So for those who do not know, in the upcoming weeks, I think November:

This was a good episode. Although it strayed a little from the Law and Order formula of you don't know much about the main characters its the cases that matter. I think everyone has seen this coming from Stabler for the life of the show, but it's still nice that they touch on it a little more. Once again great casting involved in this episode.

Pretty good episode, though I can't say I enjoyed the topic of it. And I really have to think that what Elliot was doing for the whole episode was Entrapment.

(thanks Deftones, I did a search for SVU but didn't find anything)

I thought that they implied he did not rape until Elliot set him up with the van.

Great episode tonight. I am wondering where they are going with Elliot as I don't want to see him take a criminal path, but they've been edging him darker and darker as of late (becoming more violent, his family leaving him, etc).

I was expecting a different twist for this episode. Initially I thought that the retired detective raped/violated the girl as a setup to get Robert Patrick back into prison since he had it in for him so much. I figured they'd tail Patrick for the first half of the episode til they miraculously found evidence of a different man. It would have easily fit since he was tailing Patrick and was already near the scene of the crime, but they left the plot point of who raped the girl open so it really could have been either guy.

I was thinkign this as well. Would have been a much more interesting twist coupled with Stabler pushing him towards his urge for young women again.

Good episode, but I am already sick of Stabler's anger this season after one episode. I hope that he is revealed to be a pedophile or something this season just to add some spice to the show.

Patrick did a good job, but I really didn't care for the ambiguousness of this ep.

Seems to me that they did everything possible to tempt that guy. It seemed like his parole had stuff built in to force him away from temptation, but then SVU came in and started parading young girls in front of him, getting him a van and a partner, Stabler talking to him about how it felt, etc etc.

I think a decent lawyer may be able to get the guy out of jail. Plus, isn't Stabler at least partially responsible for the abduction of that girl?

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Yeah, I thought that they went over the line with the temptations as well. I thought that Patrick did a good job.

I agree, but I think that is what made it an excellent episode.

Jeez. Who knew Robert Patrick was such a good sex offender?

Great season premiere. Still the best L&O.

Very good episode.

Meloni seemed like he was playing Chris Keller again during some of the scenes with Patrick's character, minus the making out with him.

No way they will make Elliot a sex offender, while I agree his anger is gettin' old, any drastic change like that would simply not work.

I can't see him being a sex offender either. Maybe he was molested as a kid? It would help to explain his anger.

He definitely has a Keller vibe to him again in many of the shows. Where's the softie that played Julia Robert's fiance in Runaway Bride?

Great premiere! No problem with the Stable-anger storyline.

Assuming he survives. I wouldn't be surprised if the guy ended up dying in the hosptial from a crushed layrnx or something an episoded or two down the line. Would make for an interesting storyline....but I think the below is a more interesting possibility.



Definitely. Patrick's character was at least making an effort to stay on the wagon until Elliot pushed and enticed him to far. That's the one reason I think that his charcter probably won't die. Will be a much more interesting future story line to have a trial and have the defense blame it on Elliot.

Yeah - this was an episode where the Order half would have been very interesting to watch play out. Should have been a 2-parter.

I can't wait for the SVU/Flagship crossover next week.

I thought it was rather boring, even par for the course on SVU. I've seen much better episodes, with better guest stars. It seems like they normally have great roles that give the guest star time to shine, but this seemed like a normal script where they threw in a big name guest star instead of an extra. This is usually on their top scripts of the year for Emmy nominations, I don't see it for this one.