One of Stabler's former partners joins SVU as an ADA, and helps Benson and Stabler find an arsonist responsible for the deaths of two girls.One of Stabler's former partners joins SVU as an ADA, and helps Benson and Stabler find an arsonist responsible for the deaths of two girls.One of Stabler's former partners joins SVU as an ADA, and helps Benson and Stabler find an arsonist responsible for the deaths of two girls.
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Richard Belzer
- Sergeant John Munch
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BD Wong
- Special Agent Dr. George Huang, M.D.
- (as B.D. Wong)
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Tamara Tunie
- ME Dr. Melinda Warner
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Jeremy Allen White
- Michael Parisi
- (as Jeremy White)
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- TriviaThe case in Texas Dr. Drexel mentions, in which an innocent man was convicted due to faulty application of arson analysis, seems to be a reference to the real-life case of Cameron Willingham, a man executed in Texas in 2004 for the arson murder of his children. In 2009, an independent review of the case by the Texas Forensic Science Commission found that the evidence in the case did not sustain a finding of arson.
- GoofsIn this episode, Elliot's previous partner appears as the new female ADA. However, early in the series we were told that Elliot's previous partner was a male detective who had retired.
- Quotes
Detective Elliot Stabler: [tackling an arson suspect] Where you going? You're running like your pants are on fire.
Detective Olivia Benson: [holding up a hand-held blowtorch the suspect dropped] Well, what do you know? They almost were.
- ConnectionsFeatured in CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley: Episode #46.3 (2024)
Featured review
Stabler and Stone have history
Sharon Stone who got everyone's motors running in Casino guest stars as a new Assistant District Attorney for Sex Crimes. She's got a good track record in the field, back in the day she was Christopher Meloni's first partner, he broke into SVU with her.
Though juries will take the testimony of cops with a grain of salt and in fact are always instructed never to give their testimony more weight than anyone else's at trial, they will accept the word of a fire marshal without question. That's what happens here as the SVU squad gets a case involving what is called an arson fire by the Fire Department and its expert Brad Dourif. He says it was an arson and furthermore the father of the girls set it.
So Meloni and Mariska Hargitay even though they have a suspect, drop him and arrest Kevin Anderson the father. It's a gut wrenching episode because even if the result was unintended, the fact of putting his single digit age daughters in harm's way revolts the audience and we always take the word of fire marshals.
This is a good episode with an unusual twist to it.
Though juries will take the testimony of cops with a grain of salt and in fact are always instructed never to give their testimony more weight than anyone else's at trial, they will accept the word of a fire marshal without question. That's what happens here as the SVU squad gets a case involving what is called an arson fire by the Fire Department and its expert Brad Dourif. He says it was an arson and furthermore the father of the girls set it.
So Meloni and Mariska Hargitay even though they have a suspect, drop him and arrest Kevin Anderson the father. It's a gut wrenching episode because even if the result was unintended, the fact of putting his single digit age daughters in harm's way revolts the audience and we always take the word of fire marshals.
This is a good episode with an unusual twist to it.
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- Jun 1, 2013
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