Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Charisma (2004)
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Their suspicions aroused when a 12-year-old girl named Melanie (Holliston Coleman) lands in the hospital with complications relating to her pregnancy, SVU detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Munch (Richard Belzer) end up confronting a charismatic cult leader named Eugene Hoff (Jeff Kober). At any rate, that's what he's calling himself now: it seems that Hoff is a seasoned scam artist who, under a variety of aliases, has exploited gullible religious fanatics for his own crooked purposes. It turns out that Melanie is not only Hoff's wife, she is one of several of his wives--and this is not the most sinister aspect of the case. Series regular Mariska Hargitay earned an Emmy nomination for her perfomance in this harrowing episode. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Michael Cullen - Det. Stu MacKenzie
- Jeff Kober - Eugene Hoff
- Tamara Tunie - ME Melinda Warner
- Shannon Cochran - Sarah (Cindy Kramer)
- John Knox - Clerk
- Christopher Durham - Carl Buchman
- Munson Hicks - Rev. Tucker
- Angel Desai - Technician
- Kevin Jiggets - Off. Green
- Ali Reza - Dr. Mehta
- Marva Grandy - Woman #2
- Emilio del Pozo - Duty Capt. Claros
- Bruce Norris - Reggie McCoy
- Peter Maloney - Jeffrey Downs
- Elizabeth Flax - Nurse
- Holliston Coleman - Melanie Kramer
- Laura Sametz - Simone Buchman
- William H. Burns - Off. Robbins
- Margaret Reed - Felicia Chatham
- Shirleyann Kaladjian - Woman #1
- Tenaja Williams - Pregnant Teenager
- Rachel Fowler - Woman #3
- Director(s):
- Arthur W. Forney
- Writer(s):
- Tara Butters, Michele Fazekas
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