The investigation into a missing girl leads the detectives to a doctor of reproductive therapy, who runs shelters for troubled girls. When she is found at shelter, the doctor's sinister agen... Read allThe investigation into a missing girl leads the detectives to a doctor of reproductive therapy, who runs shelters for troubled girls. When she is found at shelter, the doctor's sinister agenda is revealed.The investigation into a missing girl leads the detectives to a doctor of reproductive therapy, who runs shelters for troubled girls. When she is found at shelter, the doctor's sinister agenda is revealed.
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- Joan Quentin
- (as Laura Elana Harring)
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- TriviaThis episode is loosely based on two unrelated events: the scandal surrounding the mysterious death of Lisa McPherson and also the abduction of Elizabeth Smart.
- GoofsWhen the cops find the girl, there is blood coming from the bullet wound. Later, it's learned that she had been dead for hours before being shot, meaning blood flow had already ceased and the bullet wound should not bleed.
- Quotes
Ed Tucker: [When a teenage girl is found deceased at the crime scene] We think the perp shot her.
Elliot Stabler: No, you think the cops accidentally shot her, and you're trying to pull us into your own mess by calling it an SVU case.
Ed Tucker: This girl was tortured and we have no idea who she is. You want her parents to see her face in the morning news?
Elliot Stabler: That's your problem, not ours.
[he and Olivia begin to walk off]
Ed Tucker: Come on, SVU knows how to protect victims and deal with families.
Elliot Stabler: You mean you want us to keep this under wraps.
Ed Tucker: We want this to look clean from the beginning, so I'm asking for a favor.
Olivia Benson: All the times that you people at IAB jammed us up and now you want to play nice? You've got a set of balls on you asking us for anything.
Elliot Stabler: If we find out that a cop shot that girl, you expect us to keep it quiet?
Ed Tucker: I expect you to do your job. However this turns out, it turns out. You don't want to do it for me, fine. Do it for her.
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 55th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2003)
And my positive feelings about "Perfect" still hold up, actually appreciated it more and noticed a few more things that impressed me. It doesn't quite live up to its perfect name, though there is so little to criticise, and not one of my favourite episodes of Season 4 (a mostly very good season with a number of brilliant episodes and only two disappointments). It is though great and with almost everything working, the best assets are wonderfully done.
"Perfect" is only really let down by the over-obviousness of the perpetrator, one of those that one gets a really bad feeling from as soon as they're introduced. On a more nit-picky note, there is a sloppy goof regarding Olivia calling human cloning illegal when it wasn't at that time.
Other than that, "Perfect" is great. The production values are slick and professional, not ever resorting to cheap or untested gimmicks or anything. The music is haunting in the right places and isn't constant or too loud, and the direction gives the drama urgency and breathing space.
Script is intelligent and doesn't ramble, handling the subject again with force yet also tact. Huang has some very powerful dialogue and personally was completely on his side and there are splashes of Munch's usual dry humour. Jessica and Stabler's interaction is always intriguing. The story is always compelling, anything centered around cult-like groups can have potential to be on the wrong side of bizarre if done in too over the top a way and did worry that the latter stages would be confused. Luckily, it wasn't over the top or bizarre and it was not hard to follow while generally not being obvious. The latter stages did shock me and wrench my gut.
All the regular characters are well written, as is the easy to root for Jessica (one is shocked at what she goes through). Lang is a real nasty piece of work. Can't fault the performances from the main cast, or from chilling Gale Harold and heartfelt yet unsettling Kimberly J. Brown. Barbara Barrie shines too in the final third.
To conclude, great. 9/10
- TheLittleSongbird
- Nov 4, 2020