Identity (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)
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| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode | |||||||
| Episode no. | Season 6 Episode 128 |
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| Written by | Lisa Marie Petersen Dawn DeNoon |
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| Directed by | Rick Wallace | ||||||
| Guest stars | See Guest stars section below | ||||||
| Production no. | E5215[1] | ||||||
| Original airdate | January 18, 2005 | ||||||
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Identity is an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It originally aired on January 18, 2005.[2]
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[edit] Episode recap
A gang member named Luis Vega falls off a roof to his death, and Warner identifies deep bite marks on his penis. Detectives discover that he belonged to a gang known as Stone Cold Assassins (SCA), and that the men were notorious for raping the women. A member that previously filed a rape charge against Luis is the initial suspect, but then she and other female members state that Luis liked to have sex with a deaf homeless girl named Katie, who often sleeps on the roof where Luis fell off.
Sister Peg leads Benson and Stabler to Katie and her friend Betty, and while Katie will only work with Sister Peg, Betty sells the detectives a shopping cart filled with items to be used in identity theft; then she tells them that Luis often enlisted homeless people to help with the theft. After breaking up the theft ring, Sister Peg breaks the news that someone slit Katie’s throat in retaliation; then Warner reveals that Katie neither killed Luis nor was on the roof with him; a man gave him fellatio. Sister Peg leads Benson and Stabler to the SCA member that killed Katie, and he says that Katie was making strange signs stating that she didn’t kill Luis, which Sister Peg interprets as graffiti.
Stabler and Fin find graffiti all over the crime scene area, and the graffiti artist is tracked down to an emotionally disturbed teenager named Logan Stanton (an occasional therapy patient), who swears that he didn’t kill Luis. His twin sister Lindsay states that he was at home during the time of the murder, but the DNA test still matches Logan. When Benson and Stabler (now accompanied by Dr. Hendrix) go to their house and try to arrest him, Logan resists and Lindsay injures Stabler while trying to defend her brother. They are then both put into custody. Lindsay later tells Benson that she was on the roof with Luis, and that she bit down on his penis because he tried to rape her and the force of the bite made him fall off the roof.
Hendrix tells Novak that she tried to find out what kind of therapy Logan and Lindsay were being seen for but that the therapist (Dr. Blair) pulled her off the case; but she still illegally pulls their files and reveals that Dr. Blair is a sex therapist, which suggests incest. Mr. and Mrs. Stanton kick Benson and Stabler out of their house when they suggest this; later, Hendrix reveals that Logan and Lindsay have identical DNA because Lindsay is genetically male. Lindsay’s parents confess that right after he was born, the device used for circumcision malfunctioned and burned too much of his penis, so they then took him for a sex change operation. Dr. Blair then asks Benson and Stabler how they found out about this, but they don’t tell him.
Dr. Blair is present when Lindsay begins to sign his sworn statement, but then he asks why everyone was sure Logan killed Luis. Dr. Blair doesn’t tell him that he was born male, but Hendrix interrupts and tells him, which puts her license in jeopardy. Logan then wants to press charges against Dr. Blair because he molested Lindsay and him, as well as making them simulate sex (which Dr. Blair doesn’t deny). Dr. Blair is later murdered, but no one can tell whether it was by Logan or Lucas due to the identical DNA.
The episode was based, in part on the life of David Reimer. [3]
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[edit] Notes
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- B. D. Wong does not appear in this episode. [6]
- The twins, during a moment of either fear or panic in front the detectives, began speaking in idioglossia. No one, including the viewing audience, could understand what was being said between them.
[edit] Quotes
Benson: Do you realize that disseminating pornography to a minor is a felony?
Dr. Blair: I showed them art books.
Stabler: Doc, I saw the art in your office, and even I was uncomfortable at how many phalluses were on display.
Blair: That’s because you’re a bourgeois American, completely uptight about sex. It’s what screws up your children and turns them into sex offenders.
Stabler: You lost me at “bourgeois”.
[edit] References
- ^ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Identity – TV.com. Retrieved July 30, 2007 .
- ^ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Identity – TV.com. Retrieved July 30, 2007.
- ^ Intersex Initiative: News - NBC's "Law & Order: SVU" Episode Based on "John/Joan" Case
- ^ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Identity – TV.com. Retrieved July 30, 2007.
- ^ “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” Identity (2005). Retrieved July 30, 2007.
- ^ “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” Identity (2005). Retrieved July 30, 2007.
[edit] External links
- "Identity" at the Internet Movie Database
- "Identity" at TV.com
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