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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Season 2 Episode 6

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AIRED: 11/24/00

The question of patients' rights surfaces when a schizophrenic man refusing to take his medication is a suspect in the stabbing death of psychiatric doctoral student.

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Interesting theme, average execution.

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By francklloyd, Mar 17, 2011

This show has a tendency to look at violent crime from original angles. Although it is called 'Special Victims Unit' it spends a lot of time looking at the psychology of the perpetrators of crime. In this episode there is the matter of people with mental disorders. Can they be held responsible for their actions if they refuse to take their medicine? Why would they do so? As a mystery story it works well because of the plot twists. The only danger is that the framework of the show becomes predictable: the first few suspects are not guilty, creative thinking is necessary in the courtroom, etcetera. The surprise ending really annoyed me, because the previous episode had a practically similar one.moreless
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An episode targeting the rights of a patient to refuse medication.

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By Car1yle, Aug 15, 2008

This episode had a major impact on me considering the fact that I am going to become a psychiatrist when i complete my studies. It renewed the ever-present question in my mind; should mentally-ill patients really be allowed to right to refuse medication? I saw one of the probable effect of putting a patint on medication after years without it. this effect was quite tragic and as much as i hope and pray i know that someday i may be faced with the same dilema. I highly recommend this episodde to anyone who works with the mentally ill or are simply around them alot. It will help to broaden your veiw on the subjectmoreless
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Law and Order Special Victims Unit!

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By ourkissgoodbye, Feb 08, 2007

A corner store employee, Maggie, is found murdered, along with another unidentified victim. While questioning Maggie's family, they find that she was a psychology student who voluntered at a mental heatlh clinic twice a week. She had problems with a patient there in the past, and Detectives Benson and Stabler put him on their list of possible suspects. When they learn that he has been on his medication and obeying the restraining order that was placed on him. They then find that a scizophrenic named Mark Nash might be behind the murders because he was not keeping up with taking his antipsychotic medication. But they realize that the unidentified victim was really the perp in the case, Nash had walked in on him attacking Maggie.

This was a decent episode. It starts out and you honestly think that just because their are mentally ill suspects that they are the ones that commited the crime. When you look deeper into the case, you realize how wrong you were.moreless
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Opinions and emotions clash in this outstanding episode.

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By ArwenEvenstarU, Sep 03, 2005

The right to refuse medication is brought into question when the detectives investigate the rape and murder of a victim, and the attempted murder of another. Olivia is avid that patients should be forced to take medication for the protection of the public, while Elliot and Munch take a less strict approach to the issue. As the story unravels, the detectives realize they have been looking in all the wrong places the whole time, and it becomes necessary for the sole witness to take his medicine so to be able to give a lucid and accurate statement. The actor playing the sick man, played him to perfection and had me in tears with his brilliant performance. This episode also had some great interaction between Elliot and Olivia, along with Munch's usual dry wit. Two thumbs way up!moreless
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Dann Florek	Capt. Donald Cragen
Richard Belzer	Det. John Munch
Mariska Hargitay	Det. Olivia Benson
Christopher Meloni	Det. Elliot Stabler
Ice-T	Det. Odafin Tutuola
Stephanie March	A.D.A. Alexandra Cabot

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Kevin Breznahan	Mark Nash	Guest Star
Kathleen Chalfant	Mrs. Nash	Guest Star
William Youmans	Ben Moreland	Guest Star
Tom O'Rourke	Judge Mark Seligman	Recurring Role
Welly Yang	Georgie	Recurring Role
J.K. Simmons	Dr. Emil Skoda	Recurring Role

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- Olivia: When I said I'd have dinner with you I thought we might be sitting.
  Elliot: You can sit in the car.
  Olivia: You're a classy guy, you know that?
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- Dr. Emil Skoda: Do you refuse medication because you prefer the world you live in to reality?
  Mark Nash: I'd be crazy if I didn't.
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- Tamara Tunie makes her first appearance as M.E. Melinda Warner.
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- When the character of Nash first appears, he rambles on and on about a pawnbroker and how many kopecks he swiped from her room. He even believes he is Raskolnikov, and declares himself as such. This is a reference to Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment. Raskolnikov, the main character, kills the very pawnbroker Nash alludes to in the episode.
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