Hiding Her In The Basement - Law & Order

[@zeechops401]

Poor girl was abused by the foster system and then gets kidnapped by a woman trying to replace her own dead daughter and got locked up in a basement without any other human contact. Everyone failed this little girl.

[@biruss]

She was free to call

[@BigBlakMan-hr9mb]

call who

[@ytafan4068]

And I think here's the worst part - the girl lied on the stand. And when Stone talked to her afterwards, she more or less said she didn't care. Stone tried to get her to see she didn't understand what the situation was, but in a way, the girl understood enough. She understood enough to say that she wasn't going back into foster care. She understood enough to say she refused to go back to the foster mother. She wanted someone to love her, and this woman did. That was all that mattered to her. I share Stone's concern. The woman here wasn't stable emotionally. But she could have been worse. They did a "repeat" of this in SVU. Adopted girl ran away, and during the course of the investigation, Benson and Stabler learned the girl underwent cosmetic surgery and had a tracking chip implanted. Why? Years ago, the parents lost their daughter and she was believed to be dead. Turned out she was kidnapped, but still alive, but that's not relevant for what I'm trying to say. During interrogation, the mother said a name and said she loved her. The name was the name of their missing daughter, not the adopted one. The father admitted he knew what his wife was doing was wrong, but I think he also said that his wife had been on the verge of a complete mental and emotional collapse, and allowing his wife to pursue this "fantasy" of shaping the girl into their missing daughter was the only thing that kept her from going over the edge. He admitted she never got over the disappearance of their daughter. Did he admit that his wife wasn't fit to adopt another child? I don't recall for certain, but I think he did.

[@YootubeSucksDip]

@@BigBlakMan-hr9mb It's a 10 min clip and you can't pay attention? The girl was free to use the phone and call whoever she wanted and chose not to.

[@RobertDeLuca-b8t]

Very sad

[@xXTheVigilantXx]

To be honest she was good to "Crystal", not to the girl that she kidnapped. The girl that Fennidy kidnapped was a replacement. What would have happened if the girl had broken the fantasy? If she had gotten tired of being "Crystal"? I get that it was a better life over what she had at her foster parents but I think the little girl was living next to a landmine.

[@Than17-t3z]

Waza

[@nthabix]

Exaaactly

[@abelink9229]

Exactly! And also keeping a person in isolation is psychological torture. Imprisonment is used as a punishment for a reason.

[@Broganrileym]

Once again I’ve fallen down the endless black hole that is L&O clips

[@courtneycollis6911]

Same

[@KingBigPappi]

The black ⚫ whole in L&O 🤣😁

[@alexandradane3672]

Ditto!

[@junawallace7315]

Me too and i don't want anyone to rescue me 💀😭

[@thobiem]

On the real tho, this lady built a whole room under her house on her own. That's impressive.

[@Blackwater_House]

I built an entire Nuclear Bunker underneath My House, without a living soul knowing. Didn’t even tell the new owner about it. Never know when I might be needing to go back and use it Myself.

[@Jays6926]

Blackwater House you would go back and hide in it?

[@Blackwater_House]

Joseph Sais oh absolutely. I’m the only person who knows it exists and how to enter it and I built it for My Survival, so hell yes, I’d move in if the need ever arose.

[@Jays6926]

Blackwater House lol that’s commendable! Lol kinda wanna be invited in case of anything bad that happens

[@davidandrew1078]

@Anri Lucy4 Probably all the same person.

[@Huntress_Hannah]

Yes, everyone knows when you’re acting in the best interest of a child, when you casually steal them from their family, build a hidden room in your house and pretend no one is home when the police show up.

[@NYD666]

Sometimes you are

[@MrTigracho]

And also make the child work too! That gives them work experience and ready when they grow up! This legal guardian thinks of everything. . .

[@fightingspirit7960]

said family abusing the kid? Yeah no bud. she had every right to save her.

[@c.h.9223]

@@fightingspirit7960 She was maybe right to save her. But she was never right to put her in a hidden room and not telling anyone. If she did not report the abusing forster mother, what will happen to the other childs in that abusive "care". How long did she want to keep Wendy hidden? What was her plan for the future of this child? She saw her dead daughter in Wendy. What would have happened when Wendy started to behave like Wendy and not like the daughter she was thinking of? Not a sane or safe place for a kid at all! Of course that women needed therapie more than jail or punishment, but she also does not need a kid in here care as long as she is acting that strange.

