Law & Order SVU Recap 05/04/23: Season 21 Episode 20 Debatable

Tonight onNBC Law & Order SVU returns with an all-new Thursday, May 4, 2023 episode and we have your Law & Order SVU recap below. In tonights Law & Order SVU season 24 episode 20Debatable,as per the NBC synopsis,Benson tries to help a student after shes assaulted on a field trip. Fin suspects a witness

Law & Order SVU Recap 05/04/23: Season 21 Episode 20 "Debatable"

Tonight on NBC Law & Order SVU returns with an all-new Thursday, May 4, 2023 episode and we have your Law & Order SVU recap below. In tonight’s Law & Order SVU season 24 episode 20 “Debatable,” as per the NBC synopsis, “Benson tries to help a student after she’s assaulted on a field trip. Fin suspects a witness in the case may not be telling the whole truth.”

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Tonight’s Law & Order SVU episode begins with Naomi and her chaperones in the car, she is going over college applications – she is debating today. She asks if she has to be partnered with Todd again, he is constantly making fun of her, so does Sean Her mother says Todd is a start debater and at least she doesn’t have to drive the bus with him anymore.

In the bus, Todd is talking about Naomi and making fun over her. They arrive at the hotel and the chaperones say they are going to go check in at the hotel and go straight to their rooms, drop of their bags, meet at the ballroom at 15:00.

The National Debate Society begins, Todd and Naomi are debating in front of an entire audience. The judges have reached a decision, the first round goes to Birchfield Prep, senior Todd Edmondson and junior Naomi Hayes.

Back at the hotel, Todd knocks on Naomi’s door and invites her for a drink. Later, we see Naomi in the elevator, she looks frazzled. Then, she heads to the bus, has a nice and slashes and stabs the seats. Next, she takes a lighter and she lights a fire, then quietly walks out of the buss.

Benson is in her office, she blows out a candle as Finn walks in. She was talking a 15 minute meditation, she takes her moments when she can. Finn tells her that Phoebe got tickets at NYU to a lecture, to expand their horizons. She tells him to go while it is still quiet. Benson gets a call and heads out.

Naomi was found sitting on the sidewalk outside the hotel, they are sure she set the fire and had the knife that slashed the seats in her hand. Something happened to her, her sweatpants were on inside out. Benson tells Churlish and Velasco to speak to the chaperones, Muncy goes with Benson to speak to Naomi.

Muncy asks Naomi why she lit the fire, she says she doesn’t know why. Benson says sometimes trauma can make us behave in surprising ways, make us angry. Muncy asks if she was hurt, she says no. Muncy reveals that after her mom died she did some bad things that made her feel better. Naomi says nothing she does makes her feel better. Benson notices she cuts herself and asks when she started, but she doesn’t know.

Benson really tries to assure her that she is safe and can tell her what happened. Naomi says they were drinking, she had sex but she didn’t want to. A knock at the door, Naomi’s mother arrives at the station. Naomi is adamant, she doesn’t want her mother to know anything about this, so Benson goes out to speak to her. They want Naomi to head to the hospital and get a rape kit.

The chaperones says that Naomi seemed fine. Churlish reveals that they think she could have been assaulted. One of the chaperones says that after the win, the kids were all in Todd’s room, they were drinking and he hoped that the guys had finally accepted Naomi as an equal.

Benson tells the team that this is not going to be easy, Naomi says she was assaulted, but she won’t give a name.

Benson speaks to Carisi, she says that she believes Naomi. Hotel security just shows Naomi in the elevator. Naomi’s rape kit comes back positive for semen and abrasions. Benson tells the team to pick up all the boys who were in that room.

Todd is brought in and he says Naomi is lying because she was afraid to compete today. Muncy wants a DNA sample. Sean is asked as well for DNA, he says Naomi had one drink and went back to her room, supposedly to study. Booker says he knows nothing and his father doesn’t want him to give a DNA sample, he is going to call a lawyer. Booker says the guys haze Naomi and make fun of her, but they didn’t rape her, he knows who did. He looks on his cell phone and he gives up a video or Naomi in bed with the chaperones, Helene and Parker Young.

She says it started by having dinners together, they had wine, and treated her like an equal. At first it was just kissing with Helene. Last night she went to their room, they were celebrating the win. Helene was happy they won the first round and wanted to give Parker what he was waiting for. This time, Parker came up behind her, Helen held her back. She tried to talk her way out of it, they wouldn’t listen, Helene held her down and he raped her. She was freaked out.

In questioning, Parker says the whole things was consensual, Naomi is 17. Helene says that Naomi is an angry kid and she is lying to protect herself. Muncy says they says the video the way she was holding her down. Helene asks for a lawyer. Carisi tells Benson that she has to make sure that Naomi is leaving nothing out.

Carisi asks Naomi if there is anything she left out, she says no.

In court, Helen and Parker are charged with rape one, they plead not-guilty.

Young’s lawyer, Ms. Samuels, walks out of court with Carisi, they take a deal, but don’t agree. They are waking down the street and see a man named Colin Sharpe, he is telling TV cameras that he had a sexual relationship with Helene and Parker when they were his coaches and it was always consensual and the best relationship of his life. Samuels tells Carisi no deal, he tells her, see you in court.

In court, Naomi is on the stand and gives her account of what happened, how she said no and Parker wouldn’t stop. Samuels brings up that Naomi only told about the “rape” after the video surfaced.

Naomi is outside the courtroom and sees Colin Sharpe, she tells Carisi that she knows him, he was accepted to Harvard, middle of freshman year and he dropped out. Carisi is surprised, who drops out of Harvard.

Helene is on the stand she says they spent a lot of time with Naomi, they have paid the price, she and Parker were let go from their jobs but they had a loving and consensual relationship.

Velasco and Muncy go to Harvard, Sharpe was drinking heavily in Harvard, doing drugs, he didn’t set a bus on fire, he set his life on fire.Fin sees Sharpe go into the bathroom and goes to speak to him, he says he saw his press conference and says “whoa, you did both of them.” Sharpe says he slept with her and they asked him for help, he is doing this for her. Benson thinks they are looking at another rape.

Sharpe is on the witness stand, he admits that he had sex with Helene, Parker watched at first and then wanted to try an MFM. He was 17 at the time, he wanted to have sex with Helene, he would have been happy with that. Carisi is next and he is ready, he asks Sharpe if he is ok, because he looks like he is going to crumble.

He asks when the last time he saw the Young’s, he says after he left the team and he missed them. They said that they had their own leave and he needed to move on, they had a new one, a protege. Sharpe admits he was upset, Helene wouldn’t return his calls, he turned to booze and drugs, he didn’t know what to do. Carisi asks if he consented to intercourse with both of them, he says no, just Helene, he didn’t want Parker’s hands on him, he is not gay and they ruined his life.

Parker has a statement, he says he took the job as a debate coach because he wanted to guide the kids to success. He blames himself, he says he can’t take back what he did, but he is essentially sorry for what he did.

Helene and Parker admit guilty to rape 1.

Outside the courtroom, benson tells Naomi to take care of herself and don’t give up because of the Youngs.

Finn catches up with Sharpe who now realizes that Finn is a cop. Finn tells him that his mind is his and nobody elses, he needs to take it back.

THE END!

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