TV Bender

I have to say that this weeks visit to the world of ‘SVU’ was one of the most intriguing episodes that I have seen. This is one show that I would hate to have pushed into reruns by the writer’s union. Not that I have anything bad to say about the strike. Quite the opposite, actually I think that the creative minds behind our favorite tv shows are more than justified in this attempt to receive more money. They create the characters, the plot twists, and just generally make TV shows more than just reality TV. I’m sorry I guess I’m getting a little offtrack here. So two people stumble across a body stashed in an elevator shaft. It was this lady who had been dosed with GHB then strangled with her own pantyhose. The killer also cut her breasts off as a trophy. So they go to the victim, Tina Snow’s apartment to find out from her roommate that she was involved in something weird. They find a burnt piece of paper that, through modern forensics, has a location and a time. The detectives head to the location only to find some kind of weird adventure seekers. They say that the night she died they left her at the Hata Mari bar. The bartender, Cecilia, says she left with some guy later that night. After she gives a description to a sketch artist, she calls Detective Benson during which she is apparently attacked. When they get to the bar they find what appears to have been a struggle and a picture of the Venus De Milo painted in blood. After running the painting through the symbol recognition software at the precinct it turns up with hit on the serial killer Robert Morton who is currently serving eight life sentences. He is expertly played by Jared Harris. He was known for torturing women for exactly twelve hour before murdering them. This means that they have a limited amount of time trying to catch this copycat before he murders Cecilia. It turns out that he has quite the following outside of prison. After wading through a number of dead ends, they find that Tina’s murder was a mirror of the cover of a graphic novel made about Robert Morton. The comic basically explores the possibility of what would have happened if he wasn’t caught. They question the writer, but his alibi is confirmed. They find that the picture left at the bar was the cover of another issue of the comic. The comic says that the girl is killed in Robert’s childhood home. They arrive there to find Cecilia barely alive. She has been cut, but she is OK. At the precinct they receive a bomb hidden in a pizza box. After they evacuate the building someone comes up to Stabler and Benson saying that the girls wounds were self inflicted. So she turns out to be intimately connected to him through his lawyers. She ends up getting off on mental defect. Morton gets his though when he is transfered to a Supermax prison allowing no human contact. By the way check out my last post by clicking here.