The show is pretty much explained by its title. The two main characters are Detectives Olivia Benson and Elliot Stabler. Benson has a history (she is the child of her mother's rape) and Stabler has a temper. This show is the most popular of the Law and Orders and has a loyal fan following. This season and last have been exercises in bar raising, as the story lines gets increasingly more extravagant and hard-hitting.
Last week an investigation led our heroes to the daughter of an infirm rape victim who Olivia briefly became convinced was her half-sister through their shared rapist father. With the emergence of a new and apparently guilty suspect, Olivia abandoned her sororal notions and returned her focus to the investigation. When the victim's daughter incidentally encounters her mother's presumed rapist she has something of a nervous breakdown and relapses into the drug habits of her past. Events culminate when Olivia receives a letter of notification for the legal change in guardianship of this woman's child from her to Olivia. Woa!
This week's episode opens with a scene of Olivia bonding with the boy and at the same time struggling in ways to adjust to his presence. Recurring character, FBI Agent Dana Lewis makes a return to the show... this time as a rape victim. Complications ensue when she insists on Benson's investigative discretion so as not to blow her deep cover in a radical anti-government group. Suddenly SVU finds itself in the middle of two investigations - one their own and one belonging to the FBI - one of rape and one of domestic terrorism. Complete with shoulder chips and deception galore, familiar faces and themes that have placed well with audiences in the past catapult this episode favorably into the mind of its viewer... or at very least, this viewer.
Episode Rating:
6 (Above average quality TV)
Episode's Best Line:
"Its a community center! Basketball court, pool... available to kids of all faiths." - Olivia (Responding to protesters of the so-called Ground Zero mosque)
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