If I Knew Then What I Know Now

"If I Knew Then What I Know Now"
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Production number: 23013 First aired (US): 24 February 2022 First aired (UK): 8 August 2022 First aired (CAN): 24 February 2022 First aired (AUS): 12 May 2022
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Teleplay By Micharne Cloughley & Julie Martin Story By Micharne Cloughley & Warren Leight Directed By Juan J. Campanella

Summary[]

A young woman learning about her birth parents asks Benson for help. Carisi and Rollins weigh the risk of taking their relationship public.

Plot[]

plot

Cast[]

Main cast[]

• Mariska Hargitay as Captain Olivia Benson
• Kelli Giddish as Detective Amanda Rollins
• Ice-T as Sergeant Odafin Tutuola (credit only)
• Peter Scanavino as A.D.A. Dominick Carisi, Jr.
• Octavio Pisano as Detective Joe Velasco (credit only)

Recurring cast[]

• Ari'el Stachel as Sergeant Hasim Khaldun
• Betty Buckley as Trial Division Chief Lorraine Maxwell
• Kadia Saraf as Defense Attorney Anya Avital
• Charlotte Cabell as Jesse Rollins
• Tyree Michael Simpson as Desk Sergeant

Guest cast[]

• Lisa Joyce as Michelle Young
• Gates Leonard as Ashley Peters
• Joe Curnutte as Cole Eaton
• Ben Jeffrey as Josh Wilcox
• Andrew Garman as Tony Peters
• Corey Sorenson as Zach Wilcox
• Veanne Cox as Lois Young
• Suzanne Savoy as Denise Wilcox
• Jennifer Roszell as Sandra Peters
• Kathryn Boswell as Mavis Halpin
• Pearl Shin as Ivy Ng

References[]

• Serafina Carisi
• Billie Rollins
• Noah Porter-Benson
• Jacob deGrom
• Dr. Alexis Hanover
• Serena Benson
• Crazy in Love
• Cognitive interview
• Memory recall
• "Pink cloud" syndrome

Quotes[]

quotes

Background Information and Notes[]

• The first appearance of Charlotte Cabell as the only actress portraying Jesse. She had previously alternated with her sister, Vivian Cabell.
• Velasco and Fin are said to be absent quarantining due to COVID-19.
• Billie is unaware that Carisi is not her father.
• Rollins mentions she called her therapist for advice about what to say about Billie's parentage. Carisi reveals that her therapist is still Dr. Alexis Hanover, who Rollins first met in "The Darkest Journey Home".
  • The detectives also have Michelle Young use the cognitive reenactment technique that Dr. Hanover taught the detectives and Benson used on Raegan James in that same episode.
• Rollins reveals she has not met Carisi’s parents. Carisi has met both of Amanda's parents, though before they were dating. He met her mother, Beth Anne Rollins, in the episode "Maternal Instincts" and her father, Jim Rollins, in "In The Year We All Fell Down". Jim thought that they were dating in that episode and when he found out they were not, he says Carisi is a nice guy and that the men Amanda dated before were losers.
• The story that Michelle Young recounts is similar to the story of her rape by Brett Kavanaugh that Christine Blasey Ford recounted to Congress: the reactions of her prep-school friends trying to distance themselves from the victim, the victim being the only one who remembered the party at which she was assaulted, and her memory being triggered by the layout of the house in which the assault occurred, in particular.
• Michelle Young and her daughter are said to be pink clouding after they think that Young wasn't actually raped. Other episodes mentioning pink clouding include "Girl Dishonored" and "No Good Reason".

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