Influence (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)
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| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode | |||||||
| Episode no. | Season 7 Episode 161 |
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| Written by | Ian Biederman | ||||||
| Directed by | Norberto Barba | ||||||
| Guest stars | See Guest stars section below | ||||||
| Production no. | 07020[1] | ||||||
| Original airdate | May 16, 2006 | ||||||
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Influence is the seventh season finale of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It originally aired on May 16, 2006.[2]
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[edit] Episode recap
A high school janitor catches two boys (Danny Morrison and Cameron Shaw) running out of a stall in the boys’ bathroom, leaving a girl (Jamie Hoskins) behind, who claims that she was raped. When the boys are interrogated in separate rooms, they swear that all three of them are friends and that Jamie came to them for a three-way. The principal (Dr. Collins) then shows Benson and Stabler a videotape detailing how different students “hook-up” (or have casual sex), and at one point Jamie and her best friend Leslie are on camera. Leslie tells the detectives that Jamie decided to lose her virginity to Trevor Olsen, and although Trevor likes Jamie, he wouldn’t hook up with her because he doesn’t hook up with virgins. He tells detectives that he told Jamie this and that Jamie replied that she would see him Saturday night.
Footage from the school surveillance camera shows Jamie flirting with Danny and Cameron and then pulling them into the bathroom. Jamie is upset that Benson no longer believes her side of the story, but she later confesses that the sex was consensual. Jamie, Danny and Cameron are all expelled; later, Benson gets word that Jamie got into her car and tried to commit suicide, injuring several people and killing one girl (Elena Ramirez) in the process. Dr. Beresford then reports that Jamie is bipolar and that she hadn’t been taking her medication, and Jamie says that she stopped taking it because rock musician Derek Lord publicly stated that people shouldn’t take psychiatric drugs. Novak decides to try to sentence Jamie to probation until she sees the extent of Elena’s injuries; she still agrees to the defense’s request for ROR (provided that Jamie stays on her medication). Elena’s father believes that Jamie will not get a fair trial because Derek Lord is now paying for her defense.
In court, Jamie blames her parents for the car accident because they sent her to see a psychiatrist. Judge Seligman later has Jamie arrested because she’d stopped taking her medication. After the medication is administered, she tells Benson that she listened to Lord because he himself had a bad experience with psychiatry. Lord later testifies that he is against psychiatry because his parents had him sent to a psychiatrist when he was younger for electroshock therapy because he was suicidal; but Novak gets him to admit that after the therapy he was no longer suicidal. Jamie is still found guilty of vehicular manslaughter, and Novak tells Benson that she was initially sympathetic to Jamie because her ex-fiancé was schizophrenic and refused to get treatment.
[edit] Guest stars
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*Devyn Rush as Katherine
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[edit] Quotes
Munch: When I was a kid, girls who had sex were afraid of being called sluts; now, they’re auditioning for the title.
Mr. Shaw: [Jamie] made false charges against my son. That’s a crime. I want her charged.
Novak: I’ll decide that after I review the evidence.
Benson: We bent over backwards to get the facts before we arrested your son. Jamie Hoskins deserves the same consideration.
Shaw: Fine. But if she’s not arrested, you’ll read about it in the newspaper. “White girl lies about being raped by a black boy, and just walks away.” They’ll be all over it.
Huang: Derek Lord is using [Jamie] to push his anti-psychiatry agenda. Nuts like this have been around for years.
Munch: Maybe there’s a reason for that. Kid doesn’t fit the mold, so he’s got LD, ADD, HDD, ADHD. They give him powerful drugs like Ritalin, Concerta or Aderol.
Huang: But there is a huge difference between over-diagnosis and telling legitimately sick patients to abandon lifesaving treatments.
Novak: I can call any number of experts to testify that psychiatry not only helps people, it saves lives.
Lord: Psychiatry is a corrupt instrument of social control. And no offense, Miss Novak, but you’re a lawyer.
Novak: And you’re a rock star. So you’ll understand if I don’t defer to your expertise on the subject.
[edit] References
- ^ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Influence – TV.com. Retrieved July 25, 2007.
- ^ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Influence – TV.com. Retrieved July 25, 2007.
- ^ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Influence – TV.com. Retrieved July 25, 2007.
- ^ “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” Influence (2006). Retrieved July 25, 2007.
[edit] External links
- "Influence" at the Internet Movie Database
- "Influence" at TV.com
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