Benson saves him by shooting Cole in the back of the head, killing him. Assistant District Attorney Dominick "Sonny" Carisi Jr. is introduced in the season 16 premiere, "Girls Disappeared." While at the hospital, Munch tells Tutuola that the man is Ken's fianc, which makes Tutuola determined to find the attackers. Barba manages to convict Lewis of kidnapping, unaware that Benson gave perjured testimony. Kathy is extracted from the car by firefighters and placed in the ambulance, where she goes into labor and delivers a baby boy before she becomes unconscious again. Soon afterward, Lewis kidnaps and tortures Benson, who escapes after beating him within an inch of his life. She ended the relationship when his symptoms became so severe she felt she could no longer be intimate with him. In season 10, she makes a surprise return to SVU as the temporary ADA, replacing ADA Greylek, for six episodes, starting with the episode "Lead". West next appeared in the third episode, "Behave", in which Benson works with to get justice for a rape victim named Vicki Sayers (Jennifer Love Hewitt), and to ensure that Bill Harris (James Le Gros), her rapist, is put away. The charges against Amanda are later dropped when Amaro tapes Kim confessing to setting Amanda up for a life insurance policy on Jeff. Known for its revolving cast, most of the original stars had left the show within the first five seasons; though Dann Florek reprised his role of Capt. Referred to as the executive assistant to the District Attorney, or the DA's "number two", Haden is a dedicated prosecutor who is assigned a case with Benson and the SVU squad when the CEO of a private military contractor is confronted by Occupy Wall Street protesters and later found drugged and sexually assaulted in a park. Porter has not been seen since. When Benson goes to Ganzel's loft to speak with Cassidy again, they walk outside to what appears to be an attempted theft of Ganzel's car. It is discovered that the officer who shot him was contracted by Ganzel to shoot Cassidy after Ganzel finds the bugs that the DA's office had installed in his loft. But before Ken is able to tell his father, his fianc is brutally attacked. A member of the DA's office for over 25 years, she has a black-and-white view of the law, and makes sure all procedures are handled "by the book." Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a spin-off of the crime drama Law & Order, follows the detectives who work in the "Special Victims Unit" of the 16th Precinct of the New York City Police Department, a unit that focuses on crimes involving rape, sexual assault, and child molestation, as well as any crime loosely connected with any of the three, such as domestic violence, kidnapping, and child . Geoffrey Downs. Moredock recuses himself from the case, in which a rapist claims he was driven by pornography to sexually assault women. "Jackie Wilson" star Pam Grier has been on "SVU" twice, guest-starring as Asst. Land of Women (1) Lando (5) Lanterns (1) Last Known Position (1) Last Light (9) Last Man on Earth (398) Last Man Standing (926) Last Week in TV (98) Law and Order (112) Law and Order For the Defense (5) Law and Order Hate Crimes (2) Law and Order OC (179) Law and Order SVU (1930) Law and Order True Crime (48) LD (7) Legacies (636) Legends (142 . Detective Chester Lake transferred to the Manhattan SVU from the Brooklyn Special Victims Unit at the end of the eighth season and was partnered with Detective Fin Tutuola. Lewis accompanies Benson and Amaro back to Manhattan, where she observes the interrogation and pleads with Captain Cragen to let her have a shot at the suspect after the detectives could not get the man to admit to killing the fifth victim. Monique Jeffries was a police detective with Manhattan's Special Victims Unit and was one of the initial detectives in the SVU squad. In the fourth episode "Hammered", Paxton is prosecuting a case where a man drank heavily and murders the woman he met at the bar. ADA Barba goes head to head with the Suffolk County District Attorney, Pam James (Jane Kaczmarek), in the episode "Beautiful Frame", after a Manhattan rape victim is charged with murder of her ex-boyfriend in Suffolk County. Lake is found, wounded, and taken to the hospital. Moredock orders Paxton to seek treatment. Though originally a recurring character, she became a regular cast member in season 7, remaining through season 12; she reverted to being a recurring character in season 13. In the following episode, "Father's Shadow", Haden offers to take Benson to dinner, but she respectfully declines, saying she is still on duty and joking there would be a possible conflict of interest. Masterson reprises the role in the seventh-season episode, "Ripped", where she helps Detective Stabler come to terms with unresolved issues in what Baer called "an emotionally devastating scene". In the season 15 episode "Rapist Anonymous", Rollins is caught in the middle of a case in which her friend from Georgia claims to have been raped. Amaro then gets the suspect to recant his confession and Lewis begins to seem increasingly panicked. In the subsequent episode, Dodds leads SVU's continued investigation