As conceived by SVU, Jordan Hayes is a friend-a donor-to the NYPD. The police bit is particularly intriguing. For the latter charge, he served only 13 months in prison courtesy of a plea bargain, despite federal prosecutors identifying up to 36 underage victims. But this episode tackles an earlier case, when he was convicted of soliciting minors for prostitution in 2008. The episode is unmistakably inspired by the case of Jeffrey Epstein, who was arrested this month on charges of sex trafficking conspiracy and sex trafficking minors in Florida and New York (and pleaded not guilty to all charges). “Flight” opens with a disclaimer: “The following story is fictional and does not depict any actual person or event.” A usual sighting in the land of SVU, though particularly eerie while rewatching this episode in 2019. Hayes wanted a massage, the victim said, but she had to remove her clothes to give it. The recipient: a “billionaire pervert”-so described by the ever tactful SVU-named Jordan Hayes ( Colm Feore). Instead she wound up at a birthday party where, she tells detectives Elliot Stabler ( Christopher Meloni) and Olivia Benson ( Mariska Hargitay), she and other young girls were the unsuspecting birthday presents. She thought she was coming for a modeling job. The perpetrator, she says, flew her to New York on a private jet. We learn that she’s been triggered: two nights prior the girl was sexually assaulted at a party in New York City. An unaccompanied 12-year-old on a plane to Paris freaks out after her seatmate, an older man, reaches over her to close the window shade. “Flight”-season 12, episode 15 of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, which aired in 2011-cold opens like any other SVU episode: with a crisis.
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