"Internal Affairs" is an SVU 2.0 banger.
Story here features a pair of super-dirty uni's working as partners at an ordinary Manhattan precinct -- headquarters for their sick SA operation
Enter Ed Tucker, who sells Cassidy, Cragen and Benson on an IA scheme to bust the creeps -- while allowing Cassidy (now Olivia's bf) an opportunity to earn back his detective shield
Cassidy goes to work alongside slimebag officers West & Quinn (stand-out performance by Nadia Dajani) on the pretense that he's now been 'moved up' from his recent demotion to the Bronx
The plan also calls for a bit of deft UC work from Fin and Rollins, (Kelli Giddish in another top moment), while testing the resilience of the still-reforming Benson/Cassidy relationship
But the capper of this fast, well written episode (by Kevin Fox), is the heart-wrench when Benson confronts Quinn about the delusional torch she carries for her partner
"You spent the last five years hoping he'd suddenly turn to you and realize you're the woman he can't live without. . ."
Benson didn't speak all that much about Stabler during 2.0, but this scene was a whole decade of feels in two stellar minutes. Hit us right in the Stablers.
Story here features a pair of super-dirty uni's working as partners at an ordinary Manhattan precinct -- headquarters for their sick SA operation
Enter Ed Tucker, who sells Cassidy, Cragen and Benson on an IA scheme to bust the creeps -- while allowing Cassidy (now Olivia's bf) an opportunity to earn back his detective shield
Cassidy goes to work alongside slimebag officers West & Quinn (stand-out performance by Nadia Dajani) on the pretense that he's now been 'moved up' from his recent demotion to the Bronx
The plan also calls for a bit of deft UC work from Fin and Rollins, (Kelli Giddish in another top moment), while testing the resilience of the still-reforming Benson/Cassidy relationship
But the capper of this fast, well written episode (by Kevin Fox), is the heart-wrench when Benson confronts Quinn about the delusional torch she carries for her partner
"You spent the last five years hoping he'd suddenly turn to you and realize you're the woman he can't live without. . ."
Benson didn't speak all that much about Stabler during 2.0, but this scene was a whole decade of feels in two stellar minutes. Hit us right in the Stablers.