I Was Buying My Sister's Freedom - Law & Order SVU
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- A prominent mail order marriage agency is discovered to be forcing failed brides into prostitution.
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From Season 2, Episode 19 "Parasites" - The twin of a murdered woman claims her sister left an abusive husband and began taking advantage of wealthy suitors, but the homicide investigation suggests differently.
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Top-notch acting from the actress playing Ava and the actor playing George. I felt bad for both characters.
Yeah. This is easily one of my fav episodes. And the acting has a lot to do with it. And even for an SVU ep, it’s just drenched in tragedy.
The actress is Mili Avital,an Israeli actress. She was in the film Stargate.
Give credit to the husband anyone else would flip right away if they were in that room with her but he kept his cool and got what they needed
Season 2 Olivia: "do you speak English" season 20 Olivia: just speaks whatever language. 😆
Considering how many times that happened to her it makes sense she’d work towards that.
It’s been 20 years
@@sarahjames927 yeah. Crazy, isn’t it?
Mariska can speak English, French, Spanish, Italian, & Hungarian fluently. These women in the warehouse were Eastern European, and while Romanian is a romantic language, I don't know how much she could translate.
@@sarahjames927 I'm not saying it isn't possible to learn languages. It's just funny to me how over the years she has become almost detective super hero.
They ask questions like it's the woman's fault. "Why didnt u run?"
"Why didnt u call the police?"
That’s how they get answers they’re not victim blaming that’s how they catch the person responsible
@@John-Doe-Yo could've paraphrase it much better.
Not all people trust the police ... in that kind of world of prostitution no one can be trusted not even the others - which leads to death or more years of hell to be permanently silenced
I liked the "why didn't you just say no"
Like it may not have occurred to her.
It was her fault that she just accepted the fact that her sister was dead threw her in the backyard then took her identity and her family
This is what happens when poverty prevails. People do what they think they have to to survive. Ava only wanted her other sister save and instead lost her twin.
That episode was always hard for me. I had trouble suspending disbelief. Identical twins might be hard to tell apart just looking at them. But living with a different one suddenly? Sleeping with a different one suddenly?
Same. In 5th grade we had identical twin transfer students. They tried to swap positions and we could all tell before 3rd hour. Identical twins look alike, mannerisms are different.
Sounds awesome..
"No, I didn't realise.. ha ha"
Guess he didn’t know her as well as he thought
@@Nevertoleave well duh. He obtained his wife the same way her sisters did theirs, they were sold to them. Ffs
He barely knew her before the marriage and they just had a baby - change in behaviour could have been explained by the stress. And she was actively deceiving him, not just suddenly living with him as "herself"
“How could you let this happen???”
Sir, you heard the story lol. She was gonna tell the truth and a dude showed up to kill her- got your wife. You couldn’t tell the difference between them and you were supposed to be married to one of them, hush
So he doesn’t deserve sympathy?🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🙄🙄🙄🙄
No one said that. But the dude acted like she killed Irena directly. Instead, she tried to live for her sister so her daughter didn't wonder etc happened to her mom. It was something she thought she was doing right. She deserves sympathy too.
He’s being a complete jerk
He’s not listening
He’s hearing only what he wants to hear
Not that she was saving his life …
@@YeshuaKingMessiah He found out that his wife and the mother of there kid was dead and her sister was acting as her for a period of time. Going through something like that hurts and doesn’t easily go away. The truth can hurt when you hear it and even though she was doing something good, that still won’t help with the pain of learning what happened.
It’s just one of those situations where you understand both sides between Ana and George. Ana’s choices after her sister died and George’s anger. I wish they made up by the end of the episode or had a time skip where Ana is a good auntie to the kid.
Irina is a loyal sister RIP. Law and Order is such a good show 😌
Jeez, how is he going to explain this to his daughter?
How can this family move on after everything that's happened !
He probably won't. Not until she's way older. At the end it seems like he just told her that the mother died, as if it were recent.
Well, he can tell her that her mommy went away and her aunt was trying to protect her. 😵💫
"Your mommy died years ago"
"But ... I saw her yesterday!"
"About that ..."
@@wontsufferfools9332 exactly, cause regardless of her intentions and wanting to save her other sister, its still her fault her twin sister died, and add insult to injury she didnt even think of how her brother n law and niece would feel once they find out shes been pretending to be her. He truly loved his wife and now he has to suffer losing her a second time all while having to explain to their daughter how her mother was dead and "alive" for the last 3 years.
So to protect her younger sister, her twins child, her twins husband, and herself...
