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Law and Order Special Victims Unit- "Payback" (S.1 E. 1)

Summary of the Episode In this pilot episode of now one of the longest running shows on TV, detectives Olivia Benson and Elliott Stabler are members of a unit of the New York Police Department called Special Victims Unit. This unit deals with sexually based crimes. The episode starts with a crime scene, where a man has been stabbed to death in his taxi cab, and we discover that his murderer has also mutilated his genitals. As the episode progresses, the detectives find that the cab licence found on the victim was falsified. By asking around at a local diner, the man's real identity is discovered and the detectives break the news to his wife. After more investigating, they discover that the man is Serbian and has actually been indicted for war crimes of raping over 60 women. Benson and Stabler track down victims of the man, and interview the five that currently live in New York. This aspect of the job is especially hard for Benson, as we learn her own mother was raped, so Benson must overcome her emotions to get the most unbiased results. The coroner has told the detectives that there were two different killers based on the two different knife patterns, and there was a broken nail in the cab that he was killed in. They discover that one of the women has a son that was fathered by the victim, and another woman who owns a restaurant. The woman who owns the restaurant has a broken fingernail and a bandage on her hand. Both women lie and say they don't know each other, but this is false. Benson and Stabler arrest the woman that is a mother, and when they go to arrest the other woman, she slices her femoral artery in attempt at death to avoid prison, and she dies. The next scene is the first woman confessing to the crime in front of the detectives and the District Attorney. Benson and Stabler are able to almost falsify their report so that the woman, who is a victim herself, does not find herself in jail for too long. The captain of the unit is not pleased with this, but it shows the determined and compassionate sides of the detectives. Evidence found in the Crime

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Crime Solved The suspects are originally found by finding victims of the man who live in New York. In addition to this, they have a fingernail that was left in the car that they match to one of the suspects. The coroner told the detectives that they had two killers based on the knife patterns, and one of the killers is left handed. Through interview techniques, the detectives can investigate the alibis of the women which they find to be false. Through the DNA and other forensic evidence, they are able to apprehend the perpetrators.