Man That's Messed Up

So this is the son of a Christian Commitee they find dead in the beginning, head bashed in

Yes, Cassidy, I'm sure your insurance papers are longer than the last book you read

CRINGE at Munch Joking with Olivia about dads

Elliot: Let's not

Elliot is gonna clarify real quick why we don't play about Olivia's dad. By episode 11 she broke that down to him (or maybe Cragen to protect her). He already knows her so well when it's been maybe a year tops of them being partners.

Omg at Munch and Cassidy hassling this gay couple

Got a bad feeling about this handy couple

Awwww Munch saying he's sorry in his own way

They don't play about her as they shouldn't

They sent this poor guy to conversion camp because his family was that kind of Christian

"I AM NOT A HOMOSEXUAL,"

"Okay?"

LMFAO Munch

Not this pretty boy cop was getting down at the gay party, Liv and El gotta blow up his spot real quick

Joe Bandolini on surrendering his camcorder video of the party for evidence:

He ends up convinced by their earnest plea

Aw Munch trying to find evidence for Olivia's mom's rape.

Oh Mr. Bandolini called GOAL or Gay Officers Action League citing harassment so it's Still A No From Him Dawg.

Did.... Did Mr. Bandolini do it???? lmfao LIKE

Olivia when Munch turns up with info on her mom's rape:

Elliot fake putting Munch in an arm bar to make sure his words about not bothering his partner were heard. Sigh, it's only episode 11

This guy raped 7 women and got out in 15 instead of 25.

What did I tell you about the fixer upper couple?

"There is nothing but bad blood in that family."

Ugh Olivia, maybe listening to your mom's police call isn't such a good idea.

They really start with this in the beginning and make you feel like we might get.... Closure on who attacked her mother and was in fact her father.

God, these guys remind me of Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer or something

Just impossibly evil

Uh oh, it wasn't Ray but the weird handyman who was acting very nonchalant

"At his trial in '84 they had Ray dead to rights, so he made a sympathy play."

"Sympathy for a serial rapist, right. What'd he say? Women just don't understand me?"

Olivia is having a tougher time with this case and nature vs. nurture. If a family can just have a bad seed what was she, as the product of a rape?

Mr. Bandolini pls

Cragen came down himself to convince him to let them use his tape

He was sure living his best secret life recording a party lol

So the tape had evidence to move the case forward lmfao and both Gunther brothers have been found on it

So jailbird brother bullied and set up his clean brother and Seth was just collateral damage. They want Ray too dammit! Bad blood. One bad apple caused so much pain and damage, and to his own family

Oh Abbie gonna make sure the worse brother gets more time, I know that's right

Another hall of famer, our first two-parter

Really good cold open with Harper. Smoke that cigarette,girl

ICONIC OLIVIA AND BRIAN IN BED SCENE wndjkfewgrhijke;afl now EYE need the cigarette

omg she drove him crazy for like.... 11 or 12 years when they link back up. Just insane. And the way Elliot can just smell it on them.... cinema

"It's not nice to meet you."

Poor Harper, she is so right.

They really go in depth to the clinical, cold, and difficult nature of a rape kit, unlike a lot of other episodes. It's a lot to go through on top of the assault.

Harper is tough, though; she gets a tough break in this episode

Her description of what happened is horrific. She was not this guy's first rape

Olivia looks like when she finds him she's gonna shoot him

And of course this guy takes trophies & stole her gorgeous sounding ring

This antifeminist took her rosie the riveter shirt when I catch him

Brian chooses when Olivia finally lets him hit to start discrediting a victim.... game Brian, get some

No evidence and Harper of course smokes weed, she's gonna sense them losing faith in her testimony in a heartbeat

omg the looky lou. This guy can see into Harper's apartment and saw all of this go down

"What'd you see?"

"Don't I need a lawyer.... Or?"

"What? For being a Peeping Tom? No, just a good shrink."

lmfao omg I think he should need a lawyer but they need all the witnesses they can get right now

This motherfucker could see the guy pull up her gown and that she didn't wear underwear

I think they should arrest him too but that's just me

"What are you going to do to me?"

"The same thing you did for her."

He unfortunately probably won't make a great witness, huh?

The guy who stole her credit card and bought $500 worth of meats was unfortunately not the doer

"My questioning you, my questioning Harper... That-that was just the job. It wasn't personal."

"And you know what, neither was last night."

Chile....... Olivia is gonna set Brian straight one way or another

Oooooooh Elliot has been waiting for a chance to ask Olivia about Brian

"How long have you been having sex with Cassidy?"

"Uhhhhhh I'm not,"

LMFAO

"Is is that obvious?"

Elliot:

He tells her to just keep being nice to him LMFAO just kill him with kindness, like that wouldn't drive the boy crazy

We get a 'six months' later in this episode!!!!!

"No. It's a personal policy. You don't fall in love with people you work with, no matter how great the sex was."

