Let's Talk About Declan Trask, the "Spiritual Healer" on Season 18 of 'SVU'
By Pippa RagaAug. Thirteen 2020, Updated 7:52 p.m. ET
With reruns of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit airing reputedly always at the moment, we are here to discuss what happened to non secular healer Declan Trask (Stuart Townsend) from the episode "Spellbound."
The Season 18 episode, which harkens again from the days of our liked ADA Barba (Raúl Esparza), has been making the rounds once again, so stay studying for a full debrief on Declan Trask, and the whole lot you wish to have to learn about "Spellbound."
What happened to Declan Trask?
The day after Abby (Kristen Hager) goes to the loft condo of renowned non secular healer Declan Trask, she's in the SVU workplaces with her boyfriend Steven (Sam Edgerly) telling Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) and Amanda Rollins (Kelli Giddish) that she's been raped.
As she recounts the events of the night sooner than, she explains that she went to Declan's loft for an expensive night time of self-discovery at the side of many different New Yorkers, all the way through which attendees were supplied with Ayahuasca. Abby didn't take any, feeling anxious to accomplish that and says she went to the adjacent yoga room to try and meditate and middle herself.
While she used to be in there, she says, Declan came in and gave her water — and then level she started feeling incredibly woozy and heavy, and no longer had keep watch over of her frame. Declan then raped her, she says. Abby will get a tox display finished as well as to her rape package, and it comes again damaging, that means that Declan didn't drug her, because the cops had first of all idea.
It turns out that what he did used to be hypnotize her, a tactic to coerce and rape ladies, we be informed, that Declan makes use of frequently. Problem is, the only other one that's ever come forward towards Declan, who occurs to be super robust and hooked up in New York, is one Rachel Sykes (Whitney Bashor), who has died by the time Abby's trial begins.
The 2d downside is Barba's terrified that the jury is not going to purchase a hypnosis defense, especially because Declan recorded the entire encounter, during which Abby may also be heard agreeing to sex.
At the 11th hour, on the other hand, Barba and Benson work out some way to save the day. It seems that Declan has been in the past arrested once prior to, and that the arresting officer is willing to testify within the case and fully undo any credibility that his protection staff has built.
Ultimately, the plan works and Declan is located guilty of rape.
And whilst that's principally good information, it is not all certain for Abby, who was once made to learn an intimate email about her courting problems with Steven in court by means of Declan's attorney. In the email, she mainly says that she's feeling in a rut in her courting and wants to discover and be free, which the protection is trying to construe as proof that Abby wanted intercourse with Declan in the first place.
Completely beyond himself after having supported his girlfriend because the rape occurred, Steven leaves the courtroom inconsolable. At the tip of the episode, Abby says she nonetheless hasn't heard from him within the 3 days since. To comfort her, Olivia offers Abby some of her sage relationship advice.
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