Entitled (SVU)

"Entitled"
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Production number: E0918 First aired (US): 18 February 2000 First aired (CAN): 18 February 2000 First aired (AUS): 5 June 2000
	th of 502 produced in SVU
←	th of 502 released in SVU	→
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Teleplay By Robert Palm & Wendy West Story By Robert Palm, Rene Balcer & Dick Wolf Directed By Edwin Sherin

After a salesman is found murdered, the SVU detectives join forces with the officers from the two-seven.

Plot[]

After a salesman is murdered, the detectives turn their attention to Stephanie Mulroney, the youngest daughter of a well-known family with deep connections. But as they join forces with the officers from the two-seven, they realize that their case is connected with a long-unsolved case that Lennie Briscoe once handled years ago with his former partner, Mike Logan.

Cast[]

Main cast[]

• Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler
• Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson
• Richard Belzer as Detective John Munch
• Michelle Hurd as Detective Monique Jeffries
• Dann Florek as Captain Donald Cragen

Recurring cast[]

• Leslie Hendrix as Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers
• Angie Harmon as A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael
• Steven Hill as D.A. Adam Schiff
• Jesse L. Martin as Detective Ed Green
• Jerry Orbach as Detective Lennie Briscoe
• Sam Waterston as Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy
• Chris Orbach as Detective Ken Briscoe

Guest cast[]

• Josef Sommer as Patrick Rumsey
• Noelle Beck as Stephanie Mulroney
• Katy Selverstone as Emily Shore
• Jesse Doran as Police Commissioner's Aide
• Nahanni Johnstone as Helen Katisch
• Sean Cullen as Arthur Pruitt
• Jane Alexander as Regina Mulroney
• Betsy Aidem as Pauline Brecker
• Amy Hohn as Delia Woodruff
• Bill Hoag as Barry Rhinehart
• Sophie Hayden as Dr. Winters
• Jordan Lage as Alfred
• Samantha Buck as Waitress
• Thomas Schall as Doctor
• Chris Lindsay-Abaire as Moira Shannon
• Randy Lewis as CSU Technician
• Gregory Northrop as CSU Detective
• Steve Harris as Uniform
• Anthony Barrile as Lab Technician
• Nick Muglia as Eddie
• Joe Pentangelo as Sammy
• Allison Krizner as Julie Templeton
• David Toney as Building Manager
• Michael Cavalier as Neighbor #1
• Diane Cossa as Neighbor #2
• Drew Richardson as Reporter #1
• Patrick F. Kline as Snotty Guy
• Dara Brown as Snotty Girl
• Jim Barry as Reporter #2
• Dennis Higgins as Bailiff
• Patrick Tovatt as Judge Barry Abrams
• Mike Alpert as Gus Iacone

References[]

• 27th Precinct
• Staten Island
• Mike Logan
• Mike Tyson
• Dean Woodruff (victim)
• Chappaquiddick incident
• Buddy Holly
• Misogyny
• John Birch Society
• Saint Peter

Quotes[]

Benson: The crime scene is a big grope spot.

Stabler: Romantic. Teenagers, honeymooners, [glances at Olivia] co-workers.

Cragen: So where's this guy's love interest?

Benson: Uh... we're running down the prints.

Munch: Maybe he was alone.

Benson: [sarcastic] Well, maybe his pants came off from the force of the shot.

Munch: All I'm saying is he could have been having safe sex with himself.

Stabler: Those are not wagon trains circled around Stephanie. Those were tanks.

Jeffries: He was shot with a Black Talon?

Munch: Cop killers. They haven't been made since 1994.

Jeffries: Yeah, because they killed too many cops.

Munch: Nah, the real reason was, it was instantly recognizable. Bullet makers want anonymity. If you can't prove where the bullet was made, you can't sue the manufacturer. Where would we be without lawyers?

Adam Schiff: The nuclear medicine wing at Bronx general, Mulroney chair in public policy at the new school.

Police Commissioner's Aide: Not to mention paying for the restoration of half the structures in the park. My god, Senator Mulroney was instrumental in getting sex crime legislation passed in the Senate.

Cragen: For which we're eternally grateful.

Adam Schiff: Don't be facetious. We're up against some very big guns.

Cragen: I met them. The matriarch and her white-shoe lawyer. Look, Adam, this girl's story is a mess.

Commissioner's Aide: She was in shock. What's the motive, by the way?

Cragen: She was involved with the victim in Saratoga. Now, maybe he date raped her, maybe he had sex with her and forgot to call. Either way, she was mortified. We think she stewed in her resentment for years -...

Adam Schiff: You think? You think!

Cragen: [continuing] And when she ran into him in the city, she allowed herself to be picked up.

Commissioner's Aide: So that she could go out necking, then run outside and shoot him while he cooperated by sitting still?

Cragen: This girl is no stranger to trouble, she's been arrested for cocaine.

Commissioner's Aide: Possession. You're talking about murder for god's sake.

Adam Schiff: Find the weapon, make the case!

Cragen: [voice rising] We have a case! We have motive! We have opportunity!

Aide: What about means? Where's the gun?

Cragen: Maybe in the Hudson River. Maybe the East River!
[to Schiff] Sir, with all due respect, 90 percent of all murderer's you put into Attica are there without a murder weapon.

Adam Schiff: Talk to McCoy.

Cragen: Thank you.

Cragen: Cocaine users, last I heard, were prone to distorting the truth. She lied to us about when she met the victim, she lied about her trauma the morning after the shooting so Mommy Dearest could put her on ice

McCoy: Hail Regina. Queen of the Mulroney clan.

Cragen: I've had it up to here with these people.

