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In this episode of SVU a killer played by Jared Harris, who plays many villians has a girl killing for him. He is incarcerated but she is in love with him, enough to slaughter an innocent victim for him. Her victim is a right of passage for him, she believes she can be like him. She attacks a woman and the woman looks like a victim off of the cover of a graphic novel. The novels are connected to Harris and he wants her victim to look that way. They meet in court and she wants him to praise her for her efforts. He claims she is a hack and that she could never be on his echelon of skill. In the rest of the ep removed remains of the victim are recovered from a cemetery and Novak puts the nail in his coffin by offering him a raw deal. He thinks he's being tramsferred to a federal facility with perks but it is a facility with no contact, visitors, mail, he ends up in solitary for the rest of his sentence. A surprising part of the ep is when Fin brings up a pizza box with Olivia's name on the front. He says hey Olivia, I've got your pizza. She says I didn't order a pizza then Lake takes the pizza because he doesn't want to throw it out. The pizza turns out to be a pipe bomb. There is even an intruder at Olivia's apartment, they have a scuffle he cuts her and she trounces him good with a book off of her shelf. This is one of the best episodes of the series, it is a must see.

This SVU episode deals with the squad investigating the murder of a young woman found in an elevator shaft of a building with signs of sexual assault. Even if it's not sexual in nature the squad usually on this show sticks with the case. As it is it's sexual in nature only the broadest sense possible in this story.

The investigation leads to a cult following of an imprisoned serial killer played with menace by Jared Harris. In some weird rite of passage, young Shannon Woodward kills another of the cult members.

This comes down to a battle of wits between ADA Diane Neal and Harris whom she might have to call as a witness. Like Hannibal Lecter or the real life Charles Manson just how much room do you have to negotiate here with a man already serving several life sentences without possibility of parole?

All I can say is, you'd be surprised what can be negotiated in this situation.