01x01: Payback
Synopsis
When cab driver Victor Spicer is found stabbed with his genitals cut off, Benson and Stabler investigate his murder only to learn that Spicer is an inmate at Rikers Island and the dead man left behind a wife and child. Further investigation reveals that the dead man was a Serbian soldier who had been indicted on charges of ethnic cleansing. Benson has trouble separating herself from the case after realising that the victim was a rapist because she herself is a child of rape, and Stabler tries to keep her from crossing the line in her attempts to protect suspects she feels were justified in their actions.
Credits
| Writer: | Dick Wolf |
| Director: | Jean de Segonzac |
| Starring: | |
|---|---|
| Detective Elliot Stabler | Christopher Meloni |
| Detective Olivia Benson | Mariska Hargitay |
| Richard Belzer | Detective John Munch |
| Dann Florek | Captain Donald Cragen |
| Guests: | |
| Serena Benson | Elizabeth Ashley |
| Marta Stevens | Mili Avital |
| Mrs. Panacek | Tina Benko |
| Nicholas Stevens | Jeremy Bergman |
| Policeman | Daniel Bess |
| Bremmer | P.J. Brown |
| Prosecutor | Angela Bullock |
| Waitress | Rebecca Creskoff |
| Judge | Judy Del Giudice |
| Mr. Kloster | Bill Driscoll |
| Kloster's Lawyer | Ned Eisenberg |
| Taxi Driver | Ramsey Faragallah |
| Kathy Stabler | Isabel Gillies |
| Judge Elizabeth Masullo | Judy Del Giudice |
| Gallery Owner | Ronald Guttman |
| A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael | Angie Harmon |
| M.E. Rodgers | Leslie Hendrix |
| Det. Monique Jeffries | Michelle Hurd |
| Ileana Jashari | Sevanne Kassarjian |
| Robert Stevens | Mark Nelson |
| Farley | Vivian Nesbitt |
| Ken Briscoe | Chris Orbach |
| Aunt Jashari | Irma St. Paule |
| Anya Rugova | Gordana Rashovich |
| Victor Spicer | Matt Skollar |
| Det. Brian Cassidy | Dean Winters |
| Mr. Dupree | Mark Zimmerman |
