'Law & Order: Special Victims Unit' Season 16 News: Episode 9 'Pattern 17' Recap
Wednesday's episode of "Law & Order: SVU" called "Pattern 17" sees a serial rapist as he attacks young girls during the early morning hours, and Rollins finds a pattern between these assaults and some rape cases that she worked on back in Atlanta.
The episode begins with a young woman walking down an alley as she reenacts the night she was attacked for Olivia and Fin. Annie stops and says that she doesn't remember much more but she says that the attacker was wearing rubber gloves and humming church music. Olivia has her team comb the alley for the gloves, and they find one in the sewer grate, but it doesn't have any DNA on it.
Rollins shows up at work and reveals that she worked on a similar case back in Atlanta in 2008, but they never caught the humming serial rapist. Olivia gets another call about another rape and she and Fin head to the school to question the victim. The girl also said that the man was wearing rubber gloves and he was humming.
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Rollins and Fin go to Atlanta and head to a warehouse to look for the rape kits from 2008. Rollins' old boss Chief Patton arrives and tells that that he has the kits. He gives them the files, and the two head to a woman's house to investigate. The woman, Ashley Miller, won't let them in because her husband doesn't know that she was raped. They tell her that the man who raped her might be the one who is doing the same thing to the other girls who were raped in New York. She remembers the song that he hummed and she sang it for them.
The two go back to NYC and they have the DNA from the rape kits. They get another call and they rush to the hospital. The girl, Ryan, says that she was walking her dog when the man pulled her into his car, but her dog saved her. She also mentioned that she left her headphones in the backseat to prove she was there. She gave them the car's license plate, which leads them to a doctor named Joseph.
They find the headphones in the car, but Joseph says that he has never been to Atlanta and that he has never seen Ryan. The team head back to the parking garage, and the attendant tells them that the EMTs have access to the doctors' cars in case they need to move them. Upon checking the security footage, they see an EMT named Albert Beck taking Joseph's car.
They head to Beck's house and they find out that his girlfriend kicked him out for sleeping with her 15-year old daughter. They chase him, cuff him, and bring him in.
"Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" airs on Wednesdays at 9 p.m. on NBC.