"So now you're in love?"

"I don't know; if I'm lucky, yeah."

"You'll be bored out of your mind."

"I'll still have my job."

"Yeah, well whoever you marry-"

"If I get married-"

"Whatever, you will. As long as you have this job, your marriage will be an affair."

He really, really, really didn't have to drag her like that omg great advice Elliot

Finally, some good food. A guy B&E with a mask but got big dogged by a woman with a gun. Go you, lady! He did use a curling iron as a "weapon" to get the rapes off.

This guy is rich and lives better than most people, breaking in and raping women. What a jackass

He just has an answer for everything

Omg this perp trying to be a financial advisor for Munch because he can smell the jew on him

Harper never shed a tear and she chopped her hair. Brutal.

Convincing her to try and cooperate with the investigation is not going to be easy

And whose idea was it to bring Cassidy again lmfao

Harper has had enough of all of this

"Is that going to change anything for me? Is that supposed to give me some sort of closure? Because I've already made peace with what happened to me. I already did the one-on-one therapy, the yoga.... I cut my hair, I lit a candle, and guess what? I'm over it!!!!"

"I don't know, maybe he's not the guy who did her."

Brian, mouth insert foot

"Did me? The guy who did me? He raped me, you ass!"

Olivia: "Then why don't you do something about it!"

"I did everything that I was supposed to do!"

"And you are obviously not fine."

"Who are you to tell me that I'm not fine?"

"Because closure is a myth! I've heard survivors-"

"That survivor stuff is crap!"

"I've heard them say this is something that you never get over."

"I have."

"You think you're back to normal? Then tell me, when was the last time you slept in your bed without wearing running shoes? The truth is, everybody changes every day. And some things are more devastating than others. But we never are the same. And there are two ways to deal with these changes, you either accept them or you fight like hell all the way."

Great scene, showing how persuasive and connected Olivia is even in season 1. She has her resolve back but she can't identify the voice, it's much harder than one could imagine.

But they got her ring back.

Hard episode, tough ending because this motherfucker deserves it

I need a hug from Mariska Hargitay too after this one

What a corpse in the cold open

B squad thought this was a suicide with a regular porn shop in her room, yeah right guys you were probably ogling her boobies and coochie. Took her robe off and everything

"Where do they get these people" lol exactly Cragen

Moms kind of ignored the piercings and cuts, figured making a fuss was what she wanted

Layla was a real hot girl financial analyst

Oh mom cleaned the crime scene to make it modest

She was dressed like Patrick at the end of the first Spongebob movie omg

Ah the diamonds in the flogger. Getting beat with new money. Now Liv and Elliot can see why she ended up strung up, thousands and millions in diamonds

"Terminal sex" ok Munch lmfao

All Due Restraint sex shop

OF COURSE they send Munch and Cassidy to the sex store

God Sho Ling Fu is such a smoke, can't find an in ep picture of her but whoa

So boss man gave her his card to to by thousands of dollars worth of sex clothes/toys and he's acting like that's not a big deal to the case

"There's a fine line between tolerating sexual behavior and encouraging it."

Right, right

Damn, of 18 million less than a million goes to the actual charity. Probably how diamonds ended up in a flogger.

This lady was living a wiiiiiiild life

Of course the guy who waved off having a sexual relationship was seen in a sex club with Layla

and he hurt one of the madam lady's girls ho ho ho they can't wait to talk to her

"If I tell you, do you promise to give him the punishment he so richly deserves?"

"Sure, that's what we hope to do."

"Good boy."

Period

This motherfucker is sick he choked the girl out with his belt even though she doesn't do that

Martin was cool as a cucumber until he shredded all of his files into a waist high pile

Everyone wants to nail this guy

Getting Munch to play the diamond guy omg

"You've never heard of John DeMunch?"

"Last chance to talk."

"Okay. Your coffee sucks."

You tell 'em Sho Ling.

Lmao at Kelp sitting in his chair dead who tf did that

Of course Martin had the idea to change her name to Sho Ling Fu from Angela I knew it

LMAO at Elliot and Olivia playing Martin. Stabler Show confirms he does have two brothers, one who could work in stocks and bonds

Ugh at them sharing food they are so spiritually married

God they worked the redhead over bad

Martin picks the finest dimes to launder for him; that's one way to do it

"He said that he and his homeboy Tucker used to tie farm girls to trees and then sit in the woods just laughing... Getting off on watching them struggle."

"Martin was from Tennesee too."

They did WHAT??????

I knew something was weird about Tucker. I knew it

"Hey, you don't have to get nasty."

"Nasty? Nasty is putting out your cigarette on your executive assistant's thigh. Nasty is cheating little old ladies from Tennessee out of their life savings. And choking the air out of Layla Briggs' windpipe then leaving her corpse for her mother to find? That's definitely nasty."

PERIOD OLIVIA

Ugh they two-manned her and Tucker is the one who choked the life out of her.

