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TMC
06-23-2022, 08:14 PM
https://www.looper.com/905436/the-worst-criminal-in-law-order-svu-season-7/

The criminal kidnaps a young girl and buries her alive

In the Season 7 episode "911," detective Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) is on an urgent 911 call with a young girl named Maria (Rachel Diaz-Stand), who claims that she is trapped in a room. The police cannot trace the call as the kidnapper has an affinity for high-tech gear and has blocked the call's signal. When police finally find evidence pointing to Maria's location, they find her kidnapper, Richard Dwyer (Christopher Evan Welch), but no sign of the girl.

Dwyer has buried the girl alive in a pile of rubble leftover from a fire and refuses to tell anyone where she is. Though Dwyer intends to leave Maria to die, the detectives track down where he left her. When agent Benson finds her, she's unconscious, and an emotional Benson attempts to revive her. Thankfully, the girl is alive. The emotional resuscitation scene was so intense that it earned Mariska Hargitay her very first Emmy (https://www.emmys.com/bios/mariska-hargitay).

In a teary-eyed acceptance speech (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgUwceDthzs), Hargitay thanked the show's producer Dick Wolf (https://www.looper.com/831311/the-dick-wolf-series-mariska-hargitay-appeared-on-the-most-outside-of-law-order-svu/) for the opportunity to play Olivia and Christopher Meloni for making everyone around him better.