Fat (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)
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| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode | |||||||
| Episode no. | Season 7 Episode 159 |
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| Written by | Patrick Harbinson | ||||||
| Directed by | Juan J. Campanella | ||||||
| Guest stars | See Guest stars section below | ||||||
| Production no. | 07021[1] | ||||||
| Original airdate | May 2, 2006 | ||||||
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Fat is an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It originally aired on May 2, 2006.[2]
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[edit] Episode recap
Stabler is paged out of confessional and meets his new partner, Lucius Blaine. Blaine tells him that a teenage girl (Jessica DeLay) was sodomized by two large assailants, and her finger had been sliced off (which is eventually found). After Cragen informs Stabler that Benson has been reassigned to Computer Crimes, Munch reports that the perps stole Jessica’s cell phone, but they left behind her fake Health Department work ID.
Stabler and Blaine meet health worker Rufus Brownell, who tells them that he issues the kids fake IDs because they are involved in stings regarding selling tobacco to minors. He then says that he sent Jessica to a store run by Hamzid Latif, who had become furious with Jessica at one point. The detectives then ask O’Halloran to print Latif’s shoes, but after realizing that he isn’t big enough to be the perp, Warner reveals that the large perps are actually children. The detectives then start to question Jessica in her hospital room, but she and her friend Tommy kick them out. They then track down the perps (brother and sister Kenny and Mia Bixton), and Blaine leads Mia on by telling her that she’ll get immunity if she confesses because it’s her first offense. After a disagreement with Stabler about the interview, a fist fight erupts.
Cragen orders Stabler and Blaine to continue to work the case together, and they search the Bixtons' house and find the baseball bat that they used to sodomize Jessica. Kenny and Mia say that they did it because Jessica stole her diabetic brother Rudi (who is in a wheelchair)’s cap before assaulting him. Jessica denies all of this; then Granger (Jessica’s lawyer) states that Rudi never filed a report for such an assault and Kenny and Mia will thus be charged with attacking Jessica. Cragen then tells the detectives to close the case until One Police Plaza alerts him about Assemblyman Eric Molina on television suggesting that Jessica’s case is financially motivated.
Stabler and Blaine interview Rudi, who says that after he was assaulted, someone took a picture of the attack. After Fin states that the picture was taken with Jessica’s camera phone, Munch reports that Jessica made several calls to Tommy, and her ISP reveals that she sent a picture of Tommy attacking Rudi to a website. The detectives then arrest Jessica and Tommy and put them in separate lineups. While Rudi cannot identify Jessica, he does identify Tommy, but Granger takes him home after suggesting that Rudi saw him on the news beforehand. Rudi then shoots Tommy dead as he and Granger are leaving.
Molina suggests that Novak plead Rudi out because he was the target of a hate crime, but she refuses. During the trial, Rudi tells his attorney that he accidentally shot Tommy out of rage, but Novak gets him to admit that he intentionally shot him. Later, Fin finds a picture of Jessica wearing Rudi’s cap, and she tells Stabler and Blaine that she doesn’t dislike fat people. They then show photos of her when she was younger and overweight, and she confesses that she didn’t like Rudi because he reminded her of herself. Rudi is still found guilty, but he doesn’t appear in court because he was rushed to the hospital for kidney failure and leg amputation.
[edit] Guest stars
[edit] Special Guest Star
- Anthony Anderson as Detective Lucius Blaine
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[edit] Notes
- B. D. Wong does not appear in this episode.[5]
[edit] Quotes
Blaine: Why did they steal [Jessica’s] cell phone?
Cragen: How do you know she had one?
Blaine: She’s sixteen with three credit cards. She had a cell phone.
Blaine: No wonder your partner dumped you.
Stabler: What’d you just say to me?
Blaine: You screwed her; now you’re trying to screw me.
Cragen: You know why I put Blaine with you?
Stabler: ‘Cause you started drinking again?
Blaine: We believe [Jessica] was involved in a brutal assault.
Granger: Ah, this alleged assault; is there a police report of it? An ER report? That’s because it didn’t happen. So why don’t you go do your jobs and charge the little—sorry—large bastards that ruined this girl’s life.
Blaine: Why is it that you didn’t report this, Mr. Bixton?
Rudi: You wouldn’t understand.
Blaine: No. I don’t. …Why would you let your little brother and sister fight your fight? What kind of man are you? Why are they in jail when the people who attacked you should be?
Rudi: Because I got so damn fat, I let children beat me.
[edit] References
- ^ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Fat – TV.com. Retrieved June 28, 2007.
- ^ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Fat – TV.com. Retrieved June 28, 2007.
- ^ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Fat – TV.com. Retrieved June 28, 2007.
- ^ “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” Fat (2006). Retrieved June 28, 2007.
- ^ “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” Fat (2006). Retrieved July 3, 2007.
[edit] External links
- "Fat" at the Internet Movie Database
- "Fat" at TV.com
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