A list of puns related to "Law & Order (season 11)"
In this episode, a woman named Megan Parnell is charged with second degree murder and arson for killing her son who was severely disabled(epileptic, poor motor skills, would throw his stool around) and was getting to the point when he needed to be sent to a home. She had devoted everything to caring for her son, had divorced from her husband, and was depressed and worn out even . She eventually gets a mental disease or defect defense from her lawyer(who is an inexperienced, histrionics prone asshole) and SPOILER ALERT on the stand she says that she declined to give him his convulsion shots, putting an end to his suffering and then tried to kill herself with medication and set the building on fire. But this ended up not working and she ended up running outside for help, inadvertently killing her son with the fire instead of with the lack of giving him his shot. McCoy is moved by her story and declines to let the jury consider manslaughter charges so the jury acquits her of murder two and she gets sent to a state hospital. Even in her distress, I am somewhat torn on the verdict and honestly would lean towards a conviction. But where would you all stand?
Under the influence
We get to see McCoyβs personal issues over losing Claire affect his behaviour toward a case when he is very biased toward a drunk driver. It feels like by aligning himself with the judge, who comes across as quite corrupt in his rulings toward what evidence is and isnβt allowed, that McCoy is making a deal with the devil.
Its kind of worrying how this system is set up to make it incredibly difficult for anything to be done about clearly biased attorneys/judges. Jamie can see how biased and wrong their behaviour is but is unable to do anything about it. At least McCoy regains his sense toward the end and makes it so the charge drops from a death penalty to manslaughter.
Expert
An expert often called upon by defence attorneys because of his theory of dissociation he gets shot by the daughter of a former client after he refused to help with her fatherβs appeal only for her to use his own theory as justification for her behaviour.
It doesnβt work so well for the defendant when its revealed the theory has a big hole in it, that her fatherβs account of events during his trial had disproved it without anyone noticing and the victim didnβt want to help with the appeal because it risked exposing that hole in his theory and calling his prior work into question.
In the end the defendant has to face the fact her father was not the good man she believed him to be, that he knowingly committed murder, and consequently she has to take responsibility for her own actions.
Cast off
I donβt think weβve had an episode that focused so much on the bdsm community since season 1 with the hope chest (still think thatβs one of the best lines in this show).
Like last time the detectives start of viewing the bdsm community as weird but I think overall this episode does a better job of showing that most participants of that community are harmless and just as easy of being victims when there is a shark loose in the fish tank.
I really liked McCoyβs closing argument in this one. Really cut through the defence lawyerβs attempt to argue that the defendant is not to blame for his actions because watching violent tv creates psychopaths. But the defendants crimes, gutting people like fish during sexual situations, is a far cry from road runner.
Throughout the whole trial I kept thinking of that line from the film Scream. βMovies donβt create psychos. Movies make psychos more creative.β
Grief
Wow this was twisted. She made her comatose dau
... keep reading on reddit β‘This is just a bit of (admittedly somewhat ghoulish) trivia for anyone interested in both Philosophy Tube and police procedurals. I turned on some Law & Order reruns -- I know the L&O franchise is problematic, I agree, but it's easy to watch while working on other things -- and I started to realize that the plot seemed awfully familiar. To make a long story short, the episode "Great Satan" from season 20 appears to be based on the Cromitie case Abigail talked about in Islamophobia: An Analysis. An informant overzealously convincing three Muslims to blow up a synagogue/shoot down planes, the FBI/NYPD basically creating their own bomb plot, the whole nine yards. Of course, because it's Law & Order, another bomb actually managed to go off (using a detonator provided by Anthony Anderson's character, gasp), and there are some other courtroom twists and turns, but the inspiration is obvious. In fact, the turnaround was quick, considering the actual event occurred in May 2009 and this episode aired in October of the same year. But of course, it is post-9/11 Law & Order, so the whole thing is painted the opposite of how Abigail presented, unfortunately. :S
Anyway, just thought it was worth a mention.
Family business
That woman is a snake. She murders her brother in law for business reasons then gets off by convincing her father to testify it was her sister who committed the murder. It might seem like a win win scenario as her sisters deal with McCoy gives her immunity from prosecution but the defendant has permanently damaged her relationship with her sister and potentially messed up her sisters life by falsely convincing folk she murdered her husband.
Entrapment
I didnβt realise at first this was a call back to that previous season episode where they tried to frame that nerdy looking white guy as an assassin. Logan was still partnered with Cerreta when that went down right?
This time itβs the dead guys son being framed for trying to kill the current leader or at least it looks that way. This political group are just as enclosed and protective of their own above common sense as they were last time which makes it hard for Lennie and Curtis to properly investigate.
It turns out he is being framed by his girlfriend who is also a former FBI informant annoyed at not getting paid for her previous snitching. I'm pretty sure the actress is also detective Cassidy from early SVU?
Legacy
This episode has an old lady hiring hit men to get revenge for her sonβs murder and we get to see Lennie go undercover as a hitman to trick her into hiring him. I did wonder at first how she didnβt recognise him from being questioned earlier about the first hit gone wrong before remembering Curtis had interviewed her by himself.