[@huberticusrex]

Jealous much? ...

[@DinsRune]

"I want you to drop all charges." "I mean... even if she _was_ helping the kid, she still broke the law."

[@DanRaidersWarriorsSharksGiants]

No human should be a sheep to laws.That would be like a white southern person finding a runaway slave and even though they against slavery they would turn them in for being stolen property by running away. Criminals I tell ya.

[@sws212]

Eh sometimes it's better not to bother and it isn't worth the trouble to go after it. That's why a lot of DAs nowadays decline to go after minor drug charges, too much damage for a nothing crime. This case would've been pleaded out in real life, too much would've made them look bad.

[@Clorgisclorg]

@@DanRaidersWarriorsSharksGiants Nobody should pick and choose what laws they want to follow and what ones they don't. We fight to change laws and amend them with the times; we don't commit crimes and declare that our moral superiority must not be challenged because this one case bore less sour fruits.

[@DanRaidersWarriorsSharksGiants]

@@Clorgisclorg So you think Rosa Parks was a criminal clearly?

[@warhawk9566]

yeah it's like "Cool, still kidnapped a kid though"

[@pepps779]

Ignoring the whole kid in the basement thing, that is a rather solid secret room they built.

[@lyramaria1067]

Briscoe and Logan were the BEST detective duo on the original Law and Order.

[@AnvilMAn603]

logan had to leave cause they wouldnt pay him lol

[@madison-fakharaalabaljamil3917]

@@AnvilMAn603 hey it worked out for the best

[@fever_spike]

Agreed...and next-best in my book is Briscoe and Green.

[@bonghitsforbudha]

The only way they can Remake law and order is if it’s green and Logan

[@bonghitsforbudha]

The things I would do for a limited law and order reboot

[@dmc16336]

She can build an entire room out of cinderblock and hide it, yet can't run cable inconspicuously.

[@loulouwillis5648]

That's the point she didn't love Wendy she was a stand-in for Crystal. This means she would keep kidnapping little girls to replace her daughter. If she found one that didn't cooperate, she would have gotten worse over time.

[@Than17-t3z]

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[@Than17-t3z]

Eazb

[@MMuraseofSandvich]

Took a child from her legal guardian, built an Anne Frank-style hideaway to do it, lied to the police about it during an investigation... but she exposed an abusive foster parent, so it's all good according to the attorney? :/

[@mrfivegold]

Morio Murase perhaps but considering the context there were bigger fish to fry.

[@TheMan750]

It’s not, what the lady did was wrong, but if the parents did their job, we would let be in this situation

[@mysticdeloach5647]

Exactly

[@KL-uv3ts]

Not all good, but considering the state of the American foster care system, I can easily imagine a children's rights lawyer saying that maybe the resources of the law should be spent on those who hurt children or seek to profit from legal loopholes, not on a mentally ill woman who tried to protect a child from an abusive guardian.

[@FrankWolenczak]

Morio, you and I must be on the same page as that was EXACTLY what I was thinking verbatim! You took the words out of my mind

[@BigSlimyBlob]

That woman is straight-up crazy. That her insanity made her save a child is fortunate, but the reality is, she could have saved the child without kidnapping her. She's dangerous.

[@yevgeniyaleshchenko849]

Please use the correct time which is ''criminally insane''.

[@DravenGal]

@@yevgeniyaleshchenko849 "correct time?"

[@PatchWorkExe]

A lawyer going "if you look past the statues for a second you'd see she was trying to save that child" is either a bad lawyer or has Phoenix Wright level powers. Looking past the law in a legal setting sounds as about as useful as bringing a single hammer to tear down an entire building.

