The youngest and least experienced member of the precinct, he has a genuine desire to put rapists and child molesters in prison, but lacked the professional detachment necessary to deal with the often grisly sex crimes. Paxton tells the SVU squad that she has been working to find Harding's missing sister for decades, as it was her case. He was briefly assigned to oversee SVU cases and to sit co-chair with A.D.A. Paxton and Stabler go at it again, with Stabler telling her to "go have a drink." Tamara Tunie Having worked undercover with the NYPD Vice Unit, she is called on by Benson to assist SVU in building a case against an influential media mogul. "My father was extremely dedicated to the community," she added. Later, while watching the boyfriend pick his alleged son up from school, he witnesses the man complete a drug deal using the boy. The Medical Examiner concludes the . After Benson blasts him for shaming the young girl on the stand, he tells her that she needs an escape and gives her his card, telling her to come by one of his daughter's softball games. He is serving a minimum of 25 years in Green Haven Correctional Facility, where Greg Yates is imprisoned. Rafael Barba about his findings. At the end of "Spring Awakening", Murphy tells Benson that he has been chosen for an undercover assignment and recommended to One Police Plaza that command of the SVU be returned to her. The next day, Rudnick finishes creating the hole and escapes his cell, bringing Yates with him. Law and Order SVU is currently the longest running drama on television. He is later arrested for Lena and Rachel's murders and pleads not guilty at his arraignment. The guy works for a hotel where they find out is the actual location of the bomb. He is an FBI agent, [clarification needed] who is originally loaned to Manhattan SVU, and later becomes their resident forensic psychiatrist and criminal profiler. He has brief SVU experience in other boroughs, including Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. (She was totally absent from Season 18). West next appeared in the third episode, "Behave", in which Benson works with to get justice for a rape victim named Vicki Sayers (Jennifer Love Hewitt), and to ensure that Bill Harris (James Le Gros), her rapist, is put away. After Season 12, she stepped back forrecurring and guest appearances. The series is in its 16th season and still continues to draw viewers to the NBC network. "WAIT I SCREAMED WHEN MELINDA SHOWED UP DR WARNER THE ONLY MEDICAL EXAMINER EVER I HAVEN'T SEEN HER IN FOREVER MY FAVORITE SVU CHARACTER," tweeted one viewer. 5.0 / 5.0. As it turns out, Tamara Tunie spent a significant amount of time around dead bodies, just like her fictional counterpart. Dann Florek first played Donald Cragen in 1990 on "Law and Order" as a captain of the homicide unit. Benson and Amaro begin to ask Lewis pressing questions about the nature of Lewis' relationship with the victim and her boyfriend at the time. Lake disappears while his fellow detectives investigate. After Cragen's retirement, she becomes acting commanding officer of SVU until she is subsequently promoted to lieutenant in season 17 and officially takes command of the unit. The stand-up legend and 'Groove Tube' actor played Det. She invites him to lunch with Noah, but is enraged when he does not show up and leaves him an enraged voice mail. However, much of the . She can be unrelenting, threatening to charge a defendant with a hate crime for raping two women in the season 10 premiere, and having a teenage boy charged with assaulting a police officer so he can be tested for HIV. A patrol car pulls up, and two officers draw their weapons, as Cassidy identifies himself as police. Richard Belzer, best known for playing John Munch on Homicide: Life on the Street and Law & Order: SVU, has died at the age of 78. In talking the mother down, Marlowe says she knows what it is like to be in pain as she reveals that she was diagnosed with an "aggressive" type of cancer and had a bilateral radical mastectomy a year before taking the job at SVU. He goes away to prison but before the trial ends, he bribes a juror to use drugged baked goods for them to make him sick and have a way to make a jailbreak. John Munch on 'Homicide: Life on the Street,' 'Law and Order . West first appears in the second episode, where she is the prosecutor on a case where a pedophile is kidnapping and raping young girls. Barba manages to convince the judge that the evidence is admissible because Rudnick's statements were spontaneous and unprovoked, and that the video was sent to the defense team, but they didn't see it. A dogged prosecutor, she pushed the detectives to make cases for the sake of politics in favor of pursuing actual offenders. West manages to get Mazelon to allocute, which he did falsely, but Stabler wished for West to call for a recess. Dr. Huang was last seen in a main role during the season 12 episode "Bombshell" in which he helps Benson and Stabler get information out of a homeless man. After a shooting that kills her manager with Bryant as a suspect, Barba and Benson convince Green to testify to the grand jury. Unlike his older, more seasoned colleagues, he has difficulty keeping his emotions in check when confronted by the horrific crimes he sees. Neal Baer stated that the character also gave him an opportunity to introduce a conflict between Benson and Stabler and said "Stabler hasn't always felt warmly toward psychiatry, but he does warm up to this characterwho has been both a cop and a shrink."