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Storm is an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It originally aired on November 29, 2005.[2]
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A man watches three daughters riding a carousel, and when the ride is over, the girls run away. The oldest and youngest daughter (Tasha and Lola, respectively) blindly run across the street and get hit by a taxicab but survive; the man just runs off with the middle daughter (Nicki). Tasha later tells the detectives that the man abducted her and her sisters after Hurricane Katrina and he thus isn’t their father, they don’t know his name, and that this was the first time they had been outside.
Tasha goes on to say that they all took a one-hour bus ride to Manhattan, and that all she remembers near the bus stop was a church and a school. After a five-hour search for the right location, Cragen decides to have a fake story run in the newspaper about Nicki dying, and he asks people to submit photographs from the carousel ride in hopes that they will find a picture of the man that abducted her; a new news reporter (Jackson Zane) doesn’t buy this, but Benson refuses to give him the real story. Tasha points the man out from a video that a mother sent in; then Jackson takes pictures inside the precinct and threatens to expose the fake story unless the detectives give him a better story. A clerk at the Katrina relief center states that the man’s name is Clark Corman (which turns out to be an alias), and Benson and Stabler plan to follow him home until Jackson shows up and blows their cover.
Corman starts to sweat during interrogation and Stabler interprets it as anxiety; then records show that Corman’s real name is Alvin Dutch and that he is wanted for child rape; Alvin then gets violently ill and is sent to the hospital. Jackson then sets up an interview between Benson and one of Alvin’s old cellmates, who says that he has a great aunt Goldie living in Harlem. Goldie appears to be suffering from Alzheimer’s, but she eventually mentions that all three girls had been in the house because Alvin was fixing up the basement to move in. Benson and Stabler find Nicki there with the same symptoms as Alvin, and when they bring her to the hospital, the doctor reports that Alvin died of anthrax poisoning.
Nicki makes a full recovery because she only touched the anthrax while Alvin actually inhaled it, and Nicki says that Alvin had a tube of “fairy dust” (anthrax) that broke, which is then found at Goldie’s house. Warner informs Benson and Stabler that the anthrax is military grade but she can’t identify the source other than it being a lab, and when they get back to the precinct, everyone is outside because CDC is apparently dusting the building for anthrax. When they get back into the precinct, they discover that federal agents took all information about Alvin Dutch and the Wrights, as well as the people themselves, and they order the detectives and Warner to cease their part in the investigation.
Warner gets results from an earlier search she did about the anthrax and find that its source is Louisiana BioChem Defense, and Benson tells Jackson about it. Later, the federal chief berates Cragen about the leak, and Cragen warns Benson because the feds know that someone from the squad leaked the story. Stabler then reports that the feds returned the Wrights, and he and Benson go back to Nicki, who says that the fairy dust was found in a van driven by Mr. Michael. Warner narrows the suspect down to a lab technician named Michael Delpit, and during interrogation, he states that he smuggled the anthrax because someone paid him to, and he picked up Alvin and the Wrights as a cover. The interrogation was taped and given to Jackson for his story, and he gives Benson his word that he won’t tell anyone about it. The feds then storm Jackson’s office just after Benson gets away, and he gets put in jail because he won’t reveal his source. Benson goes to visit him using an alias to get him to reveal her as the source, but he refuses.
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- Joel de la Fuente as Ruben Morales
- Leo Marks as Michael Delpit
- Birdie M. Hale as Goldie Priloeaux
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- Stephen Beach as Federal officer
- Lou Sumrall as Clayton Miles
- Nickayla Tucker as Nicki Wright
- Drucie McDaniel as Felicity Gill
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- Stephen Gregory as Dr. Kyle Beresford
- Mando Alvarado as Taxi driver
- Jean Arbeiter as Woman
- Barbara Lee GoVan as Mrs. Fontenont
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- Nathaniel Albright as EMT Jones
- William H. Burns as Officer Robbins
- Mark J. Foley as CDC technician
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- Many viewers thought there was a goof when Tasha tells detectives that she, her sisters and Alvin came to Manhattan on a bus. Later, Nicki says that she found the fairy dust in the van that brought them to New York. However, the two girls differentiate between New York City and Manhattan. This suggests that the girls were originally brought to Harlem in a van, and went from Harlem to the park in Manhattan by way of city bus.
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