7x11- Alien

This is my alltime favourite SVU episode. I watched the show before this, but this was the episode that got me hooked on it!

Here are some great quotes from the episode - my heartstrings were plucked mercilessly...

John Munch: I hear you had a date.
Olivia Benson: Yeah. Even had theater tickets.
John Munch: To what?
Olivia Benson: Spamalot.
John Munch: I hear it's funny.

Olivia Benson: (on the phone) Maria, wake up, Maria ... Maria?
Richard Dwyer: Who is this?
Olivia Benson: This is the police. We know exactly where you are.
Richard Dwyer: No, you don't.

Don Cragen: What are we going to believe, the...

After a hard long day of dealing with pedophiles with Olivia, Elliot goes home. He was dealing with a very personal case that got to him.
Olivia told him to go home, but he thought he might go get a drink. "Nah, I'll go home and see Eli,", he says to himself.
As he drives into the driveway, he notices that his bedroom light is on, and no one is home.
So, being the couragious man he is, Elliot grabs his gun, and heads for the door. As he grabs a hold of the door nob, he notices that his hand is wet. he goes into the light and sees that it is blood.
He graps his gun even harder and bursts through...

Payback was the first ever episode of SVU.

Although later episodes reveal that Benson's mother was an alcoholic and verbally abusive to her, Serena Benson is portrayed in this episode as caring and loving. She asks Benson whether or not she would have been better off without her, to which Benson lovingly holds her mother's hand.

While Olivia and Serena Benson are enjoying lunch, the waiter pours wine into both their glasses. This is somewhat strange since later episodes state that Serena has a serious drinking problem.

John Munch: Not to mention the fact that I lost a wife after less than one...