Law and order svu season 4 cast

In the fourth season of this crime drama, Benson (Mariska Hargitay) teams up with Fin (Ice-T) for the first time on a case in which they investigate the death of prisoner. Meanwhile, Stabler (Christopher Meloni) tackles an undercover assignment involving cocaine being smuggled in baby formula, and his life is put in jeopardy. Guest stars include Rob Estes as a controlling father whose son fears him and Elizabeth Mitchell as a grieving mother put on trial for euthanizing her terminally ill baby.

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When a corporate mogul is found murdered, evidence points to his son, whom the detectives suspect was seduced by his stepmother.

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Detectives hunt for a suspect with an ax to grind when an engagement party ends in a quadruple homicide.

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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Episode aired Oct 18, 2002
TV-14TV-14
1h

The detectives launch a search for a serial killer who raped and murdered two women in Central Park.The detectives launch a search for a serial killer who raped and murdered two women in Central Park.The detectives launch a search for a serial killer who raped and murdered two women in Central Park.

Really like 'Law and Order: Special Victims Unit' in its prime years, and can see why it is one of the most popular and most regularly aired 'Law and Order' shows. Will admit to preferring the early years, where there was less focus on the team's personal lives getting in the way of the case and when team members were more professional. The early seasons and the show's mid period also had cases that gripped and moved me more and the early seasons do deserve to be aired more when on television.While there were better representations of all of that in Season 4 and throughout the whole show's run, "Lust" has more than enough to it to show how good the show's early seasons are and what 'Special Victims Unit' did so well when it was in its prime. Other episodes of the season and of the show overall may have shocked and moved me more than "Lust" did, but "Lust" is still very well done and does shock more than once without being gratuitous."Lust" is not the most suspenseful of 'Special Victims Unit' episodes. The perpetrator's identity is obvious early on and if the perpetrator wasn't written in too much of the way of "it could only have been them" there would have been less of a predictable feel perhaps.However, a lot works here. The regulars are all very good and the character interaction between the team is spot on, the most pleasure coming from that between Munch and Fin. Michael Gross sends shivers down the spine as one of the season's most amoral supporting characters (almost as much as the character of Gloria in "Deception"). The script is intelligent, lean enough and doesn't take itself over seriously.Despite the obviousness, the story is still very engaging and intrigues. It particularly picks up later on and the more one learns about the perpetrator the more sick to the stomach one is going to feel, as the truth does shock. The slick grit and the sharper and tighter visual look that the previous three seasons had is still maintained, and equally had no problems with the generally understated and not too melodramatic music. Nor with the sympathetic but crisp direction in primarily the second half.

In conclusion, very well done. 8/10