LOL AT CASSIDY THROWING HIS CHAIR SO TUCKER CAN'T SIT DOWN

Yeah JEFFRIES GET HIM GET HIM

"I'm Detective Jeffries. I only came in to see the redneck under the facade of the New South. Now I'm kinda sorry I did. Oh, Martin rolled on him."

Really nice moment for my girl to have, finally

Better episode than I remembered. I like the finance crossover ones because you know they do heinous shit

You guessed it, another one of my favorites. Intense and gives Hargitay an episode to really shine (and show how close and connected she and Elliot are already).

Man this guy was a mean one

Now a boy and his grandpa discover the vic, a prosecutor named Karen Fitzgerald.

Not only that, but she was friendly with Olivia and the two had hung out outside of court

Man, someone did a number on her.

Miss thing took every case thrown at her and gave it a shot. Too many people could want her dead.

Perp was angry, though.

Damn he made her crawl in the dirt. What a sicko

LMAO at the bird watcher omg El and Olivia are saints to deal with him

"Is he in some kinda trouble?"

"Is selling money-pits a crime?"

Omg the donut guy

Insane he got a soap and sufuric acid bath

Guess he didn't do it

Richard White is such trash, I mean the perp in every episode is but really. The DA He viciously murdered let him plead out halfway!

Man Karen was a real hot girl

"Why did Louise Billings let him into that apartment. He controls. Somehow, he controls."

Oh yes Olivia is getting in his head. He's about to be in yours, girl

His demeanor is so uncomfortable omg he is chomping at the bit to get to Olivia. He hates women in control, and that's one thing she's gonna be.

Gagged us all with what he knows about her; this is before everyone had the internet readily available.

Sis he's stalking you too

Not that that scares Liv but

Colder than a witch's boob omg Cassidy. The French lead is dead in Canada somewhere, it's totally White.

My good sis is in business with a monster because he's paying her 3k a week for probably doing something.

This MFer kept a map of the park.

Awww Munch asking if Olivia's okay. Sweet moment. She's definitely in this dude's sights. He's already written down places Olivia frequents because he's true to this, not new to this. Given it's only been a couple days, he's pretty freakin' good at being a creep.

Elliot stopping by Olivia's apartment sjnhbeghndjsa

"I sure as hell wouldn't drive to Queens to save your ass."

"Yeah, you would."

Inject it in my veins

God, he went after the cooperating victim. This guy is addicted to shooting women he abused in the head

Yeah, the picture of his rape victim in the freezer is metaphysically evil. He literally fridged her

Love the Cragen daddy moment. You haven't been parented most of your life, I'll take care of that!

The roses are sickening, this guy is sick and obsessed with Olivia for putting him in his place

Sure hope his business partner has a protective detail watching her cause he got into his former victim's apartment and shot her

Oooooooh his mother is why he rapes and shoots women. Mommy issues

Blink your lights when you get inside. <3

Girl don't do it!!!! He wants to get her alone so bad he is risking suicide by cop to get at her

AND HER SQUAD WAS WAITING FOOL. PERIOD

Olivia better work those jeans to make him confess

Ugh he knows she was born from rape. WHERE DO YOU GET THIS INFORMATION

Like he is really, really sick. He Hates women and specifically these women and Olivia.

They can't kill him if he doesn't admit he used a gun to do it.

"I'm fixed on you. And until I'm dead, I'll always be in your head, just like your mother has somebody in her head. We're joined at the hip now, aren't we?"

And then he calls out Kathy and the kids. You just made the two wrong people angry with you, but it's over. White probably does life but they won't kill him. Brutal episode, I mean, he gets away with so much it feels like. But he was no match for Benson, great episode with a haunting ending. I don't feel vindicated; I feel icky with that one, like he can always have access to them.

Another iconic episode. The first run of this show was powerful and strong, I see how it's still going today.

Today, the vic is a little boy discovered by little boys. As usual, Stabler is going to have a hard time not identifying with this one.

The vic's dad is hella familiar, has played countless characters across Law and Orders I think

It's always tough when its a kid

He was looking for Pokémon cards at the comic book store alone at just 8 years old! Not my kid

"You ever think about having kids?"

"Why, I have you."

Munch and Cassidy are so funny they could've had their own show

And those girl scouts are running Brian, exactly queens

Omg "ThE tWo OlDeR kIdS" are like bad guys from the Power Rangers. Surprised the fart music doesn't play when they walk. More on them later.

"You know, I thought Men In Black sucked."

"Better than appropriating black culture for your own bad self. At least be original."

lmfao

Poor, poor Turbit......... The mob mentality in this episode is hard to watch.

El and Liv are not having him planning his bike rides through public parks and playing fields.

It does seem likely a past offender killed Ryan, I can't blame their suspicion, but an investigation should definitely go down differently.

