| "Unintended Consequences" | ||
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| ← | SVU, Episode 19.06 | → |
| Production number: 19006 First aired (US): 8 November 2017 First aired (UK): 19 November 2017 First aired (CAN): 8 November 2017 First aired (AUS): 16 November 2017 | ||
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| Written By Elizabeth Rinehart Directed By Jonathan Herron | ||
Summary[]
When a teenage girl is found dead, Rollins goes undercover at a rehab centre, where the girl was last seen alive. Meanwhile, Benson tries to overcome her doubts about Sheila.
Plot[]
The detectives arrived at the Curtis Home, who reveal Natalie was their 15-year-old daughter who is in rehab for a drug habit.
At the morgue, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis reveal that Natalie got hooked after a leg injury and given prescription drugs. They mourn their daughter and advise Benson to treasure her son after they learn she had one. Natalie's body is shown and her parents break down at seeing her.
Fin and Carisi go to the rehab that Natalie was staying in and talk with the administrator who is not too surprised to learn that Natalie died. Social worker Rosemary Taylor is also not helpful despite being sad about Natalie dying.
Much later Rollins gets a notification that reveals that Natalie was two months pregnant and the DNA matches the rape kit.
Cast[]
Main cast[]
- Mariska Hargitay as Lieutenant Olivia Benson
- Kelli Giddish as Detective Amanda Rollins
- Ice-T as Detective Odafin Tutuola
- Peter Scanavino as Detective Dominick Carisi, Jr.
- Raúl Esparza as A.D.A. Rafael Barba
Recurring cast[]
- Kathryn Kates as Judge Marlene Simons
- Brooke Shields as Sheila Porter
- Ryan Buggle as Noah Porter-Benson
Guest cast[]
- Annie Corley as Rosemary Taylor
- Gus Birney as Kristi Martin
- Christiane Noll as Sarah Curtis
- Robert Eli as Glen Curtis
- Peter Scolari as Dr. Dennis Barkley
- Noah Gaynor as Anthony Parker
- Logan Rose Nelms as Isa Danby
- Jason Cadieux as Brett Erickson
- Antino Crowley-Kamenwati as Andre "Hackapulco" Johnson
- Angela Oh as Defense Attorney Katherine Lee
- Joshua Pagan as Tom Higgins
- Anthony Cason as Henry Gold
- Ella Cardelfe as Debbie
- Anna Dale Robinson as Blanche
- Khadija Griffith as Martha
- Charles Techman as Owen
- Danny Schoch as Male Nurse
- Liv Kirby as Natalie Curtis (uncredited)
References[]
- Natalie Curtis (victim)
- Lucy Huston
- Ellie Porter
- Aaron Judge
- Prelude No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846 (music that plays when Fin and Carisi visit Lux for the first time)
- Uber
- Lyft
- Tate the Turtle
- Barnyard Dance
Quotes[]
- Andre 'Hackapulco' Johnson: You got the wrong bro. And that little bit you got me with? Man, I'll be ordering lunch from my favorite gyro cart tomorrow.
- Rollins: Yeah? Well, unless they change the penalty for rape, you'll have to tell them you'll pick it up in about twenty-five years, all right?
- Andre 'Hackapulco' Johnson: There's no way I raped that ho.
- Rollins: Okay, so tell them it'll only be about three to fifteen. Because whatever was in that crap you gave her, it killed her.
- Andre 'Hackapulco' Johnson: Look, I never sold to the bitch.
- Tutuola: The bitch? Are-are you trying to go to jail?
- Hackapulco Johnson: Yeah, that's the dude. You see? I'm a good citizen, helping you out and all. So I can go now.
- Benson: While we appreciate how devastated you are that your drugs are killing people, no. No, you can't go.
- Hackapulco Johnson: Who's she?
- Benson: I'm the bitch that's gonna smack your pretty face next time I hear you say "ho."
- Tutuola: [as he describes the Lux treatment facility] The place looked like if you got dirt on your shoes, they'd be right behind you with a broom.
- Rollins: How long was Natalie at Lux?
- Benson: Um, six months. Why?
- Rollins: Because she was two months pregnant. And the DNA from the paternity test matches the DNA from the rape kit.
- Benson: Rollins, do you think that I'm too quick to judge people?
- Rollins: Hey, when someone butts into your life like she did...
- Benson: Well, turns out that she's not the witch that I wanted her to be.
- Barba: [to Rollins] Sometimes on its way to "fair", the law misses "right." You wanna do something? Figure out another way in.
