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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Episode 17.18 Sheltered Outcasts
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Episode 17.18 Sheltered Outcasts

Episode Premiere
March 30, 2016
Genre
Drama,Crime
Production Company
NBC, Studios USA Television, Universal Network TV
Official Site
http://www.nbc.com/law-order-special-victims-unit
Episode Premiere
March 30, 2016
Genre
Drama,Crime
Period
1999 - Now
Production Co
NBC, Studios USA Television, Universal Network TV
Distributor
NBC
Official Site
http://www.nbc.com/law-order-special-victims-unit
Director
Mariska Hargitay
Screenwriter
Ed Zuckerman
Main Cast
  • Mariska Hargitay as Det. Olivia Benson
  • Ice-T as Detective Odafin "Fin" Tutuola
  • Dann Florek as Captain Donald Cragen
  • Richard Belzer as Detective John Munch
  • Danny Pino as Detective Nick Amaro
  • Kelli Giddish as Detective Amanda Rollins / Kara Bawson
  • Christopher Meloni as Detective Elliot Stabler
  • Steven Zirnkilton
  • B.D. Wong as Dr. George Huang
  • Tamara Tunie as Dr. Melinda Warner
  • Diane Neal as A.D.A. Casey Novak / Amelia Chase
  • Raul Esparza
  • Peter Scanavino
  • Brooke Shields
Additional Cast
  • Michael Rapaport
  • Scott Grimes
  • Kevin Tighe

A community is thrown into a panic when a string of rapes occur in the proximity of a nice neighborhood. Suspicion is drawn immediately to a nearby men's homeless shelter - particularly after it's learned that the shelter houses several known sex offenders. Most of the team is shocked to learn that Carisi (Peter Scanavino) is living at the shelter, posing undercover as a sex offender in order to catch the rapist. Benson (Mariska Hargitay) is aware of the operation - a necessary ploy, she says, in order to catch the assailant.

SVU's investigation ends up pointing towards "model parolee" Richie Caskey (guest star Michael Rapaport), a man Carisi has come to know and trust in his brief time at the shelter. But Carisi's doubts about Caskey's guilt fade away as the evidence piles up. Before the team can act on their intel, the shelter's therapist is raped and murdered in what appears to be a copycat case, leaving the team with two rapists to bring to justice. In the end, the team finds out that it was a separate rapist - and not Carisi's friend - who was one of the assailants... with the second rapist being the friend's lawyer, who has raped in the past by using nearby homeless shelters as his cover.