SVU: Robin Williams manipulates, impersonates, litigates, kidnaps, tortures, and blows a recording studio up all to make a point

...These Are Their Stories: The Law & Order Podcast

Kevin Flynn

True Crime, Tv & Film, Comedy

4.3 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Robin Williams plays a smart, creative - but dangerous crusader - warning the world against blind obedience to authority. He fools Stabler into thinking he's torturing Benson with electrical shocks, but the ruse allows him to get away.

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0:00.0	You can support this podcast at patreon.com slash partners in crime media.
0:04.9	This week's Law & Arder Marathon winner is Helene Day-Rapahn-Tignee of Gat-to-Khequebec in Canada.
0:10.6	Helene will get a marathon decal showing she watched 26.2 hours of her favorite crime show.
0:16.3	To be next week's winner, sign up at Law &orderpodcast.com.
0:19.8	I'm Kevin Flynn with Rebecca Levoy and Michelle Rubinstein, and these are their stories.
0:25.0	You think you know who did it, but you don't know who did it.
0:28.9	Law and order, law and order, law and order.
0:33.1	It's no ordinary police procedural, baby.
0:36.9	It's the FNOG of police procedures, baby.
0:40.7	Law and order, lie and order, lie and order, these are their stories.
0:46.5	These are their stories.
0:50.9	Welcome to These Are Their Stories, the podcast about Network TV's most enduring crime franchise,
0:56.0	and the real-life cases that inspired their shows.
0:58.8	I'm Kevin Flynn.
0:59.6	Each podcast will break down an episode from either criminal intent, SVU, or Original Recipe.
1:04.2	And today we're looking at Special Victims Unit, Season 9, Episode 17, Authority.
1:10.6	The Milgram Experiment, except this time.
1:14.8	The shock's for real.
1:18.3	Joining me to do just that is true crime author and the host of Crime Writers on
1:21.7	and Slate's mom and dad are fighting podcasts.
1:24.4	Rebecca LaVoy, hello, Rebecca.
1:26.0	Good morning, Kevin Flynn. Oh, giving away our special
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