Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 1x05 Wanderlust

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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - 01x05 Wanderlust

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First Aired: Oct. 18, 1999 on NBC

Summary: Benson and Stabler investigate the murder of a travel writer, tied up with woman undergarments that are cutting off his air supply, and the main suspect is the landlord's boyfriend, but clues then turn to the landlord and her daughter. And then learning that the daughter had a sexual…
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Main Characters in this Episode

Guest Stars

Virginia Hayes	played by Lynn Collins
Tom Dayton	played by John Dossett
Detective Brian Cassidy	played by Dean Winters
Kathy Stabler	played by Isabel Gillies
Jon Freeman	played by Henry Strozier
Prosecuting Attorney	played by Lisa Tharps
Maureen Stabler	played by Erin Broderick
Kathleen Stabler	played by Holiday Segal

Episode Quotes

Capt. Donald Cragen: You know I'm getting a headache. So far we have one convicted sex offender who may not have molested anyone, and a dead guy who wasn't a sex offender who may have.

Detective Elliot Stabler: [kissing his kids] Love you...
Maureen Stabler: Dad, not on the lips.

Detective Elliot Stabler: When did that happen?
Kathy Stabler: When you were at work.

Detective Elliot Stabler: Has Maureen had sex yet, do you know?
Kathy Stabler: God I hope not.
Detective Elliot Stabler: I wonder *how* we'll know.
Kathy Stabler: *If* we'll know.

Trivia

The address for the record shop "As The Vinyl Turns" is given as 239 Bleecker Street. There actually is a record shop at this address, although in real life it is called "Bleecker Street Records".
This episode was a tribute to Vladimir Nabokov's novel "Lolita", with character names borrowed from the book for this episode such as Annabel, Hazes, Richard F. Schiller, and Ramsdale.