation Z
• Beth Anne Rollins
• Instagram
• Chanel
• Siri
• Atlanta, Georgia
• Snapchat
• YouTube
• Clarksville, Tennessee

Quotes

Carisi: Well, if it's the same Katy Miller, then she's a social media celebrity; Instagram, YouTube, Snap. She's got a couple of hundred thousand followers.

Tutuola: Thank you, Kim Kardashian.

Carisi: Yeah, sure, make mock, but these influencers are the voice of Gen Z.

Tutuola: And they're getting rich doing it. Don't people know porn's free these days?

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Rollins: [to Carisi] You know I'm human, right? And human people have sex. Sometimes with people they love and sometimes with people they don't even know.

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[about Heather]

Barba: The Internet has made the world a smaller place, but some people still get lost in it.

Benson: She instigated a rape, Rafael.

Barba: Out of boredom. She had no motive.

Benson: How is stupidity a defense?

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[about Katy Miller]

Heather Parcell: It's not fair! She gets paid to take a shower and I have to change Mama's poop bag? She deserves what she got! It's not fair.

Background Information and Notes

• The first song that plays in the open, when Andy is picking up Katy for their date and the two girls were buying Blue Glacier shampoo, is "As Long as It's Real" by Raphael Lake. The song is also played in the episodes "Down Low In Hell's Kitchen" and "And a Trauma in a Pear Tree".
• Romantic tension is seen between Carisi and Rollins.
• The ending of this episode leads directly into the next episode, "Gone Baby Gone".

Episode scene cards

1	2	3
Welland Pharmacy Kansas City, Missouri Wednesday, November 15	Mercy Hospital 365 West 32nd Street Wednesday, November 15	Apartment of Katy Miller 145 East 77th Street Thursday, November 16

4	5	6	7
Office of Counselor Phillip Altshuler 61 Stanton Street Thursday, November 16	Gym Insanity 23 Wooster Street Thursday, November 16	Stuyvesant Park Sunday, November 19	Office of The District Attorney 1 Hogan Place Monday, November 20

8	9	10	11
Home of Heather Parcell 3 Whitney Mountain Road Maysville, West Virginia Wednesday, November 22	The Barrel 71 buckle Hollow Road Maysville, West Virginia Wednesday, November 22	Supreme Court Part 23 Tuesday, December 5	Caifano's Department Store 410 7th Avenue Wednesday, December 6

Previous episode: "Something Happened"

"Intent" Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 19

Next episode: "Gone Baby Gone"