Starved

"Starved"
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Production number: 07009 First aired: 15 November 2005
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←	th of 502 released in SVU	→
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Written By Lisa Marie Petersen Directed By David Platt

Summary[]

After a dating service is linked to three rapes, Olivia goes undercover to ferret out the rapist and meets Mike Jergens, a surgeon who enjoys controlling the women in his life. The detectives are soon led to his girlfriend, Cora Kennison. But shortly after testifying in the grand jury hearing, Cora marries Mike. After Cora attempts suicide, Mike fights her mother, Virginia, to unplug her feeding tube.

Cast[]

Main cast[]

• Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler
• Mariska Hargitay as Detective Olivia Benson
• Richard Belzer as Detective John Munch
• Diane Neal as A.D.A. Casey Novak
• Ice-T as Detective Odafin Tutuola
• B.D. Wong as Dr. George Huang
• Tamara Tunie as M.E. Melinda Warner
• Dann Florek as Captain Donald Cragen

Recurring cast[]

• Julie White as Dr. Anne Morella
• Stephen Gregory as Dr. Kyle Beresford
• Judith Light as Judge Elizabeth Donnelly
• Fred Dalton Thompson as D.A. Arthur Branch
• Joselin Reyes as Paramedic Martinez
• Nathanael Albright as Paramedic Jones

Guest cast[]

• Dean Cain as Mike Jergens
• Tina Holmes as Cora Kennison
• Kelly Miller as Janice Clay
• Teri Garr as Defense Attorney Minerva Grahame-Bishop
• Veronica Cartwright as Virginia Kennison
• Matt Walton as Jack
• Ivy Omera as Darla
• Virginia Leung as Trish
• Baylen Thomas as A.D.A. Harbin
• Erik Martin as Corrections Officer
• Joseph A. Halsey as Uniform Officer
• Clayton Dean Smith as Man #1
• Shannon Noecker as Woman #1
• Michael Dean Morgan as Man #2
• Katori Hall as Woman #2

References[]

• Speed dating

Quotes[]

Munch: Invented by a rabbi to match his students with Jewish mates. One of my people's many contributions to the world.

Tutuola: Second only to bagels.

Stabler: You seem to know an awful lot about it.

Munch: Well, I went through a little dating slump.

Tutuola: Called adulthood.

Novak: Cora's mom went to the papers. How's that my fault?

Branch: You gave her the baloney and she made the sandwich!

Background information and notes[]

• Goof: During her jailhouse wedding to Mike, Cora is seen with a bouquet of flowers. In the state of New York, bouquets are not allowed in prison weddings due to the fact that contraband could potentially be smuggled in through the flowers.

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