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| Episode no. | Season 9 Episode 19 (#202 overall) |
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| Directed by | David Platt | ||
| Written by | Judith McCreary | ||
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| Original air date | May 13, 2008 | ||
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Deirdre Lovejoy as Penelope Fielding |
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Cold is the season finale of the ninth season of the legal drama Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.
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An old murder case of a teenage girl is reopened, when Detective Lake is caught in a gunfight and wounded by the case's former investigator, Detective Edward Kralik. The shooting leaves Kralik dead, and Lake's uncooperative answers lead to confusion in the squad room. The case intensifies when Lake escapes from the hospital, and takes hostage the original case's only witness, Cecilia Cruz (Victoria Cartagena). The SVU squad is left to revisit the original murder case, as Detectives Benson and Stabler search for Lake and his hostage. Tutuola threatens to leave the squad after Stabler searches his cell phone records, thinking Tutuola is Lake's accomplice. The case ultimately causes Novak to violate due process while prosecuting the case. She is called to Donnelly's chambers and informed that the D.A. had declined to refile charges against the defendant and that Novak would be facing censure or suspension by the Bar association; she is disbarred for the violation (according to her replacement, ADA Kim Greylek, in the second episode of season 10; However, in Novak's return episode, "Reparations", it is revealed she was not disbarred but rather simply censured - having her license suspended for three years). Lake shoots the defendant, Thomas Crane (Jack Gwaltney) at the end of the episode, which ultimately leads to his arrest.
Adam Beach (Det. Lake) and Diane Neal (ADA Novak) leave the cast.
"Cold" was written by Judith McCreary and directed by David Platt.
In its original NBC broadcast (May 13, 2008), "Cold" ended its broadcast with 11.81 million viewers after reaching 10.83 during the first half of the episode.[1]
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