[@Patrick-vh7sw]

IANAL. A lot of time in law, you have to prove mens rea - you have to prove there was an intent to do wrong. Additionally some states have good samaritan laws - you were in a locked car, passed out and unresponsive with the engine running and I broke the window to get to you. I'm not going to be found guilty of property destruction even if you were just napping - I had a clear reason to be concerned that you were in diabetic shock, and so I acted to save your life. Now, this may not absolve her of the crime in the episode, but it would certainly be interesting for not only the jury but also for the judge, in determining guilt and in sentencing respectively. For a jury, it could make them unwilling to find her guilty of the worst charge and the jury may wish to convict her of a lower charge - if they are allowed to do so - if they're not allowed to lower the charge, they may opt to just find her not guilty. And then there is the final possible angle - a DA may be unwilling to go to court with a VERY public case where it'll come out that the teacher was trying to protect the kid from an abusive guardian AND the kid was happy while with the teacher. That might look very bad for the DA and result in them not being re-elected. As such, they may wish to look past the law and settle on the teacher agreeing to counselling and doing some community service. The real problem with this episode? I find it hard to believe that the teacher all by herself built such an elaborate hidden hallway AND room in her downstairs (wiring, hanging a door and so on. Where did the AC power come from?)

[@biruss]

She was found not guilty

[@lukeblough6466]

@@biruss Good.

[@biruss]

@@lukeblough6466 doctrine of necessity

[@LaineMann]

Thank god

[@lisabinhawaii]

That same little girl shows up again in Law and Order as a sociopathic adult who pretends to be in high school to con foster parents 😂

[@JSmedic1]

Yes! That is her.

[@miliaelainejones2421]

What episode

[@jasonprimrose8179]

Omg she got so fucked up!!!

[@antmagor]

They have done that in the past. Brought back actors to play a different character in a different case. Usually after a long period of time had passed, or if they had been cast in a spinoff of the franchise. For instance Kathleen Moriarty played a widow who killed her husband for his money on regular law and order. Then she played an alcoholic mother of a teenager who was having an affair with A 21-year-old on law and order SVU.

[@AnastasiaIsabella]

Yes that her .

[@maggiee639]

Side note, who doesn’t let a person working in your home use the bathroom??

[@VC-Toronto]

Depends on the tradesperson, and the client.

[@guineapiggirl400]

I used to do in home cleaning as part of being a home health aide. I charged 25 dollars an hr with 5 hr extra charge for "alternative duties" like cleaning. Wealthier clients didn't like me using their private restrooms.

[@rosamariamendoza1466]

Apparently in Brooklin!😁

[@ahzar4384]

Siddity ppl are just like that. Im good enough to work all up "inside" your home. But not good enough to use your bathroom.

[@keithjones7243]

You'd be surprised

[@catherinep2034]

Right up until she said how they treated Crystal, I was thinking she had a caring heart, but she's actually crazy.

[@GhostDrummer]

The worst part isn’t the lady building a hidden room on her own and hiding the girl, it’s that she supposedly did all that work on her own but neglected to hide the fourth coaxial cable. She just left it out in the open leading into the closet.

[@beatnikmary]

And not putting any locks on the doors

[@isolde70]

This episode reminds me a little of the Little House episode where a woman's daughter accidentally drowns and the woman kidnaps Laura and imagines she's her lost daughter. She locks her in her cellar and makes her wear her daughter's dress.

[@psa921416]

I remember that!

[@madamolivertwist5406]

I always forget how dark some of the Little House episodes were. That one was kinda disturbing

[@rumeokafor475]

Greta the movie 🎥 classic story

[@bebespeaks7827]

Don't forget the one in like season 5 of Dr Quinn Medicine Woman when a lady witnesses the death of her baby and then kidnaps Dr Quinn's baby girl, takes her Mexico and tries to get away, but Michaela and Sully travel long hard roads to rescue their daughter.

[@ted7099]

Also “Gone Baby Gone” has a similar plot! Great movie really worth it

[@ReaverLordTonus]

Yeah, that woman's little choo choo has definitely gone round the bend.

[@Positivemotivation662]

Lmaoooooo THE WAY YOU SAID THISSSS🤣😂

[@lukeblough6466]

🖕🖕

[@michaelmorton5698]

More like off the rails. Jumped the tracks.

[@kroneyt1493]

Are you Australian or something? That's not something I'd expect to hear out of the mouth from anyone, from anywhere else.

