This also might lead people to wonder who was running things back in New York while Benson and Fin were in Chi town. Sadly, although Fin made the trip to Chicago, he didn’t appear to have too much to do. It was also fun to see snippets of Chicago Fire and Chicago Med as well, with Fire Chief Boden and Dr. PD people sure got to see some great moments from Rollins and Carisi while SVU folks were exposed to the greatness of Amy Morton, er, I mean Sergeant Platt and the rest of the Chicago crew. Platt’s work in this episode was one of the other great things to come out of these crossover episodes that regular viewers of one show get to know the folks from the other show. Yes, there’s Sergeant Platt (who is awesome!) but she’s a desk Sergeant. This sort of begs the question as to why there is no mature female in the Intelligence Unit currently. Benson, because of her tenure with the force, brings a wisdom and guidance that is an asset to any squad. Voight’s assertion that it was good to have Benson there for Lindsay seems a bit of an understatement.
Let me do my job,” it was similar to some of Benson’s actions, both in her early days dealing with sly real estate agent Richard White, and in her final encounter with serial killer Lewis. When she said to Voight, “Let me be bait. It was great to see Lindsay sort of channeling Benson in her desire to use Yate’s passion for her to draw him in. Looking at it as one long storyline, it had personal moments for both teams – with Benson confronting Bronwyn and Lindsay dealing with Yates’ obsession with her – as well as plenty of action.
Driven by the fact that Yates killed her friend Nadia, Lindsay vowed to bring him down.īoth series stayed true to their foundation while melding together to tell a story that wasn’t outrageous or unbelievable in terms of these series. After a prolonged footrace, Lindsay lost Yates, but she knew instinctively that he was on his way back to Chicago. Dodds reeled as he took a bullet while Lindsay sprinted off into the thatch of trees. (The actual capture was eerily reminiscent of the takedown of one of the Boston marathon bombers.)Īt the end of the first hour, Dodds and Lindsay were in hot pursuit of Yates in a wooded area when shots rang out. Rudnick was captured fairly quickly after Yates turned on him, shot him, and left him for dead in a boat docked for the winter. At the last minute, Yates, much to the chagrin of Rudnick, threatened his way into the escape plan and the two were on their way. Using the tools Rudnick chiseled a hole in the wall of his cell and covered it up with a poster ala Shawkshank-style. Bringing her unique experience for helping prisoners escape, she baked tools, cash and a cellphone into some lasagna just for Rudnick. It was Rudnick who did all the planning by enlisting the aid of Bronwyn Freed, red-headed mandolin-playing friend of the late Benson tormentor, William Lewis.