Post by mad4svu on May 13, 2010 21:54:45 GMT -5
A ROOKIE COP'S (GUEST STAR GRAHAM DAVIE) IDENTITY IS CALLED INTO QUESTION.
After a man flashes customers at an electronics store, it is discovered that someone who matches his description has recently raped three young girls. Captain Donald Cragen (Dann Florek) orchestrates a movement to catch the rapist, and a rookie cop (guest star Graham Davie) makes an arrest. Detectives Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Eliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) confirm that they've found their man, but after ADA Jo Marlowe (guest star Sharon Stone) expresses some doubts, it is soon discovered that the so-called rookie may have some secrets of his own. Also starring: Ice-T (Detective Odafin Tutuola), Richard Belzer (Detective John Munch), Tamara Tunie (Dr. Melinda Warner), and B.D. Wong (Dr. George Huang).
My review:
It's been 24 hours since the episode aired and I still haven't posted about my feelings for this episode. Honestly, I have no clue. The only thing I have solved is that it wasn't the worst episode in history or of season. There were two stories in one, first it was wannabe Officer Fletcher, his desire to be a cop (a little too much) and then the rapist who loves his father, tries to live up to the father's standards. I didn't really like the last scene at all, the son screaming I love you! while the father screamed you were a mistake! and I'm thinking that instead of continue to say I love you, what I would have done is curl up as a ball in the dark corner and cried because my daddy doesn't love me.
Then there's Fletcher, and Jo. I thought at first Fletcher's attitude was cute, ethusicatic but then that wore off. The scene where he was shot after breaking in went beyond the line for me...sure it helped get to the next scene to focus on the father-rapist thing but it could have been done better. At least have Fletcher be in spy mood, stakeout, peeping Tom, was caught by father, runs away into the night, finds a payphone, calls the police, they track him down, lecture him about getting into their business and he leads them why he notified them. It did not surprise me at all that he got shot when he entered their home uninvitied, I have heard stories of home owners shooting intruders dead, heck even mistakenly thought there was an intruder but it turned out to be someone they loved. I would think that Fletcher would have known better about the Breaking and Entering Law.
As for Jo. I got a pretty weird vibe with her on him, not a pedophile-like vibe, just a mothery kinda thing I suppose, or even a sister with the playful whacks on his head. Actually I did have a fleeting thought that Fletcher could have been Jo and Stabler's love child- he did fit with the age with Elliot and Jo not seeing each other about 15 years (Fletcher's 16), wanting to be a cop just like Elliot wanted to be a cop, Jo was a cop herself. For the record I don't believe at all that Elliot had ever cheated on Kathy, I believe Elliot when he said in Ripped that he never cheated on her, but that thought just came in.
Another thing about Jo, what was that phone call in her office about? Is that something we will find out in the finale?
There were a few funny quips: Fin asking Munch if there's a police man who didn't talk as much then he would be paired up with him; Elliot telling Jo that he did find Fletcher- he's impersonating Liv.
After a man flashes customers at an electronics store, it is discovered that someone who matches his description has recently raped three young girls. Captain Donald Cragen (Dann Florek) orchestrates a movement to catch the rapist, and a rookie cop (guest star Graham Davie) makes an arrest. Detectives Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Eliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni) confirm that they've found their man, but after ADA Jo Marlowe (guest star Sharon Stone) expresses some doubts, it is soon discovered that the so-called rookie may have some secrets of his own. Also starring: Ice-T (Detective Odafin Tutuola), Richard Belzer (Detective John Munch), Tamara Tunie (Dr. Melinda Warner), and B.D. Wong (Dr. George Huang).
My review:
It's been 24 hours since the episode aired and I still haven't posted about my feelings for this episode. Honestly, I have no clue. The only thing I have solved is that it wasn't the worst episode in history or of season. There were two stories in one, first it was wannabe Officer Fletcher, his desire to be a cop (a little too much) and then the rapist who loves his father, tries to live up to the father's standards. I didn't really like the last scene at all, the son screaming I love you! while the father screamed you were a mistake! and I'm thinking that instead of continue to say I love you, what I would have done is curl up as a ball in the dark corner and cried because my daddy doesn't love me.
Then there's Fletcher, and Jo. I thought at first Fletcher's attitude was cute, ethusicatic but then that wore off. The scene where he was shot after breaking in went beyond the line for me...sure it helped get to the next scene to focus on the father-rapist thing but it could have been done better. At least have Fletcher be in spy mood, stakeout, peeping Tom, was caught by father, runs away into the night, finds a payphone, calls the police, they track him down, lecture him about getting into their business and he leads them why he notified them. It did not surprise me at all that he got shot when he entered their home uninvitied, I have heard stories of home owners shooting intruders dead, heck even mistakenly thought there was an intruder but it turned out to be someone they loved. I would think that Fletcher would have known better about the Breaking and Entering Law.
As for Jo. I got a pretty weird vibe with her on him, not a pedophile-like vibe, just a mothery kinda thing I suppose, or even a sister with the playful whacks on his head. Actually I did have a fleeting thought that Fletcher could have been Jo and Stabler's love child- he did fit with the age with Elliot and Jo not seeing each other about 15 years (Fletcher's 16), wanting to be a cop just like Elliot wanted to be a cop, Jo was a cop herself. For the record I don't believe at all that Elliot had ever cheated on Kathy, I believe Elliot when he said in Ripped that he never cheated on her, but that thought just came in.
Another thing about Jo, what was that phone call in her office about? Is that something we will find out in the finale?
There were a few funny quips: Fin asking Munch if there's a police man who didn't talk as much then he would be paired up with him; Elliot telling Jo that he did find Fletcher- he's impersonating Liv.