Hard to watch him held down and blood forcibly taken

Ugh the parents are so broken

Stabler thinking Dickie wandered off, cinema

Just lying to the police lmfao.

"Turbitt? Playing cards? Never heard of 'em."

Jesus h Christ the justice system fails at every turn. I guess he seems likely, but I don't see it considering it took a drug-induced psychotic break to attack a little boy who came to his door. He's no hero, but he really is getting snowed like Chuck was.

He has a really cute moment with Olivia breaking down the etymology of names

His story is horrifying; it's just all around a bad situation

"Olivia.... Origin of the name: Greek. Four Syllables. Means Olive Tree."

Heya officers, I might've sorta lied about Turbitt leaving the bar...... Had to make sure his life was completely ruined

Now they want to commit him for a crime he was not only prosecuted for but did his time

"How can a man be found sane enough to stand trial, be convicted, and do his time and then upon release, be found insane and locked up again?"

"It's called civil commitment."

"And they need a test case."

Like even half agreeing Cragen sees it's fucked up to do and flies in the face of what justice really is

Dickie gagging Stabler by knowing the word pedophile kjnhdgvhjsn

"You're not very comfortable with the idea of a psychiatric review, are you?"

"I'm not comfortable with situational ethics."

"Someday DNA testing will take 10 seconds." Won't he do it Olivia you weren't wrong

Stabler at Parent's Day is cute

"What if your dad's the one that's hurting you, then what?"

"Then you tell Dickie, and he'll tell me."

Oh my god, the first court steps shooting. I knew something bad was going to happen, but I honestly forgot this is what. My guy didn't shoot the right suspect bro you are going to jail for real

Two Eye Witnesses That Gave Me The Heebie Jeebies Since They Ended Up On Screen

C'mon Brian, lets make up for your court debacles and break these teenage morons

And Munch for the other one.

"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."

\m/

Ugh the boys read the sex offender registry and just decided to do what was listed. Like WTF. This episode (as most of them) is about a real life case where two older boys lured a child home and brutally murdered them.

"The site was specific.... Very specific about what Mr. Turbitt had done. So specific it was like directions that were easy to follow."

So fucked up, and Turbitt is dead on top of it. How do you murder an innocent 8 year old and call him a loser?

At least they found who did it

You guessed it, another one of my favorites (noticing a pattern). There's nothing like classic SVU.

"Gimme a break."

"Oh what is that? Like, no means no or something?"

"Yes, exactly."

What's not clicking dude trying to hookup with girl

Legendary cold open body sighting, This Jane Doe's got no pannies on

Oh, Maureen...........

Of course he was just rummaging around downstairs looking for something to yell about

Love Olivia bossing the good ol' boys around because yes she's going to delegate.

"You want us to go through the trash?"

Yes as in you as in the lady just told you what to do

Damn she died right in front of her dorm. Brutal. Looks like someone clocked her on the head

Lol at the arguing about college sports (shorty was on the college basketball street team)

"Wow. Triple the limit. There was a time I yearned for a girl who could drink like that."

Cragen on a .27 alcohol level

omg they got Monique on "Severed Head Guy" in court slkmdefbhdkwms

Of course the school wants to investigate what happened, no you could use detectives on this one

"YOU'RE AS WELL KNOWN FOR SLAMMIN' DOWN THE BREWS AS YOU ARE SLAMMIN' DOWN HOOPS"

Cassidy can't wait to go in on "don't you mess with my home boys...." when they find him

"You know the way those people get. You know, street players. 'Don't you mess with my homies' and all that gangsta rap crap. Thinking they can get away with anything 'cause they're so bad."

"As opposed to suburban white boys who think they can get away with anything because of Daddy's money?'"

They make Chuck out to be Tupac when he's literally just black and good at basketball and literature

The hole in the fence was giving Candyman

Lol at the NBA jams music playing for the basketball scene

"So, when a white woman is killed you round up all the black men first, or do you ask a few white people some questions just to keep up appearances?"

Period.

Of course they gotta hold him

She started drinking a lot after being assaulted, many such cases

"You sure it wasn't "YO BITCH, YOU DROP A DIME ON ME AND I'M GONNA KILL YOU YO"

CASSIDY PLS

I love the banter between Munch and Chuck that leave Brian just clueless

One detective resonates with and understands the suspect and sort of cringes as he does his job sometimes. The other is Brian Cassidy

Rosseau did it. I'm sorry he is giving creepy, maybe its the French accent

LMFAO at Stabler snatching the basketball from the suspect

"A girl with a grudge can destroy a man whether he did something or not."

Oh campus security lied about Riley's whereabouts and now no one knows what he did, Jeanne is gone

"Suppose my parents had dealt with me like that?

"We wouldn't have had Maureen."

LMFAO omg Stabler an Kathy are cute, he is parenting from experience

omg Al Sharpton sighting

Poor Chuck. Talk about wrong place at the wrong time. Plus he has to talk to Cassidy

So what is going on with severed head case???????

