"Don't poke a sleeping bear" - I had this line in my mind throughout this episode. Agent Lewis' hyperbolic interest in the last of the 5 murder was dogged. And the shadiness of it did not miss the SVU Detectives. Hence led to some unfortunate consequences for her.
I absolutely abhorred the destruction of her character in this episode. Agent Dana appeared in previous episodes as well (Raw, Informed, Penetration), and in those episode she did not show even a figment of being a murderer. She was as strong minded and law-enforced as Benson is. So it's flabbergasting to see her character written this way as it was unprecedented. Besides that as a profiler she should've been immune to such basic manipulation like that by the SVU squad at the end, so her confession in the end made no sense either. I mean come on, if you want to write up someone like the FBI version of Benson (i.e Lewis) as a murderer at least write it good and make the confession sensible. As a caveat, it was just one big messy episode in terms of writing. I gave it a 5/10 only because of Marcia Gay Harden's delightful stint as Agent Dana Lewis on this show.
I absolutely abhorred the destruction of her character in this episode. Agent Dana appeared in previous episodes as well (Raw, Informed, Penetration), and in those episode she did not show even a figment of being a murderer. She was as strong minded and law-enforced as Benson is. So it's flabbergasting to see her character written this way as it was unprecedented. Besides that as a profiler she should've been immune to such basic manipulation like that by the SVU squad at the end, so her confession in the end made no sense either. I mean come on, if you want to write up someone like the FBI version of Benson (i.e Lewis) as a murderer at least write it good and make the confession sensible. As a caveat, it was just one big messy episode in terms of writing. I gave it a 5/10 only because of Marcia Gay Harden's delightful stint as Agent Dana Lewis on this show.