Payback

Name: Payback
Director: Jean de Segonzac
Released: 1999-09-20

1999 episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit directed by Jean de Segonzac

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Original language: English

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"Payback" is the pilot episode of the police procedural television series Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, the first spinoff of the original Law & Order series. It originally aired on NBC in the United States on September 20, 1999. In the episode, the detectives of the Special Victims Unit investigate a taxi-cab driver's brutal murder and castration. Detective Olivia Benson becomes personally involved in the case after discovering that the taxi driver was a rapist and murderer himself.

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Part of the series: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Director: Jean de Segonzac
Screenwriter: Dick Wolf
Title: Payback
Production code: E0901
Follows: none
Followed by: A Single Life
Season: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, season 1
Released: September 20, 1999 place of publication: United States
March 6, 2001 place of publication: France
September 13, 2001 place of publication: Italy
April 28, 2005 place of publication: Germany
January 30, 2007 place of publication: Japan

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