Meanwhile, Liv and Burton walk Ian through the night of the crime by bringing him back to the high school bleachers where he and Haley were making out when they were attacked.
(Side note: Literally no one asked, but I’m proud that Amaro seems to have broken the SVU curse in that he works normal hours, still pursues his passions in service of the greater good, seems to have a good family life and appears to be kinda content overall.) seems proud to hear that he’s working on his doctorate in biophysics. “She lied to both of us,” Benson says sadly.Ī NEW LEAD | Amaro swings by the morgue to pick up the evidence that’s left over from Haley’s case the M.E. He denies it, saying that he was in love with Olivia but disappeared after Serena threatened to have him expelled if he tried to get in touch with her daughter. When they’re alone, Liv tells him that Serena made her end their engagement via letter, adding that her mom said he had a girlfriend at college.
Via helpful flashback to one of Olivia’s Season 6 conversations with Casey (in Episode 19, to be exact), we are reminded that Serena was a college professor and that when Olivia was 16, Liv dated - and later got engaged to - one of Serena’s 21-year-old students. “We are… old friends,” she says to the group. Her then-boyfriend Ian confessed to the killing and has been in jail ever since, but he recanted at his sentencing and has maintained his innocence ever since - going as far as to miss out on parole because he would not show remorse for a death he didn’t orchestrate.īurton Lowe ( Elementary‘s Aidan Quinn, who will always be Benny & Joon‘s Aidan Quinn to me) is the writer in question, and Olivia is taken aback when he walks into her office and tells her she hasn’t changed. The crime: the rape and strangulation of 15-year-old Haley West, who died on prom night. And at the behest of a true crime writer who’s looking into a SVU case from the 1990s, Amaro is hoping that Liv and her team will reopen the investigation. “We test DNA samples that used to be considered too small or too degraded,” he explains. After he hugs Liv, we find out why he’s there: He went back to grad school for genetics and forensic science, and now he works for a company called Forum that uses new tech to solve old cases. When Benson enters the interrogation room, she’s surprised to see Amaro there with Rollins. “You went with short answers?” he says, well-versed in the history of the Benson ladies’ dynamic. At the precinct, Liv tells Fin about Noah’s questions. What a coincidence, kid: We’ve just watched a flashback to the show’s very first episode, in which Serena tells her daughter to get out of police work. “Did she like that you were a detective?” he wonders. Now, onto what happens in “The 500th Episode.”ĪMARO COMES KNOCKING | On the way to school, Noah asks Olivia about his grandmother, Serena. And if you’re only reading this to find out whether Chris Meloni’s Stabler has a presence in the episode, let us help you out: He does, but it’s limited to a flashback from the show’s early seasons. Cragen and medical examiner Melinda Warner.
Other familiar faces from more recent years also show up during the ep, most notably Nick Amaro, Capt.
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This week’s Law & Order: SVU- which marks that huge milestone for the series - recognizes the accomplishment via an Olivia-centric hour featuring a man from the captain’s distant past. Five hundred episodes? Nicely done DUN DUN.