An AIDS activist is suspected of murdering a gay couple, and Detective Tutuola discovers something about a family member.An AIDS activist is suspected of murdering a gay couple, and Detective Tutuola discovers something about a family member.An AIDS activist is suspected of murdering a gay couple, and Detective Tutuola discovers something about a family member.
Photos
- Detective Elliot Stabler
- (credit only)
- Special Agent Dr. George Huang, M.D.
- (as B.D. Wong)
- CSU Technician Millie Vizcarrondo
- (as Paula Garces)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaLike several SVU episode titles, "Strain" has a double meaning of both the more deadly strain of HIV dealt with here as well the strain in the father son relationships presented in this episode.
- Quotes
Casey Novak: [during her closing summation] Millions dying of AIDS is an unimaginable tragedy, but does that mean two more deaths, two murders, don't matter? The defense argues that these murders were justifiable, because they prevented future deaths. It might sound rational, but consider this. Tobacco executives, they make cigarettes and hundreds of thousands of people who smoke die of lung cancer. Would it be all right to murder the tobacco CEOs? Do you think that two situations aren't the same? Think again. People who smoke, they know the risks, and they choose to smoke, despite them, just like people who choose to get high and have sex without a condom. So don't blame the victims. Gabriel Thomason broke the law. He killed two men. He knew what he was doing, and he knew it was wrong. You must hold him responsible.
To understand the mindset of perpetrator Brian Bloom, a viewing of Larry Kramer's ground breaking play, The Normal Heart might be in order. Written back in the early Eighties at the beginning of the AIDS pandemic, The Normal Heart sounds a clarion call for gay men to take charge of their own destinies and lives and use protection and get tested.
In 2005 when this episode was aired a new strain of the virus was found and found to be remarkably resistant to those drugs already developed. Brian Bloom is an AIDS activist and brother of another gay man lost to the disease. Some investigation on Bloom's part shows that these two dead men were not careful in their encounters and did have sex with the deceased.
It's hard not to sympathize with Bloom, his passion for his cause, and the personal tragedy. But murder is murder.
- bkoganbing
- Feb 17, 2014