Tonight on NBC Law & Order SVU returns with an all-new Thursday, November 7, 2024 episode and we have your Law & Order SVU recap below.
In tonight’s Law & Order SVU season 26 episode 6 “Rorschach,” as per the NBC synopsis, “Agent Clay consults with Benson when a woman is found gravely injured at a remote campground, and the suspect could be anywhere along the Eastern seaboard. Bruno and Silva take a chance on an odd hunch to see if it becomes a lead.
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In tonight’s Law & Order episode, a young couple went on a road trip. They were Ellie Hughes and her boyfriend, Chris Becker. They were wannabe travel influencers.
They loved traveling and thought they could make money from it. Only these things require a lot of work to run smoothly. There was a dark side to traveling.
The couple overlooked that to focus on getting a cut a campervan and staging everything to look photogenic. They were traveling all around the country when they were attacked in Rockland County. Chris was stabbed. Ellie was bludgeoned and it appeared as if she had been sexually assaulted. The FBI took this case over because the attacker might have crossed state lines.
The victims may have been attacked in New York, but there’s no telling where their attacker spotted them. The young adults took off from California. This was a potentially multi-state investigation and so the FBI were running point.
Only they did rope in SVU because of the possible sexual assault. Agent Harrison Clay reached out to Captain Benson. The first thing she asked was if a rape kit had been conducted and it hadn’t been. Ellie was in and out of surgery for days after she was found. There was no time to take a test.
Her boyfriend was thankfully well enough to talk to cops. Chris was stabbed twice with his own knife. The knife missed his heart by inches and so it was a miracle that he lived at all.
Chris was on the mend when the cops talked to him. He said that Ellie was taking a shower that late because they just had sex. Its why she was found in the towel. He also said that a guy snuck up on him to attack him and he managed to get Chris’s knife away from him. Chris wasn’t afraid to admit he wasn’t a fighter. He only bought the knife to scare away people. Not to actually do anything with it.
Detectives Bruno and Silva went to the crime scene. They were trying to develop a timeline. They came to believe that Chris was attacked first to neutralize him and that it gave their attacker freedom to take his time with Ellie.
What they couldn’t understand was why the attacker left the knife in Chris rather than hold onto it long enough to threaten Ellie with it. There were other things that weren’t adding up. Chris said everything was fine that night. He left out the part that he had been fighting with Ellie for weeks by that point.
Ellie also told her best friend that she went to a bar that night. She needed time away from Chris. They were fighting over everything. They even had a fight about a possible traffic ticket. They didn’t get the ticket. They just over it. Ellie was so sick of Chris that she went to a bar. She led one of the regulars on and he spat on her when she was leaving.
Foreign DNA was found in Ellie’s hair. They got around to getting a rape kit. They found DNA from her boyfriend. They did sleep together that night. There was another DNA sample found in Ellie’s hair and so the man that spat on her was arrested. It was illegal to do that in the state of New York.
Chris’s story however was unraveling. He never said Ellie went to a bar. When confronted, he said Ellie had lied to him. She told him that she was doing laundry.
Something he failed to mention when the cops first spoke to him. Chris also said that his attacker smelled of alcohol. He didn’t say that the first time around either. He said the man smelled of whiskey and his mother shut down the interview before he could say anything else. Chris’s mom said that her son was attacked. And that he needed time to recover. There was no mention of Ellie.
Ellie was in a coma. Her doctors wanted to rule her off as braindead. Her mother swore that Ellie was still in there and she was refusing to give up on her daughter. She even thought Chris coming to see Ellie would help her daughter recover. That poor mother had no idea what Chris was really like.
The traffic ticket that they fought over was when the cops pulled them over. The cops in Georgia noticed a bruise on Ellie’s arm. They suspected she was being abused. She wouldn’t say even after they separated them to give Ellie the chance to come forward. Ellie had been too terrified to press charges.
The officers that pulled them over had given SVU the footage from their bodycams. Benson saw the look in Ellie’s eyes and she knew the young woman was being abused. She then remembered they have the couple’s cellphones. Which means they have the unedited versions of their online life. They later found plenty of footage proving Chris abused Ellie.
He was cruel to her. He made her question every detail. If that wasn’t enough, Silva found marks on a tree near the crime scene. Chris may have been practicing how to stab himself before the alleged attack on him and his girlfriend.
The detective got the knife back from the FBI. She lined it up with the marks on the tree. It was clear that the tree held the knife so that Chris could stab himself repeatedly.
It could have killed him and he probably wanted that. Silva doesn’t believe he had an exit plan. Chris attacked Ellie after she came back that night. He must have thought he killed her with that rock because everything after that has been one long panic. The police had enough to arrest Chris and they went to the hospital to do just that when they learned he checked himself out.
Chris was trying to make a run for it. His mother was helping him. Both he and his mom got arrested. Chris for his attack on Ellie. His mom for trying to help her son flee the state.
Chris later admitted to everything. He attacked Ellie because he thought she cheated on him. He woke up in the dead of night. Ellie wasn’t next to him. He stayed up waiting for her and the first thing she tried to do when she came back was take a shower. Chris got mad. He beat her. He raped her that night to assert “dominance”. And he thought he had killed her in the assault.
But Ellie wasn’t dead. Nor was she braindead. She was alert enough to hold her mother’s hand and she was able to answer Benson’s questions. Ellie was the one that helped them arrest Chris. And he now has to live with that.
THE END!
