| "Rage" | ||
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| ← | SVU, Episode 6.17 | → |
| Production number: E5219 First aired (US): 1 March 2005 First aired (UK): 1 August 2005 First aired (CAN): 1 March 2005 First aired (AUS): 30 June 2005 | ||
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| Written By Tara Butters & Michele Fazekas Directed By Juan J. Campanella | ||
Plot[]
Fourteen years ago, Stabler had a chance to nail Gordon Rickett for the abduction, rape, and brutal murder of 11-year-old Dana MacNamara, whose body was found in a drainage ditch on Staten Island a week after she went missing. Dana had been mutilated after she was strangled to death. Rickett managed to get off on a technicality.
Now, with the recent discovery of the body of 12-year-old Kerry Lynn Palmer in the Hudson River, Stabler gets another chance to nail Rickett, as Kerry's murder has the same MO as Dana's murder. But they can only hold Rickett for twenty-four hours.
The last time Stabler had Rickett in a room at the SVU, he put Rickett through a plate glass window, leaving a scar on Rickett's arm. After that, Rickett lived in California for a while, until his girlfriend accused him of trying to rape her 14-year-old daughter, and that's why Rickett moved out of California. When Rickett lived in Carson City, Nevada, 13-year-old Chloe Lynch went missing. When he lived in Tempe, Arizona, 11-year-old Heather Morrison went missing. It seems that whenever something happens that enrages Rickett, he keeps it all balled up until he finds a girl to take it out on.
Now, Benson, Stabler, and Fin are able to glean enough information during the 24-hour period to at least have a place to start. After the 24 hours, Rickett is released. Cragen and Benson both worry that in the SVU's attempts to nail Rickett, Stabler will let his hatred for Rickett interfere with his ability to do his job..
Summary[]
Episode summary
Cast[]
Main cast[]
- Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler
- Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson
- Richard Belzer as Detective John Munch
- Diane Neal as A.D.A. Casey Novak (credit only)
- Ice-T as Detective Odafin Tutuola
- B.D. Wong as Dr. George Huang (credit only)
- Dann Florek as Captain Donald Cragen
Recurring cast[]
Guest cast[]
- Matthew Modine as Gordon Rickett
- Anne Pitoniak as Mrs. Larson
- Michele Santopietro as Linda Cusick
- Anthony Inneo as Antoine
- Barbara Rosenblat as Nurse
- Ashley Lopez as Emily Barrington
References[]
- Doctors Without Borders
- 1991
- Aphrodite Salon
- California
- Carson City, Nevada
- Illinois
- India
- Staten Island
- Sandra Brophy
- Chloe Lynch
- Dana McNamara
- Kerry Lynn Palmer
- Vanessa Serafino
Quotes[]
- Gordon Rickett: Every cop has a weakness, you just got to know how to exploit it. They think they're so smart. They treat you like you're an imbecile, if you're not careful, you start to believe them. It's a game for them, they get off on it. They got these huge egos; that's their biggest problem. All you gotta do is let them know who's in charge. Not them, you. They used to call FBI agents gangsters with badges; one step away from being the worst criminals in society. Stabler's like that, big time.
- Tutuola: Who's Stabler?
- Gordon Rickett: Jarhead detective.
- Tutuola: You know Stabler?
- Gordon Rickett: I do, and he knows me too. He's been thinking about me for a long time. He tries to hang you with your own words. Catch you in a lie. You're dead when that happens.
- Tutuola: So what do you tell him?
- Gordon Rickett: The truth will set you free.
- Munch: I was never much into sports. My high school basketball coach said I looked like a (offensive word) gazelle with a spastic disorder. Mr. Daley. Real loving guy.
- Tutuola: She says to say hello, and to rip off your nuts and feed them to you.
- Stabler: Making friends all over the country, aren't you, Gordon?
- Gordon Rickett: I'm a psycho killer! What are you gonna do about it, huh?!
- Stabler: Gordon, you're kidding yourself if you think you're controlling it. It's controlling you. Every lie you tell to cover your inadequacies... every perceived insult you think you're getting... just feeds it.
- Gordon Rickett: You're lecturing me about rage? Are you kidding?
- Stabler: I'm not.
- Gordon Rickett: What do you know about controlling anything?
- Stabler: I don't murder people.
- Gordon Rickett: Give it time. You say you see something in me. Well, I see something in you, too. You think you control? You can't. You're controlled by your boss, by your job, by your wife... your kids… What would you be if all those controls went away?
- Stabler: I'd be you.
- Cragen: (Door opens) Mr. Rickett you're free to go.
- Stabler: Did you think I froze? Is that why you fired first?
- Benson: I fired first 'cause you would've killed him.
- Stabler: He deserves to die.
- Benson: Maybe he does, but he wanted you to kill him. He wanted you to always remember that you took his life. Not 'cause you had to, but because you were angry.
Background information and notes[]
- Goof: In one scene where Benson and Stabler are interrogating Rickett, it is meant to be midnight yet the interrogation room window shows daylight outside.
- Goof: After questioning Rickett for 24 hours straight Stabler has stubble on his face, yet Rickett still looks clean shaven.
- Goof: When Benson begins questioning Rickett, she mentions that Dana MacNamara was last seen on January 10, 1991 and found dead a week after she went missing. However, the evidence box right in front of her says "DOD 12/4/91".
Episode scene cards[]
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Apartment of |
367 Old Town Road |
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