Actor Upon the retirement of Sergeant Munch at the beginning of season 15, Captain Cragen recommends to her that she should take the sergeant's exam, as she was now his second in command. McCoy sends Paxton to SVU to "clean house" in the "he-said, she-said unit" due to too many convictions being overturned. The two eventually ended their romantic relationship. Leslie Hendrix, who plays Medical Examiner, Elizabeth (M.E.) Benson also calls on Ellis when her half-brother is in need of legal help after his kids have been removed by the city. She is taken to a hospital and, while there, goes into cardiac arrest, eventually dying from a ruptured spleen incurred from the bombing.[64]. After she confesses this to a department psychiatrist, who is working for a commission investigating problems in various police units, she is taken off active duty and ordered to receive treatment. Simon makes his return in season 13, when he pleads with Detective Benson to help him after his children are removed by the city (Benson is visibly shaken when Simon says that their father was a better parent to him, than he was to his own kids). However, when Rudnick gets off the bus in Buffalo, the local police arrest him with Sonny and Rollins backing them, the SVU having discovered his ploy. The two doctors have radically different training and education: Olivet is a clinical psychologist with a Ph.D. earned through graduate studies and a research-based dissertation; whereas Skoda is a physician, a doctor of medicine specializing in psychiatry. A man with dementia confesses to murder, but Benson and Carisi believe there's more to the case. In the second episode "Sugar", she and Stabler get into a heated argument after Paxton calls the suspect's lawyer after he declines his right to counsel twice. ADA Novak returned as a recurring character, along with ADA Cabot, in season 13. He was briefly assigned to oversee SVU cases and to sit co-chair with A.D.A. [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. When the Detectives track down the man they think was the voyeur and go to his apartment, Charlie answers. Going through the case file and Ryan's medical records with Stabler, Warner revised her autopsy results to state that Ryan had died from a fatal arrhythmia brought on by the stress of the chase and his untreated Long QT syndrome. Tucker was originally introduced as a sergeant, but was later promoted to lieutenant. This proves too much for her to handle and she is seen gambling, smoking, and drinking in the final scene. The next morning, the women were gone and Simon was dead. After its determined that Dodds is brain dead, he is taken off life support and dies. As a result of her ruling, and because of Stabler's history of excessive force, he was indicted on murder charges. After the charges are dismissed, Murphy tells Benson he will do what he can, but that he would not pull strings for Amaro, as he is unconvinced that Amaro's career is worth saving. Immediately prior to his transfer, Dodds worked Anti-Crime, and before that, he worked out of the 71st Precinct. When Rudnick takes the stand, he reenacts his version of what happened, with Rita portraying Susie. In her final episode, "Bombshell", Hardwicke attempts to convict twins Cassandra (Rose McGowan) and Doug (Ryan Hurst)who are also in a sexual relationshipfor their involvement in a man's brutal stabbing along with fraud crimes in New York and Miami. He is working undercover as security personnel for Bart Ganzel, the owner of an escort service. Detective Danielle "Dani" Beck is Detective Olivia Benson's temporary replacement in season 8, while Benson is on an undercover assignment (Mariska Hargitay was on maternity leave). After Lake's departure in the season 9 finale, Munch begins working with Tutuola again, while occasionally acting as squad commander when Cragen was unavailable. Benson convinces Porter to help her search for the girl even though Porter was aggravated with Benson and her obsession on finding the girl. Stabler abruptly retires from the Special Victims Unit after he shoots and kills a teenage girl who was recklessly firing a gun in the squad room. Benson uncovers a suspect who may be valuable as a witness. As Benson and Carisi put a vengeful crime boss on trial, Tutuola tries to help a woman who was drugged and left for dead. [26] She says that while she was working in Atlanta, there was an accident that occurred that allowed for her to transfer to the SVU. When Amanda hears screams from inside her apartment, she finds Kim's ex-boyfriend attempting to rape Kim, and Amanda shoots and kills the man as he pulls a gun on her. In the final episode of season 20, Stone devises a fake prosecution to entrap serial rapist Rob Miller (Titus Welliver), and tells one of his victims to lie under oath. Dr. George Huang. They are shown to have been successful in adopting a baby boy named Jaden, who Fin dots on to his coworkers. She is best known for playing the role of medical examiner Elizabeth Rodgers on four Law & Order series (Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Law & Order: Trial by Jury). [14] His wife, Maria Grazie Amaro (Laura Benanti), is doing overseas reporting in Iraq. Towards the end of the fourteenth season, Barba becomes close with the squad, and they rely on his legal advice on many of their assigned cases. In the season 14 finale, Benson and ADA Barba pursue justice for Lewis' victims and attempt to get him locked up for good; but again, Lewis walks on a technicality. He then abandons his car at a train station near JFK International Airport to make them think he is boarding a plane before the hit on his prints came back. 