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This Specific Episode “Wrecked” Mariska Hargitay

The inaugural episode of Season 19 features a particularly painful conversation between a victim and Lieutenant Benson. In the episode, Benson is plagued by repressed memories and emotions regarding her own father. Benson struggles with the knowledge that she was conceived through rape. Hargitay praised her character’s strengths to E! News, adding, “We were wrecked… Actually, I was wrecked for about three more days. It was hard for me to switch gears into the next episode.”