Cage (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)
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| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode | |||||||
| Episode no. | Season 8 Episode 169 |
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| Written by | Patrick Harbinson | ||||||
| Directed by | David Platt | ||||||
| Guest stars | See Guest stars section below | ||||||
| Production no. | 08008[1] | ||||||
| Original airdate | November 21, 2006 | ||||||
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| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 8) | |||||||
Cage is an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It originally aired on November 21, 2006.[2]
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[edit] Episode recap
A van crashes into the river with two children (Eden and Marc) handcuffed to the seats. The children are rescued but the driver disappeared, and Eden will only talk to Beck while Marc won’t talk at all. Eden says that she has a sister named Rosemary and that she only met Marc the previous night before she points out her mother (Alma Cordoza) from a photo. She then asks Beck if she can live with her. Meanwhile, Munch and Fin track down the man that the van is registered to, and he says that he rented his van to Alma and that she handcuffed the kids to the seats; he merely went into the river and rescued the kids.
Huang tries to get Marc to talk, and Marc suddenly goes berserk and stabs Stabler in the chest with a pen. Cragen tells Beck, Munch and Fin to go to Alma’s house but only Munch and Fin arrive, and they find it deserted but with proof that several children had lived there, as well as an audiotape dated four days prior. Beck visits as Stabler briefly recovers in the ER and then she checks in on Eden; later, the head of the adoption agency that owns Alma’s house (Ignatius Petty) claims to not know Alma despite having a picture of her on his wall. He then refuses to break confidentiality by allowing the detectives to search the company’s records, but Beck arranges a phone tap, and the detectives catch him calling Alma. Alma admits to handcuffing Eden and Marc to the seats “for their own good” during interrogation; then O’Halloran puts pieces of the tape back together, and they hear a rebirth therapy session that goes wrong when the subject, a child named Rose, is apparently crushed before she asphyxiates on her own vomit.
Munch and Fin go back to Alma’s house and find Rose buried in the yard. Eden confirms this as being her sister Rosemary; then Alma confesses to the therapy session having taken place at Bud and Rita Gabler’s house under the instruction of psychiatrist Dr. Rieff. Dr. Rieff tells Stabler and Beck that he conducted a ten-minute therapy session over the phone and he thus wasn’t actually in the Gablers’ house; Eden later tells Munch that she got sent away to live with Alma for being bad while Rose stayed behind but had to live in the barn. Stabler and Beck search the barn and find a boy named Joe locked in a cage and then arrest the Gablers.
Other children from the Gabler home state that Joe did bad things but that the Gablers themselves never hurt them. Novak then informs detectives that the audiotape is inadmissible because it was edited and is thus prejudicial. She then puts Dr. Rieff on the stand during the Gablers’ trial, and he states that although Rose’s death was unjustified, the therapy session was justified because she was a violent child. Beck then asks Eden to testify, and Eden persuades her to let her live with Beck during the trial. In the middle of the night, Eden sets Beck’s house on fire in order to kill both of them so that they can be together; later, after Stabler reports that the Gablers received a sentence of up to two years, Beck tells him that she cannot continue working in SVU because she can’t deal with people like Eden. Stabler encourages her to stay but for her own benefit, not his. Beck then decides to leave the unit.
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[edit] Notes
- Mariska Hargitay does not appear in this episode. [5]
[edit] Quotes
Cragen: Dani doing okay?
Stabler: Yeah.
Cragen: See a future for her here in SVU?
Stabler: Sure.
Cragen: You want your old partner back.
Stabler: Since when was that up to me?
[edit] References
- ^ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Cage – TV.com. Retrieved July 13, 2007.
- ^ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Cage – TV.com. Retrieved July 13, 2007.
- ^ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Cage – TV.com. Retrieved July 13, 2007.
- ^ “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” Cage (2006). Retrieved July 13, 2007.
- ^ “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” Cage (2006). Retrieved July 13, 2007.
[edit] External links
- "Cage" at the Internet Movie Database
- "Cage" at TV.com
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