[@PeteSanctions]

That might be up there with "out to lunch" as my new favorite way to describe crazy lol

[@sylvestercat1898]

This reminds of an episode of Criminal Mind when this dispatch caller was abducting kids from abuse situations and killing the parents. He had this house for them and made it seem like it was going to be a good life for the kids. It’s crazy how these two episodes are similar yet so different.

[@chambers4676]

What episode? I don’t remember that one

[@sylvestercat1898]

@@chambers4676 it was season 7 episode 5, “From Childhood’s Hour”

[@anthonyitaliano7316]

Anyone else think the lady and the psychologist look extremely similar? Like, if they suddenly reversed the roles I'd be like "hmmmmm wai..."

[@mackennastidd6145]

Anthony Italiano they really do

[@Beldamsansmerci]

They had very similar voices too

[@PunkyPrincessPop]

I was thinking the exact same thing! 🤣

[@gideonjones8088]

For a moment I thought they were letting her interview the kid, and I was like, that doesn't make any sense...

[@nonyahbiz4982]

Someone has mommy issues

[@isabellaraemusngi3544]

The actress who played Wendy is Stephi Lineberg. Or better known as “Fiona Reid/Marguerite Sampson/Lorelei Savage” in Season 13 episode 2 (Shangri-La). Super cool to see how much she has grown since the first time we saw her

[@forestrot666]

That's what I thought!

[@eighmie28]

Thank you. I watched that clip yesterday and thought I was losing my mind.

[@hanns115]

Everyone else here talking about the actual episode.... and here I am “Christine Baranski is boss af” 😂

[@Ostsol]

I love the snooty defense lawyers. 😆 The actors get right into it. EDIT: On a more serious note, there's no more heartbreaking a response to "Are you alright?" than a blank stare. 😟

[@bernlin2000]

Can we give some appreciation for Michael Moriarty? One of the most authentic portrayals of a lawyer I've ever seen on TV. Him and Sam Waterston (and Briscoe, of course ;-) really formed the cornerstone of this show.

[@filmsensei]

I loved Moriarty in the movie "Courage Under Fire", too, with Denzel Washington. He was perfect.

[@alysiamerdavid-wasser9165]

One week ago, google cards posted something like: "It's time for Law & Order to upload their episodes..." I clicked & it said: "We're going to need 20 seasons of L&O to get us through the probable COVID-19 quarantine.". I chuckled. Not laughing now. 😞

[@chinawade5074]

Watch it on Amazon Prime

[@jpprophete1988]

stabler and benson, Goren and eames, Briscoe and Logan= best detective duos in the law and order franchise.

[@Karrambide]

JP Prophete my for sure!

[@quincyrobinson8139]

I like fin and munch

[@devincampbell5007]

For me Stabler and Benson was too romantic, I didn't like it

[@Deborahtunes]

Goran and Eames were my favorites...

[@shonda79able]

Goran and Eames are my absolute favorites.

[@crimps321]

CHRISTINE BARANSKI!! Love her.

[@Dabhach1]

Pretty ugly. Like bitter sweet.

[@ladyofnoxus6733]

Right! She is a great actress!

[@z.g2532]

IKRRR!!!!! I WAS ABOUT TO SCREAM HER NAME AND THEN I REMEMBERS THAT EVERYONE IS SLEEPING🤣🤣🤣

[@madamolivertwist5406]

YESSS I LOVE HER SO MUCH

[@devinreis5811]

I never saw her in any other role other than the mayor's girlfriend in The Grinch.

[@rose5602]

They should look into foster parents the way they did with her too.

[@masonlobster]

that judge setting the bail was awesome

[@saralisa823]

Ok don't you love when the the judge tells a snooty lawyer to shut it

[@aeh5109]

There's something about the sound mixing in these 90's and 2000's shows that are just so pleasing

[@Famegonna9999]

I remember this episode The Foster mother was horrible and child service did not remove the child from the foster parents care because they felt like her situation wasn't that bad but the foster parent was abusing her and boyfriend was abusing her

[@jermed2001]

How does Law & Order not have more subscribers? Maybe I'm the only one who's obsessed. I watch it all the time. Anytime it's on. Maybe it's me.

[@flatsch100]

I wished they would show the whole episode.

