She is beaten and helpless, locked with the C.O. in a basement until Detective Tutuola is able to get to her.Without question, Olivia Benson and Eliot Stabler are one of the top ten TV duos of all time.The list has been updated from its original publishing to reflect even more of the best episodes of the long-running series.Each episode showcases the hallmark mystery, emotion, and stellar performances found in the series.
![]() Authority featured Robin Williams in a role for which he received an Emmy nomination. It also combined elements of real cases, like the strip search phone scam with nods to psychological studies by Stanley Milgram. Those ideas ranged from organizing flash mobs and performance art to impersonating a police officer. In one tense scene, he essentially replicates Milgrams original experiment about authority and obedience, trying to get Stabler to shock Benson while he holds her captive. As they searched for more clues, however, more bodies piled up, usually in pairs, and always assaulted before their deaths. Instead of following their clues after the fact, the team was led on a scavenger hunt by a criminal while he still had his victim. It allowed the audience to try to figure out the clues along with the detectives. This season five episode, however, placed the focus on attorney Alex Cabot in what was planned as the characters final appearance. ![]() When her life, and the life of her family, was threatened, and she witnessed the car bombing of a witness, she backed off, only to eventually be placed in witness protection and leave the series. It was a tense episode with high stakes, but left room for the character to return. The ninth episode, Pixies, was not only about the murder of a star gymnast but a series of abuses in the gymnastics community. It was a horror to watch and realize how vulnerable children are in the hands of their own caregivers or mentors, but its even more horrific to recall that these same abuses continue to go on today. The 13th season premiere had big shoes to fill since Christopher Meloni had just left the show. As it often does, the series used a real case as inspiration for the episode--in this case, the Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexual assault case. It was also a harrowing episode for fans who had to watch Benson acknowledge Stablers retirement from the force. The highly-rated episode, which guest starred Scott Foley, not only dealt with the effects of alcohol in the case but in the life of ADA Sonya Paxton. Even Stabler made rookie mistakes with a suspect in this episode, which paralleled the mistakes made by the alcoholics in the episode. SVU often strives to demonstrate human fallibility and the effects of substance abuse but this was one of the most deft examples in the shows history. She is beaten and helpless, locked with the C.O. Detective Tutuola is able to get to her.
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