"The defendant was killed while in custody, in the same manner as his victim?"

"Then.... This case is adjourned, because it is unnecessary."

W A T

Someone cut his head off in custody??????? The cops let that happen? Hello????????

Olivia is mugging Rosseau too. Exactly

Oh they got Momma Mosely now. This case is a dog. of a case but they really fuck him over for being honest, forthcoming, and cooperating.

Aaaaaaaah but Mr. French had been ogling Jeanne because of course he was. This guy was stalking and rearranging his schedule to follow her and the school did nothing because he's a tenured professor.

Of course this tenured professor has a bunch of allegations and marks in his file. Because of course

"What did they call it before the terms 'date rape' and 'sexual harassment'?"

"Boys will be boys?"

This mfer had Jeanne's whole schedule

Not he's hitting on Olivia because of course he is. Flowers of evil.

"It's kinda like a bad French Film Noir, isn't it?"

"C'mon miss, you're badgering my client."

"It's detective, not miss. And we're not in court, counselor. We're in my house. Why don't you save your lawyering for someone who gives a damn."

EXACTLY OLIVIA.

I'm so glad we get a shot like this in the beginning

She. Was. Already. Dead.

Abby: .............. "In the sense that??????"

This stalker watched this poor girl die, drunk off her ass from a rape and she fell off the stairs and just died. And he said "I'm gonna make use of her warmth somehow!"

He PUTS her in the garden and just....................... "Makes loves to her"

Abby looks like she's gonna take a police officer's gun and shoot him.

Rosseau's lawyer after hearing him plea to necrophilia

The priest: Have fun in hell fam, and take care of your legal fees cause we are not involved anymore

This motherfucker is going to get counseling and he needs way more than that.

Abby says "You're going to jail bro idc what I gotta do"

And Chuck is the only one who pays with suspension when he wanted Jeanne to get help for what she'd been through. I hate that ending, they gotta bend over backwards to put a sicko in jail meanwhile his future has been impacted in an unfixable way (because he's a gangsta rap ball player).

Frustrating episode, I know they wish they got to Jeanne sooner so they could work her case.

One of many University episodes, really shocked me the first time I saw it

This is a pretty histrionic episode lol one I remember seeing a lot in syndication. Shout out to the mom actress; she's very familiar and very good at playing a triggering mom role.

LOL at them not being able to tell she was the landlord by her reaction

"I am right here, don't talk to me like I am not here. This is my house."

Queen

My dude died with panties in his mouth, some men would call him lucky

Daughter's name is Virginia, where I live!

That was not a convincing no to the sleeping together miss land lady

So this guy was a travel writer who made mother and daughter obsessed with him, what a tough break I know he wanted to be somewhere else

Lol at the Tea lady wife making Munch and Cassidy tea, Cassidy looks so lost (as always). LMAO At them getting coffee after the tea

Olivia speaking Spanish sighting!!! AND ELLIOTT IS CHEESING WATCHING HER SPEAK IT

Olivia: *does nothing*

Elliot watching her:

Ahhhh Landlady is a drunk. 12 minutes in Elliott is already seeing his daughter plastered over Virginia's face.

Olivia immediately sees the daughter has the propensity to kill a man and stuff underwear down his throat but El is not seeing it yet. He sees a neglected girl, first of many such divides between them.

The panties do NOT look like Mom's lol.

"Virginia, detectives Munch and Cassidy are gonna take you home."

"Can I drive?"

"Since you're probably about as old as my partner, I don't see why not."

LMFAO

LMFAO Landlady chased all her male tenants away dfshgjhbkjlnkjahsjv. She see it she want it

"Leaving me cookies and milk" omg

In before Mrs. Hayes reminds Olivia of her mom (that's how she knows Virginia is capable of stuff El couldn't imagine, because her behavior pushes her there).

Omg imagine your waiter waiting on you while talking to detectives. This must happen everyday in Manhattan

"Loving someone who expected more out of life is a big responsibility."

Wow, an unexpected word Tom

Dang episode 5 and the Stablers are already tired of his work phone going off.

Now he sees Virginia in Maureen

No Wonder Mom's boyfriend is so philosophical; he is using his dead brother's identity to work with minors mnsdbhjnksa

God, this guy is a pedophile dating a woman with a feisty daughter and working in a teen department store

Something something justifying pedophilia

"What'd you do to her?"

"I never touched Ginny."

"VIRGINIA-"

Convicted pedophile is saying dead guy is a pedophile

"I saw the way he'd look at her, and I know that look."

Lmao at them piecing this guy up in interrogation

HE'S A CONVICTED PEDOPHILE HE CALLED HER GINNY

She is convincing but idk if I buy it daughter takes after mom

Elliot is making excuses and Olivia is nottttt having it

#Protectwomenchildrenanddaughterstiktok

30 minutes in they got a lot of work to do with three potential theories

"Tell me Virginia, does killing a man make you feel all grown up?"