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. [37], TV Guide described the character as an "overbearing", "nasty" alcoholic. As Benson tries to help her, Paxton says "It's okay, I got him," and she dies in Benson's arms. [56] In the seventh season, he works as a defense attorney on a case with Casey Novak as ADA in the episode "Raw", where he defends a Neo-Nazi group. Cutter's office does not drop the charges, even when the producer's son takes his father's girlfriend and her daughter hostage and demands that his father be set free. Her role in the escape leads to mishaps in the justice system being termed "doing a Donnelly" for many years to follow. He feigns shock as they reveal the body's identity as Lena. She is a former police lieutenant and Detective Stabler's partner approximately four years before he paired with Detective Benson. Ken reveals to his father that he is openly gay in the season 7 episode, "Strain". Both Chief Dodds and the entire SVU squad were devastated by his death and Olivia Benson suffers from survivor's guilt. 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." He is not seen or heard from again until the episode "Return of the Prodigal Son," where it is revealed he has been working as an international liaison for the NYPD working to take down organized crime since having come out of retirement in 2017. Amaro begins to question the confession when the boyfriend of the victim comes to the precinct and Lewis says that he was an old friend from when they dated in college at Tulane University. Put on a Bus: Disappears after Season 3, though Lance Reddick has appeared in the Law & Order TV shows four more times as different characters. He eventually joined the Organized Crime Control Bureau in the NYPD. A former homicide detective, he is often hard on Benson and her squad, most notably during their early interactions, but ultimately respects the work that they do and frequently backs them up to the NYPD brass. In the episode "Lost Traveller", ADA Cabot is forced to call on Cutter after defense attorney Marvin Exley (Ron Rifkin) tells her to "call her boss" to work out a deal for his client. In "Spiraling Down", Amaro video chats with her about the father of a victim in one of his cases, who served overseas with her. "[35] Lahti's character was written out of the series by way of death;[36] such is a rarity for those who work with the SVU team on the show, with only a few other characters encountering a similar fate, including CSU technician Ryan O'Halloran (Mike Doyle) in the tenth season, and Sergeant Mike Dodds (Andy Karl) in the seventeenth season. He separates from his wife Kathy during seasons 7 and 8, but they reconcile after she becomes pregnant with their fifth child. His dedication to the job also makes him the target for several IAB investigations during the course of his 12-year career at SVU. Law & Order: SVU Season 23 Episode 3 put Benson and Stabler at cross purposes and set her up to distrust him -- or at least the man he's become. After rushing to put Paley on the stand to testify, Barba and the detectives discover that she did not write the book, which forces Barba to get creative with the trial. Hargitay has received both a Golden Globe and an Emmy Award for her portrayal of Benson. In Psycho/Therapist, Barba faces Lewis in court when the latter acts as his own lawyer and accuses Benson of assaulting him. In 2002, Charlie attacked her in her home during a psychotic episode. Her skills have helped the unit make a number . ET, according to a press release from the New York State Police on Monday, June 27. Benson is tasked with helping EMS stabilize her as they cannot get into the car. Alexandra Cabot by District Attorney Nora Lewin. When Tucker tries to help Benson bust a sex trafficking ring with ties to the Catholic Church (and his own cousin, a priest), it is revealed that he and Benson are in a romantic relationship. Kathy returned to L&O:SVU after a 10-year hiatus along with her husband, Elliot. Olivia Benson. Over the years, 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. Benson later learns he had died of a drug overdose. The two are separated for some time in seasons 6 through 8, but Kathy shows up in the squad-room in the season 8 finale "Screwed" and tells him that she needs him to come home because she is pregnant. 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. [63], Kathy Stabler was Detective Elliot Stabler's wife: they got married when they were both 17. Talking to Fanpop, Tunie believed that it gave her a "leg up as the medical examiner on 'SVU.'". When Rachel's body is formally identified, Rudnick shows her twin sister Brooke in and tells her to brace herself for the ID process. (. In the episode "Undercover Blue", Benson goes to Barba in an attempt to provide evidence that could potentially exonerate Brian Cassidy (Dean Winters) against a rape charge. Baby Killer (Season 2, Episode 5) This episode is directly based on the shooting of Kayla Rolland in 2000 at her elementary school. In response, Yates makes a shocking accusation against Manhattan's Deputy Chief Medical Examiner. (SVU: "December Solstice"), Rudnick later testifies about the dangers of measles in the trial of Trudy Malko after she led a campaign to not get children vaccinated and forged documents to that effect. Porter has not been seen since. Dr. Carl Rudnick was the deputy chief medical examiner of Manhattan and Melinda Warner's boss. Lewis mentions to Benson that she calls her informant "Peggy Sue" because she reminds Lewis of her baby sister, Margaret. 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