Fin catches a fugitive rapist in Havana, but Barba's case is jeopardized by a political tug-of-war.Fin catches a fugitive rapist in Havana, but Barba's case is jeopardized by a political tug-of-war.Fin catches a fugitive rapist in Havana, but Barba's case is jeopardized by a political tug-of-war.
Ice-T
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola
- (as Ice T)
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Did you know
- TriviaPeter Jacobsen, playing defense attorney Randolph J. Dworkin in this episode, had a previous recurring role in seasons 13 & 14 of SVU. That character, Bart Ganzel, was the leader of a prostitution ring in a turf war with Delia Wilson; the first episode in the multi-episode storyline was Rhodium Nights (2012), Season 13 episode 23.
- Quotes
Dominick Carisi Jr.: An oh-fer. We'd have better luck starting the Byron Marks fan club.
Olivia Benson: Well, look, it's upsetting, but it's not surprising.
Amanda Rollins: Yeah, I tried to explain that to him.
Dominick Carisi Jr.: Look, I know. I'm sorry. It's just I'm Italian. Revenge is one of our three major food groups.
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Personal stories or action claptrap?
I felt that the underlying storyline of interest this season is actually Benson's personal life. However, in this episode the arrival of Cassidy and his accusations serves only to cloud the hard truth of the script. Fin Tutuola kidnapped a suspect in another country and had him shipped back to the good ole USA for trial, without (apparently) realising that the act was completely illegal, and opened him up to criminal prosecution in the other country. Has nothing percolated through those American brain cells in half a century or more? That this behaviour is exactly that which has caused the US to *become* (and it has been a gradual process) execrated by a large swathe of the world. The US is not the world's policeman, and the policies followed by the US Government (I don't say "ethics") are not necessarily applicable to all states everywhere. The American invasion of the British Commonwealth country of Grenada was one of the obvious points of interference. OK, the new government was overtly Marxist, but what was the character of the government they were overthrowing? Only the local population could know. Given the complete ignorance of most Americans of anything outside their county (that's "county", not "country"!), I don't believe that any view of the situation in Grenada from the US was valid. The Reagan administration had a letter requesting help from the OECS - yeah! I'm afraid I'm a bit sceptical about the amount of effort it would have taken the American Government to persuade that out of the OECS! There are other points of illustration, such as the Bay of Pigs operation, but the real red flag (gosh, is that somehow both significant and ironic?) must surely be Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. It is now clear that in its support of the Shah of Iran the US triggered huge anti-American feeling in that area, and probably led (paradoxically) to the birth of Al-Qaeda under CIA midwifery. Hmmm... got somewhat sidetracked from the original intention of this review, which is "Sympathy for Olivia" and "Fin done Bad!"
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- akicork
- Jan 11, 2021
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