Debt (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)
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| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode | |||||||
| Episode no. | Season 6 Episode 118 |
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| Written by | Amanda Green | ||||||
| Directed by | David Platt | ||||||
| Guest stars | See Guest stars section below | ||||||
| Production no. | E5203[1] | ||||||
| Original airdate | September 28, 2004 | ||||||
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Debt is an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It originally aired on September 28, 2004.[2]
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[edit] Episode recap
A young, non-English-speaking Chinese girl named Hannah is found sitting in a closet with her crying infant sister Susie, and it is discovered that their mother (Jiao) has been missing for at least a week. Benson and Stabler find out from a neighbor that Jiao met up with a man (Howard Kendall) via a dating service (in lieu of getting a green card), and Kendall says that they were going to get married but she called it off; later she was supposed to have picked up her purse at his office (which he still has). The detectivess trace the purse to the sweatshop where Jiao works, and an employee leads them to her sister Li Mei.
Li Mei talks to Hannah and translates to Benson and Stabler that Jiao didn’t tell the girls where she was going, but Huang confirms that Hannah really said that Jiao went to get money for her fifteen-year-old daughter Ping; Li Mei refuses to go into detail because then Jiao and Ping will be killed. She later tells Stabler that Jiao was brought to the US from China with her husband, but that they couldn’t afford to bring Ping, so smugglers charged them $50,000 to send Ping to America later; but Jiao couldn’t afford to repay them because her husband left with all their money. Huang then suggests that the smugglers killed Ping and are holding Jiao hostage in Chinatown; against Huang’s advice, Stabler convinces Cragen to let Jiao and him go there and let her do the questioning. Later, Benson and Stabler learn that Ping had been placed in detention but was bailed out by a Willie Chan. After talking to her lawyer (Roger Baker), the detectives tell Li Mei to be present for family court the next morning, but after she doesn’t show up, her supervisor tells Stabler that a young guy named Tommy demanded money from her and then left with her. Stabler then finds her in an alley, Tommy having brutally attacked her.
Li Mei tells Stabler that Tommy told her that Jiao is dead, and that she and her nieces will be dead also if she doesn’t pay off Jiao's debt. After learning that Ping is being forced to work as a prostitute, Li Mei admits to the meeting place for the payoff. with Stabler, Huang, Benson, and Tutoula operating to trap the perpatrators. She gives the money to Tommy, who then gives it to the “leader” (Ricky Yao), who is soon arrested. While Ricky denies any involvement, Tommy confesses that Jiao is dead, and Stabler finds her buried in a garage near one of Ricky’s whorehouses. Ricky then offers to disclose Ping’s whereabouts for an extraordinarily reduced sentence, but Novak declines the offer.
Fin reports that the Feds busted another one of Ricky’s brothels and that all the women are at the deportation office. Benson and Stabler then get Ricky sent on a bus to Attica while they go to the office, and they talk to one of the women who remembers seeing Ping, and when she requests a lawyer, they suggest Roger Baker until the woman says that Baker sent her to Ricky Yao. Baker later confesses to the new location that the recently closed brothel was moved to; meanwhile, in court, Novak catches Ricky giving a signal to another man, who makes a telephone call to have Ping killed. Detectives storm the brothel just as a man has a gun to Ping’s head, causing the rescue team to discard their weaponry. Stabler then quickly rushes in and takes a quick, presise shot to kill him and Ping is then reunited with Li Mei as they leave in a van.
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[edit] Notes
- Richard Belzer does not appear in this episode. [5]
[edit] Quotes
Stabler: Jiao took a huge risk.
Li Mei: Do you have children, Mr. Stabler?
Stabler: Yeah; I’ve got four.
Li Mei: Then…wouldn’t you deal with murderers to get your baby back?
Supervisor: This kid, Tommy—gangster wannabe, he came in here to see Li Mei last night.
Stabler: For what?
Supervisor: Money.
Stabler: So he was shakin’ her down; you did nothing to help her?
Supervisor: She’s an employee. I got my own family to worry about.
[edit] References
- ^ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Debt – TV.com. Retrieved August 3, 2007 .
- ^ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Debt – TV.com. Retrieved August 3, 2007.
- ^ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Debt – TV.com. Retrieved August 3, 2007.
- ^ “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” Debt (2004). Retrieved August 3, 2007.
- ^ “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” Debt (2004). Retrieved August 3, 2007.
[edit] External links
- "Debt" at the Internet Movie Database
- "Debt" at TV.com
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