[@raymondfrye5017]

Law and Order is a piece of work. Dick Wolf touches all those social issues at present.His twenty year creation has touched on practically everything. He's a true master. Regards

[@lisayoung4810]

@@raymondfrye5017 yeah, towards the end of the series, the writers then came from California, this is when the show lost its NY edge, & was soon taken off TV. Wish they'd bring it back with NY writers.

[@katiezee2]

@@lisayoung4810 These first few years were the best.. Briscoe, Logan, Kincaid, Adam Shiff. In the later years it was all different people except for VanBuren & McCoy, and I think the audience didn't feel the same affection & connection with the replacements, that hurt the show

[@lisayoung4810]

@@katiezee2 I was a newbie viewer & fan and really enjoyed the show until they started changing the nights it was on pretty regularly, then they changed the writers. Right before they took it off, I no longer liked the show or the new characters.

[@burningsnow9870]

I honestly kinda feel the conflict legally here. A lot of it is future decisions based on rulings like this. On the one hand you had a girl in a better situation with the kidnapper. On the other, if you let the kidnapper get away with it it opens a can of worms allowing for the kidnapping of children so long as a better quality of life is presented. And then it becomes a question of where that line is drawn. Is it determined by the kid? By an agency with certian criteria? A subjective improvement on quality of life? I have to side with the prosecutors on this show since its such a lose-lose situation. With the punishment of the kidnapper possessing less overall harm in total.

[@marshajulessa2995]

Christine!!! Such a great actress

[@binder38us]

"The end, justify the means." The excuse for so many crimes and atrocities over human history.

[@lukeblough6466]

Yeah except it was to save a child so in this case it's true.

[@jengable4888]

Wil Rodriguez ..that is the correct word ! "Excuse"...and you may want to add insanity...

[@dragonstouch1042]

Wil Rodriguez I suggest looking up the Good Samaritan law

[@SourRobo8364]

The law isn't justice.

[@TheReapergod36]

@@lukeblough6466 So you're saying a rich person should be able to walk into a poor or mid-level income housing district and abduct multiple if not thousands of children because they promise college and wanting for nothing, without the consent of the parents? Because that's what your statement implies.

[@mia_thomas33]

The abductors attorney is on The Good Fight and The Good Wife she is still beautiful she looks like she hasn’t aged a bit

[@sexyangel072]

Demia Thomas And, I believe, Leonard’s mother in the BBT

[@srkh8966]

sexyangel072 Yes

[@srkh8966]

Demia Thomas and Mama Mia!, BBT, Cybil, the Bird Cage

[@kellfrillman4199]

Demia Thomas she was also Selma Blaire’s mom from Cruel Intentions

[@stacythomas7162]

@@srkh8966 YES "The Bird Cage"! A small but great role...great movie!!

[@michaelmccarthy2498]

RIP Lennie briscoe; Jerry Orback . These are their stories 👮🏾‍♀️

[@krislatoya7556]

*bam bam*

[@FortunateJuice]

2:14 "Isn't that sad?" *Yes* "Don't we just hate that?" *Yes* "Don't we wish they WOULD JUST DIE?" *YES!* "Ohnowedon't!"

[@JM-zk9ou]

It's always nice to see Christine Baranski. She nails every part.

[@katherynemero4118]

Logan is like a hound dog, sniffing every inch of her house until he finds the girl. It's impressive.

[@DanVaverick]

2:17 A younger Mrs. Hoffsteder from Big Bang Theory! XD

[@LeighMet]

yup

[@jamesfracasse8178]

Same actress from big bang theory

[@Boredman567]

Christine Baranski, also from The Grinch(2000), The Good Wife, and Mamma Mia.

[@LSSYLondon]

Watch her in Cybill! She's hilarious.

[@electroskates2434]

hUuH

[@medeucaa]

Throughout this episode, all i could think of is the defense attorney being in How the Grinch Stole Christmas. “Bettttty!!! Hiiiiii!!!”

[@xfilesfan01]

I really love this episode, and although it is fictional, the verdict, where she is found not guilty on all charges, has made "Nurture" one of my favorite episodes of the original Law and Order.

[@zeechops401]

That's fucking bananas. She kidnapped a.girl and locked her in a basement!

