Betrayal

Episode aired Mar 5, 2008
TV-14
1h

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7.9/10

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A wife is accused of shooting her therapist husband over an inappropriate relationship with a teenage client. She acts as her own counsel and claims she was also one of his teenage victimsA wife is accused of shooting her therapist husband over an inappropriate relationship with a teenage client. She acts as her own counsel and claims she was also one of his teenage victimsA wife is accused of shooting her therapist husband over an inappropriate relationship with a teenage client. She acts as her own counsel and claims she was also one of his teenage victims

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IMDb RATING

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Trivia
This episode refers back to Confession (1991). D.A. Cutter questions Dr. Elizabeth Olivet, who is testifying for the defense, about her counseling former Detective Mike Logan, and it is implied this led to an affair between the two.

Goofs
Dr. Olivet knows that a patient cannot consent to an affair with a doctor. It makes no sense that she would have gone down this road.

Quotes
Dr. Elizabeth Olivet: They didn't subpoena me. I volunteered to testify as soon as I heard you put that charlatan Stronach on the stand.
Michael Cutter: She's hardly a charlatan.
Dr. Elizabeth Olivet: She's an academic. She studies studies. I counsel victims.
D.A. Jack McCoy: You've historically testified for us, Liz. Your appearance as a defense witness carries weight far beyond the substance of your testimony.
Michael Cutter: Katherine Waxman's using you to support a bogus defense.
Dr. Elizabeth Olivet: And you're using bogus science to prosecute her.
D.A. Jack McCoy: There are a dozen clinicians in this town who can make that point. It doesn't have to be you.
Dr. Elizabeth Olivet: Stronach's position devalues what I do. Who I am.
D.A. Jack McCoy: Liz...
Dr. Elizabeth Olivet: I am gonna set the record straight.
D.A. Jack McCoy: You understand you're working for the other side now? That means the glove have to come off.

Connections
Remade as Law & Order: UK: Safe from Harm (2014)

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6/10

Without knowing context

Psychologist John Shea is our murder victim. But with an opening soliloquy he becomes as much a character in this as the rest of the cast. Of course tapes of his sessions are played throughout the course of the story.

Detectives Jesse Martin and Jeremy Sisto arrest the victim's wife Moira Kelly for the crime. She's heard some of the tapes and they show that her husband liked to take advantage of his patients. She ought to know because she started out as one of his patients.

With some court advisers Kelly does a great job defending herself and Linus Roache is really up against it. She even elicits the support of long time police and DA consulting psychiatrist Carolyn McCormick appearing for the defense this time. An expert witness that the DA calls is a charlatan in Dr. Olivet's professional opinion.

I won't reveal the end, but without knowing context you can draw a lot of wrong conclusions.