...Or Just Look Like One
- Episode aired Oct 4, 1999
- TV-14
- 43m
Two underage models are attacked, raped, and killed. The detectives identify the background details of the modeling business.Two underage models are attacked, raped, and killed. The detectives identify the background details of the modeling business.Two underage models are attacked, raped, and killed. The detectives identify the background details of the modeling business.
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- Detective Elliot Stabler
- (as Chris Meloni)
- Assistant D.A.
- (as Liana Pai)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn court, Detective Monique Jeffries (Michelle Hurd) states that a 13-year-old boy accused of rape is being raised in an atmosphere that condones rape. As evidence, the prosecutor introduces a Japanese comic book called "Rape Man", about a high school boy who by night becomes a masked "super hero" who rapes women who wronged him. This is a reference to the 1985 Japanese manga "The Rapeman", by author Shintarô Miyawaki (also credited by pen-name Keiko Aisaki ), about Keisuke Uwasaki, a high school teacher who by night works as some kind of alternative "hitman", but instead of killing, he rapes. The original Japanese manga was aimed to adult males, mixing violence, erotica, and dark comedy.
- GoofsA case where someone steals a doctor's identity, medical license, and DEA license would not be the jurisdiction of local police like the NYPD. Medical practitioners (doctors, dentists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, etc.) don't automatically have the privilege to prescribe all drugs. A medical license gives practitioners authority to prescribe any drug that is not a controlled substance. A practitioner needs to get a separate license from the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration) in order to have the authority to prescribe medications that are controlled substances, like in this case Benzedrine. So if someone were unlawfully prescribing controlled substances by stealing a medical practitioner's identity to fraudulently use that practitioner's DEA license, that crime would be investigated by the DEA and prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney's office, not NYPD narcotics and the New York County DA's office.
- Quotes
[Elliot walks in to find Kathy and Maureen in conversation at the dinner table]
Kathy Stabler: Oh, you're home.
Maureen Stabler: You're probably on her side.
Det. Elliot Stabler: You look healthy enough to me.
[to Kathy]
Det. Elliot Stabler: Have you eaten?
Kathy Stabler: No, I was waiting until you got home.
Det. Elliot Stabler: Manicotti Night, down at Scarentino's. Bottle of chianti, our name on it. Let's get out of here.
Maureen Stabler: You can't make me eat Italian, either.
Det. Elliot Stabler: Good, you're not invited. See you.
- ConnectionsReferences Godzilla vs. Megalon (1973)
The girl turns out to be a teen model who has a pimp for a father so to speak who sees her as his ticket to the easy life. You get to be the parent of a Lindsay Lohan and life is a sweet ride or at least someone thought so for a while.
Imagine the surprise of Benson and Stabler when on the way to another teen queen model's apartment they find Jerry Orbach and Jesse Martin there and investigating her homicide. Someone has definitely got a mission here.
For the glamorous life of a model you get to hang out with some really egotistical and hard people like agent and former model Bebe Neuwirth and fashion photographer Richie Coaster.
It all revolves around a really high end narcotics racket and a cute scam involving a comatose doctor. The message here seems to be don't get into the modeling game.
- bkoganbing
- Mar 19, 2015