[@ecop3698]

@@zeechops401 if I were on that jury I wouldn't convict her either. She improved that girls life so I my eyes she shouldn't go to jail but get some mental health care. Yes it's not in the law but that's what jury nullification is all about. The foster mother is the one who belongs in jail!

[@andrewli6606]

@@ecop3698 they both belong in jail imo. The foster mother is abusing. That’s without debate, but kidnapping a child to “save” her is ridiculous. She should’ve reported the abuse to the police and her motivation wasn’t altruistic, but to replace her dead child.

[@Than17-t3z]

@@zeechops401 aeiou

[@asnowballinhell]

The actress that portrays Wendy in this episode would go on to play Fiona in a later season.

[@jerseybaby295]

It’s crazy that I just watched that episode right before this and I would have never realized until this comment !!

[@eveyk.1204]

She also portrays Gloria in the movie Richie Rich

[@pinkygirlno]

Guy Loading stuff in crate while talking to the cops- John mulaney

[@penelopeuggenstein4297]

Paige M WOAHH

[@mykiabuford2002]

That's not John mulaney

[@RapidObsessor]

which john mulaney are you talking about? because that's definitely not john mulaney the comedian.

[@pinkygirlno]

RapidObsessor lol it’s a joke from one of his comedy shows, I just didn’t realise how true it was until I saw it.

[@paulzammataro7185]

@@pinkygirlno 😂

[@kathleenevans676]

It's Martha May from Whoville!

[@mia_thomas33]

Kathleen Evans I love her Merry Christmas Martha May 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@niyahpapaya5652]

She also has the best lights !!

[@Ranger215able]

@@niyahpapaya5652 she had a nice antique too. It was handcrafted and almost a hundred years old

[@stacythomas7162]

I don't know the name of this actress(the one who kidnapped the girl) but she has been in a few episodes of L&O and L&O-SVU over the years and has always been terrific at playing the sweet, helpful mother type but always wth a slightly creepy edge! Great actress!!

[@khadijahponder2555]

I thought that was her. You're absolutely right. She's brilliant at playing that role.

[@teresaharle5380]

Lisa Eichorn

[@Bozbaby103]

Yup, she played Fiona Reid, the never-aging teen who killed a teacher who knew her as her former student, Marguerite Samson/Sampson, in a much later episode. Didn’t realize it until I saw her little face when she was answering questions. I remember the Fiona (Shangri-La) episode because it felt good to see the “bad guy” get caught by her own ego.

[@erwanne1305]

That's actually really tragic. Nice story telling

[@infonut]

Lisa Eichhorn never gets enough credit for her beauty. Her performance 2 years earlier as Mary Kostrinski in the episode Point Of View is a tribute to this. Sultry.

[@rinjinsherpa.1359]

5:25 AYYYY!!🤣🤣🤣 nice one judge.

[@loveaffect]

Ive never seen the regular law and order before . It doesn’t seem bad tho . I watched the whole thing

[@mackenziecarder5060]

It's sooo good

[@reaganbates2802]

@@mackenziecarder5060 do you like law & order or SVU better?

[@sharnagrayson9649]

@@reaganbates2802 tbh I love me some SVU but imma watch the original version as well

[@kevinhoward9593]

I understand she was trying to protect the girl, but she did still TECHNICALLY kidnap her.

[@KajunMs39]

"It's better than Romper Room up there"!!! Lol loved him... May he RIP 💔

[@mew10521]

What's a Romper room?

[@remy090]

Even if she was abused. She lied to the police about having her. And kept her in a basement. She deserves prison.

[@karilinn4260]

Never thought I'd see Leonard mother in Law and Order

[@snakebitepellehue]

That's Tanya from Mamma Mia!

[@taylorhagen3916]

I thought I was recognized her, couldn't place her though

[@uberxchuck944]

Christine Baranski is a great actress... She oozes smarm out of every pore. Though that could just be her.

[@Snooboostoo]

How have I never seen this episode? I feel like I must have watched all of the episodes 5 times now.

[@Action_Figure_King]

I knew I recognized the little girl. She appeared much later on SVU or L&O, as an adult who was posing as a kid in high school who ended up killing a former teacher that recognized her.