- Benson: It's an illegal search.
- Rollins: I know.
- Benson: Do you know who raped Natalie?
- Rollins: No, because her files were transferred.
- Benson: Don't tell me that somebody else was raped.
- Rollins: Do the insurance companies count? Look. This is Kristi Martin's patient billing. It comes to over $100,000.
- Benson: Yes, private rehab is expensive.
- Rollins: Right, but that doesn't include the cost of walking in the door. This is just medical tests and procedures. She's been in Lux for less than two weeks.
- Benson: $50,000 for electroconvulsive therapy.
- Rollins: Which... which I know is bogus.
- Benson: Because?
- Rollins: Because at the time of the supposed procedure, she was threatening the staff with a dining room chair. These bills are bogus, and the insurance companies will never know about it. If they can lie about this, Lux can lie about anything.
- Benson: Inevitable discovery. If we can prove that we would have come up with this without your illegal search... what was the name of Rosemary's assistant before you?
- Tutuola: Paternity's back. Congratulations. You're a winner.
- Anthony Parker: Of what?
- Tutuola: Of a dead teenager and her two-month-old fetus.
- Rollins: You knocked up Natalie Curtis when she was released to Altbrook.
- Carisi: And then you raped her the night she died.
- Anthony Parker: I-I never raped anybody.
- Carisi: What do you call it when you trade an addict drugs for sex?
- Anthony Parker: It's not rape when she's begging for it.
- Benson: They really are the perfect victims, aren't they? Girls struggling with emotional problems, mental illness, struggling with chemical addiction. Parents so desperate they'll pay anything to keep their babies alive.
- Barba: Tell me you found something on Anthony.
- Benson: Not a thing. He's within four years of every girl he's slept with at Altbrook.
- Barba: So much for a rape charge.
- Benson: How is it consent when you're extorting sex from a fifteen year old drug addict?
- Barba: That is a question that the legal arena has yet to answer. Good idea for a law review article, though. You should give Carisi a couple of months off. [Carisi enters with Rollins] What are you, a bat?
- Carisi: I talked to everybody I could find who spent time at Altbrook in the past six months. Now, all of them denied receiving anything in exchange for sex.
- Benson: So we can't get Anthony on rape, dealing, uh, child endangerment, or contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
- Carisi: They're recycling these girls like they were empty Coke cans. Come on, counselor. Pull one of those rabbits out of your hat.
- Barba: I could. I could if we can establish a connection between Lux and Altbrook.
- benson: We checked the corporate records. There's nothing.
- Rollins: No, when Carisi and I interviewed the... the cuddle girl about her Lux lawsuit, she said... she said that she was glad that somebody was finally checking into "those places". I mean, plural. So she could have been talking about Altbrook.
- Barba: Somebody at Lux must have a soul.
- Tutuola: You're looking at $40 million gross billing last year.
- Barba: Obamacare classifies addiction as an essential service, so millions more got coverage. Dr. Barkley stepped right in. Quadrupled his billing. Barkley's about to face an unintended consequence of his own: the New York State RICO statute.
- Rollins: Racketeering?
- Barba: Drug dealing. Rape. Insurance fraud. It sounds like a racket to me.
Background Information and Notes[]
- When Benson and Rollins are talking to Natalie's parents her mom says after she broke her ankle playing soccer and her doctor prescribed her OxyContin for the post-operative pain. However OxyContin would not be prescribed for post-operative pain, OxyContin is a long-acting, extended release formulation of oxycodone and is only used for people that have long term chronic pain that needs around the clock relief, it would never be prescribed for short term post operative pain relief. Immediate release oxycodone, and other short acting opiates, are used for post operative pain.
- When Rosemary overdoses Dr. Barkley, she says "it's fentanyl, all the Narcan in the world won't save him". While it is true that fentanyl is a very potent opioid (100 times more potent than morphine and 25 times more potent than heroin), a fentanyl overdose can be reversed with naloxone (Narcan), it just takes a larger dose of naloxone to reverse a fentanyl overdose than it would for a weaker opioid like morphine, heroin or oxycodone. Also the naloxone injection would need to be administered quickly as fentanyl has a much faster onset of action than most other opioids.
Episode scene cards[]
| 1 | 2 | 3 |
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Narcotics Squad |
Curtis Resiidence |
Lux |
| 4 | 5 | 6 |
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Cuddle Bubble |
Motions Court |
Altbrook Sober House |
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