Law and Order
"Intent"
SVU, Episode 19.08
Production number: 19008
First aired: 6 December 2017
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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[]

Recurring cast[]

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References[]

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?

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.

[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?

[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[]

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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"
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