The old lady somehow manages to come across as a wholesome despite the hiring murderers thing. She is so sincere in her belief that her son was murdered by his friend that McCoy agrees to a deal that involves the AD squad investigating the sons death.
At first they struggle to find evidence that the wife and friend of the victim conspired to murder him until they figure out that the friend was stalking her and murdered her husband to be with her. The poor woman married her stalker.
Menace
This was an interesting parallel of father son relationships. The menace of the title is a horrible person with anger issues and no qualms about terrifying a woman into jumping off a bridge but he passes up the opportunity to skip town and avoid arrest because his poorly father would have no one to look after him.
Whereas the business owners son who seems upstanding moral citizen is involved in underhanded dealings motivated by his own gr
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This episode sees Curtis and Lennie struggle to find a missing baby with no witnesses and only a few leads that go no where. Having three young daughters of his own means Curtis is very sympathetic to the mother. The young woman is praised as being such a good mother by all who know her and is genuinely distressed over her lost child but after spending some time retracing her steps with Curtis she ends up confessing to him that her baby is not missing but dead much to his dismay.
Even though she has already confessed to killing her baby and is showing them where she hid her the detective squad still get quite the shock when Curtis asks where the baby is and the mother responds by opening the furnace.
This is one of those cases where it is hard to judge just because its hard to believe that anyone in their right mind could hurt their child. McCoy is right that the jury is going to want a reason for her behaviour even if none exists just because she had seemed such a good mother beforehand. The defence tries to argue she wasnβt mentally sound and the mother doesnβt seem to have been quite in her right mind with how she rants at the world when called to the stand but she also seems to have known what she was doing was wrong and did it anyway.
Blood libel
Ah, Lennie and food, his one true love. Itβs a good thing he isnβt diabetic or he would never get away with eating so much junk. As it is diabetes is what helps them find the students responsible for the murder of a Jewish teacher though they have to use rather roundabout methods to acquire the blood samples to prove it.
Iβm surprised no one bothered to ask Lennie if he was Jewish or not before the trial started given how the defence is trying to use him as a key piece in their conspiracy theory. McCoy might tell Lennie the case isnβt about him but he also seems to have been working on the assumption that Lennie is Jewish and putting him on the stand would hurt their case without even talking to him about it.
Iβm fairly sure that that having Lennie testify that he was raised Catholic would have hindered the defenceβs Jewish conspiracy theory. As it is they end up with an undecided jury and the defendant deciding to deal because the hot shot lawyer called in to help with his case is abandoning him and heading off to tour the lecture circuit.
Remand
We open with Lennie and Curtis at a crime scene dealing with an open and shut arson case. One of the crooks responsible tries to mak
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Well that is a thing that happens I guess. A jury will sometimes let very guilty people walk free for reasons known only to themselves.
I do feel Andrea hindered the prosecutors and her own credibility by not being completely truthful about some stuff but she took them at face value and trusted them when they said her past sexual history shouldnβt matter. They really should have made it clearer to her that it shouldnβt matter but the jury will still be influenced by it.
The most disturbing thing about this episode is those boys conviction that they did nothing wrong and complete lack of understanding of consent. Being declared innocent only serves to validate that mindset. Did they learn anything from this? It just feels like they will continue to treat girls this way further down the line.
Renunciation
Logan is finally back to his smiling chatting self this episode. Why does he keep referring to Cerreta as big boy though?
This case really swung back and forth like a pendulum on who was guilty with the woman trying to convince the world that her younger lover was an obsessive villain when he was really just a manipulated pawn. And then only after the murder failed to be pinned on some other suspect.
I was so worried about the dog in the opening scene. I really hope the wife didnβt get custody of it as I wouldnβt trust her with it.
Heaven
I donβt think Iβve ever seen the detectives so shook up by a case as in the opening scenes.
Logan is really nice with that nurse. When it comes to women in general he is always really nice even when he isnβt flirting except when they are a suspect in which case he is usually snarky. Unfortunately some of his actions toward the suspects in this episode, pouring beer on their heads and hitting them with files, is not very nice. Is that guy really going to be safe back at his apartment given the angry mob outside?
This is one where we donβt see the trial just the investigation leading up to it. Iβm glad it was some other guy involved and that Stones friend was a good guy.
His hour upon the stage
Logan doesnβt seem too happy being given a case with such slim chances of closure. Cerreta is more optimistic. Also Cardigan!
We donβt get to see the end of the trial but by that point its fairly obvious what kind of verdict they are gonna get. The focus is more on the tangled web of lies and trying to untangle it than on the trial process.
Edit: sorry, I was misunderstanding what no strings attached means. I thought it meant no hidden rules or fees. I just meant regarding getting the money, there's no hidden fees or anything, you just get it.
How important is music to you?
Clarifications:
The catalog of all music you will listen to in your entire life has been compiled (including yet to be released music which you will listen to in the future).
