New Aspect Upwards Constabulary & Lodge Svu “Unintended Consequences” Recap & Review

I’m on the struggle nearly “Unintended Consequences”. Overall I enjoyed it; the story delineate was a welcome pause from the constant “rape of the week” subject together with the interesting representative moved at a fast pace. What detracted a combat was likewise much focus on the Benson-Noah-Sheila story delineate together with i completely unrealistic scenario.

When the episode opens, nosotros reckon a immature missy beingness abducted, together with and then roughly other missy is constitute sexually assaulted together with dead of a drug overdose. The investigation is speedy, starting alongside a see to Narcotics past times Fin where he identifies the drug dealer - Andre “Hackapulco” Johnson. Fin together with the detectives speedily arrest him together with select him to SVU interrogation. This is where nosotros larn Benson’s comment “I’m the bitch that’s gonna smack your pretty human face adjacent fourth dimension I listen you lot say “ho”, which sounded absurd rather than threatening, coming from her. They speedily regain the identity of the dead missy – 15-year-old Natalie Curtis – who was also important together with was supposed to survive inward a drug rehab facility. The parents haven’t seen her inward 3-4 months. (What sort of parents position their teenager inward rehab together with and then don’t reckon him/her for months?) The parents explicate that Natalie broke her talocrural articulation together with the doctors gave her oxycontin and she speedily became hooked, together with then switching to heroin after the doctors cutting her oxy off.

We afterward regain that the kidnapped missy at the outset of the episode was Kristi Martin, the kidnapping arranged to larn her into rehab.

The detectives uncover that Dr. Dennis Barkley, the caput of the rehab facility Lux Residential Treatment Center, is taking payoff of "Obamacare's" improved coverage for addiction issues together with Barkley is inflating medical bills together with medical procedures to bilk the insurance companies. In tandem alongside the Altbrook Sober House, the addicts regain themselves bouncing dorsum from the sober household to the handling center, creating a slowly way to locomote on the “customers” inward the system, generating to a greater extent than opportunities for to a greater extent than (fake) charges to the insurance companies. Later, Barba comments the “unintended consequences” is what volition happened every bit a final result of the MD gaming or cheating the system; the MD volition regain himself inward violation of the RICO statutes – racketeering, drug dealing, insurance fraud.

The unrealistic scenario: Rollins goes hush-hush (this agency wearing a skirt together with dowdy clothes) past times attention an opiate addiction seminar at Lux, headed past times Rosemary Taylor, Lux’s social worker together with “den mom”. Rollins strikes upwardly a coversation with Rosemary, together with Rosemary hires her on the spot to survive her assistant. What someone would hire a stranger to survive their assistant – without a background banking concern check or fifty-fifty a drug test, considering this is a rehab facility - together with hand them virtually immediate access to patient records?

When Benson hears of what Rollins constitute inward accessing together with downloading roughly records,  she’s livid that Rollins conducted an illegal search. I'm a petty confused hither every bit it almost sounded similar Benson had no noesis of Rollins' hush-hush situation.  If Benson didn't know, how did Rollins explicate her absence at SVU to locomote the job?  If Benson DID know of the hush-hush operation, did Rollins disregard whatsoever solid set down rules Benson gave her?  Rollins explains that the insurance companies are beingness raped, using Kristi Martin’s records to present the inflated medical billing. Benson reminds her the records are inadmissible merely together with then she thinks of inevitable discovery.  Rollins together with Carisi eventually larn to Rosemary’s previous assistant, together with regain Lux's connectedness to Altwood Sober House. The sober household is also where they regain a 19-year-old inward accuse at that spot - Anthony Parker – who appears to survive trading sexual activity alongside him for drugs, together with he’s the begetter of Natalie Curtis’ baby.

Rollins confronts Dr. Barkley on the billing issues, his lawyer together with Benson present. Benson also brings upwardly the sober household connectedness together with states they volition testify it inward court. But Barkley’s having none of it, storming out after proverb that these drug addicts won’t brand credible witnesses. This eventually leads them dorsum to Rosemary, together with when they clue her inward on the connectedness betwixt Barkley together with Atlbrook sober house, she seems inward denial. The detectives afterward reckon on surveillance video that Anthony Parker helps motility the girls from i facility to the other. After they reckon this connection, Rollins gets a telephone phone outcry upwardly from Rosemary together with when she together with Carisi larn to Lux to run across alongside her, they regain Rosemary sitting at that spot calmly alongside Dr. Barkley laying on the floor. He’s dying from a drug overdose of fentanyl, alongside Rosemary admitting to administering it to him. He dies, together with Rosemary says they tin arrest her.

The Benson-Noah-Sheila story delineate seemed to pause roughly cracking momentum that the SVU representative was building, together with I constitute myself wishing they’d left these scenes out of this episode. Benson is giving Sheila to a greater extent than fourth dimension to pass alongside Noah, allowing her to read Noah a bedtime story. Sheila reciprocates afterward past times giving Benson a child’s baseball game manus that belonged to her daughter, together with Noah’s mother, Ellie. At the destination of the episode, Benson brings Sheila dorsum to her apartment, telling Sheila that inward this town, “a skilful babysitter is difficult to come upwardly by.” Noah hugs Sheila together with calls her grandma together with Sheila is thrilled. Benson gets a mixed await on her face, maiden of all grin together with and then looking a petty sad. (By the way, what did Benson hand Noah for breakfast? I couldn’t quite larn inward out. It looked similar broken up…something.) Now all nosotros select left alongside this story delineate is to wonder when Sheila volition “kidnap” Noah. The way Law & Order SVU works, nosotros tin entirely assume this is where the story is headed!



Cast:
Mariska Hargitay - Lieutenant Olivia Benson
Ice-T - Detective Odafin “Fin” Tutuola
Kelli Giddish - Detective Amanda Rollins
Raúl Esparza - ADA Rafael Barba
Peter Scanavino - Detective Dominick “Sonny” Carisi, Jr.

Guest stars:
Brooke Shields - Sheila Porter
Peter Scolari - Dr. Dennis Barkley
Annie Corley - Rosemary Taylor
Gus Birney - Kristi Martin
Christiane Noll - Sarah Curtis
Robert Eli - Glen Curtis
Kathryn Kates – Judge Marlene Simons
Noah Gaynor – Anthony Parker
Logan Rose Nelms – Isla Danby
Jason Cadieux – Brett Erikson
Antino Crowley-Kamenwati – Andre “Hackapulco” Johnson
Angela Oh – Katherine Lee
Joshua Pagan – Tom Higgins
Anthony Cason – Henry Gold
Ella Cardelfe – Debbie
Anna Dale Robinson – Blanche
Khadija Griffith – Martha
Charles Techman – Owen
Danny Schoch – Male Nurse
Ryan Buggle - Noah Porter-Benson






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