Guy doesn't think four lives are worth a lie? Not my kind of guy. I want one ready to go to the wall for our children first and always.
Definitely not worth it unless you're braindead
He fell in love with the twin that died, not the other one. He has a right to be angry.
@@rejectedspicegrrrl Disappointed that she didn't tell him and let him be part of the choice but really mad? How entitled.
@@ivechang6720 it’s just hurtful to be lied to, he’s human, it’s understandable to be angry, although I understand why she did it.
@@rejectedspicegrrrl I understand hurt. When hurt it's okay to just be hurt, no need to be hurtful! We are so defensive it's not a good thing, myself included btw. The problem for me is using that as an excuse for being angry and mean. We hurt each other all the time hopefully mostly without intent. If our go to response is anger that's a whole lot of unnecessary anger. Especially if it's the type of anger people then use to excuse being _deliberately_ hurtful. Asif gaining retribution for unintended hurts (or "between a rock and hard place type decision") is a beneficial thing for society. It's not. It's one of those areas where we make allowances for being weak, defensive, lacking sympathy , etc. as "being human." How about instead we say "we aren't perfect so not attacking you but that _is not_ the direction we want to go. Be better than that and don't expect allowances in this area to continue indefinitely. Maybe that's the issue? People we're using the latitude so much that they never accepted that it was conditional on their changing for the better?
Sorry but I'm working on some behavioral science type theories and this led me into a deep think. Be well !
Really? Kinda harsh by the husband at the end. She had the whole world on her shoulders. Keeping it secret protected him and the daughter. Isn't that what it was all about? Yeah she lied. But a necessary lie.
no its not harsh. she lied to him, made him think she was his wife. that is just mean. Theres a difference between keeping a secret in order to protect someone and than lying to them, making them believe you are someone else. its worse when its someone they love and care about.
@@emilish624 if she would have told, he would have died! Period.
@@barbaraerlinger5487 he had no clue what his wife and her twin were connected to. there would be a 50/50 chance no one finds the body, or the police look into like a random murder. But at the end of the day he ended up getting involved years later due to the fact it was revealed that his wife twin switched places. if she left him alone to grieve his dead wife nothing would of happened
@@barbaraerlinger5487 she coulda told him and he would’ve kept his mouth shut especially if she told him he’d die if anyone else found out
@@snakenbake6938 but there's still a risk and for her it was too risky
Now that I think about it, one thing that doesn't make sense is that they kept saying that they thought Irina was off with whatever rich man had come along- something George also said. There is no way George wouldn't have known Ava was married if the sisters were that close. How could he possibly believe that she was cheating on her husband if he knew that Ava's husband could have their marriage annulled and Ava would thereafter be deported.
Also, kinda blows my mind how George reacted in the end. He knew the sisters were close and would've done anything to protect each other, because clearly, that is still the case even after Irina's death. Asking her how she could live with herself was callous among other things. Yes he was lied to but, ultimately, didn't he get what he wanted out of this? There is no indication he loved his wife, especially since he was desperate and bought her like cattle. I get being upset about being lied to, I truly do, but I don't buy that he's entirely a good man.
Yeah, George doesn't have any moral high ground to stand on
Absolutely
@@TheSongwritingCatindeed
I almost felt bad until he said those thing.
Love the old reruns...when SVU had good writing!
Yeah the show has gone so downhill I havent watched in years.
@@Seek1878 Six-ish is when it started to get weird. There was one with Cuban spies or something around then...I tuned out.
Season 1 to 6 is the golden age of this show ok
Irina is a pretty name I also feel bad for Irina's husband her sisters as well I Seen this Episode many times the clothes are also pretty I love the music where Stabler and his team come to arrest preps I Also love the jokes that the team makes I miss the old Crew
“How could you live with yourself?” Strong sentence.
Also used stupidly here, for an empty context.
Because how could she live with herself if she left her sister's daughter and husband in danger and her other sister in a wh*rehouse?
So many people jumping down George's throat for being so angry at Ava with all she went through, and he has been through a lot but that doesnt erase the pain she caused George, yes he bought Irena but he truly loved and cared for her and to find out she's not only dead but also that her twin sister been assuming her identity in their house for years, regardless of her intention and their other sister he's more than entitled to feel his feelings, especially knowing he has to explain to his daughter how her mother has been dead and "alive" for the last three years and that's IF he decides to tell her whole story or wait till she's older
Police!!! Police!!! Police!!! Why did I find that funny because she was so calm and then just started yelling out of nowhere police!!!!!😂😭😂😭😂
Of course, all of the episodes are sad in their own way. But this one has always stayed with me. The tragedy of it is horrible. Great performances.