Olivia is not taking Ginny's shit

Stabler spiraling about Maureen having a girlfriend after this case omg

"Is there anything that you just accept?"

"Yeah, compliments."

LMFAO Munch and Jeffries

WE INSINUATED SHE KILLED SCHILLER AND VIRGINIA TRIED TO KILL HERSELF

"This is all your fault. I just lost the most important thing in my life."

"Mrs. Hayes, Virginia is going to be just fine."

"I MEANT Thomas! You self-important bitch!"

kjnhbdgvftebhsajkmswhbgfy she said y'all chased away my good dick I'm finna sue

Iconic scene, I can't believe they call this back like 20 years later my god

"It was Schiller, he raped you?"

Virginia: No baby he was down bad for me and we made that good love

This lil girl remembers the exact date she had sex with this grown man omg

Stabler is trying to find a way to make Ginny a victim but Olivia is right, she is not one in any sense of the word

She wanted to leave her mother who dated a pedophile who was likely at least keeping tabs on Virginia to satisfy his urges. Elliot's dad routine makes her sing like a bird though, she did it because he was about to get the hell out of dodge from these crazy ladies

She killed him with a knee to his throat jesus christ

Olivia knew she did it and knew why, she'd never killed but her mother made her want to

"All I'm thinking is what is this guy gonna do to her? I made a mistake today. I didn't see it, Olivia saw it. I saw that girl like I saw my daughter. As a victim."

"You want to be the only man in her life."

DRAG HIM CRAGEN

Good episode, like the butting heads of our two main detectives because they come from two different worlds. Virginia grew up too fast because moms neglected her, tale as old as time.

Another one of my favorites, gives me chills every time

Early episodes had the perfect balance of Stabler's home life and how he struggled to balance it with his line of work. His daughter's classmate is pregnant and she doesn't even look old enough to be!!!!!

Poor Kathy is used to sleeping through his phone ringing

NHI sighting

No Humans Involved

What a dick, he says this standing over a dead body. Pros or not. And again with the dead coochie staring.

"Why sweat it? The Victim was just a useless piece of garbage."

"Kind of like a cop who ought to retire."

Period, exactly Olivia

So clearly someone is going after prostitutes and the departments aren't working well together because.... NHI. Thank god SVU gets this on their desk

The banter between Munch and Monique is so interesting knowing she probably left cause they beefed each other

The dolls love Stabler so bad cdghvabjsklksjah

Yeah, of course Ridley knows who they're talking about..............

Olivia and Monique rock climbing is cutie, it's nice to see them decompress and spend time as friends

LMAO at the defense trying to trip up Munch on the stand. He can do this all day he's talking about the historical implications of treatment for hysteria

Tracy's poor family, or perp was taking it out on working girls but he got it wrong

Olivia and Elliott realizing the girl was not NHI, a prostitute, but just out on the town and in the wrong place at the wrong time

"All I know is I'd never let my daughters go out dressed like that."

"Hey, I respect hookers, at least they earn their money up front. Unlike ex-wives who get you with that lucrative backend deal."

"So you're saying all women are whores?"

"Don't be ridiculous, I don't know all the women in the world."

Literally all of Munch and Jeffries banter is like this gsahvjhbkdjvlnkss

Munch is kind of a ummmmmmmmm misogynist sometimes

OITNB sighting! You're gonna see a lot of the girls over the course of the series

The sexual tension of Olivia and Stabler reenacting the attack

Ding ding ding!!!! It's a cop using forensic knowledge to get away with it

Another Lennie sighting!! He and Cragen trading war stories about going out

Lmao at Lennie saying D'Angelo's partner is the psycho cause he sank a 45 ft putt and doesn't smile

So this guy has been harrassing and attacking prostitutes and assaulted his wife and he's just allowed to be a cop

Lmao Olivia drag him for being a low level officer for 31 years. This guy was a ticking time bomb and no cooperation between precincts let countless women get brutally murdered.

A little investigation shows he was stringing them up like paper dolls just waiting to be discovered because his mom was a prostitute. Isn't this what psych evals are for???????

This motherfucker is just waiting for them to come and pick him up. Sick. Just staring at his work what a freak.

Oh but he doesn't claim Tracy, she didn't fit the profile

Stabler having to tell her dad they found a vicious prostitute murderer but not the murderer of his daughter

Imagine almost getting away with murder but getting caught because you didn't ditch your luxury shoes. I always think I'm conflating episodes but this is the real ending.

Liv and Elliott are just gang banging this wall street guy

HE'S WEARING THE SHOES AS THEY SPEAK.

What hubris, what a good ending to a phenomenal and disturbing episode that really got me the first time.

"I think I've got the AIDS again," LMFAO Mrs. Johnson pls what a funny cold open of a hypochondriac old lady

They worked over this little girl so bad, how do you beat someone so badly? This episode takes a foray into the world of modeling and all the craziness that comes with it.

