| "Nightmares In Drill City" | ||
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| ← | SVU, Episode 23.08 | → |
| Production number: 23008 First aired (US): 11 November 2021 First aired (UK): 4 July 2022 First aired (CAN): 11 November 2021 First aired (AUS): 20 January 2022 | ||
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| Written By Bryan Goluboff Directed By Norberto Barba | ||
Summary[]
Carisi asks the Special Victims Unit for help with a murder investigation when one of the witnesses shows signs of abuse.
Plot[]
plot
Cast[]
Main cast[]
- Mariska Hargitay as Captain Olivia Benson
- Kelli Giddish as Detective Amanda Rollins
- Ice-T as Sergeant Odafin Tutuola
- Peter Scanavino as A.D.A. Dominick Carisi, Jr.
- Octavio Pisano as Detective Joe Velasco
Recurring cast[]
- Michael Mastro as Judge D. Serani
- Mary Hodges as Judge Anita Wright
- Callie Thorne as Defense Attorney Nikki Staines
- Anthoula Katsimatides as Defense Attorney Meryl Smith
- Teagle F. Bougere as Bureau Chief Phillip Baptiste
- Betty Buckley as Trial Division Chief Lorraine Maxwell
Guest cast[]
- Alison Thornton as Victoria "Tori" Warshofsky
- Annelise Cepero as Jasmine Cruz
- Khouri St.Surin as Chris Miller
- Quincy Giles as David Graham
- Maja Wampuszyc as Magda Warshofsky
- Seth Hill as Mike Miller
- Janine Hartmann as Delia Miller
- Cheryl Wills as Reporter
References[]
Quotes[]
- Fin: The dummies wanna be famous so bad, they're doin' our job for us.
- Maxwell: [to Carisi] I cannot have this office charge a Black man with triple murder and cut a deal with the white woman who set the whole crime in motion.
- Carisi: But it's not as black and white as you make it sound. You gotta hear her story.
- Baptiste: I'm sure it's tragic, but the jails are chock full of sad stories and nobody gives a damn.
- Tori: Maybe that is where I belong. I miss the excitement of the life sometimes, but then I think about Chris, about his whole family and how I'm out here free, and they've lost everything. Maybe I could have stopped it.
- Olivia: It's natural for you to feel guilty.
- Tori: I actually don't feel anything.
- Olivia: Tori, you were 14 when all of this started. You had to put on a lot of armor to protect yourself.
- Tori: I feel like I can't take it off.
- Olivia: You can and you will, but it's gonna be uncomfortable. It's gonna feel different. You have to retrain your brain. Please, be... be patient with yourself.
Background Information and Notes[]
- Nikki Staines returns after a two year absence, her last appearance being in the twentieth season.
- Actress Betty Buckley returns in a different role. She previously played Attorney Walsh, with her last appearance being in the tenth season episode "Lunacy" back in 2008.
- The drill in the title of the episode refers to the drill music subgenre of trap music. Fin gives some history of it when watching music videos by David Graham.
- The title of this episode contains 21 letters and 24 characters; the episode does not follow the pattern of Season 23 episodes containing 23 letters in their titles.
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