Alien (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)
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| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode | |||||||
| Episode no. | Season 7 Episode 149 |
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| Written by | Jose Molina | ||||||
| Directed by | Constantine Makris | ||||||
| Guest stars | See Guest stars section below | ||||||
| Production no. | 07011[1] | ||||||
| Original airdate | December 6, 2005 | ||||||
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| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 7) | |||||||
Alien is an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It originally aired on December 6, 2005.[1] Tamara Tunie does not appear in this episode. [2]
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12-year-old Sean Hamill gets dumped out of a moving car near an emergency room with a stab wound to his back. When Benson and Stabler interview him, his parents state that a bully (Charlie Monaghan) had been bothering him; then Sean discovers that the stabbing was so severe that he’ll never walk again. The detectives then go to Sean and Charlie’s (Catholic) school because the hospital surveillance camera shows that the car belongs to Father Justin. He is alibied but he says that parishioners often borrow his car.
During interrogation, Charlie admits to having beaten Sean up before but that he hasn’t been near him lately, and he says that during the time of the stabbing, he was walking his half-sister Emma home. Emma (who is at her grandparents (Deb and Oliver)’ house due to her mother (Kate) being hospitalized with lupus) confirms this; later, Munch and Fin search the school’s art room and find the scissors that Sean was stabbed with. Vizcarrondo then shows camera footage of Charlie without Emma at the time of the stabbing, and Benson and Stabler try to get Charlie to confess until evidence shows that the fingerprints on the scissors belong to Emma.
Principal Parker informs the detectives that Kate enrolled Emma and listed herself as a single parent, but that Emma’s other parent is a woman (Zoe); and several other parents wanted the school to expel Emma but they didn’t because Kate and Zoe threatened a lawsuit. Emma still denies having hurt Sean; then, Father Justin states that Emma called him all the time after Sean started bothering her, and that Sean used the scissors to cut off Emma’s ponytail before Emma stabbed him. Sean’s parents demand that Emma be arrested, and Emma finally confesses to stabbing Sean because he kept picking on her. Benson and Stabler tell Zoe to bring Emma to the precinct the next morning to be arrested, but Zoe arrives later that night with Kressler, who has Emma’s confession suppressed because her parent wasn’t present; Zoe never officially adopted her.
Benson and Stabler arrest Emma anyway due to ADA Garrett Gillespie’s insistence; afterwards, Emma’s grandparents’ attorney (James Decker) suggests that Zoe is to blame because she “forced her lifestyle on Emma and Kate”. In family court, Zoe tries to get Emma restricted to her house, but the judge rejects this because Zoe didn’t adopt her and she is then sent to her grandparents’ house. Father Justin then tells Benson to check the school computer’s IMs for proof of Sean torturing Emma; Benson shows this proof to Gillespie and then Emma is returned to Zoe. Decker then tells detectives that Zoe has been molesting Emma and he shows nude photos as proof; Zoe’s house is searched and then additional photos are found just before Zoe and Emma arrive back home with the news that Kate has died.
Stabler goes over the photos, including one where Zoe is massaging Emma’s thighs, and Zoe accuses Stabler of saying she is molesting Emma because she’s gay before Stabler states that Emma said that Zoe molested her. Emma tells Benson and Huang that the molestation felt like a sin and that her grandmother said that Zoe would go to Hell; Huang disbelieves that Emma was molested and attributes her explanation to Parental Alienation Syndrome. Novak further denotes Deb and Oliver’s actions as being a hate crime, and they are arrested. During Zoe’s trial, Deb says that she read studies noting that homosexuals shouldn’t be parents because they often molest their children, and that Decker gave her the studies. She then says that Decker instructed Oliver and her to be forceful with Emma in order for her to admit to the molestation; these manipulation tactics lead to a mistrial. Later, Deb and Oliver decide to testify against Decker and Novak suggests that Zoe forgive them, but she doesn’t.
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[edit] Goofs
- There are several closed-captioning errors in this episode:
[edit] Quotes
Vizcarrondo: Found these scissors in the school dumpster.
Fin: She means I found them, underneath the tuna casserole. All she did was stand there and point.
Stabler: Emma would’ve been much better off if Zoe had just gone along with Kate’s lie to the school.
Benson: You think Zoe should stay in the closet just to make a bunch of homophobes happy?
Stabler: You don’t send your kid to military school if you’re a pacifist. Not without expecting some friction.
Benson: So you agree with the school.
Stabler: I’m just saying it’s complicated. Being Catholic means believing in certain things.
Novak: James Decker took advantage of [Deb and Oliver]; the same way he took advantage of Emma. I know it would be hard to forgive them.
Zoe: It’s not gonna happen.
Deb: Zoe, please. She’s my granddaughter.
Zoe: And she’s my daughter. You turned my baby against me. You convinced her I was a child molester. How could I ever trust you again?
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- "Alien" at the Internet Movie Database
- "Alien" at TV.com
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