SVU is on the lookout for a missing 6-year-old boy, but also discovers that the victim has a very dysfunctional home life and that the kidnappers may have actually had the boy's best interes... Read allSVU is on the lookout for a missing 6-year-old boy, but also discovers that the victim has a very dysfunctional home life and that the kidnappers may have actually had the boy's best interests in mind.SVU is on the lookout for a missing 6-year-old boy, but also discovers that the victim has a very dysfunctional home life and that the kidnappers may have actually had the boy's best interests in mind.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola
- (as Ice T)
- ADA Rafael Barba
- (credit only)
- Gloria Ramirez
- (as Adriana DeGirolami)
- Gregor
- (as Dorian Michaels Cobb)
Storyline
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- TriviaThis episode appears to be inspired by the 2002 murder of a little girl in San Diego, California. Danielle Van Dam was only 7 years old when she disappeared from her bedroom one night, in the house where she resided with her parents. Tragically, she would later be found deceased. Her next-door neighbor, David Westerfield, became the prime suspect. During the suspect's murder trial, the defense attorney focused on Danielle's parents' lifestyle of partying and allegedly swinging. Danielle's mother arrived home from a bar at around 2 a.m. the night that Danielle vanished. Danielle's mother was in the company of four friends. Therefore, the defense attorney suggested that with so many people present in the home, anyone could have abducted little Danielle.
- GoofsWhen they reveal the table with drugs on it, it goes from a mirror with 2 empty bags and 1 knocked over vial to several filled bags of drugs and a standing vial with a weed crusher in less than a second.
- Quotes
Ed Tucker: [to Olivia] So, can I ask what's going on with me and you? Is it that dinner when I told you I was thinking about retiring?
Olivia Benson: No. Yes. I don't know.
Ed Tucker: But I'm not imagining it?
Olivia Benson: No. No, you're not. You know, maybe we're... we're, um in different places right now. I did get a little scared about the retirement thing, and, Ed, you know, this job, this is this is who I am.
Ed Tucker: I know. When, uh... when I was at IAB, I learned to listen. To know when people are telling me who they are, what they're really thinking. A few months ago, you said you were happy, but you were crying. You were afraid it wasn't gonna last.
Olivia Benson: I remember.
Ed Tucker: You were telling me the truth. That we weren't gonna last.
Olivia Benson: I tried, Ed and I know you tried too, but if we've both been trying this hard I have this little boy who who needs me, who needs his mother and I have to give him all the attention and all the time and and all the love that I have.
Ed Tucker: He has to be your priority right now. I get that. I do.
Olivia Benson: I'm sorry.
Ed Tucker: Me too. Take care of yourself, Olivia Benson.
- ConnectionsFeatures An American Tail (1986)
"Chasing Theo" thankfully did continue the improvement seen with "Next Chapter" and not a regression in quality. My feelings for it are still positive and for pretty much the same reasons as before. As far as the mostly disappointing first half of Season 18 goes, it is one of the high middle episodes and close to being one of the better. With less of the major flaws that frequently plagued Season 18 and the best things being done very well indeed.
Am going to start with the good. The production values are slick and have a subtle grit, with an intimacy to the photography without being too claustrophobic. The music isn't used too much and doesn't get too melodramatic. The direction is sympathetic but also alert. The script is taut and intelligent, with very little sense of melodrama or awkwardness.
The story on the whole compels and starts very intriguingly, the turns in the plot stopping things from being too predictable. The detective work is cohesive and intrigues and entertains, while the personal life stuff balances very well instead of being too dominant or soapy. The acting is very good and really appreciated Rollins' sympathetic attitude towards the mother.
For me, the whole Olivia seemingly not allowed to have a happy relationship is getting repetitive.
Did feel too that the case did get predictable later and that it ran out of gas a little before the end. What further stopped "Chasing Theo" from working perfectly was that to me the mothers were too self absorbed to root for their plight and while sort of understanding the perpetrators point of view the way they acted was too extreme.
Overall, good if not great. For Season 18 that is not too bad a position to be in at all. 7/10.
- TheLittleSongbird
- Oct 27, 2022
Details
- Runtime42 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 16:9 HD