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Confrontation is an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It originally aired on October 17, 2006.[2]
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A woman named Elizabeth Hassenback is raped twice by the same man. After the man leaves her apartment, she calls Stabler as she follows him with a baton (against Stabler’s advice). Stabler calls Beck for backup, but she is visiting someone at Attica. Stabler then finds Elizabeth dead; later, he tells the squad how Elizabeth had detailed what happened to her: the rapist made her urinate into a cup (she didn’t see what he did with the urine) and then after the rape, he scrubbed her raw in the bathtub.
After Beck reveals that she went to Attica to see the dead body of one of her husband Mike’s killers, they find another rape victim (Gina Maylor) who has the same story as Elizabeth’s, and Gina additionally states that the rapist stayed at her house for two days and after she urinated into a cup, he took the cup with him. She then says that when she reported the second rape, the detective didn’t believe her because “rapists don’t strike the same victim twice”; she thus didn’t report when she was raped a third time. Beck then coordinates a calendar that notes that the numerous rapes of each woman (five women total) are 17 to 23 days apart, but the last woman (Megan Carlisle, who is pregnant) appears to only have been raped once. When Stabler and Beck go to her apartment and ask her about it, her husband Barry is insulted at the implication that she would hide a second rape and kicks them out.
After it is determined that Gina’s rapes were only ten days apart, Huang suggests that the rapist’s timeline is based on the women’s menstrual cycles. Munch and Fin then report that the apartment buildings where each of the women live are owned by the same company; they then go to the company and meet office manager Luke Dixon, who states that the apartments are overseen by property manager Ted Wilmington, who is then alibied. Stabler and Beck re-research the timeline and realize that Gina should be raped again soon, so they talk her into keeping her at a safe house with a decoy in her place. Meanwhile, Munch discovers that Luke Dixon used to be a biochemist but got fired for sexual misconduct, and that he has access to master keys in all the buildings where the rapes took place. Munch and Fin search his apartment and find ovulation kits as well as calendars detailing different women’s menstrual cycles.
Beck sees the rapist (who turns out to be Dixon) following the decoy, and she tries to arrest him before he tries to attack her with a knife. She then brutalizes him before Stabler and Cragen break it up; then Novak starts to disbelieve Beck’s side of the story because of her history of excessive force. Dixon is placed in a lineup, and Gina is nervous about it because she doesn’t want to talk about the rapes at a trial. Gina then identifies Dixon but Megan doesn’t, and on the day of the trial, Stabler and Beck find Gina dead in her bathtub after having slit her wrists. They then convince Novak that Megan is lying about Dixon not being her rapist in order to keep her baby, and Megan is then arrested for obstruction and perjury only to have the indictment thrown out.
Beck then convinces Megan to take a test to obtain her amniotic fluid, and the test reveals that Dixon is her baby’s father, not Barry. After Dixon pleads out, Stabler tries to convince Barry to forgive Megan for not telling him about the additional rapes, but Barry has a hard time doing so. Beck then takes Stabler back to Attica to visit Mike’s killer that is still alive, and she forgives him by showing him photos as examples of how much Mike’s life meant to her.
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- Marin Ireland as Gina Maylor
- Patricia Kalember as Judge Taten
- Caren Browning as Judith Siper
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- John Michael Bolger as Detective Geiger
- Eleanor Hutchins as Elizabeth Hassenback
- Mariette Hartley as Attorney Lorna Scarry
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- Tug Coker as Ted Wilmington
- Jon Budinoff as Tracy Monroe
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- J. Paul Nicholas as Attorney Linden Delroy
- Mark Smaltz as Steven Felder
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- Jessi Campbell as Officer Randa Lewis
- Steve Greenstein as Maintenance man
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