Law & Order: SVU Season 23 Episode 19 Review: Tangled Strands Of Justice

Deputy Chief Garland’s go to was welcome information.

Even higher: he was pursuing a chilly case that obtained pushed apart because of the 9/11 tragedy.

Regulation & Order: SVU Season 23 Episode 19 tackled each that story and one other about unethical investigative procedures with out giving both brief shrift. Nicely executed!

Garland’s case was difficult as a result of so a few years had handed since he first began investigating.

I am a sucker for chilly circumstances for exactly this motive. They’re practically inconceivable to research, and the detectives want a significant stroke of luck to get wherever near a solution.

Rollins: So after 9/11, the case was placed on the again burner?
Cop: Extra like pushed off the range. There have been circumstances earlier than and after, however throughout? There have been so many tragedies that simply obtained forgotten about.

On this case, it was doubly troublesome as a result of the unique search was known as off after the planes hit the World Commerce Heart in the course of the September 11 assault. Because the cop answerable for the unique investigation identified, numerous circumstances fell by means of the cracks in the course of the chaos.

This is not a facet of the 9/11 assault that TV usually discusses, so I appreciated Regulation & Order: SVU bringing it up, although it was in the end a small a part of the story.

As quickly because the cops interviewed Cora and her father, one thing felt off about him. He appeared to overlook that the search occurred the day after Aretha went lacking whereas retrieving her scooter.

That would have been an age-related reminiscence slip, however it was unlikely that somebody would overlook particulars of their beloved granddaughter’s disappearance.

Probably the most shocking factor in regards to the decision of this case was that the grandfather solely molested Aretha. Often, sexual predators inside a household do not focus solely on one member, and since Nina had a extreme drug drawback, I used to be certain he’d molested her too.

As a substitute, the grandfather appeared to assume that having intercourse with a thirteen-year-old was okay as a result of he wasn’t her organic grandfather.

The reveal that he killed Aretha was anticlimactic. Aside from Garland saying that he did not miss a cop after working a case like this one, there was little emotional response from anybody.

Cora and Nina reconciled, and Cora by no means needed to listen to from Aretha’s assassin once more. It felt like too neat an ending, which marred an in any other case glorious story.

I might have particularly favored extra emotion from Garland.

He cared so deeply about this case that he remembered it after nearly 21 years and needed SVU to lastly shut it in order that he may give the household closure. But his response was subdued and nearly mental after discovering out that Aretha’s grandfather had raped and killed her and had pled responsible off-screen.

Possibly the years of expertise have left him indifferent, however I anticipated one thing extra from him after his dedication to shut this case all these years later.

It appeared like all of the emotion was reserved for the opposite case of the hour, which is one that’s certain to have loads of repercussions as SVU’s season strikes towards its finish.

Szabo resented Benson exposing her inappropriate use of rape kits to catch criminals, and it is unlikely that that’ll go away now that the DA was kind of blackmailed into doing the fitting factor. Her remark about Benson placing her finger on the dimensions for a companion was telling, too.

Stabler retains getting in over his head on Regulation & Order: Organized Crime, and more often than not, Benson involves his rescue. May Szabo’s remark be foreshadowing of issues to return?

Both method, Benson made an enemy out of Szabo, and Szabo is unlikely to go quietly into the evening. I do not know what she’s going to do, however I am certain there’s extra hassle for Benson or SVU forward.

The opposite attention-grabbing factor right here was that the victim-turned-suspect was related to Henry Mesmer.

Henry’s already gone head-to-head with SVU twice, as soon as as a younger baby and as soon as as a younger grownup. With one in all his victims ending up in jail for grand larceny, I’ve to surprise if he will likely be again a 3rd time.

Final time, Rollins made a reference to him, and if he escapes or is launched for no matter motive, he is certain to use that. That would trigger some drama in her burgeoning relationship with Carisi.

Speak about upping the drama! I am excited for no matter SVU is planning for Henry.

As for the case itself, this featured Benson at her greatest. She was prepared to go to bat for rape victims’ rights to privateness it doesn’t matter what it took.

She did not care that Libby was responsible of grand larceny or that the DA’s workplace had a case towards her unrelated to the unethically-obtained DNA proof. Nor did she care about Szabo’s damage emotions.

She was combating for victims’ rights, interval, regardless of the price. These tales are all the time Benson’s strongest; she’s in her aspect, combating the great struggle and pushing again towards a system that cares extra about closing circumstances than justice.

It was considerably handy that the Queens DA had cast a choose’s signature on some wiretaps in order that she may very well be compelled to do the fitting factor, however that form of corruption did not appear out of character for her.

Fortunate for her that she works out of Queens fairly than Manhattan, as I doubt Jack McCoy would put up with this sort of conduct from any of his DAs.

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