into a sex trafficking ring while continuing to consult Benson. Stabler and Benson show up at the crime scene and Stabler is shocked to see his old partner and more surprised to know she now works for the DA's office. and she is taking their daughter with her. Kathy is pinned and unconscious when Benson wakes up and calls for help. In the episode "Spiraling Down", Benson gives Ellis' card to the defendant's wife, whose husband is a former football star who suffers from diminished capacity. Robert John Burke. He is working undercover as security personnel for Bart Ganzel, the owner of an escort service. After a twelve-year absence from the show, Cassidy returned in the season 13 finale, "Rhodium Nights". But when they find the victim and she confesses to why she killed her rapist, Porter understands why Benson is passionate for working sex crimes. During a heated exchange with Amaro, he pointedly asks her whether she can ever forgive Lewis; she does not answer and he apologizes. Posted on june 12, 2022 by. Carisi is injured, and Jules is killed. She appeared in the 2006 short-lived Law & Order spinoff Conviction as Bureau Chief of the homicide unit. Odafin "Fin" Tutuola is a sergeant in the Manhattan Special Victims Unit. [62] In "Possessed", Moredock drops a statutory rape case because the statute of limitations had run out, even as he states that he finds the defendant, an elderly pedophile, repulsive. Elizabeth Donnelly was SVU's Bureau Chief Assistant District Attorney from seasons 3 to 6. In Psycho/Therapist, Barba faces Lewis in court when the latter acts as his own lawyer and accuses Benson of assaulting him. [19][20] In "Twenty-Five Acts", Amaro seeks temporary SVU commanding officer, Captain Harris (Adam Baldwin), to let Amaro work their rape case solo, telling Benson that she needed a partner she could trust, Benson working the case with Rollins.[21]. Turn on push notifications and don't miss anything! After Barba resigns, traumatized by the case, Stone takes over as ADA overseeing the Manhattan SVU. West never gets the chance to convict anyone, however, the victim's daughter kills all three defendants in the SVU squad room, before Stabler is forced to shoot her dead. Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a spin-off of the crime drama Law & Order, follows the detectives who work in the "Special Victims Unit" of the 16th Precinct of the New York City Police Department, a unit that focuses on crimes involving rape, sexual assault, and child molestation, as well as any crime loosely connected with any of the three, such as domestic violence, kidnapping, and child abandonment. Flag Bar, the World Trade Center Breast Bar, NYPD Meritorious Police Duty, NYPD Excellent Police Duty, and NYPD 150th Commemorative Breast Bar. Sagemiller also added, "She sticks to the letter of the law, sometimes to a fault, but in the end I think she always does the right thing."[45]. After Cassidy helps SVU get insight on the war between Ganzel and an opposing escort service, he has to play both sides of the law as he refuses to sacrifice his three years of undercover work. Within the series, it is eventually said he left Baltimore after his wife cheated on him with a friend. Law & Order is streaming now on Peacock: https://www.peacocktv.com?cid=20200101evergreensymyt206&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=symphony_onlinevideo_brandawar. When the officers pull the woman off her, Greylek tells Stabler to charge her with assault. At the Kings County morgue, Benson asks if she can take one last look at Lewis' dead body in order to achieve closure. When SVU detectives find a teenage boy named Hunter Mazelon (Sterling Beaumon) naked and asleep in a young woman's bed, West tells them that she can't charge him with a sex crime but he can be charged with burglary and criminal trespassing, among other charges. Her shooting leads back to the daughter of Detective Tutuola's narcotics partner, who is out for revenge on the NYPD after her father was injured on the job by protecting Tutuola from a bullet. As Benson returns to identify herself as police, the patrol officer shoots Cassidy twice. Sexy and sassy, he brought a sense of humor to the show. The detectives hold CSU out of the house until Cragen and Greylek arrive. FBI Agent Dana Lewis, who first introduced in the season 7 episode "Raw" while working undercover to bring down a white supremacist group as "Star Morrison". He tells Benson that he took early retirement from the FBI in order to return to New York, where he is now doing private consulting. ADA Gillian Hardwicke replaces Marlowe as SVU's permanent ADA at the beginning of season 12. Sherri West is brought in as a temporary ADA to start season 12. She also tells them that she started drinking in part because she felt responsible for the killer having never been caught. This comes to light when Patton is in New York for a conference and is accused of rape by one of his APD detectives, Reese Taymor (Dreama Walker), at a Manhattan hotel. In season 13, Executive ADA Michael Cutter (Linus Roache) is transferred from homicide to take over Donnelly's former role as supervisor. Dr. Rebecca