Last nights Law & Order SVU had some pretty glaring similarities with the Caylee Anthony case as was being reported prior to airing. 1. A grandma (Gail O'Grady of "NYPD Blue") goes to detectives about her missing granddaughter and complains, "The car smells like a dead body."
2. The child's mother (Hilary Duff of "Lizzie McGuire") alleges that a babysitter took the little girl. And that babysitter is named Maria Hernandez or Fernandez. (We meet the young mom as she cleans out her car trunk and blames the stench on spoiled meat.)
3. The detectives' boss asks what kind of mother goes off to party and leaves her kid with a woman she barely knows.
4. The young mother steals and buys a shovel.
5. The young mother has been lying since the day she could talk, and she won't grow up, her mother complains. Grandma O'Grady announces that he has demanded that lazy Duffy find a job -- and even cracked the young woman in the mouth.
6. Pictures of the young mom partying surface. "I'm young. I'm allowed to have fun," Duff says.
Then this "SVU" goes off on a tangent far removed from anything in the Anthony case. The plot shift allows the series to weigh in on a serious issue -- one that has nothing to do with the Anthony case.
But then the episode circles back to the Anthony case in a shocking way that echoes the headlines.
It's an ending that sticks with you -- and one that George and Cindy would do well to miss.
The episode can be seen at 10 p.m. Tuesday on WESH-Channel 2.
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