Ice T be straight to the point lol she going to jail 🤣😂😭😅
The victim blaming makes me sick. As a man. This makes me fucking angry. That woman went through hell. And the way she was treated as a fucking victim, the guilt and shame she’s carried. I’m just sick
I feel bad for Ava's husband.
Irina's husband is the one angry at Ava, Ava's husband beat her.
@@mgfoster9197 Right, sorry. I keep on getting the two mixed up. I can't get around characters switching places. It's annoying.
@@foolslayer9416 I don't blame you because of identical twins. I went to college with identical TRIPLETS and even after one of them dyed her hair it was hard to tell the others apart.
@@mgfoster9197 I know it is possible but I find it difficult to believe the husband could not tell the twins apart, he would probably have more opportunity to examine her in detail. Imagine if Ava had gotten pregnant with his child? The little girl would have a younger sibling / first cousin!
@@seriascannain6675 I don't think he actually knew Irena for very long.
Lol that guy actor is really bad. He’s using like a customer service voice 😂 And he doesn’t seem very upset just mildly annoyed/inconvenienced
Maybe that makes him good lol. He probably had an idea of the radical change “Irena” had after the fight with “Ava”. And more focused on protecting his daughter than the woman who switched places with his wife
Some people go numb when they're scared; it's a surprisingly common shock reaction.
@@alexisgrunden1556 No I know that but he’s not acting numb, traumatized, flat, disassociating etc. He’s showing emotion just not a lot. If he was numb he wouldn’t be showing any emotion
A very difficult clip to watch, especially the ending. The husband was remarkably restrained.
Not remarkable for a man who paid for a wife. He did not even know her well enough to realize she had been replaced. She was a mail order bride not someone he was in love with. I think his is just mad cause he was tricked. If she had told him he would have been fine with an interchangeable wife.
@Mizz incognito ok we get it. It's a fictional show. However, we are all aware this happens all the time. All the actors did an amazing job. Relax lol
@@hydrangeas_loverMail order brides fall under human trafficking because they are often kidnapped victims it's illegal in the US 😂this isn't common at all however marriage for residency is
Why does no one ever get a lawyer? ALWAYS GET A LAWYER
There would be no drama if they lawyered up
I hope this episode and/or the actors won awards!
My thought is, he has to come to realize he fell for her after all this time.
Now the question however, would be, could they make it work after this.
Theres a real-life story of a Husband that cheated, and his wife then poisoned and then shot him. He didn't die, and he took her back.
This episode is just so sad. Ava breaks my heart at the end.
The actor who was trying to save her sister was also in the film 'Stargate.'
How do you bury your sister like that? Just have her go missing and have her own baby never know she’s calling an imposter ‘mom’ ? Atleast have a real funeral for her. With an actual grave stone in an actual cemetery.
Bro did you not watch the video ? She couldn’t without endangering herself, her sisters family AND her other sister
@@nataliehill1472 I watched The Whole episode, stupid. And if they thought they’d killed her, she’d be the one in the casket. In the cemetery according to the people who wanted her dead. They’d never know who was actually in the casket. Her sister was a wife and mother and didn’t get the decency of a proper funeral. Instead she got a brutal death and a unflattering grave.
@@lemonadelemon1960 unfortunately it was safer that way the twin sister posing as her sister and burying her body so everyone would think she died and no one would’ve came after her brother in law and niece it’s messed up but unfortunately it might’ve been necessary to do so like Ava said Irina never told the killer that it wasn’t her that he was making a mistake so he killed the wrong girl and Ava realized that if she told the truth they would’ve came after her little sister, her, her brother in law, and her niece so she lied to protect
@@lemonadelemon1960 it’s not like she actually killed her sister though you are making it seem like it’s her fault her sister was brutally murdered yes she buried her but she didn’t kill her own twin it’s messed up absolutely but she did what she had to do in order to save her family
@@babygirllynn2264 you didn't understand. If the killers thought they killed the right sister, why wouldn't they just have a funeral
This story breaks my heart...
Women selling women for profit....sad
Men create the demand. No demand, no supply.
@@kdphotos4691you know nothing about prostitution and its clear smh madame are the ones who introduce younger women into that lifestyle. Do your research
I LOVE Law & Order SVU, but I have to be honest; the level of acting, by the victims, is either way to hammy or just plain and "gray". Still... good episode.
I felt Ava was decent. The husband I felt should have been more emotional.
