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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 4 Episode 23

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AIRED: 5/2/03

A dead girl is found outside a bar. The death, however, is ruled a suicide (because the victim's boyfriend continually raped her), but the victim's father snaps on the side and vows revenge against his daughter's rapist.

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The father inside Elliot is shown as he sympathizes with a father put on trial for killing his daughter's rapist.

9.5

By ArwenEvenstarU, Mar 16, 2011

This episode was done to near perfection. The only thing missing was Olivia. I could have used some more scene with her in them. On the positive, however, Christopher Meloni really got to shine as Elliot in this episode. Being a father and having fantasized about killing rapists himself, Elliot's judgment is called in question as he identifies with a man who killed his daughter's rapist, after she killed herself. In a real tearjerker of a scene, Elliot confronts the man after he killed the rapist. The man has gun in his hands, saying now he just wants to be with his daughter. Elliot has to talk him out of it, saying some of the nicest thing I've heard him say. It was really unnerving to see Elliot so shook up and so invested in the case to the point he actually had tears in his eyes. This was an outstanding episode due to Christopher. Somebody get this man an Emmy!moreless
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Stabler puts his career on the line

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By AvatarBlue, Mar 16, 2011

Great story and great sacrifices make this a plot full of jeopardy for Stabler and the victim of the father.

A good first act quickly puts us in the middle of a the murder/rape of a normal well thought of young woman. The apparent barbarity of the attack will make you side immediately with Stabler who does a great job of hook our emotional tendons into his way of thinking. This sets up an intriguing story of mixed emotions as we discover the apparent young woman was not what her fathers view of her was. Furthermore, the dynamic of submission to her brutal antaganist is well demonstrated by the script, and the acting. Stabler has a good few scenes in the middle act that provides a good source sympathy which setups up for a truly tragic finale - one that LO:SVU does very well.

A superior episode from this franchise.moreless
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Law and Order Special Victims Unit!

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By ourkissgoodbye, Mar 29, 2007

When Vanessa Bevins is found murdered outside of the club she worked at, it is up to Detective Stabler to notify her father. With the evidence that a rape occurred, they start the investigation looking for Vanessa's killer. What they find was that she was in fact raped, but it occurred two weeks prior to her death. Her death was ultimately ruled a suicide, but her father still wants the man who raped her to be held responsible for her death, because he is the reason she pulled the trigger. And when the Special Victims Unit are unable to help him, he takes matters into his own hands.

This was a good episode. You could see that Detective Stabler was getting close to the case, because he would have felt the same way that Ray Bevins did if it was one of his daughters who was hurt. On one hand I understand that Ray should be held accountable for his actions, but at the same time I can understand why he would feel like it was his responsibility to take matters into his own hands.moreless
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Dann Florek	Capt. Donald Cragen
Richard Belzer	Det. John Munch
Mariska Hargitay	Det. Olivia Benson
BD Wong	Dr. George Huang
Christopher Meloni	Det. Elliot Stabler
Ice-T	Det. Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola

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Joe Morton	Ray Bevins	Guest Star
Paul Leyden	Perry Williams	Guest Star
D.J. Cotrona	Donovan Alvarez	Guest Star
Viola Davis	Donna Emmett	Recurring Role
Caren Browning	Judith Siper	Recurring Role
Sheila Tousey	Judge Danielle Larson	Recurring Role

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- Maureen goes to Hudson University.
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- Alex Cabot: Did you actually lawyer up for Ray Bevins?
  Elliot Stabler: He needed an attorney.
  Alex Cabot: So you called one of the best defense attorneys in town? Usually you get a confession instead of throwing up road blocks to protect the perps.
  Elliot Stabler: Ray Bevins is not a perp.
  Alex Cabot: He killed a man in cold blood.
  Elliot Stabler: He killed a sexual predator that you said we couldn't convict.
  Alex Cabot: I will not condone vigilantism. I am not going to let my compassion for Ray prevent me from doing my job.
  Elliot Stabler: Well, I did my job. I arrested him. He's all yours.
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- Alex Cabot: ...and we have all thought that justice means 'an eye for an eye'. But is that justice? Does Perry Williams' family have the right to kill Ray Bevens? Does Ray Bevens' family now have the right to retaliate against Perry Williams? When would it stop? An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
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- (Stabler is on the stand, having been subpoenaed for the defense)
  Alex Cabot: Detective, do you condone what Ray Bevins did?
  (very, very long pause)
  Elliot Stabler: No. It was wrong.
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- Alex Cabot: An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.
  
  This quote is credited to Mahatma Ghandi, which Ben Kingsley used as the title character in the movie Ghandi. The character Tevye says something to the same effect in the movie version of Fiddler on the Roof.
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