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Medical Experts
Dr. Rebecca Hendrix
Appearances: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit |
Played By: Mary Stuart Masterson
- Idiot Ball: Mistakenly assumed the picture a girl drew of her abuser was her coach. The girl, a terrified nine-year-old child who was browbeaten and pressured by her and Elliot into making the accusation, went along with it to put a stop to it. It actually was the local Jerk Jock, and after Elliot realizes the huge fuck-up, he gets the dude caught.
- Minored In Ass Kicking: She was classmates with Benson in the academy and was in the force for two years before quitting and becoming a psychiatrist.
- Never My Fault: Somehow shrugs off responsibility for above mentioned Idiot Ball, yet criticizes mothers for doing the same thing and then says the wrong man was accused because the abuser had the girl so frightened. Later ignores that a man's murder was in consequence of her actions.
- Retired Badass: She was an ex-cop now working as a shrink.
- Romantic False Lead: For Elliot, as she was introduced almost immediately after he and Kathy separated and got several Ship Tease with him. Nothing came out of it and Elliot and Kathy eventually reconcile.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: It's her primary character trait, but unlike the other characters, she lets it detrimentally get in the way of her job, so much so that she quit being a police officer and then is fired as a doctor after that. In "Identity", she was warned that her career would be in jeopardy if she told the unknowingly and forcibly transgender girl that he was born a boy. She did it anyway.
- Ship Tease: Upon her introduction, she immediately hits it off with a recently separated (at the time) Elliot. Nothing came out of it.
- The Shrink
- Temporary Substitute: For Huang in Season 6 (B.D. Wong was busy with Pacific Overtures).
Forensic Science Unit
Forensic Technician Burt Trevor
Appearances: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Played By: Daniel Sunjata
- Put on a Bus: After "Families", O'Halloran permanently took over his duties without mentions of what happened to him.
- Two First Names: Trevor is as common of a given name as Burt.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Disappears without proper explanation.
Forensic Technician Ryan O'Halloran
Appearances: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Played By: Mike Doyle
- Alone with the Psycho: An inversion in that O'Halloran only sees that the computer found a DNA match before he's stabbed by said killer. Elliot only figured it out when he saw the actual results on the screen and by then he's arrived too late to save O'Halloran. Averted in that The Cavalry that arrives ends up captured.
- A Death in the Limelight: He was featured rather prominently during season 10, and especially during "Zebras".
- He Knows Too Much: The reason why Stuckey killed him
- The Lab Rat: Was the main Forensic Technician season 5 to season 10.
- Shorter Means Smarter: The shortest person in just about any scene he appears in, and a highly competent forensic technician who has produced case making evidence for the detectives many times over.
- We Hardly Knew Ye: NBC made a big deal of SVU losing one of their own in the trailers for the episodes, but we knew next to nothing about O'Halloran, despite him being around for several seasons.
CSU Technician Dale Stuckey
Appearances: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Played By: Noel Fisher
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Stuckey is genuinely dismayed when Benson walks in on him about to kill Stabler, because he didn't want to "have to" hurt her. She manages to use this against him.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Does not take criticism well. At all. Although to be fair: while he was annoying, he also didn't need almost every single other character in the show bullying him. It eventually gets to the point where even his meaningful contributions get shot down.
- Butt-Monkey: He was extremely unpopular with a lot of viewers, but mostly everyone agreed that, while Stuckey was exaggeratedly incompetent, the nonstop bullying he got from the other main characters bordered on What the Hell, Hero?
- Character Catchphrase: "Bing Bang Bong."
- Final Boss: He's the final antagonist in the closing minutes of Season 10.
- The Lab Rat: Halloran's second-in-command.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Is initially (a little too) enthusiastic about working with the detectives and helping get scum off the streets, and Stabler is at first polite even though he finds him irritating. Soon, Stabler keeps dropping more and more hints at just how much Stuckey annoys him, built on by almost every other member of the squad. When Stabler finally starts physically pushing Stuckey around like a high school bully and Cragen blows him off for complaining, Stuckey goes off the deep end.
- Temporary Scrappy: Everyone in the SVU absolutely hated him for being extremely annoying and doing many screw ups (such as calling the press to a crime scene to nearly cutting a body by using his shovel). By the end hardly anyone did not roll their eyes when he walked in. And then he gets dangerous. Thankfully, he's only around for a few episodes.
- Villain Has a Point: Yes, Stuckey is annoying as shit, but he still didn't need to have every single other character on the show bullying him and shooting down even his meaningful contributions, such as his explanation of phone spoofing in "Crush". He gets a Pet the Dog moment from Olivia in "Zebras", but by then it's too little too late.
- Who's Laughing Now?: His final appearance. He nearly kills Stabler
TARU Technician Ruben Morales
Appearances: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Played By: Joel de la Fuente
- Ascended Extra: He goes from a nameless background guy to having his own It's Personal episode.
- Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Vanished without explanation later in the series.
- Mauve Shirt: Graduates to this over the course of the series.
- Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Zigged-zagged. After the detectives use kinship DNA, he believes it'll lead to Jumping Off The Slippery Slope. His worries are not completely unfounded, especially when Elliot says he's okay with infringing with civil liberties for what he thinks is the greater good. Later he disobeys Cragen's orders to shutdown a kiddie porn site in order to keep the pedophiles from going to unmonitored ones. However this results in a Nice Job Breaking It, Hero moment where owner of said site is able to escape with pedophiles' help.
Medical Examiner Taylor
Appearances: Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Played By: Lance Reddick
- Black and Nerdy: He is a medical examiner.
- Only One Name: Hence, we don't know if he's addressed in First Name or Last-Name Basis.
- Put on a Bus: Disappears after Season 3, though Lance Reddick has appeared in the Law & Order TV shows four more times as
different characters. Reddick's passing in 2023 rules out Taylor ever returning unless the role is recast.