Rollins really comes in later and is eating Monique's profiling nachos, they really remind me of each other.

Ahhhhh the Rape Man case. They sure love putting my girl in court; the shooting optics so far are notttttt good for the only brown female member of the gang. Like I said, criminally underutilized.

Stabler looking at this dad who let his 16 year old daughter roam the streets to model at 3am while he was home

Carlo Parisi looks wildly familiar, he has played a bad guy in other episodes definitely

"The Measuring Man"

I think the model assistant plays a cop on The Shield! Another show I need to rewatch

Elliot and Olivia when the measuring man tries to take her measurements

Briscoe and Green sighting!!!!!! Love these crossovers in the early episodes

Changing your 16 year old daughter's name for her modelling career to own the libs

Meanwhile Stabler's daughter is only eating yogurt ironically

The way Rape Man is like a manga sezrdfghjk

Go ahead and charge the father with accessory

Cassidy while Munch and the novelist shoot the shit

DR. O'CONNOR BEING IN ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY DESPITE PRESCRIBING SPEED TO TEENAGE MODELS

"Anorexia is a way that a girl can assert control in a chaotic world"

Olivette suggests acting immediately at signs of anorexia, so Stabler's just gonna eat good stuff around her until she caves naturally. What a dad

Cragen scheduling meetings with Narcotics just to keep rescheduling lmao king

Speaking of the SHIELD Narcotics comes in with low rent Vic Mackey fcgshvjbkjnfd

Jazmin with a 'Z' makes me itch idk why

Nothing like a photographer taking pictures of illicitly illegal acts lmao

My girl is giving Wesker with the sunglasses

The ol' razzle dazzle tell them they each rolled on the other

"You know who he was before I met him? CARL PARSLEY! He used to photograph stereos for electronics store ads."

DRAG HIM!!!

This guy owns a business with his ex-fiance who was viciously attacked and had her modeling career stolen from her via a milky eye, and he takes polaroids as proof. Talk about hubris

It was a WOMAN on SPEED who murdered those girls with a claw hammer and raped them with it to keep it secret. Fuck

And then the sunglasses back on. Cold blooded.

"But you can never turn back the clock, can you?"

Brutal episode

Onwards!!!

Cute banter in the bodega with Liv and cashier, I love those little slices of life

Unfortunately she happens across a crime scene, and the vic is in her night gown..... You know what this means.

"You with the Political Correctness Unit or what!" Sorry they are trying to find who murdered this woman, like if you've been a cop for 700 years and are jaded, just quit idk

Imagine happening across a crime scene, the vic is in a night gown, and staring at her coochie like question every man in that crowd for real, and all the cops who make fun of SVU. You wouldn't last a week

"I'll toss you, you skinny-ass geek"

GET 'EM MONIQUE

she was not playing with Munch/Belzer omg

Not the couple asking about the murdered lady's apartment asdfsghdfg

Never change New York

"I'm never home, I'm always with you"

clock it

Him STARING at her looking like a fashion spread getting into the car.... Control it Elliott. Control it.

This is episode TWO

Poor poor turtle. Poor some out for Dickie's turtle in the garbage disposal

I......I really miss my wigga......

Who put Cassidy on the stand fr like adsdkglfd they gave him a subway groper case and didn't prepare him for the terminology needed to testify

"fromage?"

Look what they did to my boy

"Still a lot of Jane Does on the books years later."

"Not on ours."

Period Cragen

Gretchen's therapist when they tell him she's dead

"I'm On YoUr SiDe DeTeCtIvE" take a drink when you hear this from the M.E from now on

Not the shrink was drinking with Gretchen before she ended up through a window mkfewjnek

"Hmmmm.... Gretchen? Never heard of her."

"You're a babe, and a stonecold fox. No this girl, this is some deep, deep well you'd fall into. What a waste."

Stabler oding on the relish for Olivia lmfao

Dallas Warner reminds me of Trevor from Fresh Prince lmfao

"Knew her? Does anybody ever really know anybody?"

God Elliott and Olivia hate him

Love this sassy waiter spilling their tea

"No, no, no, this is not a 60 minutes interview. This is a homicide investigation."

GET HIM STABLER

Oh, so Gretchen was Susan. And her therapist just left all this important information out of everything. My guy was picking his patient's brain, getting into why she was promiscuous, and banged for the road. Was her last bang. Dark-sided

Another Kathy sighting!

AND STABLER WEARS BRIEFS AFTER A LONG DAY

this is a Christopher Meloni stan account he is looking good first season, okay

"What funeral? I'm in New York to sign the papers, go to Saks, and... Take the next plane home."

Sister is cold-blooded. She said care? Where?

Dad on screen .5 seconds he did that shit your honor

Olivia is trying to get jurisdiction in Jersey cause this motherfucker has a little daughter.

