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Recap / Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S4 E24 "Perfect"

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Written By Robert F Campbell and Jonathan Greene

Directed By Rick Wallace

The case of a missing Pennsylvania teenage girl found dead in a back alley leads detectives to a doctor of reproductive therapy, who runs shelters for troubled girls. When more girls are found pregnant at said shelter, the doctor's sinister agenda is revealed.


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  • Breeding Cult: Lang's following is effectively a cult devoted to impregnating young girls. The detectives call it as much.
  • Evilutionary Biologist: Dr. Lang is a genetic therapy specialist with aspirations towards creating clones. In order to fund his research, he runs an illegal breeding operation.
  • Medical Rape and Impregnate: Girls are artificially impregnated by Dr. Lang's own DNA.
  • Obscene OB-GYN: Dr. Garret Lang is a hormone and genetic therapy specialist who secretly leads a breeding cult of underage girls whose offspring he sells to fund his research.
  • Peace & Love Incorporated: Dr. Lang owns a clinic specializing in hormone treatments to prevent aging and uses the profits to establish a network of charities and self-help organizations dedicated to helping the disadvantaged and disenfranchised. If you've already realized that the whole thing is a Path of Inspiration, you get a cookie.
  • Token Good Teammate: Unlike most of the group who were just using the girls to further a scheme, Mrs. Haggerty genuinely loved them and wanted the best for them, and had even been trying to help Samantha, against Lang's orders, the night she died (unfortunately, Lang showed up to stop her before she could). She ultimately agrees to testify against Lang when the detectives show her how he was manipulating her and taking advantage of the girls.
  • Villainous Breakdown: After Haggerty reveals the whole story in court, Lang loses his cool and starts screaming and ranting at everyone.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: Paula Haggerty genuinely believed she was helping girls in need.

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