Out of this list, 50% of songs will be selected. This list never changes. Starting from the moment you agree to this offer and receive the money, when any of these particular songs are audible to you, instead of hearing that song, you hear the theme song to Law & Order. If a song is on this list, it will always be, and you will never hear the original song again. If it is not on the list from the start, it will never become on the list.
Even live performances of these songs are heard as the theme song to Law & Order. In fact, any song can be on the list: TV show and movie themes, commercial jingles, video game music, Christmas carols, etc. If it's a song, it's eligible. Maybe the next time you're at a birthday party and people begin to sing the happy birthday song, you will just hear this.
If you ask somebody to describe a new song from your favorite band because it's on the list, as they speak, you will only hear the theme song to Law & Order.
If you try to read a review about a song which is on the list, all you see is, "In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate, yet equally important, groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories" over and over until it fulfills the length of the review.
The cash reward of $1,000,000 is truly no strings attached. The authorities will not become suspicious, and there are no taxes or fees.
Thank you.
Edit 2: alternatively, you get $10 million, but it is deposited into your account at a random time between now and the day you die. You have no idea when it will be. Maybe you won't get it for another 30 years. Maybe it'll be next week.
I sure hope so. Canβt wait to see if they include some of the classics. βWas someone looking at child pornographyβ or even βIβm not going to allow that. Are you going to allow for thatβ. Itβll be interesting to see how they handle it since they like to base their show on real life events.
I tried to remove a Narcissist from my home back in February and he broke my wrist. (Lots of details Iβll skip regarding that, for now.)
I installed security cameras. Let him stay here while my wrists healed. Used him for lifting and other chores I couldnβt do with two broken wrists. (I only documented one. Long story for later.)
Wrists finally healed and I then kicked him out in front of two audio and video recording cameras. This was successful.
I filed Domestic Assault charges by a Law Enforcement officer with the State.
They investigated, thoroughly I should add. Contacting my medical professionals, etc.
The DAY the Criminal Investigator placed the final report on the Attorney Generalβs desk for reviewβ the Ex filed stalking and harassment charges against me! π³
This is a common technique used by Abusers, used to discredit the victim and to DARVO themselves as the victim, creating a smokescreen of diversion/distraction.
My little recovering-self ponied up a top-notch lawyer, and yesterday went to Court in defense of that Protective Order. (Finding an attorney was a lesson in persistence. All the Domestic Violence Resources for my county were withdrawn from my use because he shares the same County βemployerβ as the DV Advocate and the Prosecuting Attorney!!!!). WTF comes to mind. Thatβll be my next battle, that they create an Alternate Plan for when this next happens.
The case was dismissed! The Judge dismissed the stalking charges against me. :)
I am still waiting on the case from the State for breaking my arm.
He got chewed out a little by the Judge for creating false drama where none existed. And one of his coworkers, another deputy, was the bailiff so everyone will hear about our dirty laundry soon. (My attorney said he saw the Bailiff laughing at the Ex and his ridiculous allegations.)
His reputation has been dinged. His narcissistic ego has been dinged.
He represented himself, so thatβs another blow to the ego.
Ladies: Do NOT let shit slide just to avoid the confrontation β and to be happy to have gotten away! (Yes! Get yourself safe β but donβt roll over and let them get away with abuse!)
Stand up for yourself. Value YOU.
Stand π your π ground! π
One day, there will be some woman somewhere who will be Googling this name, and my charges of assault and the dismissed charges of his attempt at gaslighting the Court, will show up. (I already know of three other Abuse victims of hisβ¦)
While this is only t
... keep reading on reddit β‘I love SVU, so much. This episode, in particular, is one of my favorites because it calls morality into question. While this TV show does not depict very accurate representations of real investigations, it does a good job of showing how an investigation can be done poorly.
SPOILER AHEAD
In this episode, a couple of teens sexually assaulted and killed a young boy. They looked up the sex offenders registry, and mimicked the assault of a person on that registry. They blamed the crime of the same person whom they copied from, and the detectives blindly ran with it. The man had a solid alibi and all evidence proved him innocent; he was found innocent on the charges. Only then did the detectives really question the boys on the witness statements that they had given, easily finding inconsistencies in their statements. Eventually, leading them to be arrested.
It really shows how confirmation bias can skew investigations. Which is an ongoing thing throughout the SVU series. And I think that is what makes this show accurate, showing the mistakes that detectives can/do make in real life situations. If you watch this episode, the man who was falsely accused of the crime, was coopertive and open with the detectives. But suffered in the end.
This is a really good episode imo, for anyone who has not watched Law & Order Special Victims Unit before. But i'd also like to know episodes that other people liked and why.
Meet Detective Andy Parlato-Goldstein. He was in the episode "Silent Night, Hateful Night" (23x10).
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Interesting name, right? The similarities don't end there.
- Wisecracking, occasionally flippant personality
- Half Jewish, half Italian
- Wears plaid shirts
- And for the final piece of evidence...
Is that... a little police officer figurine?
A part of me thinks this is some kind of tribute, the other part thinks I'm going insane from self-isolation π
They promoted that the entire Law & Order would be on Peacock and we only got the worst of the show.
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