[@SirJimbo89]

I'm surprised the defense attorney didn't use her psychiatry to confuse and shame Kincaid into giving up. (Note: she portrays the mother of Leonard Hofstadter in The Big Bang Theory)

[@suzyb.4231]

Christine Baransky. She has a long list of credits. Including The Grinch and Mama Mia

[@nabeelahwasfi]

Her dialogue delivery is still as bad as it was all those years ago

[@ethelhoose9755]

The best of law and order

[@renataalonso188]

Don't be shy.. upload the full episodes

[@christopherdean1326]

She's got Dr Beverly Hofstadter on her side! Duck and cover people!!!!

[@madison-fakharaalabaljamil3917]

I'm still poed Logan never got to have a family of his own in either the orginal series or criminal intent.

[@srkh8966]

Madison-fakhara al'ab aljamil walfarh Logan-Drake or, that we never found out more about his abusive mother

[@madison-fakharaalabaljamil3917]

@@srkh8966 exactly he got screwed over by the producers of both series

[@daintylynn]

in that 1998 spinoff he was in, he ended up having a thing with the sister of one of the victims or whatever. obviously never went anywhere, poor logan

[@krishnabharani4279]

John Mulaney was on point!

[@almostatami]

Man the older seasons hit different

[@kellyrayburn4093]

In this case, I don't believe she endangered this child. Custodial interference, Ok. But why did she interfere? She definitely needs therapy, but jail and or prison time? I don't think so.

[@yesterdayitrained]

Ok...child not endangered. But you can’t just take someone else’s kid and stash them in your basement! That’s still a crime, deserving punishment.

[@minwellitsanicknamebegrate2531]

She clearly wasn’t seeing Wendy for who she was she was just a replacement for her daughter she’s delusional and therefore a danger to Wendy if she really had Wendy’s best interest at heart she would have reported to the authorities what was happening. She did it for her own selfishness to use Wendy to replace the child she lost .

[@kellyrayburn4093]

@@minwellitsanicknamebegrate2531 Something else to consider. Look at the foster mother the state assigned the girl. She could be thinking that the state doesn't care or they wouldn't have assigned the girl to such a boob. I don't think the state realized how much of a boob the woman really was, but she, this woman, who abducted her was 50 times better as a parent than that foster 'mother'. Does that make abducting her OKAY? Not in the least, but it does, I think, make it understandable.

[@LaineMann]

You should if that child is being abused.

[@rammsteinrulz16]

"If you pray hard enough, God will answer your prayers." Post hac rationality answers anything while saying nothing.

[@kellygervais3440]

Man I miss this show...

[@stevemeredith9022]

So do I, so that’s why I saved up and bought the boxset so I can binge watch it whenever I want.

[@bernlin2000]

I'll never forget this episode, incredible classic.

[@cynthiastephie]

This child actress is the same one in the episode "she hasnt been 16..."

[@dianagorospe2892]

Thats just what I was thinking! Haha. Now I know why this episode just got suggested right after I watch that "16" ep.

[@cynthiastephie]

@@dianagorospe2892 hahahah oh thats right!

[@warhawk9566]

If she was trying to save the child she wouldn't have her locked up in a hidden room, she wouldn't hide her at all if she was really concerned about the child's well being

[@NYD666]

Not true, the system is a joke

[@AnastasiaLUVSU]

She was probably only in the room when people came over.

[@jzwalz51robin45]

Christine Baranski, great actress,

[@HarpoonManner]

Stephi Lineburg, who played Wendy in this episode, also played Fiona Reid in a later season/episode, "Shangri-La". Thought she looked familiar! You can find clips of those later episodes on the channel too.

[@LaurenSmith-tb6ye]

I LOVE Christine Baranski!!!

[@nathalieduverna6963]

This was a bittersweet episode

[@rainbowwriter672]

As soon as she said Crystal I got a cold chill

[@dsaleem23]

Wait a second, that little girl at around 6:24.. she looks like a younger version of later seasons where she plays as an adult pretending to be a highschooler or something. Does anyone else see it?

[@lonniehatfield8440]

I Remember That Episode!!It Does Look Like The Girl!!!!

[@thenicklas615]

This part I always thought was very smart of Logan.

[@i_vsen]

Reminds me of gone baby gone.

