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- Jane Rackham
A young woman is stabbed to death and although it turns out she wasn’t sexually attacked, the SVU gets involved anyway. However, about ten minutes into the episode they’ve pretty well forgotten her and moved on to investigate the death of an Iraqi refugee who, his widow says, was shipped back to Iraq post-9/11 and tortured – although in an “acceptable” way, what they call torture-lite.
In contrast this episode is moralising-heavy. Warner bangs on about ethics and the Hippocratic oath, while Novak perches on her high horse taking swipes at the psychiatrist (played by Elizabeth McGovern) who advised on “benign” interrogation techniques in the Middle East.
About this programme
5/19. A student counsellor is murdered in New York, and Benson and Stabler investigate a possible connection to her volunteer work at a refugee centre. She had been helping a taxi driver who claimed to have been tortured after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the trail soon leads the detectives to suspect the involvement of a doctor who had links to a company that has made a lot of money from the Iraq war.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Det Elliot Stabler
- Christopher Meloni
- Det Olivia Benson
- Mariska Hargitay
- Capt Donald Cragen
- Dann Florek
- Det John Munch
- Richard Belzer
- Det Odafin `Fin' Tutuola
- Ice-T
- Melinda Warner
- Tamara Tunie
- Casey Novak
- Diane Neal
- Faith Sutton
- Elizabeth McGovern
- George Huang
- BD Wong
- Matthew Braden
- Steven Weber
- Haroun Abbas
- Jarreth Merz
Crew
- Executive Producer
- Jerry Bruckheimer
- Executive Producer
- Anthony E Zuiker
- Executive Producer
- Ann Donahue
- Executive Producer
- Carol Mendelsohn
- Producer
- Peter Leto
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