Trivia / Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S22E14 "Post-Graduate Psychopath"

• Recycled Script:
  • The episode borrows its main plot from "Beast's Obsession", Season 15 ep. 20. A sociopath gets out of prison unexpectedly early and goes on a rape/torture/murder spree in which he first targets the family of a female doctor who cared for him in prison, raping her daughter and burning her with cigarettes. He assaults one teenage girl and hangs her up by her wrists in her home for the police to find and kidnaps another teenage girl, ultimately using her as a hostage.
  • The episode borrows its climax from "Holden's Manifesto", season 16 ep. 4. Rollins allows herself to be taken hostage alone by a young male sociopath/sexual predator on a revenge spree in order to get him to let a teenage girl go, and so she can become emotionally intimate with him and get inside his head so as to be able to take him in peacefully rather than letting the SWAT team blow his head off. This time around she succeeds, but comes to regret her success.
• Time-Shifted Actor: In "Born Psychopath", Ruby, who was a little girl in that episode, was played by twins Brooke and Kiley Liddell. In this episode, she returns as an adult and is played by Maxine Wanderer.
• What Could Have Been: B.D. Wong was originally supposed to return as Dr. George Huang, but never did. He is instead shown in flashbacks.