Detective Elliot Stabler: Law And Order: SVU

Detective Elliot Stabler: Law and Order: SVU

Detective Elliot Stabler works for New York Police Department Special Victims Unit. Special Victims Unit works sexual based crimes along with kids, elderly, and the disabled. The Elliot is not a normal detective nor is he always able to keep his emotions bottled up. Elliot Stabler caught it tough when catching a case about a girl found dead and possibly raped. The victim’s father gives Elliot hell about finding the killer and when he does not do it in the father’s time the father takes matters in his own hands. The episode is called Grief, it is the twenty third episode of the fourth season.

Detective Stabler was a detective for SVU 19 years before retiring. He is a husband of 20+ years with 5 children. Stabler is passionate about his job. He has the ability to use his gut, read people, be patient, good communication skills, and objectivity. In the episode, Stabler is investigating a rape, suicide and the victim's father is on his case about finding the killer, rapist. Stabler is the only person on the team the father can connect to and will talk to. When the father takes matters in his own hands and kills the leading suspect, Stabler tries to talk to the ADA into not charging the father with murder.

The theme of the episode and what Stabler was trying to get through the father’s head is that you can not let feelings drive you to do something that you will regret.

The father did not care about that nor did he care about the consequences. After the father killed the suspect, he did not have any regret whatsoever. When it comes to the sub genre police procedural, it has the “closed setting” of a police precinct. He also has the necessary weapon to stop crime which in his case is a gun and has evidence to study to catch the bad guy. In this episode, Stabler is not injured but he usually is. Stabler is known for using excessive force to suspect sto get the information he needs to solve the

case.
The father made Stabler’s life difficult by constantly coming to the precinct to see if they have new evidence or a new suspects. Stabler tries his best to keep information away from the father that he knows will hurt the father. The father finds out information from the medical examiner and tracks down the prime suspect. Once the prime suspect is found he makes him act out what he did to his daughter and kills him in cold blood. The father goes to a park and tries to commit suicide like his daughter did but Stabler talks him out of it, When the ADA tries to charge the father with murder the father has a nonchalant attitude about it. Stabler tries to keep them from charging him with it by telling them that it was grief that made him do it. The ADA get a shrink to check the father out but they shrink tells them that he did it out of revenge not grief.
In conclusion, Detective Elliot Stabler could not keep his feeling out of the job. He is an devoted cop. He kept the father from killing himself by using his good communication skills. He found the suspect by his gut as a good detective should. He does not get to punish the suspect because the father took matters in his own hands and kills him. He tries to get the ADA on his side but he just did not have enough evidence to lock the suspect up. He tries to keep the father out of jail, but it does not work.