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And no, I'm not just saying that. Although it's out there as far a realistic set up, I love the cheesy stuff they say and the guy at the end creeps me the hell out. I've been using the Wit Billions screen name for years because of this episode. It's a fun ride, if you don't take it seriously.

The only reason I gave this a 9 instead of 10 is due to the sleeping rapist in the beginning. Besides the fact that it had nothing to do with the actual storyline, it introduced a disorder that would seem too controversial to dismiss within the first ten minutes of an episode. I'm a psychology major and am especially interested in the abnormal psych field, sleep disorders included, and had never heard of "sexsomnia" before this. It was a disappointing way to be introduced to something that could be considered very big.

Besides the bit in the beginning with the alleged "sexsomnia", this episode was quite exciting. The virtual game is very similar to the real online game "Second Life", and the crime committed with it is not too distant from real crimes relating to virtual games. Overall, a very interesting and worthwhile episode.

A nice, polite man violently rapes his girlfriend's sister, but charges can't be filed because everyone automatically takes the perpetrator's word for the fact that he was asleep when he committed the crime. On the same evening, the victim's sister and sleeping rapist's girlfriend is kidnapped from her bed by a stalker who was obsessed with a virtual S & M hooker that the woman created, in a fantasy, cyber world. In the meantime, said internet stalker and virtual obsessee has been keeping another woman captive for twenty five years, even though he hasn't visited her or checked on her in that long. Said captured woman has been keeping herself alive by going to work in a local store, then returning to her place of captivity, even though her captor, who she's hopelessly in love with, hasn't been by in twenty five years. And yes, it gets even worse than this.

For credibility, you're better off watching an Ed Wood film, or a segment of THE AMBIGUOUSLY GAY DUO. If this is the season we have to look forward to, it might be time to pack it in.

I mainly wrote this review because I could not respond directly to Zac's review. I enjoy all the "Law and Order" series, and occasionally, all of them have had a "stinker" along the way, but you can forgive the occasional lapse in writing. However, this one is the "Spock's Brain" of this series.

It opens with a girl being violently raped, escaping from her attacker, and blocking the bedroom door while she calls 911. You assume, due to his angry shouts, that he will break through and kill her before the police can get there. It's going to be one of those shows. But wait -- it was all a mistake! The poor boy is no rapist -- he's just a sleep-walker who has sex while sleeping. In fact, that's why his girlfriend (the sister of the girl-who-was-not-raped) likes him so much. It's "hot" to find a guy who can do you while he is asleep.

Unfortunately, the girlfriend is missing. And at the station, Dear Old Dad lashes out at this kid who has raped one daughter while sleeping with another who is now missing, and Dad is reprimanded for being the bad guy. They are letting this poor kid go because it's not rape if you don't know you're doing it while you are sleeping. If I had been Stabler, I would have beaten the kid to death, then told everyone I had a long night, and was asleep when I beat the kid, and then walked out, just like the kid was able to do in this episode.

But wait -- there's more. This poor victim girl that we sympathize with: first, she likes to sleep with a guy who does her while he is sleeping. Then, we find that she spends most of her time buried in a virtual reality game where you can be anything, and she chooses to be -- above everything else -- a 14-year-old stripper who arouses pedophiles daily in her club which advertises that it is an under-age sex club. And we need to look for the "sick pervert" who kidnapped her, right?

And the show doesn't get any better. I used the spoiler warning, even though I never actually mentioned the real villain, what he did, or how they got him. But even that would not have "spoiled" this show. This one is as spoiled as rotten fish from opening to end. But the good news is, it is surrounded by good episodes, so keep watching. But this one is truly horrible.

This is the kind of episode that happens when the writers are OUT of ideas. It's a very silly premise. It's almost cartoon like Mariska must have been embarrassed having to say those lines Now that I'm rethinking it I'm wondering if a (1) would have been more appropriate Love L&O Hate this episode Can this be the last line please?

Apparently not so let me restate it so that I can finish filling out this form. This episode is terrible. It's not insightful or compelling. There is one actor, the abductor, I forget this name but he is good in the episode and maybe the girl they find but the dialogue is trite and stupid. Can I please be done with this review now that I have 10 lines?

This episode is embarrassing. Literally. The whole episode just makes you think "Did they really just say that?" Undoubtedly, the writers ran out of ideas, and were probably thinking that this episode would be swept under the rug. They're right. It should be. The plot is extremely cheesy.

The episode starts off relatively normal. A girl calls 911, claims someone's trying to break in, he turns out to be her significant other, and has sex while he's asleep. Fairly normal plot for SVU, right? Right? No.

SVU later finds out that the girl was kidnapped, and that she spent a lot of time in this virtual world. After more investigating, they suspect that her kidnapper might have played this "virtual world" as well. They locate a possible location for the girl, but they need to find out where exactly it's located. How do they do that? "Turn on the sun" Says Olivia.

At this moment, I literally wanted to cry. This episode, at least the second half, was extremely cheesy and ridiculous. It's almost "so bad it's good" but for a show like Law & Order, you expect the episodes to be relatively serious in plot.

To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest that the writers probably ran out of ideas whilst writing the script for this episode. It's extremely embarrassing.

Avoid this episode, it's not worth it. Unless you're a die-hard SVU fan and you absolutely MUST watch every episode, no matter what. Aside from that, stay away. This one's not for you.

The rape of a young woman by the sleepwalking boyfriend of her sister turns into an investigation of kidnapping when said sister is kidnapped. I can't believe sleepwalking or not there ain't some culpability here.

But as to the main focus of the episode it turns out that the victim was into these virtual reality games and a person she was playing with decided to take into the real world. Kevin Tighe who used to save live on Emergency in his later years has taken to playing some despicable villains and quite well. Usually these characters Tighe plays are clever but truly demented.

Tighe is very good but he's asked to carry a very heavy load in this SVU story. And the ending is really quite off the wall.

Not one of the better episodes.