| "Mother" | ||
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| ← | SVU, Episode 5.03 | → |
| Production number: E4404 First aired: 7 October 2003 | ||
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| Written By Dawn DeNoon & Lisa Marie Petersen Directed By Ted Kotcheff | ||
A psychiatrist is attacked, but she refuses to tell detectives about her patients: convicted rapists. When detectives dig deeper, they uncover her unorthodox treatment methods.
Summary[]
Benson and Stabler investigate the near-fatal beating of a psychiatrist who may have been attacked by one of her patients. Although hampered by doctor-patient confidentiality, they are able to link the assault to child abuse and an unsolved homicide.
Plot[]
When psychiatrist Greta Heints is found brutally beaten, her doctor-patient confidentiality trumps the detectives' investigation. It is believed that one of Dr. Heints' patients might have been responsible for the assault. All signs lead to a convicted serial rapist who was recently released from jail, but then it's discovered that one of Heints' non-criminal patients, a college student named Robert Logan, might be responsible for her assault. The investigation takes a twist when it's discovered that Dr. Heints developed somewhat of a relationship with him. The detectives are disgusted by what they learn, though she claims it was part of her therapy. Through the investigation the detectives come to believe that Robert killed his abusive mother when he was a child. Heints, who was telling the truth, is horrified at the accusation. At her suggestion, the team has Huang talk to Robert to try to get him to confess to his mother's murder. Huang gets him to reveal that his sister, who was imprisoned for assaulting Doctor Heints (she believed Heints was raping Robert) is the killer. When the detectives confront her she confesses, telling them that when she was fourteen she got pregnant and her mother took the baby from her and kicked her out. After learning how her mother treated Robert, she killed her to protect him as Robert isn't her brother, he's her son who her mother took from her.
Cast[]
Main cast[]
- Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler
- Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson
- Richard Belzer as Detective John Munch
- Stephanie March as A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot
- Ice-T as Detective Odafin Tutuola
- B.D. Wong as Dr. George Huang
- Dann Florek as Captain Donald Cragen
Recurring cast[]
Guest cast[]
- Jon Abrahams as Robert Logan
- Sherri Parker Lee as Christina Logan
- Marisol Nichols as A.D.A. Bettina Amador
- Jimmy Palumbo as Mr. Ralsey
- Susanna Thompson as Dr. Greta Heints
- P.J. Marshall as Bennie Edgar Ralsey
- James Lurie as Kenneth Heints
- Emily Loesser as Amy Carr
- Patrick Husted as Dr. Sheldon
- Bill Thompson as Dominick
- Daniel Zaitchik as Jordan
- Michael Pemberton as Jay Pamowski
- Lord Jamar as Javier Medina
- Barbara Sims as Dr. Natalie Baca
- Joel Rooks as Judge Rothman
- John Scherer as Reed Lynch
- Naomi Peters as Keri Price
- James Biberi as Narcotics Agent Prince
- Michael L. James as Narcotics Agent #2
- Gian-Murray Gianino as Paramedic
- Bobby J. Brown as Uniform Officer
- Neville Archambault as Bruce Horton
- Jimmy Galaites as Patient #3
- James Miles as Addict
- LaRue Stanley as Patient #2
- Maxine Prescott as Patient #1
References[]
- Kathy Stabler
- Saint Ignacius Hospital
- Short Circuit Electronics
- Hudson University
- Westside Methadone Clinic
- Rikers Island
- Victoria Logan (victim)
- Transference
Quotes[]
- Cop: Caught this one with his pants down just about to do her.
- Stabler: You don't say?
- Dominick: I was just trying to help her up.
- Benson: With your penis?
- Javier Medina: I didn't want to let her in.
- Stabler: Why did you?
- Javier Medina: She sounded desperate. [he pauses and Benson and Stabler lean in close] Okay, she gave me forty bucks.
- Benson: How would you like it if Kathy was treating sex offenders one on one every day?
- Stabler: Wouldn't let her.
- Benson: Let her?
- Stabler: Did I say that?
- [about Dr. Heints' treatment]
- Bruce Horton: She's into that inner-child crap. Gave me stuffed animals, read me bedtime stories. She even had me call her "Mommy."
- Benson: That monster.
- Dr. Huang: Greta believes if that they can be regressed back to the time of their original trauma, she can re-parent them in a correctively emotional way.
- Cragen: Healing their psychic boo-boos.
- Stabler: Therapists and priests. Always there to listen, just not allowed to tell, huh?
- [about Robert Logan]
- Stabler: He may be crazy, but he definitely knew what he was doing when he lured her there.
- Bettina Amador: Who cares?
- Benson: Who the hell are you?
- Bettina Amador: Bettina Amador. You must be Benson and Stabler.
- Cragen: The civil actions ADA Alex so highly recommended. Ms. Amador here was informing me Mr. Logan won't be going to trial.
- Benson: Why?
- Bettina Amador: I just got the results of his 730 exam. Powers that be say he's not fit to proceed.
- Stabler: Well, they're wrong. We just busted our humps getting this guy's state of mind. It was premeditated.
- Bettina Amador: It's not relevant. Doesn't matter how sane he was at the time of the attack. They're saying he's "Looney Tunes" now.
- Natalie Baca: I examined Mr. Logan and found him to be delusional and highly agitated. His sense of reality is so poor, he doesn't understand the charges against him.
- Bettina Amador: Agitated? He looks pretty calm and collected to me, Dr. Baca.
- Natalie Baca: He's heavily medicated.
- Bettina Amador: Oh, he's high? Well, maybe that accounts for his inability to help in his own defense.
- Benson: You were screwing your patient.
- Dr Heints: I absolutely was not.
[Olivia turns on tape player] - Dr Heints on tape: Think of me lying next to you in bed. I wrap my arms around you and smother you with kisses.
- Stabler: [Turns player off] Insurance cover a session like that?
- [after hearing Dr. Heints' tape]
- Dr. Heints: I'm a professional. This is my life's work. I would never be inappropriate to a patient. I was re-parenting him.
- Stabler: Lady, I've got four kids. If I ever talked to one of them like that, I'd arrest myself.
- Benson: [to Christina] You sexually assaulted her.
- Christina Logan: No.
- Benson: Christina, there was trauma to her genitals.
- Christina Logan: That's because I kicked her as hard as I could between her whoring legs.
- Stabler: Christina insists on pressing charges against Dr. Heints.
- Cragen: That's a tough week for the doc. Brutally attacked, life's work discredited, and now she's facing jail time.
- Fin: If she Freudian-slipped it to him, she could end up serving longer than her attacker.
- Benson: It's Christina's first offense. She's looking at a year, tops.
- Munch: Dr. H could do up to four.
- Stabler: Yeah, well, Robert could be screwed up for life. He's turning out to be the only pure victim in this whole thing.
- Fin: That's messed up.
- Stabler: Christina, we understand why you killed her. We know the horrible things she did to your brother.
- Christina Logan: She wasn't abusing my brother. She was abusing my son. She tore him out of my arms the day he was born, he was punished for seven years for my sins!
- Benson: When you came back for him, you saw what she had done. You had to protect him.
- Christina Logan: Wouldn't you do the same thing for your son?
Background information and notes[]
Episode scene cards[]
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
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Saint Ignatius Hospital |
Division of Parole |
Short Circuit Electronics |
Office of Dr. Greta Heints |
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
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Hudson University |
Westside Methadone Clinic |
Trial Part 38 |
Rikers Island |
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