Soulless (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)
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| “Soulless” | |||||||
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| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode | |||||||
| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 91 |
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| Written by | Dawn DeNoon Lisa Marie Petersen |
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| Directed by | Chad Lowe | ||||||
| Guest stars | See Guest stars section below | ||||||
| Production no. | E3127[1] | ||||||
| Original airdate | May 16, 2003 | ||||||
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Soulless is the fourth season finale of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It originally aired on May 16, 2003.[1] B. D. Wong does not appear in this episode.[2]
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[edit] Episode recap
A rape victim (Chloe Dutton) is brought into the hospital one night with a bar stamp on her hand, and when Benson tries to interview her, she insists that she wasn’t raped after all and that she was drunk; then she refuses to accept Benson’s help. A short time later, the nurse announces that the rapist snatched Chloe from the hospital. The detectives locate the bar that the stamp is from, and they find that the ID that Chloe used to sign in belongs to Jenna Sterling.
Jenna is alibied from having gone to the bar, but her teenage sister Vienna admits that she took Chloe there, and that Chloe is only fifteen. Warner then finds Chloe dead near the Hudson River as a result of drowning, but evidence shows that she was actually drowned in a toilet. Benson and Stabler then go to Chloe’s high school and find a hateful letter from a science project partner in her locker. The partner states that while they were supposed to be working on the project, she zoomed by in another guy’s car; then he gives Munch and Fin the license plate number. The valets at the parking garage tell the detectives that the car was rented by Mr. and Mrs. Stark, and when Mr. Stark opens the trunk, he finds scrubs similar to the ones Chloe had been wearing.
Cragen reports that Stark’s DNA test came back negative, but also that Chloe was gang-raped. Munch then illustrates a series of phone calls prior to the murder, which include Davis Harrington, Seth Wolford III and Andrew Kenworthy, as well as Andrew's girlfriend, Vienna. All four of them are arrested but then easily get lawyers; then Cabot agrees to let Seth leave for Arlington, Virginia to start an internship only to have Munch and Fin bring him back due to a loophole in the Virginian arrest laws. Meanwhile, Andrew and Davis both deny killing Chloe, and that Andrew’s new friend Max was also involved.
Max turns out to be one of the valet guys, and he tells Benson and Stabler that his real name is Mitch Wilkens; he used the name Max because it sounded rich. He then admits to borrowing clients’ cars, but he insists that Andrew, Davis and Seth are setting him up, and that after the rape, he took the bus to his mother’s house. After a surveillance photo from the hospital of Chloe and supposedly Mitch is shown to him, he says that the hat, coat and shades that the suspect is wearing belongs to Seth; then Mrs. Wilkens says that the Jaguar that Mitch borrowed got returned because Seth gave him a ride. Munch and Fin search Seth’s house and find the apparel (which Seth denies belonging to him), as well as blood stains around the toilet.
Meanwhile, a woman comes into the precinct and states that Mitch’s real name is actually Eric Wayne Proctor, and that he killed Chloe because he’d also burned her son Tommy Leggatt alive after molesting him. When Benson and Stabler try to tell Mrs. Wilkens that Eric killed Chloe, she denies it; then Benson points out a bracelet that Chloe was wearing when Eric took her, which is the same bracelet that Mrs. Wilkens is wearing. During the trial, Mrs. Wilkens tearfully confesses that she lied about Eric’s actions following the rape because Eric asked her to; then she states that Eric will continue to kill if he isn’t imprisoned. After Eric is found guilty of all charges, Benson and Stabler tell him that they know that the brownstone he lives in is actually owned by an Emily Owens and that she “disappeared”, but Eric refuses to tell them where she is.
[edit] Guest stars
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[edit] Quotes
Munch: One of our guys has a prior.
Benson: Who?
Munch: Morris Brandenberg, aka "Bone Kracker". Pretty tough street name.
Fin: That's a stage name. He's a rapper.
Stabler: Now, our guy was disguised, but he was definitely white.
Fin: They don't get any whiter than the Kracker.
Brandenberg: Chill, y'all. I gotta lay it down while I'm channelling; you know what I'm sayin'?
Munch: Not a single word.
[edit] Goofs
- After Cabot allows Seth to leave for Virginia, Stabler refers to the defense attorney as “Langdon” rather than “Langan”.
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- "Soulless" at the Internet Movie Database
- "Soulless" at TV.com
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