The Longest Night Of Rain

"The Longest Night Of Rain"
←	SVU, Episode 21.12	→
Production number: 21012 First aired (US): 30 January 2020 First aired (UK): 18 February 2020 First aired (CAN): 30 January 2020 First aired (AUS): 6 August 2020
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Teleplay By Peter Blauner Story By Peter Blauner & Warren Leight Directed By Michael Smith

Summary

Benson investigates a police officer's accusations of sexual assault. Meanwhile, Captain Tucker's retirement party ends in tragedy.

Plot

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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.
• Jamie Gray Hyder as Officer Katriona Tamin

Recurring cast

• Robert John Burke as Captain Ed Tucker
• Bill Irwin as Dr. Peter Lindstrom
• Joe Grifasi as Judge Hashi Horowitz

Guest cast

• Michael Gaston as Gary Wald
• Saul Stein as Sergeant Ralphie Morris
• Holly Robinson Peete as Officer Rachel Wilson
• Cora Vander Broek as Marie Morris
• Abby Royle as Patty Tucker
• Willie C. Carpenter as Reverend

References

• Simon Marsden
• 9/11
• Health effects of 9/11

Quotes

Benson: Who's the--who's the woman with Tucker?

Tutuola: You asking us?

Carisi: Yeah, we got you in the divorce.

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Tutuola: You work for the NYPD.

Lindstrom: Yes, in this capacity. But I am here to help.

Tutuola: But you could still take my gun, send me to the rubber gun squad.

Lindstrom: If it is warranted, yes.

Tutuola: So tell me, why should anyone tell you anything?

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Tucker: You couldn't call first? Had to embarrass me in front of my family?

Tutuola: You do that when you were IAB?

Tucker: That was different. I was dealing with dirty cops.

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Tutuola: These IAB guys know how to reel them in.

Benson: One thing about Ed

Tucker: He always settles his debts.

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Tucker: quoting Casablanca: It's ok. 'We'll always have Paris'. You know, I've always wanted to say that.

Background Information and Notes

• This episode marks the final appearance of Robert John Burke as Ed Tucker.
  • Tucker and Benson both remember their Paris trip with Tucker quoting Casablanca and Benson looking back on a picture of the two of them in front of Notre Dame Cathedral. The trip was suggested by Tucker in "Heartfelt Passages".
• Rollins mentions the death of Olivia Benson's brother, Simon Marsden, who died in the episode "Murdered at a Bad Address".
• Robert John Burke revealed on the "That's Messed Up" podcast that, when he found out that his character was going to be killed off in this episode, he asked that it be related to the health problems from 9/11, having lost friends in that manner.
• A deleted scene has Tucker and Gary Wald talking about Benson at Ralphie Morris' funeral.

Episode Scene Cards

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Home of Ed Tucker 85-45 160th Street Jamaica, New York Tuesday, January 21	Blessed Redemption Congregational Church 1592 Undercliff Avenue Wednesday, January 22	Office of Gary Wald Mobile Fortress Security 326 Hudson Street Wednesday, January 22	Supreme Court Part 32 Thursday, January 23	Wolfgang's Steakhouse 4 Park Avenue Saturday, January 25

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