#Law and order svu season 6 episode 8 trial#
Second, we didn’t hear any mention at trial from Stone about the fraud she committed and the millions of dollars she stole. If Stone waited until Anna was on the stand to show those photos, I think he missed the chance to show the horror of the crime scene along with the evidence found that implicates Anna. Yet the jury seemed shocked and Anna looked so upset the judge told him to move on. I cannot believe this was the first time the jury, or Anna, would have seen these images. First, Stone meets with resistance when he shows photos of the crime scene while Anna is being cross examined. As Stone progresses through the trial, there were a few things that puzzled me. He worries the defense attorney, Billy O’Boyle (from Stone's Chicago days) will use this to the hilt. Abernathy while in Rikers, and Abernathy later tells Benson and Stone that Anna fits the profile of a family annihilator. Once Anna makes a confession, we quickly move to Stone and the trial. Imagine the 27th precinct handling this.they would have turned the screws on Anna the minute they heard about the fraud and likely not waited for blood evidence to do so. Here’s my big problem: I don’t think the SVU should have been called into this crime, or at least they should not have taken the lead. In what universe is Benson living? It isn’t until Fin brings in blood evidence that Benson decides to turn up the heat. She then adds that mothers don’t kill their babies. Even when they discover that Anna has been committing fraud at her legal firm, pocketing millions of dollars, Benson still seems unconvinced, saying Anna may be a thief but that doesn’t make her a murderer. (We are not all pure and innocent!) Maybe she’s never seen anything like this before but surely Benson reads the news and has heard of women killing their children before.
Benson can’t seem to fathom a mother doing this to her children again, Benson has blinders on when it comes to women. I suspected very early on that Anna was behind these murders something felt wrong when Anna said that she’s was often told that her daughter was prettier and smarter than she. While Benson and Rollins moan about leaving their children with a nanny, I wish someone was there to remind them how lucky they are that they can even afford one. Yes, it is hard raising kids and working at the same time, but a nanny is an expense the average family likely cannot afford. Maybe this is a New York City – or a big city – thing, but I’ve seen countless families raise children without nannies, even families where both parents work. (This included Benson trusting her son Noah with his own biological grandmother, and we all know how that worked out for her.) Carisi explains that his mother raised 4 kids with no nanny, and Fin states it’s hard to raise kids while one is working. With all the heinous sex crimes they’ve seen in their career, I guess it took a murder for them to worry about a "stranger" taking care of their children. When it seems like the nanny may be a suspect, Benson and Rollins voice their worry about leaving their own children with nannies. This is just the start of how the SVU framed this crime around their own personal fears. Yes, it’s a shock to see something that one was thinking about buying that is now part of a horrific crime scene, but the comment felt out of place, bordering on inappropriate. This is one of those thoughts that Benson should have kept to herself. Something rubbed me the wrong way in the first few minutes of the episode: Benson, upon seeing one of the bloody beds, comments that she was going to get that bed for Noah. I'm not convinced, however, that this fits as an SVU case. Update: I forgot about Law & Order SVU "Annihilated", season 8, episode 20.) It’s an unusually bloody scene for Law & Order SVU, but this fits with SVU’s 10:00 PM air time. (This case is reminiscent of a Law & Order episode, “Savior”, season 6, episode 16.
Instead, the SVU gets involved in a case where a young boy is found wandering the street, injured and bleeding (he later dies), and his sister and father are brutally murdered in their beds. Sasha Alexander was amazing but it felt like she was the only one who put her heart into her role, a "family annihilator." Despite criticisms I have about this episode, I still give it high marks, mostly for Sasha’s performance. I have mixed feelings about Law & Order SVU “Caretaker.” It featured a case different from the norm with a guest star in a lead role that was both compelling and revolting.
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