Today we will review the Law & Order: SVU episode from season 10 featuring Hillary Duff as Casey Anthony. Sort of. It's called Selfish.
It all begins, like every Law & Order: SVU episode...
In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.
DUN DUN.
So there is a disclaimer given at the beginning of basically every episode: The following story is fictional and does not depict any acutal person or event.
Let's start there. I'm sorry but this episode is about Casey Anthony. It has to be, there is no other explanation.
Cut to the police precinct...Detective Stabler (Chris Meloni) heaves a sign of relief that his mountain of paperwork is complete. Now he and Detective Benson (Mariska Hargitay) can leave early.
Just as they're putting on their coats a ranting blond lady (not Duff) wanders in advising she needs to speak with Special Victims or "special cops" as she says. The day is never over.
She believes that her granddaughter Sierra is in danger. Her mother (Ashley, played by Duff) went to Atlantic City for the weekend, borrowed ranting ladies car and upon returning it she said it smelled like a dead body. Good job because I have no idea what a dead body smells like.
They track down Duff (I don't need to call her Ashley, we'll just call her Duff) and see her cleaning out the trunk. She explains that it smells weird because there was meat they were going to cook that spoiled and everything checks out. She says Sierra is with her sitter Maria, at her apartment that Duff has never been to (because you leave your kids with strangers, that makes sense).
Turns out, to no ones surprise, that "Maria" gave a fake address and does not live there. The only "Maria" anyone knows is the creepy lady that carries a doll around in Central Park, but we'll get to that.
The two "cool" detectives, Munch and Ice-T (Detective Tutuola, but Ice-T is more refreshing) get a lead on a baby in a car that matches Maria's car's description. It's not Sierra obviously because then the episode would be over.
They find crazy Maria in the park. She is convinced her doll is a real baby. They think Maria stole Sierra. Maria did not steal Sierra. Maria is actually telling the truth. She really cares about her doll.
So Stabler uncovers a receipt signed by Maria where the purchase is a shovel. Maria claims it is not her signature and that her visa is missing. This is true. Security footage show Duff buying the shovel. Clear as day.
Duff continues to deny that anything happened, that she has absoultely no idea what is going on...then she cracks and admits she did buy the shovel, but it was a gift for her dad.
Awesome DA Alex Cabot takes on the case as Duff lawyers up with Annie Potts from Designing Women. Stabler and Benson visit Duff's dad who has the shovel...with fresh soil and chemicals from a gas station!
Our first lead!
Duff is losing points here rapidly, have you been following along?
So Stabler gets info out of Duff's dad that she has a special place he used to pick her up when she was done partying which was near a gas station. Lo and behold they find the body buried in the soild in this abandoned field. Good job Casey, I mean Duff. Now your story has completely unravelled.
After Duff is denied bail, the medical examiner has reached a conclusion on cause of death. Not death by Duff, but death by measels.
Now this is where the story turns away from the Anthony case, basically it turns into "Vaccinate by 2, it's up to you" propoganda. Duff never vaccinated Sierra...she says she was crying and all of a sudden became quiet, Duff didn't know what to do and when she stopped breathing she wanted to cover up everything and buried her.
Turns out that Sierra had contracted measels from a kid at the playground that has been spreading the disease around. Benson and Stabler meet with the mother of infecto child and she says she doesn't believe in vaccinating. Now it becomes a case of "choice." Of course Duff and ranting lady now want to take on the mother to get Duff off the hook.
Now at trial, the jury returns with a not guilty verdict for infecto mom. This peeves off Duff & Co and they proceed to settle it like adults and throw a brick through her window. Once they arrive at the scene they see Duff, her mother and father rush into the apartment, where Duff's dad proceeds to shoot himself...which really sucks because he was the only one that actually seemed to care about Sierra.
And thus it is over, and honestly I believe Duff did a good job. She was believable in the role if that is even possible...well yeah, it was.
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