Play With Fire (SVU)

"Play With Fire (SVU)"
←	SVU, Episode 26.19	→
Production number: 26019 First aired (US): 17 April 2025 First aired (CAN): 17 April 2025
	th of 502 produced in SVU
←	th of 502 released in SVU	→
	th of 1271 released in all
Written By David Graziano & Julie Martin Directed By Juan J. Campanella

Summary

Carisi and Price team up to charge a suspect when the SVU and the 2-7 uncover a pattern of crimes.

Plot

plot

Cast

Main cast

• Mariska Hargitay as Captain Olivia Benson
• Ice-T as Sergeant Odafin Tutuola
• Peter Scanavino as A.D.A. Dominick Carisi, Jr.
• Octavio Pisano as Detective Joe Velasco
• Kevin Kane as Detective Terry Bruno
• Juliana Aidén Martinez as Detective Kate Silva

Recurring cast

• Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler
• Tony Goldwyn as D.A. Nicholas Baxter
• Aime Donna Kelly as Captain Renee Curry
• Elizabeth Marvel as Defense Attorney Rita Calhoun
• Ami Brabson as Judge Karyn Blake
• Mary B. McCann as Delegate Didi Denzler
• Natalie Liconti as M.E. Libby Wagner
• Ryan Buggle as Noah Porter-Benson
• Steve Filice as Chief Mark Barone
• Fergie L. Philippe as Nurse George Maledon
• Manuel Santos as Eric Newman

Guest cast

• Maura Tierney as Lieutenant Jessica Brady
• Hugh Dancy as E.A.D.A. Nolan Price
• Reinaldo Faberlle as Lieutenant Paul Gomez
• J. Anthony Pena as Miguel Pinto
• Sara Gutierrez as Cassie Reyes
• Giovanna Alcântara Drummond as Gina Briones
• Britnie Narcisse as Charisse Johnson
• Al Vicente as Father Alberto
• La Daniella as
• Liza Fernandez as
• Jaben Early as Deputy Inspector Gorman
• Mariel Martinez as Beatriz Soto
• Charles Edwin Powell as Mueller Hayes
• Erika Longo as EMT Donna Longo
• Mychelle Dangerfield as Nurse Tiarra Quinn
• Alex Tomais as Nurse Viva Peralta
• Andrea Canizares-Fernandez as Isabel
• Benjamin Standford as Sean O'Brien
• Wayne Jay as Jury Foreperson
• Edlyn Gonzalez Oliveras as Gloria Ortega

References

• Maria Recinos (victim)
• Rosa Ortega (victim)
• Ana Machado (victim)

Quotes

quotes

Background Information and Notes

• This episode continues a crossover with Law & Order which began with the L&O episode of the same name.
  • While Law & Order: Organized Crime was not advertised as part of the crossover, Elliot Stabler makes a brief appearance in this episode.
• Mary B. McCann returns in the role of Didi Denzler in this episode after a long absence, her last appearance being in the seventeenth season episode "Manhattan Transfer".
• This episode, along with the accompanying L&O episode, was dedicated to Ted Kotcheff.

Episode scene cards

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St. Mary of Ascension Church 710 West 159th Street Saturday, April 12	J. Hood Wright Park Washington Heights Saturday, April 12	Apartment of Miguel Pinto 981 West 192nd Street Saturday, April 12	Internal Affairs Bureau 315 Hudson Street Saturday, April 12

5	6	7	8
Office of Chief Medical Examiner 421 East 26th Street Saturday, April 12	Mercy Hospital 365 West 32nd Street Sunday, April 13	Home of Cassie Reyes and Sean O'Brien 3427 71st Street Brooklyn, New York Sunday, April 13	Supreme Court Part 52 Tuesday, April 15

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