Benson & Stabler track a serial rapist to a speed-dating event. His new wife is the star witness against him, and when she slips into a coma after an overdose, he fights her mother for the power to remove her feeding tube. 

We're talking about SVU season 7 episode 8 "Starved." Our guest is Ronald Young Jr. from the Leaving the Theater podcast.

This episode is inspired by the case of Terri Schiavo.

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SVU: Speed-dating rapist Dean Cain wants to pull his wife's feeding tube

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Detectives learn a woman in a coma was given insulin so her husband can get off on a necrophilia kink. After charging him with attempted murder, McCoy suspects her step-daughter and her doctor might have given her the injection.

L&O: He gets stiff making his wife stiff and boning her frozen body

Barba turns off the life support of a terminally-ill baby. DA Jack McCoy charges him with murder and new ADA Peter Stone prosecutes the case. Though he's acquitted, Barba resigns.

SVU: Barba kills a baby and McCoy STILL won't fire him

Shots ring out during an argument in a restaurant. Was the movie producer an innocent bystander? Or did a hit man pick the perfect moment to act?

L&O: First the singing, then the gunfire

A teen fakes her death to run off with her teacher, only to later learn they're actually father and daughter.

SVU: Ooops. I slept with my daughter!

A doctor, the husband of a conservative congresswoman, is beaten to death in his home. He'd been treating a transgender teen against her father's will. Which will win in court: justice or politics?

SVU: Speed-dating rapist Dean Cain wants to pull his wife's feeding tube

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