@Sheldon so what chu doing here buddy ?
Poor George he's something like a Mr. Magoo just stumbling his way through the dark!!!
It’s not avas fault, shame on the husband
I think he’s more so angry that she lied for 3 whole years. She let him believe his wife was alive and well
Not her husband.
Russians are ridiculously practical, her sister probably really would've hoped they'd get together, and understood the reasoning behind the deceit.
Still, he feels chumped on a major level.
Tbf, he didn't LIKE the sister to begin with, tho.
@@widowrumstrypze9705 She's Romanian.
Shame on the husband what are you talking about?? For 3 years He's been living with, sleeping with and raising his child with someone he thought was his wife and it turns out to be her twin sister that he couldn't stand and she got his wife raped and murdered, but shame on him?? Lol have a word with yourself
Anyone else laughin at how the guy spoke at the end.
“How can you live with yourself” no passion, sounds like hes reading from a book
Imagine u go to buy ur sister back for lets say a quarter mill, and then police show up n arrest u then keep ur money as evidence since u had just gave it to the bad guys for ur sister
"In my country, the police help no one."
Yeah. I lived in Romania. It's true.
I wish they’d list episode names.
Read the description box.
@@ThePrincessCH oh. Thank you. The law and order clips don’t have that. Original Law and order.
No they do somehow I missed it all this time.
Duh!
It’s “parasites”
Miss John munch
5:06 "You can't prove anything."
Sis, the police literally found hidden rooms where women were half naked, some that didn't speak English, & scared of them showing up, two pointed to you. What else would a place like that be?😂
Seasons 1-10 had some of the best legendary plot twist episodes ! Really up until stabler left, it lost its spunk up until present day.
The victim blaming jfc
Makes me fucking sick
The aspect ratio though
At the end of the day Ava wanted what Irina had.This is made apparent at the end. She may have loved her sister but they both rolled the dice and one got a loving husband while the other got a sadistic abuser. Say what you want about the husband but he loved Irina and what they were building and was disgusted by Ava. It all came together when he turned his back and she leaned on him crying his name. He shrugged her off like bihh I dont know you😂 you not my wife. He had every right and she did not. She crossed the line.
She saved his life! Lol
Wow did u watch this even?
Police really be lending confessions. “If you cooperate we can help you”. Lies
Lol
If u cooperate, my job is easier. Ur guilty till proven otherwise. The more u talk, the more words I can twist.
Now I’m no lawyer or politician but I do know in Romania 🇷🇴 you either become a gymnast or prostitute. I guess these sisters couldn’t do a backhand spring layout layout on beam.
Irenia husband should be like well can we still do it .
I don't think there are many men in the comments, who, having known almost nothing except "my wife of 3+ years took money from me and disappeared", and having just learned that it was the wife is dead and this is her twin, wouldn't be overwhelmed and lash out in anger. George learned some painful stuff he can't do anything about, and he's so overwhelmed that he's not even sure he should comfort this woman or reject her completely.
It's a rare man who can set his pain and grief aside for a moment to accept the desperate woman in front of him.
Now THAT was a rough ending !
George was too harsh no understanding
"How can you live with yourself" says the guy thay needed to buy a wife
what does Oksana say at 1:18?? Also, who's Tasco Guy??
He is the real killer of this episode.
Bro shes literally changing what she says based on who shes speaking to. She said she put her sister in the bag now she says the other guy did.
She was hiding the thug who did it so she doesn’t get killed
For Pete’s sake
"Honey, I want a divorce!!!"
How did this end?
@Eliza Ava assumed her twins name and identity.
The real killer was caught and arrested. I think Ava and her sister were freed. George seemingly wants nothing to do with Ava.
@@Catsss1017 can’t exactly blame him, his wife n his daughters mother is dead cause of her and even if it was to save her other sister she devastated the lives of George and his daughter
@@tokunaga432 Lmao not really her fault. She wanted to tell on him so she can save her sister and others who are in prostitution. The killer just had a mind to kill.
