Law & Order: Special Victims Unit 5x09 Control

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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - 05x09 Control

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First Aired: Nov. 18, 2003 on NBC

Summary: The mutilation of a subway commuter leads the detectives to discover their "victim" may be the perpretator in abducting women and forcing them to live in his dungeon for several years as his bride. As the detectives prepare to arrest their victim turned suspect, Benson arrives ahead of the…
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Main Characters in this Episode

Guest Stars

Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola	played by Ice-T
Dr. George Huang	played by BD Wong
Juliet Barclay	played by Jacqueline Bisset
Horace Gorman	played by Austin Pendleton
Lionel Granger	played by David Thornton
CSU Captain Judith Siper	played by Caren Browning
Forensics Tech Ryan O'Halloran	played by Mike Doyle (II)
Grandfather	played by Mickey Hargitay

Episode Quotes

Detective Olivia Benson: [after a uniformed Officer informs Elliot that they still haven't found 'the package'] What package?
Detective Elliot Stabler: Ah, Mr. Gorman's. His penis and testicles were cut off. And they're still missing.

Detective Olivia Benson: Maybe Mr. Gorman didn't 'want' to be a man anymore?
Detective Elliot Stabler: You think he 'wanted' his Johnson wacked off?

Captain Donald Cragen: So either Gorman was snipped by a homeless guy, or had a voluntary penectomy. [pause] Not a word I get to use everyday.

Mistakes/Goofs

Goof (errors in geography): The opening scene was shot in the Exchange Place PATH (Port Authority Trans Hudson) station in Jersey City, NJ. The giant escalator and colorful neon lights are unmistakable. At some point Stabler says: "Here comes the Number 2 train". The NYC subway doesn't stop in Jersey City.
Goof (errors in geography): Fin states that the 2 trains run south from Riverdale (where a doctor performs castrations), but this is incorrect. The 1st train runs from Riverdale. The 2nd train runs from the Central Bronx - nowhere near Riverdale.

Trivia

Horace Gorman was based on John Jamelske, a millionaire serial rapist-kidnapper, who kept his victims in an underground "sex bunker."
Mariska Hargitay's real-life father, Mickey Hargitay, appears in the episode "Control". He plays a man on an escalator, who is seen speaking to Mariska's character, Detective Benson.