- Radio Times
- Review by:
- David Butcher
This episode is a tough watch. I say that as a veteran of SVU and the murky recesses of human behaviour it inhabits. If there’s another series that so unflinchingly shines a light into psycho-sexual horrors, I haven’t seen it, thankfully.
Before we even get to the main plot, we meet a serially battered and raped wife who refuses to testify against her husband. And that’s just the overture; the rest is a symphony of torment, as a teenager turns himself in because he has a crush on his five-year-old stepbrother (I warned you it was dark). He claims he hasn’t done anything wrong, yet, but has turned to alcohol to drown his urges. The question is, how can Olivia help him?
About this programme
2/22. A teenage boy visits the precinct and confesses he has become sexually attracted to his much younger stepbrother, but Stabler and Benson are unable to act because no crime has been committed. However, his subsequent disappearance forces them to take urgent steps to catch him before he succumbs to the temptation to offend. Starring Christopher Meloni and Mariska Hargitay.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Det Elliot Stabler
- Christopher Meloni
- Det Olivia Benson
- Mariska Hargitay
- Capt Donald Cragen
- Dann Florek
- Det John Munch
- Richard Belzer
- ADA Kim Greylek
- Michaela McManus
- Det Odafin `Fin' Tutuola
- Ice-T
- Melinda Warner
- Tamara Tunie
- Dana Kelley
- Teri Polo
- Eric Byers
- Marshall Allman
- Jake Berlin
- Tom Noonan
- Sean Kelley
- Josh Charles
Crew
- Director
- Arthur W Forney
- Executive Producer
- Ann Donahue
- Executive Producer
- Carol Mendelsohn
- Executive Producer
- Anthony E Zuiker
- Executive Producer
- Jerry Bruckheimer
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