January 25, 2004
Stiff
In this episode (10.23), a wealthy woman falls into a coma after her second husband injects her with insulin. The episode is pretty boring until 23 minutes in, when it is revealed that ... get ready for this ... the wife consented to be injected as part of a sex game, whereby she would be in a near coma state while he had his way with her. Because she's in the coma, the husband gets power of attorney over her assets. McCoy is worried that the defendant's wealth will make it difficult to convict him, so they encourage his stepdaughter to seek power of attorney. She does, and she gets it, but then McCoy and Carmichael quickly learn that the daughter had motives of her own for wanting to see her mother incapacitated: First, she needed money to continue her publishing business and second -- get ready for the second gross twist of the episode -- she may have been having an affair with her step-father!
When conducting a search of her office, Green discovers a packet containing a poison called MPTP. MPTP, when taken in large quantities, triggers a disease remarkably similar to Parkinson's. The victim in this case appeared to be suffering from Parkinson's. New theory of the crime: the daughter and step-dad polluted the supply of insulin with MPTP so they could live happily ever after. Yuck. Thankfully, it turns out slightly different from this.
The episode is notable mainly because plot-wise it feels like a hybrid of SVU and the original series: rich guy kills rich wife for money, but with all this sexual perversion mixed in. Another odd moment in the ep comes just after everyone watches a tape of the guy injecting his wife. Green says something like, "Just a bunch of rich white people with too much time on their hands." The racial reference is extremely unusual for him, and seems very out of character. Assuming that this line was written in for him, I feel bad that he had to utter it.
Posted by adm at January 25, 2004 12:47 AM
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