Choreographed (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)

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“Choreographed”
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode
Episode no.	Season 8 Episode 170
Written by	Paul Grellong
Directed by	Peter Leto
Guest stars	See Guest stars section below
Production no.	08010[1]
Original airdate	November 28, 2006
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (season 8)

Choreographed is an episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It originally aired on November 28, 2006.^[2]

Contents 1 Episode recap 2 Themes 3 Guest stars 3.1 Primary 3.2 Secondary 4 Notes 5 Quotes 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Episode recap

A stray dog interrupts a pair of teenagers about to have sex in Central Park late at night; the dog leads them to a man running away from a woman (Danielle Masoner) who is having seizures. The girl asks the woman if she had been raped, and the woman appears to nod before she dies. Danielle’s husband Wes tells Stabler about her life before his friends Glenn and Naomi Cheales come to pay their respects; later, Stabler watches a videotape of Danielle leaving a local coffeehouse, followed by her meeting with a local homeless man (Mr. Keener).

Stabler goes to the homeless camp near Central Park and finds Keener with a picture of Danielle; then Keener tries to attack him with a knife. They then go to the hospital, where the doctor tells Stabler that Keener cannot speak due to Broca’s aphasia. Keener is able to answer Stabler (and Benson)’s interview questions anyway via a whiteboard, and they learn that the other man he saw with Danielle in the coffee shop has salt-and-pepper hair and a broken arm. They find the man (Steve), who states that he lived with Wes and Danielle, that he overheard Wes having phone sex with another woman, and that Wes threatened him.

The detectives pick Wes up from his dance company and he insists that what Steve said are all lies; then his lawyer(Stella Danquiss) takes him home. The detectives then go to the Cheales’ residence where Glenn demonstrates that he equipped the house for keyless entry via RFID technology. Then Glenn tells Stabler that Wes is cheating with a woman named Jen, while Naomi tells Benson that he isn’t cheating at all. Later, Warner reveals that Danielle’s cause of death was dieldrin poisoning. After Munch reports that Wes was the sole beneficiary of Danielle’s estate when she died, his house is searched and Stabler finds a vial of dieldrin just before his mistress arrives, who turns out to be Naomi.

After Wes and Naomi are brought to the police station and placed in separate rooms, Danquiss gets the indictment thrown out because it is circumstantial, but then it reemerges when records show that a vial of dieldrin was bought with Wes’ credit card (which Wes denies). Glenn then arrives and tells the detectives that he’s worried because Naomi never came home, and then Stabler sends him into the room to confront her. After he storms out, Naomi collapses, and after arriving at the hospital, the doctor says that she has alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, but she collapsed because there was an un-sterilized RFID chip in her shoulder.

The detectives take Glenn to the hospital to show him how sick Naomi is, and right after Glenn explains why he implanted the chip, she passes out. Glenn then confesses to the detectives that he bought the dieldrin and that he poisoned Danielle and then hid the vial under Wes’ sink. Wes then arrives at the hospital, and he and Glenn fight; later, Novak berates Benson and Stabler for taking Glenn to the hospital and for allowing the fight. Cragen then reports that Naomi’s liver failed and Glenn’s liver is a match, but Novak says that he is ineligible to donate a lobe of his liver because he had been placed under arrest. The detectives then plead with the corrections commissioner to allow Glenn out temporarily to donate, and he reluctantly agrees.

[edit] Themes

Apart from featuring Benson's return, one the main themes of this episode is love. Love as obsession and passion, love as misunderstanding; this duality is expressed by the figures of Glenn and Wes. The mixture of feelings which finds expression in the character of Naomi is emblematic since it represents an inner point of view, by definition incomplete about the understanding of the causes and consequences of her actions. This confused understanding of reality, caused by a limited knowledge of the reality as the experience we live in, is called perspective in cognition science, far from being an opinion this concept is formally shown by the Gödel's incompleteness theorems, i.e. the inability to explain the reality without assuming a third external point of view it is an intrinsic limitedness of logic. The interaction between the introverse personality of Glenn and a strong love probably caused a degeneracy in his attitude, which leads Naomi to look for another kind of feeling, found in a passional lover (who does not even care about her having a liver implant) felt as real love by her, interpreting Glenn's way of expressing love as an obsession and possibly causing the degenerating process leading to the obsession itself. It is indeed only at the very end that Naomi figures out the true shape of things and tells the detectives to thank her husband, despite all he has done.

[edit] Guest stars

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[edit] Primary

Bob Saget as Glenn Cheales Alan Davidson as Mr. Keener Sean Haberle as Steve Joel de la Fuente as Ruben Morales

David Wilson Barnes as Agent Hellerman Caren Browning as Judith Siper Kristine Szabo as Danielle Masoner

Bernadette Peters as Attorney Stella Danquiss Catherine Bell as Naomi Cheales Chris Sarandon as Wesley Masoner

[edit] Secondary

Anne James as Dr. Jane Larow Richmond Hoxie as Dr. Reed Vineland

Elisabeth Furtado as Geneva Dworkin Candice Renée as Colleen

Will Triplett as Scott Alice Kremelberg as Julie

[edit] Notes

• Ice-T and B. D. Wong do not appear in this episode. ^[5]

[edit] Quotes

Stabler: Could [Danielle's cause of death] have been an allergic reaction to something she ate?
Warner: She was a model, Elliot. The only thing in her stomach was coffee.

Geneva: I don’t date guys. And nobody ever calls me Gen. What’s your name?
Benson: Detective.

Stabler: Man, I tell you; [Danquiss] leaves; the room temperature goes up five degrees.

Hellerman: So, listen; I’ve got a wild idea. Why don’t you and me—
Benson: Why don’t you save your energy to hunt terrorists?

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• "Choreographed" at the Internet Movie Database
• "Choreographed" at TV.com

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