"Hope? Hope isn't good enough, Elliott"

Can't believe Cragen's wife was in a plane crash. Makes him retiring engaged bittersweet

"She slept with every guy on the block just to get to that same place-- oblivion."

A word

Sissy on confronting her dad when she heard she has a little half sister

"Your little sweetie pie? Give daddy a taste of that sweet pie"

that's right guys get sister to break the dad!!!!

She came to gag him for real he said "trust fund" and she guffawed.

"Stick it up your ass."

Yeah sir, abusing your daughters is ancient history

She demolishes him, New Jersey is coming for you buddy.

Gretchen wrote her own obituary. Metal. They can't prosecute for her death but they can still ruin his life!!! And good on her for calling out all the men who used her hypersexuality to their advantage. Off with their heads!!!! She took her power back in death and her father really did kill her when he used her for sexual gratification.

Another really strong episode with great performances

Hello everyone, back to where it all started. I can't believe we're 27 seasons deep. I'm sure I'll be in a nursing home if I manage to finish this rewatch.

I don't know what it says about me that this is my comfort show lol, but it's been a while; I'm excited to start with fresh eyes. And now, for Payback.

You wouldn't know it, but this iconic episode is where Elliot and Olivia first meet, and their chemistry from here on out is off the chain. I've seen this episode a million times, but I really missed that at first.

TFW when you meet your soulmate in the rain (I just know Kathy felt a disturbance in the force at home).

Seriously by episode two they're already lovingly gazing, and by the end of this one they're covering up for each other with daddy Cragen.

Hello star-crossed lovers fans, I want to play a game........

I love how the vibe and feel of the first few episodes are Law & Order flavored, like a special edition bag of Doritos. Inject it in my veins.

Living for model bob Olivia, can't wait for Resident Evil Protag Short Cut that's coming

So is Elliiot lmfao

I mean really, this is a married man, folks

Living for the real Victor's mug and his sexual tension with Stabler

"Hey, you doing anything Saturday night? *kiss*"

"Oh, I'd hurt ya."

Christopher Meloni pls

Love love love the inconvenienced New Yorker trope that carried over from OG.

"Hey, someone was raped, dismembered, and scattered over the city. Have you seen-"

"Hold on, my food is in the window!!"

LMFAO at Olivia feeling for the vic at first. "The poor guy"

Just you wait, Liv

"Oh, it'll hurt ya...."

Ya Don't Get To Pick The Vics incoming

Damn, poor wife gootta mourn twice.... Your husband was mutilated and murdered horrendously and he also committed war sex crimes on a grand scale and deserved it

There's No Crying In Baseball

says the guy with 18 daughters

LMFAO at Munch punishing Cassidy with JFK conspiracies

Jeffries sighting! She was criminally underused and apparently their tension on screen was real, I don't think they liked each other irl and it's interesting to see. C'mon Richard (RIP)

The scene where Elliot breaks the news is so iconic asdfghjkl;lkjhgfdsdfghjk

YES GIRL, he raped 67 women they got you investigating the death of an ethnic cleanser instead of celebrating somewhere

Olivia to that wife for that second interview

she is literally screaming and crying and throwing up as they investigate the first survivor of ethnic genocide

"I just want you to know he's dead."

Olivia:

She really doesn't want to arrest whoever did this and I feel her, I wouldn't either

Elliot already trying to drop Olivia off places my brother in christ

also the lingering stare as he crosses the street.... What do y'all know about real yearners?

"I'm just gonna walk this off"

SIKE

She's still investigating. Booyah, Stabler soon enough you'll see it coming a mile away

13 minutes left and we finally see a glimpse of the mother of Stabler's child (and he scolds Liv on the phone like his daughter).

"Let's talk about it in the morning" poor Kathy they are married down she's sitting right there bro

"Oh I understand it, that does not mean I condone it."

Queen Serena Benson, I wish we saw a little more of her. She's going heavy on the wine but she is an eloquent, smart, and strong woman; it's hard to imagine her the falling down drunk she was

Olivia: "Murder? The victim who was raped 23 times both sexually and digitally? Nah, I don't think she did it she was home"

Stabler:

My girl Olivia should work for the defense this episode. And I don't blame her

These queens took care of BUSINESS and she has to stan them. They said not in my New York!

"How can you do this,"

Don't remind Olivia Stabler is in the doghouse for doing his job

My lady was a G, she'd rather bleed out than face justice for doling out justice. Pour some out for her (also Cassidy is literally traumatized by all of this)

I'ma miss this bitch and so will Olivia

Abby is like what y'all got going on over here in sex crimes we not going to trial

Elliot and Olivia when Cragen asks if they can live with 18 months in a psych facility for the remaining perp:

Maybe so, Cragen. Maybe so

"You just used your get out of jail free card"

and they both have like 5 million more

"I just want to be with my family."

Hard finishing line, RIP for doing the Lord's work; what a great pilot