[52]. Latest Law & Order: Special Victims Unit News and Updates. In "Return of the Prodigal Son," she is approaching a rental car she intends to drive when a bomb goes off and she is caught in the blast radius. Barry Moredock, a judge, originally appeared as a defense attorney in the episode "Appearances", on a case in which a child pornography maker is put on trial for giving instructions on how to kill via a story on his company's website. She is tough, empathetic,[2] and completely dedicated to her job, to the point that she is sometimes seen as having little personal life. Dr. Warner is a NYC medical examiner who is one of SVU's biggest allies. During a heated exchange with Amaro, he pointedly asks her whether she can ever forgive Lewis; she does not answer and he apologizes. However, he soon realizes they suspect him, invokes his right to counsel, and calls his attorney, Rita Calhoun. [2] Benson uncovers a suspect who may be valuable as a witness. The season will be produced by Wolf Entertainment and Universal Television; the new showrunner is David Graziano replacing Warren Leight. Gerard shoots Dr. Warner and Benson and Marlowe must take action to save her life. Soon afterward, Rudnick sees Yates being transferred into the honor block. The scene between Loni's parents and the missing girl's at the . Her character as Rodgers was a smart yet somewhat mean examiner who allowed detectives to "do their own examinations" and guess wisely based on the . The kid was all set to take the rap--a plan they hatched on the incorrect belief that the kid couldn't go to jail for it--but he was charged as an adult and headed for a long prison term, when the . A genuinely talented and driven police detective, he makes a real effort to learn from the other members of the precinct, particularly Munch, whom he thinks of as a sort of older brother/mentor figure. Cutter's office does not drop the charges, even when the producer's son takes his father's girlfriend and her daughter hostage and demands that his father be set free. He also used to compete as an amateur mixed martial artist under the name "Naptime", but had to quit after tearing his ACL. Tunie has talked quite a bit about her unique upbringing; as the daughter of two morticians living in a funeral parlor, her life was anything but ordinary. She tells Benson, who is clearly shocked and distraught, that she is so sorry. [1] She is later seen back on the job; when Stabler and Benson question her ruling a death as a homicide, she says, "I was shot in the lung, not the head. She is serving in the armed forces and stationed in Iraq. In "Penetration", Hardwicke convicts a man who raped FBI Agent Dana Lewis (Marcia Gay Harden) while she was undercover, on orders from Brian Ackerman (J. C. MacKenzie), the leader of a white supremacist group who is angry at Lewis for killing his son Kyle in the season 7 episode "Raw". Initially, Amaro did not see eye to eye with his new partner, Detective Benson, mainly because she was adjusting to having him as a partner instead of Elliot Stabler. In 2002, he dated a Swiss exchange student named Lena Grunwald, and . He originally serves as Detective Amaro's temporary replacement when Amaro is reassigned to Queens. Leslie Hendrix is an American actress. Velasco takes drastic action to get information from a witness. As a result, he resigned so he wouldn't be fired. However, Ethan rapes her for real in her room after she invited him over to apologize. Paxton works in the Manhattan District Attorney's office under the authority of Jack McCoy (Sam Waterston; Law & Order), as an Executive Assistant District Attorney. Sergeant Mike Dodds is introduced in the season 17 episode, "Maternal Instincts", as the son of Deputy Chief William Dodds (Peter Gallagher), who transfers to the 16th Precinct to serve as Lieutenant Benson's second-in-command. Marlowe responds it was a "Command decision." He cuts her body apart and dumps it in the river, then drives to the Canadian border dressed in women's clothing. He separates from his wife Kathy during seasons 7 and 8, but they reconcile after she becomes pregnant with their fifth child. Meanwhile, Fin teaches a rookie a lesson in respecting fellow officers. Murphy is a by-the-book CO, often checking behind the detectives' backs that they are apprehending suspects correctly, and he often uses his undercover expertise to lead the direction of investigations. Benson convinces Porter to help her search for the girl even though Porter was aggravated with Benson and her obsession on finding the girl. She also had a recurring role on Law & Order and Law & Order: Criminal Intent and appeared in one episode of Law & Order: Trial by Jury and Exiled: A Law & Order Movie. With the help of the now-retired Captain Cragen, Ellis is able to vacate the original charge against his client for raping his daughter decades earlier. She initially appears for three episodes in the series' sixth season, to replace series regular BD Wong while he was performing in Broadway's Pacific Overtures. Moredock orders Benson to come with a breathalyzer, which reveals her blood alcohol level is .082, resulting in a mistrial. Did 'SVU' Make a Huge Continuity Error in Season 21? He concludes from Timmer's injuries that Selena surprised him and slit his throat. She is best known for playing the role of medical examiner Elizabeth Rodgers on four Law & Order series (Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order: Trial by Jury). When