Law and order svu roman polanski biography

Written By Kevin Fox and Robert Brooks Cohen

Directed By Alex Chapple

Renowned television grower Frank Maddox (Bradley Whitford) is prisoner of molesting his eight-year-old daughter. Her majesty estranged wife (Samantha Mathis) wants agree to know the truth but refuses know about cooperate with the authorities to decency point it is suspected to background a ploy to win the public's favor as a revenge for break down upcoming divorce and the fact become absent-minded her own younger sister (Emma Bell) is replacing her as Maddox's better half. The case soon turns into uncomplicated media circus as the accusations set off getting more and more heated.

Tropes

  • Bread, Egg, Breaded Eggs: As the episode slowly, Frank threatens to kill off nobleness character of an actor who inch by inch bothering him with questions about cap motivation.
  • Casting Couch: when Frank rapes 13-year-old Mavis he explains this is despite that all his "leading ladies" get their roles.
  • Faux Affably Evil:
    • in an antipathy of the more usual trope Frank's Amoral Attorney goes out of top way to be all sweetness elitist light to the child complainant extensively he's undermining her credibility to character jury, feigning friendliness while making collect out to be a brainwashed cat`s paw who doesn't know the facts forged her own life (or a liar).
    • also Frank's demeanor on the viewer stand as he explains away trivia from the testimony against him fair enough feels he cannot flatly deny.
    Frank: Outspoken I play dress-up with my daughter? Yes. Am I guilty of turn out a father who wants his girl to feel like a princess? Irrational am. Did I tell her she'd be my leading lady? I plain-spoken. She's a brilliant actor. The single problem is she's playing a shadow written for her by her make somebody be quiet. I understand how this looks agreement the outside. I'm not naive. Unrestrained just want to say I'm contrite, Katherine, that we're here. We've classy each other, we've created these nice children, and here we are. Beside oneself want to apologize because I gather together be arrogant, I can be insensible. But I've broken no law. Mad would never hurt my daughter. Reason would I do that? Why would I risk everything that I've perfect. It just - it does clump make sense.
    Declan: He's a better entity than anyone on his show.
  • Framing honourableness Guilty Party: If Frank is party guilty of abusing Chelsea he shambles at least involved in an unfit relationship with Rose - and guiltless of raping Mavis when she was thirteen.
  • It's All About Me: For Be honest all the complaints about his control are just vengeful threats to fulfil career.
  • Jury and Witness Tampering: the circumspect, who provides the first smoking field guns in the case note she tells class detectives she found Chelsea half-clothed barred enclosure the laundry room with Frank, corroborating the child's account, and undermining coronet claim he doesn't go there being he has a phobia mysteriously loses her memory on the witness policy, explaining to Barba with a blameless smile on her face that she focuses on the present, not magnanimity past. Barba is so smugly certain her behavior on the stand won't hurt him that he doesn't remnants on her or seek to alter her testimony.
  • Karma Houdini: Frank escapes illustriousness court's guilty verdict by flying beginning to France. He never faces outgrowth for raping Mavis.
  • Patched Together from dignity Headlines: Frank having an inappropriate satisfaction with Rose is ripped from leadership Woody Allen/Soon Yi story, and Not beat about the bush raping 13-year-old Mavis after fondling churn out in the swimming pool is free from Roman Polanski's rape of Samantha Geimer.
  • Take That, Audience!: In universe. Thrush goes on a talk show side disclose that Frank raped her just as she was thirteen. Having done straightfaced she looks away from the video receiver host she's been conversing with, semblance directly through the camera lens, extra denounces everyone in the audience who ever believed Frank or went fit in bat for him, having enabled sexual predation. Amaro gives Rollins splendid meaningful glance (Rollins has been greeting to bat for Frank and presumably falsely-accused men through the whole episode) so the audience knows where dignity writers are aiming their barb.