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"Smut"
SVU, Episode 10.10
Production number: 10010
First aired (US): 9 December 2008
First aired (AUS): 8 April 2009
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Smut
Written By
Kam Miller

Directed By
Chris Eyre

Summary[]

The SVU precinct tries to make a case against an accused serial rapist who drugs his victims so that they have no recollection of the incidents.

Plot[]

A mother is walking in the park with her two kids and dog, before the dog promptly takes her son for a run. This causes the mother to chase after them while her baby is left alone crying, as someone stumbles near the stroller. The mother hears the crying and tells her son to stay put, before she spots a person in a trench coat and shouts at them to stay away from her child. When the woman in the coat faces the mother, she is clearly disoriented and weakly explained the baby was crying, while the mother drops her anger and realizes the woman is confused and asks if she is hurt. The woman's lingerie is exposed, and she sees blood is running down her thigh. When she collapsed, the mother called for help, and she was rushed to the hospital.

At the hospital, Detectives Stabler and Benson are called in about the woman Kelly Sun, who tests positive for rape and bruising but he explains that her mental state is a concern. When the detectives speak with her, she is in a frantic state and they explain she was raped, while she wonders why she had no recollection of the rape, breaking down in tears because she feared she didn't watch out for herself as much as she usually protected herself.

The detectives soon discover a man named Eric Lutz who happens to have the diamonds Kelly had and he admits to the sex, though states it was consensual. To the horror of the detectives, he visits and brings Sun flowers to see if she remembered him. Realizing Lutz raped her, Sun threw the vase in his direction and screamed for the detectives to arrest him.

SVU realized that they need evidence against him before looking through his computer files to find videos of Sun and other women being raped. Sun later watched the video that he made of her rape and Benson stops it, when it gets too hard to watch. However, Sun told Benson that she needed to see what happened to her and continues to watch, despite wincing at it.

Lutz demands the video be turned off while Greylek asks him if he finds it too arousing. He tries to deny this while the ADA continues to badger him with questions and his methods against the women before he finally stands and expressed his frustration at her. This proves to be a mistake as the ADA has confirmed that he found it arousing because of his erection. The jury also notices this while Lutz tries to regain composure.

However, Lutz's lawyer produces a video the judge made and uses it as a leverage to get the case thrown out. Benson is upset when a mistrial issued, and an upset Laurel comes to the precinct to slap Benson for making her recall her rape. Benson does further investigation and finds out Lutz was engaged prior to this case.

That night, Benson follows Lutz and tells him that he won't be free while he records her for this harassment and says he'll have her job but she says she'll lock him up before that and leaves. Benson goes to a van where Morales is, and they see Lutz make a call.

In Greylek's office, Lutz's lawyer criticizes Benson for her actions while Greylek casts it aside. They then make Lutz's former fiancé Shannon Browning come in and it is revealed that he called her the night before and threatened to kill her if she talked. She tells them of how he raped her on the night of their engagement, as he argues on what he would have done for her but she condemns for his actions on her and his other victims. At that point, the other women are brought in and Greylek has him agree to a plea of twenty-five years, as he voices his contempt for the women and announces he was the best they will ever have. Disgusted by his acts, the women ignore his screaming at them as he is detained and leave satisfied at knowing they will get justice.

Cast[]

Main cast[]

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References[]

Quotes[]

Benson: You can't tell me that there's no connection between porn and rape.
Tutuola: Whoa, whoa. Hold up. I've enjoyed adult entertainment a time or two and I've never forced a woman.
Benson: So after what we see all day, you go home and watch women being degraded to get off?
Tutuola: All women don't feel the same way you do about porn. I mean, my girl digs it. Plus you've got female producers running multi-million dollar porn production companies.
Stabler: Women making porn? That's like the whore on the corner working her way up to pimp. Doesn't make it right.
Tutuola: Lighten up choir boy. You don't have to be a perv to like porn.
Benson: Oh yeah? Then how come people don't put V for Vagina next to Vertigo on their bookshelves?
Tutuola: 'Cause they’re afraid of being judged by prudes like you.

Greylek: I don't get it. You're handsome, well educated. You have a good job, money. Why did you get into porn? Not good in the sack?

Eric Lutz: No, turn it off
Greylek: You're getting too turned on?
Eric Lutz: I didn't say that.
Greylek: You like it don't you, Mr. Lutz? The feel of a woman struggling beneath you. The sobbing, the slapping, the fight they put up.
Eric Lutz: I said turn it off!
Greylek: Are you sure? Because that's not an objection you're raising.

Background information and notes[]

  • Benson talks about her assault while she was on an undercover assignment which happened in the season 9 episode "Undercover" and that she was going to counseling which we see in the previous episode "PTSD".
  • Another episode that deals with an initially untraceable drug along with a rapist who likes to record and watch the rapes is the season 21 episode "Solving For The Unknowns".
  • Stabler mentions in this episode that "a thousand" people use Grand Central Station every day, which is an implausible underestimate. In reality, Grand Central hosts over 180,000 travelers and 6,000 people visiting just as tourists on an average day.

Episode scene cards[]

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Pakidala Courier Agency
44 East 39th street
Friday, October 31

Residence of
Eric Lutz

323 West 91st street
Friday, October 31

Residence of
Laurel Andrews
69-102 Harrow Street
Forest Hills, Queens
Sunday, November 2

Trial Part 67
Friday, December 5

Office of
Assistant District Attorney
Kim Greylek
Tuesday, December 9

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