[@masgaz9748]

I've only ever seen SVU in all of my life and boy this sets a different tone to the entire thing

[@TheBatugan77]

What about Law And Order SUV? Crimes concerning gas-guzzling cars and their fuel- piggish owners. Terrific show!

[@trinilagos5957]

She didn't care about the girl, she just wanted a replacement 😒

[@kevaninthe4135]

The little girl later on played Fiona Reed, the perpetual student, in the season 13 episode Shangri-La in 2002.

[@TeaAtTwo2]

Has Christine Baranski mostly played lawyers?

[@heidithaw1072]

She was on Cybill and she played Leonard's mom on Big Bang

[@TeaAtTwo2]

@@heidithaw1072 I totally forgot about The Big Bang Theory.

[@1sTEfFaniE1]

I always remember her from her musicals.

[@electroskates2434]

@@TeaAtTwo2 and mamma Mia

[@maxsredditreadingclub8353]

Love this show

[@TheRealProlificTV]

That’s my little homie from Ghostwriter and the Richie Rich movie 🍿.

[@CalipsoSarah]

Omg they were so young 😂😂😂😂 Makes me feel so old.

[@laffin_out_loud]

Ah this is what Mr. Big doing when Carrie isn't around.

[@NH-tb2sm]

Big and Leonard's mother in one episode

[@reesewootten3492]

What she should of done is call the police about the child abuse that Wendy was subjected to.

[@DJC0M3RAD3]

please god ramp up uploads during this epidemic lol

[@courtneyd9450]

The Great Christine Baranski ❤

[@waitwhotfiscleo]

Even if she did do a good thing taking her away from the abuse they’d be a fool to not see that she isn’t any better. Just talking to her and the child you see little bits of the truth shining through. She took that kid because she was the same age as her daughter, looked similar to her/could pass as hers and was in a bad enough position to pick her. She wants her to be Crystal not Wendy she literally told the therapist “nobody does that to crystal” but that’s not even the child in question.

[@kva5751]

Yet she's still better because she never hurt her. Your missing the point. Abuse to not abuse. Im sure anyone who's getting abused doesn't care as long as they are not dealing with that anymore. I mean seriously, do you even listen to yourself when you are comparing?

[@waitwhotfiscleo]

@@kva5751 I stand by that. In the long run the child could either just give in and become Crystal as they want her to be or she will grow up with identity issues. The underlying issue is that they didn’t save her because they wanted to give a child a new beginning out of the kindness of their hearts but for the fact that she’s almost a spitting image of what they lost. What happens when she no longer wants to be Crystal for them? But that’s just my opinion.

[@c.h.9223]

@@waitwhotfiscleo I agree with you. It is not a save or sane place for the girl.

[@elizaelectric]

WHEN WILL SEASONS 3-15 BE AVAILABLE ON GOOGLE PLAY?!?! I 👏 NEED 👏LENNY 👏BRISCOE 👏IN 👏MY👏LIFE!👏😩😩😩

[@rob67w]

Google play?! You actually pay to watch this? On fucking Google play of all sources

[@elizaelectric]

@@rob67w not everyone lives in the US and has access to endless ways of streaming

[@gachawolf8594]

In a way this isn’t kidnapping, she kept a roof over her head, fed her, gave her water, she could use the phone with no restraint, she wasn’t locked down there by force, the child chose to be with her to an extent

[@jessineilsencarreno]

So the children's rights attorney was all like, "Understandable, understandable, yes it's perfectly understandable."

[@Bird-Birdy-Love]

No Wonder Leonard grew up the way he did, his mom was terrible even as a lawyer, imagine as a doctor.

[@Rheubie]

Christine Baranski: "Unless you back off, I'm going to slap you with an injunction." Me: "Okay." 👉👈

[@amandalam1283]

Isn't the kid the same one who plays a "victim" who was supposed to be 16 but ended up being 26 or something. If not, she looks exactly like her.

[@cloudtx]

You nailed it! Haha, I didn't notice at all after watching the episodes but after consulting IMDB, it turns out that she was indeed the same actress. This episode was in 1994 while the other one where she plays a villain was 8 years later in 2002, Season 13, Episode 2 "Shangri-La". The actress is Stephi Lineburg.

[@amandalam1283]

@@cloudtx i thought so lmao!!