LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT {LAW AND ORDER: SVU}: WRONG IS RIGHT {SECOND SEASON PREMIERE} (TV)
Summary
One in this series of police dramas -- a spin-off of "Law & Order" -- about the sexual crimes investigated by the elite Special Victims Unit of the New York Police Department. In this installment, Stabler comes upon the burning corpse of a murder victim while driving his daughter home from a day at the beach. The deceased is Andrew Croft, a rocket scientist working for a classified defense contractor. Croft's sixteen-year-old ward, Michael Goran, is now missing, along with Croft's car. The police find Michael upstate with his girlfriend Denise, and he confesses to the killing, giving no motive other than an argument resulting in a struggle. Munch, however, discovers that "Croft" was an assumed identity for a convicted child molester and that the dead man's employers covered up this fact because he was so valuable to the nation's armament program. Michael repeatedly denies that Croft molested him, but when his best friend reveals knowledge of the abuse the young man is forced to admit that he was repeatedly victimized. In so doing, he implicates an accomplice in Croft's pedophilia. Meanwhile, both Stabler and Jeffries are under investigation by a police commission for information they confessed while under psychological evaluation. Commercials deleted.
Details
- NETWORK: NBC
- DATE: October 20, 2000 Friday 10:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:44:15
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:61542
- GENRE: Drama, police; Drama, legal
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama, legal; Drama, police; Sex crimes
- SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1999-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Ted Kotcheff … Executive Producer
- Dick Wolf … Executive Producer, Created by
- Peter Jankowski … Co-Executive Producer
- Arthur W. Forney … Co-Executive Producer
- David J. Burke … Co-Executive Producer, Writer
- Judith McCreary … Supervising Producer
- Jeff Eckerle … Producer, Writer
- Joe Lazarov … Producer
- David Declerque … Producer
- Wendy West … Co-Producer
- Lynn Goldman … Co-Producer
- Ted Kotcheff … Director
- Mike Post … Music by
- Christopher Meloni … Cast, Elliot Stabler
- Mariska Hargitay … Cast, Olivia Benson
- Richard Belzer … Cast, John Munch
- Michelle Hurd … Cast, Monique Jeffries
- Stephanie March … Cast, Alexandra Cabot
- Ice-T … Cast, Odafin "Fin" Tutuola
- Dann Florek … Cast, Donald Cragen
- J.K. Simmons … Cast, Dr. Emil Skoda
- Paul Wasilewski (see also: Paul Wesley) … Cast, Danny Burrell
- Lance Reddick … Cast, the Grand Jury Forensics Detective
- Nathan J. Wetherington … Cast, Jason Sloan
- Adam Kaufman … Cast, Michael Goran
- Stephanie March … Cast, Alexandra Cabot
- Gerry Bamman … Cast, Craig Prince
- Laura Regan … Cast, Denise
- Lauren Kressel … Cast, Student #2
- Michael X. Martin … Cast, Principal Dietz
- Christopher Wynkoop … Cast, the Local Police Officer
- Geoffrey Ewing … Cast, Ralph Noble
- Denise Burse … Cast, Counselor Scheider
- Ryan Witherspoon … Cast, Albert Bigelow
- Suzanne Grodner … Cast, the Teacher
- Michael Hollick … Cast, the Coach
- T.J. Kenneally … Cast, PD Eisendrath
- John A. McGinty … Cast, Policeman #1
- Elizabeth Martin … Cast, the School Secretary
- Curtis Holbrook … Cast, Student #1
- Isabel Gillies … Cast, Kathy Stabler
- Erin Broderik … Cast, Maureen Stabler
- John Driver … Cast, Police Commissioner Lyle Morris
- John Doman … Cast, Munch's Informant