Law & Order: SVU Season 21 Episode 16 – Rollins’ (Kelli Giddish) sister stirs up trouble and a possible SVU investigation when she reports a doctor who trades prescription painkillers for sex.
Episode title: “Eternal Relief From Pain”
Release date: February 27, 2020 at 10pm/9c
Network: NBC
Cast: Mariska Hargitay, Kelli Giddish, Ice-T, Peter Scanavino, Philip Winchester, Jamie Gray Hyder
Guests: Lindsay Pulsipher, Zuleikha Robinson, Josh Hamilton, James Morrison and Mark Linn-Baker.
The twenty-first season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit premiered on September 26, 2019, at 10:00 pm ET. This made the series the longest-running U.S. prime-time drama in history.
Based out of the New York City Police Department’s 16th precinct in Manhattan, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit delves into the dark side of the New York underworld. The detectives of a new elite force, the Special Victims Unit (SVU for short), investigate and prosecute various s–ually oriented crimes including r-pe, p–ophilia, and domestic violence.They also investigate the abuses of children and the disabled and elderly victims of non-s–ual crimes who require specialist handling.
Law & Order: SVU also touch on the political and societal issues associated with gender identity, sexual preferences, and equality rights. The unit works with the Manhattan District Attorney’s office as they prosecute cases and seek justice for SVU’s victims and survivors with precision and a passion to win and bring closure to the intense investigations. The series often uses stories that are “ripped from the headlines” or based on real crimes. Such episodes take a real crime and fictionalize it by changing some details.
Originally the show focused around the detective pairings of Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson and John Munch and Brian Cassidy. Stabler is a seasoned veteran of the unit who has seen it all and tries his best to protect his family from the horrors he sees every day. His partner Benson’s difficult past as the child of a r–e victim is the reason she joined the unit. Backing them up is John Munch, and his first partner Brian Cassidy. Munch is a transfer from Baltimore’s homicide unit, who brings his acerbic wit, conspiracy theories, and street-honed investigative skills; Cassidy is young and eager to learn from his fellow detectives. These two detective teams received support from Detectives Monique Jeffries and Ken Briscoe.
When Cassidy transferred to Narcotics after thirteen episodes, Jeffries was partnered with Munch for the remainder of Season One and Briscoe was phased out. In the beginning of season two, Munch was then permanently partnered with Detective Odafin “Fin” Tutuola, whose unique yet sometimes vulgar sense of humor and investigative experience make him a formidable match for Munch.
These detectives were supervised by veteran Captain Donald Cragen who oversaw the team for seasons 1–15. Cragen’s tough-but-supportive approach to the team’s complex cases guides the squad through the challenges they face every day. Also on the team’s payroll is FBI Special Agent Dr. George Huang and Medical Examiner Dr. Melinda Warner. As the resident psychiatrist for the Special Victims Unit, Huang helps keep the officers sane in a field that could drive ordinary people mad. He has also served as the squad’s resident criminal profiler, and his insights into the criminal mind have often helped the officers to crack the toughest perps, while Warner has become an integral part of the Manhattan Special Victims Unit, and her personal skills have contributed to the unit’s high success rate in closing cases.
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