Rollins tells him that they found his car, he sarcastically tells them they deserve a gold star. In "Sunk Cost Fallacy", while driving a victim, Jules Hunter (Sarah Wilson), to her house, Carisi's car is hit by a car ignoring a stop sign; the driver flees the scene, with the car being reported as stolen two days prior. Barba manages to convict Lewis of kidnapping, unaware that Benson gave perjured testimony. Though he is liked and respected by the SVU detectives and they generally defer to his professional judgment, his diagnoses sometimes hinder prosecutions, particularly where he finds mental illness, making defendants either not fully responsible for their crimes, or not fit to stand trial. Initially, she is only seen at headquarters, doing research and showing up in court for various cases to represent the department. Donnelly is elevated to judge in season 7. Carisi helps Mia move out of her dorm and tells her that she was not at fault for what happened to her. Stabler reluctantly says he cannot make that decision for her, so she decides it would be best to return to her old post at the Warrants squad. Black and Nerdy: He is a medical examiner. Barba offers to spare James' office further embarrassment as long as the investigator is convicted for the murder in Suffolk County. As Benson tries to help a pop star in a volatile relationship, Rollins struggles with taking the stress of work home with her. She is well liked by the SVU squad, though briefly argues with Stabler when he accuses her of botching a DNA test on Benson, expected to absolve her of a homicide, before she discovered the DNA was intentionally doctored to make Benson look guilty. [3][4] A former undercover narcotics detective, Tutuola replaced Monique Jeffries after she left the squad in 2000. However, he doesn't express any worry about it and says he could handle himself like he always did. She is best known for playing the role of medical examiner Elizabeth Rodgers on four Law & Order series (Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order: Trial by Jury). Actress Mary Mara is dead after an apparent drowning on Sunday, June 26. Benson, along with Cassidy's former SVU partner Sergeant Munch, meets with him on two different occasions to get information on the escort war. She is an actress, known for Law & Order (1990), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001) and Gotham (2014). Immediately prior to his transfer, Dodds worked Anti-Crime, and before that, he worked out of the 71st Precinct. Melinda Warner Cassidy agrees to help them as long as they don't blow his cover. With Jeff Goldblum, Julianne Nicholson, Eric Bogosian, Dylan Baker. In the fifth episode, it is revealed that Carisi has permanently joined the Manhattan SVU team. [43] She first appears in the 21st episode of the season, "Torch", in which McCoy directs her to handle a case in which two young girls were killed in a fire. When she asked what was going on, Detective Tutuola discreetly warned Warner to be careful of Rudnick as Benson couldn't tell Warner much due to the open investigation. In "Spiraling Down", Amaro video chats with her about the father of a victim in one of his cases, who served overseas with her. He subsequently accepted a position at the District Attorney's office as an investigator. Benson enlists attorney Bayard Ellis to act as Simon's lawyer, but she is shocked when Captain Cragen alerts her that Simon has kidnapped the children from foster care. Porter has not been seen since. In "True Believers", Cutter takes the lead in a case where a college music student (Sofia Vassilieva) is raped at gunpoint by a drug dealer. While some fans were worried about Dr. Warner's return because of her shooting, she emerged from the morgue in the last scene and told her assistants to back off as she was not dead yet. Rudnick then strikes up a friendly conversation with Sonny, warning him to stay away from bacon due to its recently discovered issues towards health before Sonny leaves. West never gets the chance to convict anyone, however, the victim's daughter kills all three defendants in the SVU squad room, before Stabler is forced to shoot her dead. However, due to video evidence, the results are unconfirmed. He was raised in Harlem and he served in the United States Army, where he saw combat in Mogadishu. In season 17, he names his son, Mike (Andy Karl), Manhattan SVU's new sergeant, and is devastated by his death in a domestic violence dispute between a corrupt corrections officer (Brad Garrett) and his wife. In the season 14 episode, "Secrets Exhumed", Agent Lewis returns to partner with SVU when she believes that a Manhattan cold case is connected to several rape-homicides across the country. Marsden was being looked at by River Park, NJ police on suspicion of rape. Quante Donnell Wilder killed after shooting at Gatsby's Pub on Burke Street in Winston-Salem. She was primarily partnered with Elliot Stabler, until he retired after season 12. After they finally find Marsden holding the River Park Police Captain hostage, it is discovered that the Captain is setting Marsden up, and Porter decides to drop charges the FBI had against Marsden. At the end of the episode, after the real rapist has been caught and the wrongfully imprisoned man released, Cragen informs Benson that the District Attorney has decided to form a Conviction Integrity Unit to investigate past cases and ensure no one is wrongfully imprisoned. 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