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| Production number: E5204 First aired (US): 17 May 2005 First aired (UK): 12 September 2005 First aired (CAN): 17 May 2005 First aired (AUS): 4 August 2005 | ||
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| Written By David Foster Directed By Matt Earl Beesley | ||
Summary[]
The dismembered body of a woman is found in a junkyard, and detectives must determine who killed her and who attempted to harvest organs from her corpse.
Plot[]
Episode plot
Cast[]
Main cast[]
- Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler
- Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson (credit only)
- Richard Belzer as Detective John Munch
- Diane Neal as A.D.A. Casey Novak
- Ice-T as Detective Odafin Tutuola
- B.D. Wong as Dr. George Huang
- Dann Florek as Captain Donald Cragen
Recurring cast[]
Guest cast[]
- Marc Grapey as Russ Bianco
- Kevin Carroll as James McGovern
- Isiah Whitlock, Jr. as NTCC Representative
- Michael Lombard as Orthopedic Surgeon
- Alex Burns as Mark Mogan
- Glenn Kessler as Leon Shragewitz
- John Ottavino as Dr. Robert Swann
- Reathel Bean as Medical Examiner
- Stephanie Feyne as Patricia
- Joan Rosenfels as Doris Combs
- Amir Arison as Dr. Ghupta
- Stewart Steinberg as Chief Butcher
- Tyler James Williams as Kyle McGovern
- Cherita Armstrong as Anne McGovern
- Donald Symington as Edward
- James Duane Polk as Ruben
- Anthony Desio as Mickey
- Joanna Vargas as Carmen
- Liz Ventre as Karen
- W. Scott Russell as Derek
- Joseph Moffa as Frankie
- Melvin P. Huffnagle as Rashawn
- Melissa Marie Sibila as Stephanie
- Marjorie Johnson as E.R. Nurse
- Bill Walters as Computer Nerd (uncredited)
References[]
- NASCAR
- Richard Petty
- Hannibal Lecter
- Ed Gein
- Manette Combs (victim)
- Anatomical Procurement Service
- Hudson University
- Iraq
- Shock and awe
- House of Wax (1953 film)- The Vincent Price film Munch is talking about with Fin
- National Transplant Clearing Center
- Thomas Taylor
- Kathy Stabler
- Alport's Syndrome
- Dickie Stabler
- Brooklyn–Queens Expressway (BQE)
Quotes[]
- Cragen: What are we dealing with here?
- Huang: Probably a sexual sadist
- Stabler: What, because he had oral sex with her before he chopped her up?
- Tutuola: You sure it wasn't afterwards?
- Huang: It doesn't matter. With a guy like this? the brutality is more arousing than the intercourse.
- Cragen: So he tortured her
- Huang: I don't think so. There's no coagulated blood on the cut points. Which means, he disarticulated her after he killed her.
- Munch: You're a sadist, where's the fun in that?
- Stabler: Could be some wacko who wanted to see how her parts worked. You know, like, when a kid pulls the wings off a butterfly.
- Warner: None of the blood on Leon's boots is human. And the DNA from his toothbrush doesn't match the semen from Manette Combs' throat.
- Tutuola: So we got another guy in the picture that could've killed Manette.
- Munch: Well, maybe Leon murdered her after he caught her with somebody else.
- Warner: Maybe whoever she was shooting up with.
- Stabler: Are you an organ donor?
- Munch: Yup.
- Stabler: I thought Jews had to be buried with all their body parts?
- Munch: I figured the big guy will give me a pass if I leave a piece of myself to help someone else.
Background information and notes[]
- Marlee Matlin comes back to SVU after a year. Her character, Dr. Amy Solwey was found guilty of aiding suicide in the episode, "Painless."
- This is the first episode not to feature Benson.
- Other episodes in the Law & Order franchise that deal with organ donation are the SVU episode "Dare", the Law & Order episode "Sonata for Solo Organ" and its Law & Order: UK adaptation "Sacrifice", and the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Ex Stasis".
- In both this episode and "Dare", a member of SVU has a dilemma involving a sick child receiving an illegally obtained organ, with Stabler wrestling with giving a child a kidney in this episode.
Episode scene cards[]
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Apartment of |
Apartment of |
National Transplant |
Boyd Outpatient |
Mercy General Hospital |
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