Carisi goes undercover at a homeless shelter to find out if a resident is the suspect in a series of neighborhood rapes.Carisi goes undercover at a homeless shelter to find out if a resident is the suspect in a series of neighborhood rapes.Carisi goes undercover at a homeless shelter to find out if a resident is the suspect in a series of neighborhood rapes.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola
- (as Ice T)
- ADA Rafael Barba
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- TriviaIn a scene in Benson's office, Fin makes a comment about things changing and the fact that Rollins and Benson now have kids. Benson replies "You want a baby?" Fin scowls. Ice-T had a baby a few months earlier with his wife, Coco Austin.
- Quotes
Odafin Tutuola: It's looking pretty empty out there. Is 1PP sending us reinforcements?
Olivia Benson: They sent us Dodds. You didn't seem too thrilled with that.
Odafin Tutuola: Yeah, but then they took him back. I mean, where is he, at some antiterrorist course at Quantico?
Olivia Benson: Yes, for a week. Are you mad that he came, or are you mad that he left?
Odafin Tutuola: Both. I mean... I mean, a lot of things are changing around here. Rollins got a baby. You got a baby.
Olivia Benson: You want a baby?
[Fin gives her a stern look]
Olivia Benson: You want a life.
Odafin Tutuola: This is my life.
Olivia Benson: Yeah, it was my life, too, Fin. My whole life. You know, for what it's worth, having a little balance is not so bad.
"Sheltered Outcasts" is not one of those episodes, with my feelings on rewatch being unchanged. It's not awful and has enough to make it worth a one or two time watch, but it could have been a lot more and could have executed some of the material more tactfully. As far as Season 17 goes, "Sheltered Outcasts" is one of the lesser episodes (though there was worse this season and almost certainly throughout the whole show.
There are things that are done well. The production values are solid and the intimacy of the photography doesn't get static or too filmed play-like. The music when used is not too over-emphatic and has a melancholic edge that is quite haunting. Most of the acting is fine, Peter Scanavino faring best and proving why Carisi was one of the best additions of the later seasons.
Carisi is still a breath of fresh and there is a very cute scene between him and Rollins.
Did feel though that the pace was quite dull, due to being rather thinly plotted and there is too much of a derivative feel from revisiting a familiar theme and scenario. Also because of the lack of tension and suspense. The perpetrator's identity was not a surprise at all.
Kevin Tighe is wasted in far too small a role, also thought his brought back character and his underused subplot added absolutely nothing to the case. If it was left out, as it was the least important plot point, it would not have harmed the episode and it would have tightened the pace probably. Did feel that it tries too hard to make rapists look not as bad as they actually are and not as bad as murderers and could have explored how rape affects victims afterwards.
In summary, a bit mixed. 5/10.
- TheLittleSongbird
- Sep 28, 2022