![]() ![]() I get agitated when people talk like having a baby will solve all problems. (Just imagine if Fin or Carisi had this discussion and was touching her.) Benson is not a social worker and she has no business in continuing to contact Mackenzie regarding her pregnancy. She should also not be touching her baby bump. I also found my blood boiling at the end when Benson continues to insert herself into Mackenzie’s life and lecture her on her pregnancy, not to mention Benson addressing Mackenzie in condescending terms like honey and sweetheart. I also thought it was highly inappropriate for Benson to question a victim in a grocery store, especially if she knew that the victim was covering up for someone and she planned on challenging her. Maybe THEY had regrets they couldn’t live with. It’s possible that *somebody* with the show didn’t like the idea that most viewers thought Benson had an abortion, so they decided to backtrack and make it ambiguous. Considering the context in which Benson first raised the regret issue with Rollins, I can understand why Rollins would have assumed Benson was speaking from experience. Based on what Benson said in “The Good Girl”, either Benson was never pregnant, did or didn’t have an abortion, she was pregnant and had the baby and gave it up for adoption, she was pregnant and lost a baby, nothing ever happened, or Benson is still being purposely vague about the issue because it's a "complicated story." We don’t know, it could be anything or nothing, but we know its "complicated!" I wish the writers would just pick something and move on. We now know Rollins interpreted Benson's comment to mean Benson DID have an abortion. At that time, I felt that Rollins had assumed Benson had an abortion, and Benson did not confirm or deny. During the premiere, Rollins was struggling with going through with her pregnancy, and Benson gave her advice, telling her that regret is an awful thing to live with. My anger grew during the scene where Rollins brings up something Benson said to her in the SVU season 20 premiere “Man Up/Man Down”. It felt like the writers had to fill in some time in the episode so they decided to draw out the scene with the teacher. Then he offered it quick when he was in SVU. I got annoyed with the teacher when he didn’t offer his DNA when the detectives first questioned him at the school when the pregnancy was mentioned. I found myself getting angry at strange places in this episode. When Stone and Benson move to charge Mackenzie instead of Garrett, Garrett folds like it is laundry day, exposes his creepiness, and takes a deal. This is one reason why I think Stone never resonated with fans it seems Benson - or sometimes Carisi - must give Stone creative advice so he can win a case. Stone is having a bad time of it, until BENSON SAVES THE DAY with an alternative way to approach the case. He also loses the argument to bring up the marriage in regular court. Stone tries hard in family court to get the consent from Mackenzie's biological junkie dad thrown out, calling the payment Garrett made to him a bribe. Carisi gives us the low down on the number of states with no minimum age for marriage, with blood relative consent. Later, we find that Garrett killed the teacher as he was afraid the teacher would spill their secret.ĭuring the murder trial, the secret is revealed: Mackenzie is not only Garrett's step daughter, she is his wife. We hear that Mackenzie has told her stepfather that the teacher is the father, and one didn’t need a drama degree to see that stepdad would murder the teacher. I can understand him not wanting to admit he was gay, but he knew he was not the father, so offering DNA right away should have been a no-brainer. It would have saved him the embarrassing trip to the SVU. I don’t understand why he wouldn’t have offered this immediately in his first contact with the detectives at the school. The detectives question the teacher, who apparently is not very bright, allowing the detectives to get him into the SVU interrogation room before he offers blood samples and/or DNA to prove he is not the father. Too conveniently, she gives information that would eventually point the finger at a teacher, with whom she already confided that she was pregnant. The police take the couple to the hospital, which uncovers that a 13 year old girl, Mackenzie, who is living with her stepfather, Garrett, is pregnant. This fight is what tipped the first domino, causing the others to fall. “The Good Girl” is one of those episodes that made me angry as it progressed.Ī woman calls the police to report an apparent violent argument in the apartment next door. ![]()
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