Carmichael: [to Cragen] What about your composite of the shooter?

Cragen: What about it, Abbie?

Carmichael: Well, it's based on her eyewitness account. If she's so unreliable, where does that leave you?

Cragen: With her. We think she's the shooter. Like I told Schiff, motive, opportunity. Okay, now she told us she was changing the radio station when this black-rimmed guy appeared, okay? But she can't remember what song was playing. You change the station when something is on that annoys you! These are things you remember. She's zooming us, Jack.

Carmichael: A .44 is a big gun. The whole idea of her shooting him from behind begs credulity.

McCoy: She didn't have to pull the trigger. We'll have to deal with damage control from Schiff. And the Press and security after the arraignment.

Carmichael: Jack, these are powerful people. They're magnets for weirdos.

Cragen: [to McCoy] You're going for it?

McCoy: Making false statements, luring a guy to his death for revenge. We'll go murder two, and then we'll flip her on the shooter.

Patrick Rumsey: My client pleads not guilty, Your Honor.

McCoy: We ask for remand, Your Honor.

Patrick Rumsey: You're joking?

McCoy: We have information the defendant's family obtained an expedited passport for her only yesterday.

Carmichael: As you know, also, Your Honor, she has unlimited financial resources

Judge Barry Abrams: I think we're all aware of that, Ms. Carmichael.

Carmichael: Therefore, we believe she's a serious flight risk.

Rumsey: Your Honor, this is incredible.

Judge Abrams: I agree. I find it incredible that this young woman should have so lowered herself to the standards by which she was raised. And I find it believable that she would put herself above the law. I don't intend to have Ms. Mulroney gallivanting around Europe like some jet-set fugitive. Not on my court's record. Bail is denied and I intend to remand the defendant to the Department of Corrections.

Reporter #1: Reporter #1: Mr. McCoy, any response to that?

McCoy: I'm sorry, to what?

Reporter #1: That holding Ms. Mulroney without bail is totally ridiculous?

McCoy: The Mulroney family is used to getting it's way.

Reporter #1: Are you saying they get preferential treatment?

McCoy: Ah, come on.

Carmichael: We're saying they deserve all due process of the law. No more, no less.

McCoy: I hope to God we're right on this.

Cragen: I hear Logan's learning to love Staten Island.

Munch: Vanity, thy name is woman.

Jeffries: It's frailty, not vanity, you misogynist.

John Munch: One minute you're getting your doorknob polished, the next you're sweet talking St. Peter.

Briscoe: [referring to the prior unsolved case] There was this annoying old homeless lady, and a lot of snow. Logan and I froze our asses off - that's the main thing I remember.

Stabler: What about the guy in the car?

Briscoe: Stiff as a board. But not from the cold. We looked and looked but we never found the weapon. Just a description of a guy with glasses.

Benson: Black, like Buddy Holly?

Briscoe: Yeah, black - like Buddy Holly.

Green: Fashions change, clothing, hairstyles, glasses.

Briscoe: We arrested the wrong guy. It was just one of those days all around. The only description we had was from one eyewitness, Jill Templeton. This guy's back?

Benson: With two more hits under his belt.

Munch: You're enjoying this, these little guys trying to sweet-talk you into giving us a little crumb of information!

Pruitt: Oh yeah, yeah, it's the high point of my life.

Munch: Better than shooting those people in cold blood, you little reptilian geek?!

Pruitt: Oh it's bad cop now, right?

Munch: You bet your ass!

Jeffries: John, easy.

Munch: You did it, you piece of crap! I know it, you know it!

Jeffries: Seriously, come on.

Munch: No, I'm going to kill this guy myself.

Pruitt: Call him off, call him off.

Munch: I'm gonna Mike Tyson you, you bastard!

Pruitt: Come on. Is this legal?

Jeffries: Probably not.

Munch: I'm gonna kill you, I'm gonna kill you, I'm gonna kill you.

Munch: Will you ever have dinner with me?

Rodgers: Not while I can still feed myself.

Background information and notes[]

• The conclusion of this episode aired as the Law & Order season ten episode "Entitled, Part II".
• This episode is the last episode of SVU to feature Law & Order cast members Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin and Angie Harmon, the first one to feature Sam Waterston, and the only one to feature Steven Hill in the series.
• Actress Samantha Buck played an unnamed waitress in this episode. She would later return to the Law & Order franchise in several episodes from Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Detective G. Lynn Bishop.
• Actress Jane Alexander was nominated for an Emmy Award in the category Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her portrayal of Regina Mulroney in this episode, and in the Law & Order episode "Entitled (L&O)".
• This "Buddy Holly" serial killer featured in this episode committed the same murder featured in the 1994 Law & Order episode "Mayhem." As Lennie Briscoe mentions; he and his then-partner, Mike Logan, searched for the suspect (in addition to dealing with several other homicide cases that same day) but they arrested the wrong man, Scott Hexter, who was later killed in prison by a fellow inmate before Briscoe and Logan learned of their mistake.
  • Allison Krizner appears as Julie Templeton (named Jill Templeton in "Mayhem"), the woman who witnessed the murder and is now asked to identify the new suspect in a police lineup. Templeton was originally played by Robin Tunney.
• The wealthy, powerful Mulroney political family was loosely modeled on the Kennedys. The daughter (charged with a serious crime, but then released) was inspired by a case involving William Kennedy Smith, who in 1991 was tried for sexual assault and was acquitted.
• At the very end of the episode, as the credits appear, Captain Cragen is walking away from Sergeant Munch. You can see that the direction Cragen is walking ends in a dead end consisting of a U-shaped bench, meaning there would be no where for him to go. Presumably had the scene continued Cragen would have run into the bench.

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