Payback (Law & Order: Special Victims Unit)
| "Payback" | |
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| Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode | |
Anya Rugova (Gordana Rashovich) brutally stabbing herself in her restaurant in front of Detectives Benson (Mariska Hargitay), Stabler (Chris Meloni), and Munch (Richard Belzer) who is holding Marta Stevens (Mili Avital). | |
| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 1 |
| Directed by | Jean de Segonzac |
| Written by | Dick Wolf |
| Production code | E0901 |
| Original air date | September 20, 1999 |
| Running time | 43 minutes |
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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 (Mariska Hargitay) becomes personally involved in the case after discovering that the taxi driver was a rapist and murderer himself.