It is the court confrontation of the William Lewis story.
As the audience, we know who is guilty and who is innocent.
However, the jury and the judge do not know, in short, the public does not. In this story, the center is the jury. It's an effort to convince the jury what happened.
All situations and gaps that may arise from laws have been processed in Svu for 15 years. But this time it feels very cold to all of us. Because the target is Olivia. Now Olivia is facing the events that happened to all the victims we watched, the hospital and court days. We are watching all possible scenarios and loopholes in the law with the cold war between Lewis and Olivia in court.
If you were the jury who didn't know Lewis and Olivia. In the case, you will see who is the culprit and who is the victim, balancing on a very thin wire.
Lewis prides himself on two aspects. The first is his ability to evade the cops and the law, no matter what crime he commits. The second is the obsession with women to changing. He aims to take over their lives with the tortures he inflicts on them.
Olivia is a true fighter as she has faced radical changes in her life since she was a child. With this feature of her, Lewis cannot defeat her with what he has done. So it obsessed her.
Lewis sees beating Olivia as beating the police and the law. Olivia and Lewis and the Jury are iconographic in this story. Olivia is the lawgiver, Lewis is a suspect. The jury is law and order.
The gray areas of who is right and who is right are now a dark swirl. Allegations and suspicions come to an end with each other. Just like a thesis and an antithesis... Or like a Russian Roulette... the punishment will be the bullet that explodes in whose head last.
Lewis plays his own advocate to beat Olivia. We had watched the defendants who represented themselves in Svu before. We last saw it at 14s 18e. Guest star Robin Williams also defended himself more sympathetically in 9s 17e. We will see such defenses in the following sections.
It is a great continuation episode for the showdowns before the law in court.