Hendrix is a former police officer who was at the police academy with Detective Benson. At the end of this episode, Amaro watches his wife enter an unknown brownstone, and he has the increased suspicion that she is having an affair. During a case involving child abuse, Beck tries to foster a traumatized adopted girl, who attempts to burn down her apartment and kill them both. He was raised in Harlem and he served in the United States Army, where he saw combat in Mogadishu. In "Father's Shadow", Cutter is the lead prosecutor when a reality show producer named Fred Sandow (Michael McKean) is accused of raping young first-time actresses. Alexandra Cabot by District Attorney Nora Lewin. In the season 22 finale, Carisi and Rollins kiss. In the season 9 episode "Paternity", Kathy and Detective Benson are involved in a car accident while Benson was helping Elliot by bringing Kathy to the doctor for a check-up. Moredock orders Benson to come with a breathalyzer, which reveals her blood alcohol level is .082, resulting in a mistrial. In the following episode, "Street Revenge", Amaro sees her meet for lunch with the same military friend who appeared in "Spiraling Down". Please. Maggie Dettweiler. Dawn DeNoon (character) Depago (Attorney) Lorenzo Desappio. Olivia Benson is the Captain of the Manhattan Special Victims Unit, which investigates sex crimes. It is revealed that Novak was censured for three years and subsequently re-hired by the DA's office. She was in court for a hearing when she attacked her defense attorney. In the season 6 episode "Ghost", she returned to testify against her assassin, but quickly disappears back into Witness Protection after the trial. [58] Starting in the episode "Babes" to present, Moredock is a judge. Sometimes, the actors are just starting and . "The only offense that the defendant could be charged with federally is the stealing of the car in New Jersey and then using it in New York. The . Both Cabot and Novak were previously supervised by Bureau Chief ADA Elizabeth Donnelly, before she was elevated to judgeship in season 7. The last thing Lewis tells Benson is that his death will be the last thing she will see before she dies. West is called again and pushes Benson and Stabler to find the victim's murderer. She invites him to lunch with Noah, but is enraged when he does not show up and leaves him an enraged voice mail. In "True Believers", he defends a black man who is on trial for attacking a girl in her apartment, and cites poor police procedure and the victim's creditably to get a not guilty verdict. third season episode "Justice" and appearing in his own show, Chicago Justice, Stone, the son of the late Executive ADA Ben Stone (Michael Moriarty) has spent most of his adult life in Chicago, primarily as prosecutor with the State's Attorney's office in Cook County. Ned Eisenberg, the busy Bronx-born character action who portrayed defense attorney Roger Kressler on NBC's Law & Order: Special Victims Unit for more than a decade, has died. People may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Benson is able to get Rhodes to admit that he was abused when he was a child by the head of a camp in New York, which allows Ellis to argue that Rhodes' original defense attorney never presented that during the trial. He is the nephew of Detective Lennie Briscoe (who was portrayed by Chris Orbach's father, Jerry). With Law & Order kicking off a three-hour block of the TV universe, which includes SVU and Organized Crime, there's bound to be crossovers between all three series. He later breaks into Detective Benson's apartment and tortures her before later abducting her and bringing her to at an isolated location, killing a traffic cop and his own defense attorney's parents on the way. Weve been waiting for someone to stand up to him."[42]. The operators of the illegal casino threaten to out Rollins to Benson, and although Rollins comes clean to Fin, Benson is still outraged. West manages to get Mazelon to allocute, which he did falsely, but Stabler wished for West to call for a recess. Suddenly, they see ADA Cabot walk up to the scene with Cragen. NBC. Later, Haden shows up at the scene of a hostage situation, in which Benson is trying to talk a teenage boy down from killing his younger sister. During "She Paints For Vengeance", he is assigned his first case when a young stripper/aspiring artist (Tonya Glanz) is raped by a former athlete. Casey Novak was SVU's Assistant District Attorney from seasons 5 to 9, replacing ADA Alexandra Cabot. Although Benson is at first wary of Haden, they are both surprised to find they work well together. She was primarily partnered with Elliot Stabler, until he retired after season 12. It is revealed in the season 14 premiere that Haden's name came up on the wire tap in the investigation of an escort service. She later returned in the season 13 premiere "Scorched Earth", in which Cabot is the lead prosecutor in a rape case against a man who is the favorite to become Italy's next prime minister. Amaro is clearly rattled by this and goes as far as to threaten to shoot Detective Brian Cassidy if Cassidy did not tell him for whom he was working undercover.