"Unholiest Alliance" | ||
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← | SVU, Episode 17.18 | → |
Production number: 17018 First aired: 23 March 2016 | ||
Teleplay By Warren Leight & Julie Martin Story By Kevin Fox & Brendan Feeney Directed By Jean de Segonzac |
Summary
When one of their own is implicated in a cover-up, the SVU struggles to unravel a sex trafficking operation deeply rooted in government offices, the police department, and the Catholic Church.
Plot
Episode plot
Cast
Main Cast
- Mariska Hargitay as Lieutenant Olivia Benson
- Kelli Giddish as Detective Amanda Rollins
- Raúl Esparza as A.D.A. Rafael Barba
- Ice-T as Detective Odafin Tutuola
- Peter Scanavino as Detective Dominick Carisi, Jr.
Recurring Cast
- Andy Karl as Sergeant Mike Dodds
- Robert John Burke as I.A.B. Captain Ed Tucker
- Jonathan Cake as Monsignor Patrick Mulregan
- Abigail Savage as Sister Nina Kelly
- John Ales as Detective Tom Russo
- J.D. Williams as Detective Anton Jefferson
- Sahr Ngaujah as Father Victor Akintola
- Jason Cerbone as Defense Attorney Lorenzo Desappio
- David Cale as Judge George Wheeler
- Michael O'Keefe as Father Eugene O'Hanigan
- Peter Gallagher as Deputy Chief William Dodds
- Yainis Ynoa as Natalia Diaz
- Karen Christie-Ward as Sister Ida
- Rebecca Gruss as Danielle Backerly
- Maggie Borlando as Margaret Kenswick
Guest Cast
- Frank Vincent as Bishop Frank Catalano
- Brock Yurich as Lance Woodstone
- Amanda Bishop as Heidi Aronson
- Melinda Tanner as Sister Antonia
- Dru Johnston as Father Joseph Leahy
- Emily Cramer as Deanna Walsh
- Derek Kelly as Trooper
- Rick Zahn as Inquisitor #1
- Victor La Mantia as Billy the Gravedigger
References
Episode references
Quotes
- Fin: Why keep all this?
- Carisi: Cause they're Catholics. They don't get rid of anything. They just bury it.
- Fin: Either Tucker's dirty or someone's setting him up good.
- Dodds: Tucker says there's no point. His cousin doesn't have a soul to save.
- Olivia: I almost feel sorry for Eugene.
- Lt. Tucker: I don't.
Background information and notes
- This episode is a continuation of the previous episode, Manhattan Transfer.
- This episode is based in part on the sex scandal of Reverend Peter Miqueli, who used money from church collection to pay for a home with an S&M dungeon, where he was submissive to a cowboy sex master, Keith Crist. They were eventually outed by Crist's girlfriend.
Episode scene cards
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Internal Affairs Bureau |
Saint Swithens |
St. Fabiola's Academy |
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Apartment of |
John F. Kennedy Airport |
Previous episode: "Manhattan Transfer" |
"Unholiest Alliance" Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 17 |
Next episode: "Sheltered Outcasts" |