Waste

"Waste"
←	SVU, Episode 4.08	→
Production number: E3111 First aired: 15 November 2002
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Written By Dawn DeNoon & Lisa Marie Petersen Directed By Donna Deitch

An emergency visit for a coma patient reveals the woman to be seven weeks pregnant. The investigation is hampered when the victim's doctor attempts an abortion.

Plot

The investigation into the rape of a comatose woman named Stephanie Rawley, leads to a doctor whose stem cell research is funded by a billionaire with Parkinson's disease who is desperate for a cure.

Summary

Episode summary

Cast

Main cast

• Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler
• Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson
• Richard Belzer as Detective John Munch
• Stephanie March as A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot
• Ice-T as Detective Odafin Tutuola
• B.D. Wong as Dr. George Huang
• Dann Florek as Captain Donald Cragen

Recurring cast

• Peter Hermann as Attorney Trevor Langan
• Jill Marie Lawrence as Attorney Cleo Conrad
• David Lipman as Judge Arthur Cohen
• Rob Bartlett as Attorney Milton Schoenfeld

Guest cast

• Bruce Davison as Dr. Graham Mandell
• Henry Woronicz as Mr. Rawley
• Steve Key as Wesley Dilbert
• Rainn Wilson as Janitor
• Lisa Pelikan as Dr. Garrison
• Ian Kahn as David Anderson
• Judy Gold as Forensic Gynecologist
• Chandra Wilson as Nurse Jenkins
• Philip Bosco as Davis Langley
• JoBeth Williams as Mrs. Rawley
• Carmen Román as Nurse Yates
• John C. Vennema as Funeral Director Upson
• Thomas Lyons as Dr. Sedaly
• Lucia Brawley as Maxine Hatters
• Dion Graham as Samuel Hill
• Darren Ritchie as PT Clark
• Rick Johnson as Clerk

References

References

Quotes

Donald Cragen: Counselor, question - what would it take to blanket DNA an entire facility?

Alexandra Cabot: A constitutional amendment.

Odafin Tutuola: What was that?

John Munch: Good police work. Here's your DNA.

Fin: I don't even want to think how under-reported coma rape is.

Munch: Well, victims don't tend to come forward.

Fin: Questioning the father as a suspect is never a crowd-pleaser.

Munch: Verbal vitriol you'd expect, anyone else think the father protests a bit too much? You're not a father.

Fin: You don't have a raped daughter in a coma with a devil cake in the oven.

Cabot: Because it's illegal to buy and sell body parts, by law they have no monetary value.

Dr. Huang: You mean, I could go to jail for stealing a toaster, but not for stealing a woman's eggs?

Benson: Why would Davis Langley want custody of that baby?

Stabler: Guilt?

Cabot: Survival. If he's granted custody, along with the baby comes the umbilical cord.

Stabler: I've cut four of them, it's not exactly something you save for the scrapbook.

Cabot: Cord blood is chock full of stem cells.

Benson: Half of which will be his perfect genetic match.

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