@@mina_884 I fully understand that too, and Im well aware George bought his wife but he truly loved her and didnt see her as a prostitute and while I understand Ava's side of it look at him, hes now finding out his wife is not only dead but has been for a long time with his sister n law assuming her identity and he'll have to explain all of this to his daughter
0:34-1:31
😂😅😆🤣
He is that guy who punched Patrick jane in the Mentalist. Hannigan guy. 😊
Yeah but the husband's character always is the first to break so I can't understand why he tripping
Nice
I’m confused what this sister meant of done she pay off her sister debt said she called the police and the other crazy woman kill her sister I don’t get why she build her was that to say Goodbye to her sister
Ripped from the headlines
She saved nobody she just saved herself and lived the life she wanted like a happy family but when police arrived she ran away with money to save the sister 😂😂 she can save the sister before police are even involved but no she knew she got exposed so tried to make a excuse 🤡
If police never find the body she will never tell the truth or even never saved her sister it's all her manipulation
And if you are saying husband should accept her or understand her bruhh?? Imagine a random twin looking guy taking your husband's place sounds creepy right ?? Yeahh doesn't mean she is girl that's ok she is creepy as the guy
husband: so you're ava. no wonder suddenly you like my left ball more than my right one. irina always prefer the right one.....
Odd. She says in her country, the police help no one. If she’s going to keep that mentality, why move to another country just to stay the same? Makes no sense
Yeah. I always assumed mail-order/Internet brides want to come here because they believe it's better than their native countries. Rule of law is a big part of that.
It's called unfair prejudice.
It happens to those that believe in only one thing and are so narrow minded and stupid.
Its very American things to say the assumption of American writer's always pointing others flaws and how perfect the land of free is comparing to anywhere lol.
@@Jen-rw7yh Exactly
Because if you've lived as reality where police do nothing but hurt people for your entire life, it's takes time to unpack that and become trusting of the police even after you've moved to a country with an entirely new system. Psychology isn't a light switch that you can just flick and everything is all better.
I thought this channel was for original law and order...not svu
Ok
It has both on here
You must be new, cuz they've been doing this for a while
@@juliantapia1407 I am...lol
svu is superior
Thank u
I just watched a Steve Harvey short/yt clip with this white guy, maybe 50ish at the most but he was asking Steve how to figure out a trick or something to tell his wife of 12 years apart from her twin sister when they are both at the house. He said he can't tell them apart so when he walks into a room he doesn't say anything inappropriate or touch or hug his wife since it might be the sister. Steve was dumbstruck how he could have been married that long but still not be able to tell them apart!! I was just wondering did he not at least pay attention to how his wife was dressed, they can't have the exact same haircut, dress identical & be the exact same down to socks shoes, exact same jewelry...?!! I mean, he can't sneak a look at their left hands, just to confirm his wife's wedding ring he probably bought her?? I still can't understand how this could be a problem after 10+ years!! I'd be so frustrated if that were my spouse & he could not tell me apart from my sister after all the time!! Not only that, but I imagine she is dressed for the day while getting the house ready for the barbeque, party, or setting up the table for what ever celebration/ holiday!!! He must have zero situational awareness & pay zero attention to anything outside of looking down at his own shoes all day or something!!!
If they are identical twins then their dna would be identical so how would anyone known who’s bones those were
That’s actually not true. Identical twin DNA is not truly identical. It’s extremely close, but there are still subtle, very tiny differences between the siblings. It’s usually close enough that an average DNA test can’t tell the difference, you’d have to almost sequence the genes themselves to see the differences.
The chic in the red top is hot!
I love Olivia Benson
My conspiracy was it was the husband.
The original Sh'a're. Or Sha'uri in the original version as they said.
what a case!
As a romanian, this stuff is only kinda half true...
Okay, but wouldn't the guy notice that she is different?
I mean I’m 5’1 and 120 and could drag a body three flights lmao.
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I love new Sith Recruits if you have the taste for power, revenge, and Control. No Criminals allowed just good people who wants to turn to the dark side of the Force
never trust a cop…
Except Olivia though 😢😮 you can trust her ❤😜 besides that I agree 👍💯 lmaooo
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Good to know the Andrew Tate case shows Romanians won't tolerate corruption and misogyny nowadays.
Gm
Stubborn woman
Brave, courageous, selfless, etc.
How is she stubborn?
The accents are so bad and the speak very proper English when in reality it would be more broken. Instead of I don’t know where she is she should say I not know where she is or I no know where she is. Drop a line here and there so instead if he is my husband say he my husband.
You sound racist
Buddy, people can learn foreign languages, you know?? And English is pretty easy to learn!! Hell, if you’re any good at listening, you can mimic almost any accent!!
Just because English isn't a person's first language doesn't mean they butcher it all the time. Sometimes they speak the language perfectly, just with a foreign accent.
You sound ignorant as hell.
@@mr.nobody4994 Everyone I know says English is the hardest to learn as a second language. My foreign friends and all of my French and Spanish teachers have all said so. 🤷🏾♂️
Lol he couldn't even tell the difference, why be mad at here, it's potato potahto