Loophole (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)
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| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode | |||||||
| Episode no. | Season 8 Episode 174 |
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| Written by | Jonathan Greene | ||||||
| Directed by | David Platt | ||||||
| Guest stars | See Guest stars section below | ||||||
| Production no. | 08012[1] | ||||||
| Original airdate | February 6, 2007 | ||||||
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Loophole is an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It originally aired on February 6, 2007.[2]
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[edit] Episode recap
A kid named Taylor delivers an envelope addressed to the special victims unit but gets knocked out by a criminal on a PCP rage (who also throws Stabler through a glass window). After the man is finally restrained, Stabler and Taylor get sent to the hospital while Cragen and Fin open the envelope and find photos of a boy in his underwear as well as a camera’s memory card. Taylor describes a man on the street who gave him fifty dollars to deliver the envelope; then Morales enhances the memory card and reveals photos of a door at different angles.
Benson and Fin go to the apartment building where the door is located, and a man (the “Wax Man”) complains about several break-ins that happened there while the building superintendent (Seth Millstead) insists that no break-ins happened; Fin then spots the same kind of camera that was used to take the photos of the boy in the apartment. Munch identifies the boy as Diego Benitez, and that he and his mother Jennifer are tenants. The detectives then ask Jennifer about the photos and for permission to interview Diego, but she runs off when they mention Millstead’s name. An audio recording of a 911 call made about the break-ins reveals that the Wax Man (real name Raymond Nesbit) made the call, but he admits that he burgled the apartments himself and he has a long record for burglary. He also says that Diego told him that Millstead took the pictures of him, but Novak refuses to try for a search warrant because of his record; Benson convinces her after stating that the apartment building door and the pictures of Diego are both on the memory card.
The detectives charge Millstead with possession of child porn, which Zierko tries to get thrown out due to Diego not having been fully nude. Benson then goes to Jennifer and Diego’s apartment, and Jennifer tells her that Millstead blackmailed her into letting him snap the photos so that he wouldn’t tell about her expired green card; then Benson begins to interview Diego until he passes out. Jennifer passes out as well, and Benson manages to get them out of the apartment and into the hall; then she clears out the building before she also passes out. At the hospital, she learns that she and the Benitezes (as well as two other families and their kids) were poisoned by inhaling vapors of an unknown substance that is kept in a vat in Millstead’s basement. Fin goes to Rikers to ask Millstead about the substance only to find him dead; meanwhile, Jennifer tells Benson that Diego now has cancer.
After EPA and Homeland Security take over the case, Munch shows videos of Millstead talking to a worn-out Diego, and he reports that a chemical company paid Millstead money to expose people to the substance and then videotape the results of the exposure. Warner states that the company was allowed to do this via a loophole known as observational testing, which allows spraying pesticides around a building as well as on its inhabitants. Jennifer tells Benson that she did sign a waiver allowing Diego to be sprayed, but that the pesticide was identified as a “drug”. Benson then goes to the chemical company, Danforth Chemical, for answers, but she is ordered out. Novak then tells her that she can’t charge Danforth for spraying the pesticide without solid evidence that it caused Diego’s cancer, which Warner can’t testify to because it is impossible to prove. Benson then talks Morales into hacking into Danforth’s company database and they identify the chemical; then the CEO (Roger Hanley) is arrested and charged with poisoning all twelve affected people, which Novak turns over on grounds that Hanley pays lifetime medical bills for all the people he poisoned.
[edit] Guest stars
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[edit] Notes
- B. D. Wong does not appear in this episode. [5]
[edit] Goofs
- Benson tells Novak that the pictures of Diego and the pictures of the door are on the memory card, but Morales said that the only pictures on the memory card are of the door.
- After the viewing of the DV-tapes of Millstead and Diego, closed-captioning confuses “effects” with “affects”.
[edit] Quotes
Stabler: I’ll be ready for work.
Doctor: Not until you regain full feeling in your arm and hands.
Cragen: Puts you on the DL.
Stabler: You’re gonna put me on the DL with our caseload?
Cragen: Elliot, I’d rather lose you for a few weeks than go to your retirement party.
[edit] References
- ^ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Loophole – TV.com. Retrieved July 15, 2007.
- ^ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Loophole – TV.com. Retrieved July 15, 2007.
- ^ Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Loophole – TV.com. Retrieved July 15, 2007.
- ^ “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” Loophole (2007). Retrieved July 15, 2007.
- ^ “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” Loophole (2007). Retrieved July 15, 2007.
[edit] External links
- "Loophole" at the Internet Movie Database
- "Loophole" at TV.com
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